- FANZINE GRRRLS. The DIY revolution in female self-publishing

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fanzine grrrls 8 INTRRROduction 18 CHRRRONOLOGY 24 WOrrrlD ZINE FESTs AUTHORRRS 26 GIRLS FROM TODAY 32 GLITTER ZINES 38 MUCHACHA FANZINE 44 Hotdog 52 Laura Endy 58 grrrl zine fair 64 BÀRBARA ALCA 72 RIVISTA FRUTE 80 SISTER ZINE 88 ALBA FEITO 94 AHSLEY RONNING 102 ELISA RIERA 110 MARLENE KRAUSE


116 GEMMA DAVIS 122 MG POSANI 128 CONXITA HERRERO 134 Grrrls’s Info 136 GLOSSARRRY


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Chrrronology

Origin The origins of fan publications can be traced back to 19th century literary groups in the United States, when the Amateur Press Association published collections of fiction, poetry, and commentary. They had H. P. Lovecraft as one of their biggest representatives.

Dadaísmo

Jane Heap,John Rodker,Martha Dennison, Tristan Tzara, Margaret Anderson, ca. 1920s

The Little Review

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Origen Los orígenes de las publicaciones fan se remontan a los grupos literarios del siglo XIX en los Estados Unidos, donde la Amateur Press Association publican apazines, colecciones de ficción, poesía y comentario con H. P. Lovecraft como uno de sus mayores representantes.

1914 The Little Review Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson publish the celebrated literary magazine The Little Review, a form of self-publishing close in spirit to the fanzine that brings together an extraordinary collection of modern American and European writers.

Jane Heap y Margaret Anderson editan la célebre revista literaria The Little Review, una forma de autopublicación cercana en espíritu al fanzine que aúna una colección extraordinaria de escritores modernos americanos y europeos.

1916 Dadaism Dadaism was born as an intellectual and aesthetic vanguard movement that proposes the opposite of the concept of reason, a denial of everything and destruction through destruction.  —  Their artists produce and distribute small books as art zines. —  The use of collage, appropriation and stamping influence subsequent fanzines.

El Dadaísmo nace como un movimiento de vanguardia intelectual y estético que propone lo opuesto al concepto de razón la negación de todo y la destrucción por la destrucción.  — Sus artistas producen y distribuyen pequeños libros a modo de art zines. — El uso del collage, la apropiación o la estampación influyen en los fanzine posteriores.

1926 Amazing Stories Readers of the professional magazine Amazing Stories send their own stories in exchange for the magazine publishing their names and addresses in order to start correspondence with other readers. — There is a strong community of fans that exchange ideas and stories. — Amazing Stories helps define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.

Amazing Stories Volume 1, Issue 1, April 1926

What is Dada? Theo van Doesbrug, 1923


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Amazing Stories

The Comet

Los lectores de la revista profesional Amazing Stories envían sus propias historias a cambio de que la revista publique sus nombres y direcciones para iniciar correspondencia con otros lectores. — Se entabla una potente comunidad de fans que intercambian ideas e historias. — Amazing Stories ayuda a definir y poner en marcha un nuevo género de ficción pulp.

El Science Correspondence Club en Chicago publica The Comet, el primer fanzine de ciencia ficción. — Los clubes de ciencia ficción fandom publican sus propios fanmagazines o fanmags. — El mimeógrafo emerge como medio barato que facilita la producción y distribución de los fanmags.

1930 The Comet The Science Correspondence Club in Chicago publishes The Comet, the first science fiction fanzine. —  Fandom science-fiction clubs publish their own fan magazines or fanmags. —  The mimeograph emerges as a cheap medium that facilitates the production and distribution of fanmags.

1940 Fanzine Term Russ Chauvenet, author of the zine Detours and one of the founders of the fandom of science-fiction, coined the term fanzine (a combination of fanmag and letterzine) in order to distinguish them from prozines, professional journals of the genre.

1950 Beat Generation The groups of writers of the Beat Generation encourage the racial, women, and gay liberation movements as well as the rise of the hippie counterculture as a rejection of the classic values of society. — They mimeograph small runs of their own chapbooks. — They use self-publishing and their own distribution channels to disseminate their radical works due to the difficulty of doing so through the current means of the time. These events represent a milestone in the history of the fanzine.

Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet

Generación Beat

The Fanscient No.8 (The Robert Bloch Issue) Page 13 Summer 1949 Mimeograph

Término Fanzine Russ Chauvenet, autor del zine Detours y uno de los fundadores del fandom de ciencia-ficción, acuña el término fanzine (unión de fanmag y letterzine) para distinguirlos de los prozines, revistas profesionales del género.

Los grupos de escritores de la Generación Beat fomentan los movimientos de liberación racial, de la mujer, los homosexuales y el ascenso de la contracultura hippie en rechazo a los valores clásicos de la sociedad. — Imprimen con mimeógrafos pequeños tirajes de sus propios chapbooks. — Emplean la autoedición y sus propios canales de distribución para difundir sus radicales obras, debido a la dificultad de hacerlo a través de los medios corrientes de la época. Estos hechos suponen un hito en la historia del fanzine.


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Worrrld Zine Fests

General Zine Fests Grrrl Zine Fests

1 Vancouver Canzine West/ Vancouver Art Book Fair

14 Guadalajara

2 Olympia

Zinfuturo

Olympia Zine Fest

15 Mexico City

3 Eugene

Fanzinorama

Comics & Zine Fest

16 Quito

4 San Francisco

Mayo Fanzinero

SF Zine Fest

17 Guayaquil

5 Los Angeles

Fanzine Fest

L.A. Zine Fest

GFF Guayaquil

6 Montreal

18 Barranco

Expozine

Agujero negro

7 Toronto

19 Cordoba

Queer Zine Fest

Fanzinate

28 London

8 Halifax

20 Rio de Janeiro

Bent Fest

Halifax Zine Fair

Mostra Grampo

Grrrl Zine Fair

9 Hamilton (Canada)

de Publicações

Queer Zine Fest

Feminist Zine Fair

Independentes

Weirdo Zine Fest

10 Massachussets

21 Sao Paulo

29 Berlin

Feminist Zinefest

Zine Die Osasco

Berlin Zinefest

11 Pittsburgh

22 Santiago de Chile

Feminist Zine Fest

Impresionante

25 Bergen

Le Marché Noir

12 Philadelphia

23 Buenos Aires

Art Book Fair

31 Bordeaux

Philly Feminist

Feria Paraguay

Fanzinekveld

Disparate

Zine Fest

de arte impreso/

26 Manchester

32 Paris

13 New York

FLIA La Plata

North West Zine Fair

Fanzines!

NYC Feminist

24 Glasgow

27 Bristol

33 A Coruña

Zine Fest

Glasgow Zine Fest

Comic & Zine

Autobán

30 Rennes


Worrrld Zine Fests

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39 Barcelona Atom Fast Market Estrogenfest

44 Rome

34 Bilbao

Flia

Crack!

Bala

Gutter Fest

45 Warsaw

50 Canton

35 Pamplona

Kboom!

Independent Book

Singularity Festival

Pumpk

40 Valencia

Fair

51 Sabah

36 Angoulême

Tenderete

46 Belgrade

Sabah Zine Fest &

Spin Off

Trueno–Rayo Fest

Novo Doba Festival

Distro Day Out

37 Porto

41 Tenerife

47 Athens

52 Sydney

Zine Fest PT

Pliegue

Athens Zinefest

MCA Zine Fair

38 Madrid

42 Lucca

48 Seoul

53 Melbourne

GRAFMAD

Borda!Fest

Seoul Zine Festival

Grrrl Fest

Libros Mutantes

43 Macerata

49 Osaka

54 Auckland

Pichi Fest

Ratatà

Zine Day Osaka

Auckland Zinefest


Laura Endy 52

Human Emotions from the Strange to the Wonderful BARCELONA



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1–2 Elena Eper Zines & Nina Goodyer Bands

Labs, Bow Arts by GZF & other independent

posters for GZF for The Shaklewell Arms

publishers. Ph: Orlando Myxx

3–4 Grrrl In Print Issue 1

9–10 Tear at GZF at Moth Club. Ph: Meg Lavender

Ph: Specialist Subject Records

11 Jender Anomie at GZF at Moth Club

5–8 Feminist Christmas Fair 2017 at R.A.W

Ph: Meg Lavender


Grrrl Zine Fair

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Disaster Zine

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Sophie Rose Brampton

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Chloe Sheppard

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Rivista Frute

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Sister Zine

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Authorrrs

The Longest Wobbliest Silliest Guitar, a foldable zine cover and interior Ph: Tatanja Ross


Ashley Ronning

Welcome to my studio zine cover and double-page spread

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Girls From Today

Sister Zine

E girlsfromtodayfanzine@gmail.com /

E info@sistermagazine.co.uk

infoandreasavall@gmail.com

W www.sistermagazine.co.uk

W www.andreasavall.com

T @sisterzine

F @girlsfromtoday

I @sister_magazine

I @todaygirlsfrom / @andrea_savall Alba Feito Glitter Zines

W www.albafeito.com

E glitterzines@gmail.com

F @AlbaFeito.Illustration

W www.glitterzineseditorial.tictail.com

I @alba.feito

T @Glitter_Zines F @glitterzines

Ashley Ronning

I @glitterzines

E hello@ashleyronning.com W www.ashleyronning.com

Muchacha Fanzine

I @ashleyronning

E muchachafanzine@gmail.com W www.etsy.com/shop/Muchachashop

Elisa Riera

T www.muchachafanzine.tumblr.com

E elisarieraruiz@gmail.com

F @MuchachaFanzine

W www.elfuturoesbrillante.com

I @muchachafanzine

I elfuturoesbrillante

Hotdog

Marlene Krause

E hotdogmag123@gmail.com

E marlene_krause@gmx.de

W www.hotdogmag.com

W www.marlenekrause.de

T @hotdogmag

T marikraushaar.tumblr.com

F @hotdogmagUK

I @marikraushaar

I @_hotdogmag_ Gemma Davis Laura Endy

E hi@gemmadavis.com.au

E lauragarcialanao@gmail.com

W www.gemmadavis.com.au

T www.lauraendy.tumblr.com

I @_gemmadavis

I @laura.endy MG Posani Grrrl Zine Fair

E posanimg@gmail.com

E hello@grrrlzinefair.com

W www.mgposani.tictail.com

W www.grrrlzinefair.com

F @mariagloriaposani

F @grrrlzinefair

I @virginruhm

I @grrrlzinefair Conxita Herrero Bàrbara Alca

E scapasqu@hotmail.com

E barbaraalca@gmail.com

B www.megaqu.blogspot.com.es

W www.barbaraalca.com

F @conxitaherreroqu

I @barbaraalca

I @qqrutxu

Rivista Frute E rivistafrute@gmail.com W www.frute.bigcartel.com F @rivistaFrute I @frute_rivista


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