Riot Grrrl Zine

ライオット・ガール・ジン / 1990s / Style / Publishing and Editing

Cuts and pastes handwritten and typed words, then copies them as they are, keeping the photocopier's crushed blacks and the crooked page.

Handwriting mixed with typewriting / Shadows along the pasted edges / Crushed blacks and coarse grain / Pages copied while still crooked

UK punk fanzine — Wikimedia Commons / CC01970s fanzine (CC BY 2.0)LA Zine Fest 2017 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Writers inside a punk scene setting down what happened to them in the first person and handing it out themselves · Claims no commercial magazine will carry, put into manifestos and calls to action and passed out at shows
Type
Write the declarations in large capitals by hand and paste the rest in as typed pages
Composition
Treat the spread as one sheet and favor filling it over leaving margin
Material
Coarse photocopy tone, staple binding, the shadows of cut edges left in
Caution
Copying the coarse photocopy look alone gets nowhere without the writing itself, in which the maker gives a name and speaks in the first person.
Further study
Bikini Kill / riot grrrl zines / self-publishing

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