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Zine Research! (Part 2)

HItsa me, Taylin. Another Design student trying to figure things out in the world. Onto my second part of my research! We look up 50 Zines (Online or in person, but since the world is a bit limited right now all of them are online sourced. I’ll put a brief two word explanation of their topics or themes and then I’ll show one that I really enjoyed in particular!

Here we go!

Top 50 Zines Tay thought to be interesting!

Shabby Dollhouse

Inconnu

Motherlands Zine

Wonderfair Dave Zine *personally own

Wildcat

Resist

Got a Girl Crush

Gut Feelings

La Liga *Latinx Culture

The Cosmos *Science fiction and space

AINT BAD Zine

Home Zine *Feelings of home

Bed Spread Zine *Sleeping and Beds

Record Culture Magazine *Music and records

Polyester Zine *Embrace Bad Fashion

Yo Sick Zine *Patch designs and photography

Subjectively Objective 

Editorial Magazine

Conveyer *Wacky subjects like time travel

My Keanu Zine *Fan zine of Keanu Reeves

Post comment Below Zine

Too Much magazine

Birkensnake *Fiction

½ Zine

Pink Mince 

Buffalo Zine

Limner *Illustration without intention

Illuminati Girl Gang *Feminism

PentaPrism *Black and white photography

F Word Zine *Feminism

STATIC Heal and Grow Zine****

Bossier *Empowering Female Artists

Farid the Zine *Youth Culture

The Eye Creative

The Moon Zine

AJ Breaker *Collage

Bossy *Feminine graphic magazine

Lot's Wife 

Ginger Zine

Holy Glitter *fun aesthetics 

Margot Terc Zine

The Art Gorgeous

Artichoke

Tribu

I’m Not Perfect

Fan Club

Candy Zine

Violet Summer Magazine *Urban Magazine

Haiku Zine *Poetry and language

Paints and Pens *illustrations

Taylin’s Top Zine

The one I really enjoyed was from the list, a publication called Static, specifically the first Issue of the first volume called Heal & Grow. It contains different essays and poetry as well as illustration and encouraging words through the issue. Now, there is sensitive content within this particular Zine, so I’ll go ahead and but a TW (Trigger Warning) for this content just in case!

I enjoy the emotional rawness in both the writing and the illustrations themselves. You can really tell it’s coming from the deep emotions coming from the thoughts of healing through something tremendous. Helping find self worth while also knowing you’re not alone in the process of it all. I really found this insightful and so important since I keep the topic of healing and growing close to my heart. I guess you could say the personal portions of the issue really got to me in a personal way too, I could relate since such crazy ways and it was nice to see in something endearing and creative like a zine. 

I hope you guys can check out some of these Zines, they're extremely creative and thoughtful and simply beautiful to look at while sending awesome messages!

Thanks!