PINKNANTUCKET PRESS

 Welcome! Zine fan, or just zine-curious? Regardless of your path to this page, please enjoy this small dedication to zine culture.

Zines come in all shapes and sizes, anything from single A4 sheets folded into a booklet to elaborately bound artist’s books. They might contain stories, comics, personal narratives, artworks, dream journals, graphs, rants, manifestos, histories or advice. They might deal with Big Things or minutiae or The Thing You Are Currently Obsessed With. They might be photocopies, gocco prints, full-colour litho or digital prints, or 100% handmade. They’re usually self-published (using a desktop printer or a photocopier) or independently-published (small publishing houses or collectives) and they are heaps of fun.

So are you keen to zine? If you’ve not tried making one before, try using the guide below.

Melbourne’s main zine hub is the Sticky Institute. They have a wonderful zine shop and also organise the annual Festival of the Photocopier (fotp) zine fair.

pinknantucket press is a big fan of zines. We have a number for sale or free download at our shop, by various pinknantucket press collaborators. Our print publication Materiality usually had a themed zine in the back pocket, and CRANK was pretty much a zine really (though it does have an ISSN…Big Media would never print it though!). Materiality is now sadly out of print, but you can purchase e-versions from the shop. You can read past CRANKs on the CRANK blog or download them in pdf form (for a small fee) if you’d like to print them out to make a booklet.