International Zine Month 2017
Every July — ever since American zine maker Alex Wrekk declared it in 2009 — zine creators, fans and collectors celebrate International Zine Month. There are various daily activity suggestions rolling around the internet, but this year the OCAD Zine Library decided to write our own list. We hope you take some inspiration from the list, look at some zines, maybe make a zine or two, collaborate with friends, and learn something about zine history and zine making!
- Read up on zines and zine history at ZineWiki.com
- Re-read your favourite zines/pick up a zine for the first time
- Make a no-staple mini-zine
- Read a zine made outside of North America
- Order a zine from a zine distro
- Search our Zine Library online!
- Make envelopes or postcards
- Make some mail art!
- Create and mail a ziney care package to a friend
- Visit the QZAP.org to read archived queer zines
- Try something new! If you usually write fiction, try writing a perzine (short for personal zine, which is a journal style zine)
- Join the OCADU Zine Collective!
- Zine Trade Day! Ask someone to trade zines
- ValenZINE’s Day! Write to your zine crush
- Leave a zine in public for someone else to find
- Visit the Toronto Zine Library (open today from 1-3pm)!
- Write and share a zine review
- Take out a book about zines from the library
- Zine Shop appreciation day! Visit a store near you that sells zines, like The Beguiling or Page & Panel
- Submit your zine to a zine library (like us!)
- International Zine Library Day! Give us some love
- Send your zine out to be reviewed (Broken Pencil, Xerography Debt and Razorcake accept zines for review)
- Make a one page zine
- Teach yourself a new zine skill
- Organize a zine event!
- Teach a friend or family member about zines
- Submit to a compilation zine
- Cook with a recipe from a zine
- Post photos of you with your zine or zine collection
- Visit poczineproject.tumblr.com to read up on zines by people of colour
- Read more Zines!