HIS 196H Fall 2025 Zine Guide

June 16, 2025. by C. Brandon Ogbunu for WIRED mag. "At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life." special focus on the 2025 Black Zine Fair in Brooklyn.

New, amazing magazine museum near Pace! "The library’s shelves contain old issues of well-established glossy magazines as well as more obscure, ephemeral publications." make an appointment to visit

March 25, 2024. By Marcy Dinius for JSTOR, about the The James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets made available by Johns Hopkins University.

Aug. 15, 2024. by Chris Kelly for New York Times. Article about the partnership between U.S. Bank and T Brand Studio to distribute a zine about Black Excellence in the New York Times on Aug. 18, 2024. The zine form honors the alternative press of the Harlem Renaissance while focusing on how Black communities are creating intergenerational wealth.

Dec. 23, 2023. By Teresa Nowakowski for Smithsonian Magazine. Article about the exhibition "Copy Machine Manifestos" at Brooklyn Museum.

Sept. 8, 2022. by Lynn Trimble in HyperAllergic. “Pen and ink have revolutionized movements and culture and information sharing … they’re extremely necessary right now,” says Charissa Lucille, who runs Wasted Ink Zine Distro in Phoenix.

article by Christine Fernando in USA Today newspaper. Updated August 1, 2021.

2021. "Usually I like a staple-bound booklet best, but the labor of collating, stapling, and folding is my least favorite part of publishing. I wanted to avoid that. I also felt like a single, unfolded double-sided sheet might be enough anyway. I love the idea of one-page zines."

Dec. 9, 2021. In Capital Daily by Tori Marian, About a secret zine library living inside a carved-up library book.

April 26, 2021. Newspaper Club website. No author.

Nov 25, 2018 by Neta Bomani on the New York Tech Zine Fair website.