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How to Turn Your Zine Into a Video Game

Zinester and programmer v buckenham discusses Downpour, their latest creation, as well as flatgames, toolmaking and where indie games overlap with the zine scene.

One Last Trip Down Taddle Creek

Founded by Conan Tobias in 1997, Taddle Creek has flooded Canadians with fiction, features, comics and poetry. After 25 years the magazine is hanging up its beret.

Nick Zedd’s Lovely Life of Scum

One of the most important and least accessible figures of the No Wave milieu, Nick Zedd’s films taught the important lesson that compelling art is unbound by any rules of aesthetics or taste.

Bitch Magazine Ends

On April 12, Bitch Media, the digital enterprise born out of the Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture zine, announced […]

The Annals of DC Punk

Washington, DC, was ground zero for the punk scene in the movement’s early years, and the influence of The District’s […]

Valium, Unforgettable

I lived with cartoonist Billy Mavreas in Montreal for a spell in the mid-90s. He brought home wild comics with […]

Zine fests put to the test!

Some went online and others hibernated. Here’s how zine fairs around the world adapted to social distancing restrictions and kept […]

Freewheeling: Bike Zine Reading List

FREEWHEELING Cycle zines to add to your bookshelf Boneshaker Magazine £5.00 // issue boneshakermag.com For sweet travel stories and lovely […]

The Most Unwanted Zine

Liz Mason wanted to know — what are the least desirable aspects of a zine? What aesthetic, content, or construction […]