Explore the zine "catalog"
totebag made by The Holster zine collective in 2009
Email the zinelibrary@pace.edu about visiting the Pace Zine Library on the 15th Floor at 41 Park Row, room 1523 in the English Department.
Deborah Poe established the Homemade/Handmade special collection at the Pace University Mortola Library in 2011. The collection includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides. Selections from the collection are exhibited every March in the Mortola Library.
Learn more about the history of this project and view many photos on this blog, which was last updated in 2017.
There is a Facebook community page for Homemade/Handmade, as well: Search for Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.
Excerpts of a statement from Deborah Poe, published in Facebook:
"Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?" (title borrowed from the book by Esther Watson and Mark Todd)
In general, zines (pronouned "zeen" as in magazine) are self-published booklets created by people seeking expression and community. Zines are folded or stapled and therefore portable and flexible. They require no Internet connection to read. They usually do require some technology to make. In general, zines were born on photocopiers of the 20th Century. In short, a zine is a Do-It-Yourself pamphlet publication that can be endlessly reproduced. Zines are usually not unique, one-of-a-kind creations.
Imagine a subject. There's probably a zine about it! Zines range from seriously reverent political treatises to wildly idiosyncratic personal musings. Many zines are like diaries or letters, and many others are like mini research papers. Overall, the paper format prevails in the zine world, but this guide includes some discussion about e-zines and digitized, historical zines.
Zine publishing and creation is more popular than ever, but zines are just part of the larger world of independent publishing. This guide is for students and faculty who want to learn about the making, writing, printing, and publishing of not only zines but many other types of publications such as pamphlets, poetry chapbooks, posters, flyers, religious tracts, artists' books, photobooks, alternative press, little magazines, small press, and even vinyl and cassette objects.
Book printers manufacture paperback books with a form of bookbinding called perfect binding, in which their pages are glued together to form a spine. Booklets like zines are not perfectly bound but are saddle stitched, a printer's term for stapled or wire stitched, or saddle sewn, bound with a needle and thread or string. A "foldy" zine consist of several pages folded together without any binding. Booklets tend to be produced in small runs, sometimes in numbered editions. Zines, chapbooks, and pamphlets share the booklet form.
