2015 Zine Swap

August 8

4-8pm

Open to the public

All ages welcome!

Free!

If you have Zines to donate or swap with others, come by any time during the above hours.

If you wish to donate Zines but are unable to come on August 8, contact Lauren for details on how to donate your Zine.

Abecedarian Gallery is pleased to be working with University of Denver, Penrose Library Special Collections and Denver Public Library, Douglass Collection of Fine Printing and Binding in developing a project that will provide long-term stewardship for a variety of Zines.

This project, launched in summer 2015, is actively soliciting donations of Zines from contemporary creatives that will be placed in the above mentioned institutions.

What's a Zine?
According to Merriam-Webster a Zine is a noncommercial, often homemade or online publication, usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say:
A zine (/?zi?n/ ZEEN; an abbreviation of fanzine, or magazine) is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier.

A popular definition includes that circulation must be 1,000 or fewer, although in practice the majority are produced in editions of fewer than 100, and profit is not the primary intent of publication. They are informed by anarchopunk and DIY ethos.

Zines are written in a variety of formats, from desktop published text to comics to handwritten text (an example being the hardcore punk zine Cometbus). Print remains the most popular zine format, usually photocopied with a small circulation. Topics covered are broad, including fanfiction, politics, poetry, art and design, ephemera, personal journals, social theory, riot grrrl and intersectional feminism, single-topic obsession, or sexual content far outside of the mainstream enough to be prohibitive of inclusion in more traditional media. The time and materials necessary to create a zine are seldom matched by revenue from sale of zines.

Small circulation zines are often not explicitly copyrighted and there is a strong belief among many zine creators that the material within should be freely distributed. In recent years a number of photocopied zines have risen to prominence or professional status and have found wide bookstore and online distribution.

Denver has a Zine Library - why donate Zines to other Denver libraries?

Both Denver Public Library and University of Denver provide environmentally stable, longterm care and storage of Zines. The individual Zine details will be accessible for online research (primarily via Worldcat). The Zines will also be available for onsite viewing and study at either of the institutions.