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  • Wuthipol Designs

    Wuthipol Designs

    Wuthipol Designs sits in that sweet spot where print craft, photography, and playful structure all collide. Based out of Bangkok, Wuthipol is doing work that feels both super clean and totally hands-on at the same time—like you can sense the cutting mat just off camera. A lot of the pieces lean into format as part…

  • Salt Lake City – Grid Zine Fest

    Salt Lake City – Grid Zine Fest

    March 28-29, 2026 Grid Zine Fest is basically what you hope a zine fest still is. It’s been running in Salt Lake since 2017, volunteer-run, and very intentionally “screen and algorithm-free,” which tells you a lot about the vibe right away (Grid Zine Fest). No jurying, no gatekeeping—if you’ve got a zine, you can table.…

  • Small Noise #3

    Small Noise #3

    Small Noise #3 is a quick, folded mini built around a single improvised comic. Hand-drawn, black ink, no polish—just straight pen to paper. The cover has that dense, scratchy horned figure with bold, uneven lettering. Inside, it’s a simple setup: a seated person and this looming horned character cutting their hair. “Snip snip” repeats across…

  • Mad Collage: Surreal Stories in Cut and Paste

    Mad Collage: Surreal Stories in Cut and Paste

    When you step into the world of Mad Collage, you enter a universe where scissors and glue conjure dreamscapes, satire, and strangely familiar visions. The artist behind the work, builds each piece with hand-cut fragments that collide in unexpected ways—an astronaut sipping coffee in a 1950s living room, a politician floating amid seashells, a ballerina…

  • Lansing Artist Jimmy “Soup” Coyer Sets Sights on Neighborhood Print Studio In the heart of Lansing, Michigan

    Lansing Artist Jimmy “Soup” Coyer Sets Sights on Neighborhood Print Studio In the heart of Lansing, Michigan

    Courtesy of WLNS Local artist Jimmy “Soup” Coyer is turning his passion for independent comics and zines into a community resource. As the owner of Ultra Mega, an online store for unique goods, and the organizer of the Lansing Independent Comics and Zine Fest, Coyer has long been embedded in the city’s creative scene. His…

  • CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: “It’s Alive!” Zine Explores the Mad Scientist–Monster Dynamic

    CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: “It’s Alive!” Zine Explores the Mad Scientist–Monster Dynamic

    CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: “It’s Alive!” Zine Explores the Mad Scientist–Monster Dynamic University student and zine creator Alexander Veigh is calling all lovers of science fiction, horror, and DIY publishing to contribute to an exciting final project: a print zine titled “It’s Alive!”, focused on the ever-compelling relationship between the “mad scientist” and their “monster.” This…

  • Pittsburgh’s PublicSource Zine Initiative

    Pittsburgh’s PublicSource Zine Initiative

    PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom based in Pittsburgh, has introduced a new initiative to bring journalism directly into local communities through the creation of neighborhood zines. Their first edition focuses on Pittsburgh’s North Side, aiming to foster deeper connections between residents and the stories that shape their neighborhoods. A Tangible Approach to Storytelling Departing from their…

  • Copy This Cassette –  #3 (Zine, 2025)

    Copy This Cassette –  #3 (Zine, 2025)

    GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker, : There’s something undeniably comforting — and exciting — about holding a zine that’s this tuned into the pulse of cassette culture in 2025. Copy This Cassette #3 is the third installment of Blake’s cassette-focused zine, and it might be the most robust yet. Clocking in at 64 digest-sized, black-and-white,…

  • Exile Osaka – Issue #5 (Zine, 1998)

    Exile Osaka – Issue #5 (Zine, 1998)

    bikini kill, boredoms, doo rag, exile osaka, Masonna, motards, patti smith

  • Mobile Moon Co-op – Zine 17 – Summer Solstice 2021 (Zine, 2021)

    Mobile Moon Co-op – Zine 17 – Summer Solstice 2021 (Zine, 2021)

    GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: There’s a calm hum to Zine 17 from Mobile Moon Co-op, like the kind you feel when your hands are deep in garden soil and the air smells like sage and sun. More than a zine, it’s a snapshot of a living, breathing project rooted in land stewardship, collective care,…

Discover Zines is a blog by Briyan Frederick Baker (GAJOOB, Tapegerm Collective) about zines. Zines are often a personal endeavor, but they are also an experience that engages communities of all kinds, whether its local, family, fans, interests, demographics, business and other organizations. Zines provide an authentic, direct way to connect with people in a unique way.

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