Engl 165-04 Fall '22

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I really liked this zine because I feel that it relates to what we have been talking about in class, the Civil Rights Movement. It consists of pictures and information of colored Americans who lost their lives because of racism that is still in the world today. It was produced digitally and organized with names in alphabetical order. It is a zine full of color and detail. Each page has a drawn picture of the victim with an ombre background. The creator of the zine was able to voice their opinions and emotions through this zine and show that the people in it were good people, with a lot of life still left to live. This piece of artwork is a zine because it is really obvious the passion the creator had for the topic. While some zines are very scattered and collaged, the author of this one wanted to keep each page with the same organizational method, allowing for the information to be clearly understood. 

I believe the author made it digitally. I am not sure if the sketches of the people were drawn by the creator or not, but each page has almost a comic book look. It is easy to tell it was created digitally by the font and colors added around the pictures. I really like how all pages are created in the same format and how the author made the names listed in the book in alphabetical order. I find this very artistically unique.

I am going to be making a zine on barrel racing. Barrel racing is something I am very passionate about and know I will be able to educate others on it. Though I have had horses all my life, I began barrel racing almost 3 years ago and have not stopped since. I wish to include information about each of my horses and educate the reader on what barrel racing is, how it works, and the equipment needed.

https://www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org/_files/ugd/8c0bf9_85bb8f2375564392bddcf2faa8e2dacf.pdf

 
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NBA Decades Zine

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

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After looking at some zines on google, the one I found that piqued my interest the most was one called, “Decades: Basketball’s Past, Present, and Future”. It does not look like the full zine is there, but it interested me from what I was able to look at. It was basically a collage of very nicely drawn basketball players who were the most significant during the 2000s era of basketball in the NBA. There were no words on the pages that I was able to see, but the art alone was what stood out to me. Art is something that never fails to fascinate me. I think part of that is because my “art” attempts are abysmal. 

Along the side of the website, it has some background information saying that it was a group effort that came from the best hoops artists out there. With that being said, I think this zine was made online. It looks like it could have been drawn by hand, but if it was a group of artists, I feel like it has to have been made online. The only thing the zine is missing is words, but I think the detailed pictures make up for it. I choose this zine because I am really big into basketball. I knew all of these players and I understand how significant they were to the game of basketball. Basketball has been a passion of mine since I was 8 years old. I wish I could have seen the full thing, but I am sure that is something I would have had to purchase. 

I plan on doing my zine on how to prepare for and run a 5k. Running is another one of my passions, and it was something I did competitively in high school. Even though I have experience in running 5ks, I feel like there is still information for me to learn, so doing a zine on this topic will allow me to share my prior knowledge and research at the same time.

http://www.joetillstudios.com/nba-decades-zine <— (website for zine used)

 
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Defining A Zine

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

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What Makes it a Zine?

Some attributes that make this piece a Zine would be its’ comic like quality, length, and digital art. The artist clearly used several images to piece together to create a whole page. The art is also very layered almost like a collage or scrapbook. The use of images as substitutions for words really gave it the quality of a zine.

How it Appears to Be Made?

Based on the clarity of all of the images and how well it looks digitally, I would say that this zine is fully digital and created all online. The images are very well edited as if they used Adobe photoshop. The images are also super clear and lack any grain that is usually in a physical print.

General Thoughts

I like how clear the pages were and how there wasn’t too much going on. When looking at a lot of the zines I noticed that many of them were pretty wordy and I felt as though that contrasted from the images and that the images should be used to say more. I also enjoyed how poetic the words were as they really contributed to the polaroid images. I found it interesting how they kept a pretty clear color palette and used flowers on every page.

My Zine

For my zine, our prompt is our passion and as a business major I typically joke and say my passion is money. The topic of my zine will be “How to Marry Rich.” I plan on incorporating lots of pictures and making it a very visual experience as I believe pictures are worth a thousand words. I make each page a step to check off like on a checklist. My goal for my zine is to clearly portray my topic with mostly images and provide a bit of comedic relief as it is a fairly funny topic.

 

A link to the zine I chose to reference: https://www.loveyourrebellion.org/zine-archive/?www.loveyourrebellion.org&gclid=Cj0KCQjwl7qSBhD-ARIsACvV1X1EpMega1xTvTeElMllUZZ40g8BVx48SbAARbJQ1jTm88hWsr5_oaEaArR7EALw_wcB#milk-carton-girl/1/
 
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Zine Selection Example

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

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               link:https://quarantinezineclub.neocities.org/zinelibrary/seankirkpatrick-thedays.pdf        

The Zine I chose is named “the days”. It is a Zine about mental illness and things in everyday life that you can romanticize to make your day a little bit better. I love this zine not only because of the creativity and work put into it but because of the more important message that the author put behind making this zine. What makes this a zine is obviously the physical characteristics however zines are a very open ended thing. Zines can be as creative as you want them to be. The most important attribute to making a zine that draws the reader in is making sure that you are passionate on what you are making your zine about. Your involvement and passion will shine through your zine and affect the reader more than the colors you choose on the pages.

The zine I chose in particular seems to be made out of paper and digital editing. I think that most or all of the work for this zine was done online. It has many edited characters and animals throughout the zine. This zine also has text bubbles and a story line of pictures and animations. I love how this author showed expression on all of the animated figures throughout the book it allows for a stronger story to be told. The author also uses a lot of words to portray her opinions on mental health to inform the reader and to make the readers understand that these are everyday problems that most people encounter.

For the zine I will be creating I am going to want to inform and entertain my readers. I will be creating a zine about the steps to get to my dream career. While this will be about me and my life I look to add facts about the different steps I will need to take. I also thing I will be using some online attributes and printing techniques in my zine as well as bright colors.

 

 

 
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Creativity of a Zine

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

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An attribute of a Zine is that authors want to share ideas or express themselves in creative ways, not to make money. It is often linked to a specific activity, lifestyle. The Internet has made it easier to share ideas and expand interest circles. Long some time recently the approach of the Web, zines permitted fans to make systems, share thoughts and investigations, and collaborate on composing and craftsmanship. The zine were created in science fiction fandoms of the 1930s, taking the zine name from fanzine. In its most exacting sense, the word zine is brief for “magazine” it is center, in any case, the zine is much more than a few reduced form of another organization. The interesting list of zines by themes are art, science, poetry, sports.

The type of media I have no idea but printing, cutting, and sticking words, outlines, designs, and outlines will bring my zine to life. The zine I picked from the website there was all different ones and every single one was very creative and had its own details and design. I will  attempt a blended media approach by printing out a few of the realistic  components in my zine and physically collaging them to make a special format. There are numerous distinctive   reasons to utilize a collapsed format for a zine. On one hand, it disentangles the generation handle, making the record cheaper and simpler to copy or print.  The fold also conveys the format’s beginnings and includes  visual intrigued to my zine piece.

Finally, I am making my zine on my passion for horse back riding and how history is envoled with my passion. I will include stories, all the different equipment, what I do for training wise. I will go over and beyond will decorating and creating my Zine. Blending and coordinating design is one of the foremost fun parts of this plan extend.

 

 

https://creativemarket.com/blog/how-to-make-a-zine

         

 

Examining The Zine

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

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For this post, I began looking for a zine and stumbled across a mini zine that is very short and very simple. However, it is aesthetically pleasing and still gets its message across. I found this zine to be very interesting to me because it was different than the zines we have been looking at. It is a small book, composed of only 8 pages with a minimal number of words, which makes it a zine!

To make this zine, I think the author, Austin Kleon, took small pieces of black paper and put them together. He then used different images and pasted them on the pages to go with the text, which was also written on different pieces of paper and then glued on the pages. He used the photos, which were faces, in a unique way. He shaped them around the text. The text was also written on white paper which stands out against the black background. He left out any extra colors or text that simply weren’t needed or wouldn’t go with the theme. It is simple, but very clean and aesthetic.

Personally, I like how clean this zine is. Some that I saw were cluttered and almost too much. This is pleasing to the eye and with the limited amount of text, you are able to understand it more without getting distracted. Compared to other zines, I like this style a lot more. The author also related this zine to advice he had gotten in life, so the zine was personal to him which I appreciated. He stated that “he thought the advice and the zine spoke to each other.”

For my zine, I want to focus on my major, Recreational Therapy. I want to keep it as organized as possible so I can avoid that cluttered look, but I do want to make it fun and colorful, because I feel that fits my topic. I want to introduce the major, explain what we do, and then further explain why I am pursing the major. After looking at other zines and seeing that you can honestly do whatever you want, I am more excited to start my own.

https://austinkleon.com/2020/03/20/the-best-parenting-advice-ive-ever-heard/

 
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