Art

Zines about Art. Also see Graffiti, Comics and the image galleries

.B.E.T.C.H. Rag: Issue No. 1

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A zine compiled by Austin ladies’ group B.E.T.C.H. (Beautiful, Educated Thunder Cunts from Hell) exploring consent, positive sexuality and healing. Contributions include essays, personal stories, comics and art work. Some of these entries deal with sexual assault and can be triggering, read with care.

ABC's of Anarchy

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It's Alphabetic Anarchy!

The only ABC's of Anarchy book (so far?) designed and suitable for children of all ages. Infants will love the imagery, Toddlers will thrive on learning the alphabet, and preschoolers will soak up the content while learning to read.  read more »

acquiescence and other poems

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a small collection of poems by ira gray
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affective disorder - journal of common notions - spring 10

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[affective disorder [in the spring of a still-born decade]]

a friend once said:
no revolution is going to be generated
out of systemic
or structural laws.

we are on our own, and what we do
we have to do for ourselves.
we are the denizens
of a strange epoch,
the ‘given’ in a surreal situation.

while knowledge of space and time has been democratized, the
modes of inhabiting them (the modes of being) are controlled
more intensely than ever before. while sharing of information
is ubiquitous, understanding and love appear empty at best – at  read more »

America, Fuck Yeah De-Motivational Poster

America, Fuck Yeah! De-motivational Poster

When one finds an image of a privileged American walking his dog with an SUV, there's little one can do to avoid making a de-motivational poster.

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 - "Post-Anarchism Today"

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies

Contents:
1. Editorial — Post-anarchism Today by Lewis Call
2. PostAnarchia Repertoire by Erick Heroux
3. Voluntary Servitude Reconsidered: Radical Politics and the Problem of Self-Domination by Saul Newman
4. Postanarchism from a Marxist Perspective by Simon Choat
5. Constructivism and the Future Anterior of Radical Politics by Thomas Nail  read more »

Anarchist Magic the Gathering Deck!

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No, you didn't read it wrong: it's an anarchist Magic: the Gathering deck fully laid out for printing! Nerdy anti-authoritarians everywhere, rejoice!  read more »

Angel of Chaos

Angel of Chaos

A pen and ink illustration of a mohawked female punk angel welding a flaming molotov and brandishing the shield of chaos.

Art and Science of Billboard Improvement

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By the Billboard Liberation Front and Friends

Autobiographical Kaleidoscope

Autobiographical Kaleidoscope

by Franklin Rosemont

from Morning of the Machine Gun, May 1968

Communicating Vessels, Issue 22, Fall-Winter, 2010 - 2011, page 34  read more »

Bare Foot Threat

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Black Bloc Zine.

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Black Bloc Zine. Subjective art and politics. poetry and photography. high brow and low blows. filth and fury.

for information contact; freespacesos@riseup.net

Bound for Glory Magazine vol.2

Art and Literature from and for hobo's, radicals, prisoners and blah blah blah....its right in front of you so if you want, just check it out.  read more »

Bring the War Home

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A play produced by Insurgent Theatre in January of 2005.

If you'd like to produce your own version of this play, the author would love to help. Find contact info in the file. Thank you.

http://insurgenttheatre.org/theory/BTWH.pdf

Civilization De-motivational Poster

Civilization: Epic Fail

This is the second in a series of anarchist/politically-motivated joke de-motivational posters I'm developing. All your memes are belong to us!

Visit yggdrasildistro.wordpress.com for more.

Civilization Intellect De-Motivational Poster

Civilization Intellect De-Motivational Poster

This de-motivational poster is part of a series using dictionary definitions and amazing and horrifying images to demean, discredit, and vilify civilization. Enjoy!

Civilization McDonald's Kid De-Motivational Poster

Civilization McDonald's Kid De-motivational Poster

Part of a continuing series of anti-civ posters using dictionary definitions of civilization and shocking images to promote primitivist politics.

Cock No. 7 #5 The Dream Issue

Dream Issue Cover by Jana Jelovac

Cock No. 7 Enters its 2nd year with The Dream Issue. "Some would say Artists are always dreaming-some would say because we dream we are all artists." How do you share a Dream? In words, in sounds, in pictures, with music and emotion? We have added them all to the mix.  read more »

Comrade Quixote Book I

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A modern interpretation of Don Quixote.

dada manifesto

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Hugo Ball's dada manifesto, presented in zurich, 1916

Dumpster Union Dispatch #1

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A very radical pamphlet from the Hungry Knife Artist Collective
Analysis & perspective from the U.S. - Mexico deserts
Radical Art Activism
Practical D.I.Y.
Solidarity & Sustainibilty
Readable version: http://hungryknife.com/iddu/DUDi1webVER.pdf
Printable version: http://hungryknife.com/iddu/DUDi1piy.pdf

Echo! Echo! #8

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Echo! Echo! #8 is a zine created by KG. Issue 8 is comprised of stories spanning one-year period. Ending university classes, nostalgia, zoo trips, kissing lessons and lists. Also includes some original poetry and art.

Emma Goldman Chaotic Good De-motivational Poster

Emma Goldman, Chaotic Good

This small poster is part of a series of anarchist and politically inspired de-motivational joke posters that I'm currently working on. Behold: now your favorite internet meme has come to zine library!

More at: yggdrasildistro.wordpress.com

Empty Letters

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by Jeffery Bennington Grindly

Escapism has its price, The artist has his income

Non Fides N°4

This text about art and artists comes from Non Fides; N°4, an aperiodic anarchist journal from France. Check it out.

Social War.

Expect Anything, Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere

Expect Anything, Fear Nothing

Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jakob Jakobsen.  read more »

exquisite corpus and songnet, 2009

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exquisite corpus and songnet are part of an ongoing collaborative poetry project. the first edition was published in 2009 as a bilingual edition in english and spanish. there were contributions from five people.

works from this project will be published in hard copy and online periodically. please send comments and suggestions to: theredthreads@yahoo.com.

peace <3

a free spirit can only exist in a freed body
--duncan school banner

folktales: paradise apocalypse

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Folktales from past and future, as written by Tom Smith and Myra Eddy, plus others. Poetry, art, and stories.

An excerpt from the intro:  read more »

for thee genuinely non excitable # 1

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Franklin Rosemont, 1944-2009

Franklin Rosemont, 1944-2009

"A stranger to neither love nor laughter"

by Don Lacoss

The Fifth Estate, Summer-Fall 2009, Vol 44, No. 2 (Whole number 381), page 34  read more »

From Punk To Proudhon? A brief history of Garage Collective

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Follow up to 'This is not a manifesto — towards an alternative design practice', this is a 2 page, double-sided zine on art, design and the ideas of Garage Collective. Mainly deals with the idea of cultural agitation and alternative practices.

Funboat diplomacy

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'Funboat diplomacy' is a short satirical fact/fiction about the UK government's latest proposals to counter Internet piracy. This work builds on some of the rumours that were flying around the story.

Format: PDF booklet
Dave Miller (Summer 2009)

Future Fantasteek! #7

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Fiddle. Your. Expenses.
Issue

July 2009

Gatitos y Burritos vol.3

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What may be the last of the series, Gatitos y burritos returns with two completed puzzles and more ridiculousness. It is highly suggested you print this and when finished reading pass it off to the nearest unattended child.

Hatred of Capitalism

HATRED OF CAPITALISM

A Semiotext(e) READER

EEdited by Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer

SEMIOTEXT(E)

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Hatred of Capitalism

Page 4  read more »

HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art, curated by Liena Vayzman (San Francisco: Root Division, 2007).

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Full-color illustrated catalog of the exhibition HOME at the artist-run non-profit art space ROOT DIVISION in San Francisco, featuring 30 artists in all media, with essay by curator Liena Vayzman.  read more »

How To?

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I'd Only Sell Myself to the Sidewalk

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a bit about art in our world
by the Black Lobster Collaboration
Feb 2007

in the land

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Justice Bicycle- Frugal Christmas Edition

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Justice Bicycle is a monthly zine committed to the art of truth and truthiness. By using found objects, drawings, short stories and photographs the boundaries between what is original and what is appropriated become blurred. Zines are distributed for free by leaving them in unexpected or odd places, this forces the finder to either steal or leave the zine for someone else. The Justice Bicycle zine is a small part of a larger project by the same name which uses a variety of media to incite a private response within the viewer.
ijustwannabeforever.blogspot.com

Justice Bicycle-Banana Split Edition

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Justice Bicycle is a monthly zine committed to the art of truth and truthiness. By using found objects, drawings, short stories and photographs the boundaries between what is original and what is appropriated become blurred. Zines are distributed for free by leaving them in unexpected or odd places, this forces the finder to either steal or leave the zine for someone else. The Justice Bicycle zine is a small part of a larger project by the same name which uses a variety of media to incite a private response within the viewer.
ijustwannabeforever.blogspot.com

Justice Bicycle-Ride MF Ride Edition

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Justice Bicycle is a monthly zine committed to the art of truth and truthiness. By using found objects, drawings, short stories and photographs the boundaries between what is original and what is appropriated become blurred. Zines are distributed for free by leaving them in unexpected or odd places, this forces the finder to either steal or leave the zine for someone else. The Justice Bicycle zine is a small part of a larger project by the same name which uses a variety of media to incite a private response within the viewer.
ijustwannabeforever.blogspot.com

Justice Bicycle-Special Editors Edition

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Justice Bicycle is a monthly zine committed to the art of truth and truthiness. By using found objects, drawings, short stories and photographs the boundaries between what is original and what is appropriated become blurred. Zines are distributed for free by leaving them in unexpected or odd places, this forces the finder to either steal or leave the zine for someone else. The Justice Bicycle zine is a small part of a larger project by the same name which uses a variety of media to incite a private response within the viewer.
ijustwannabeforever.blogspot.com

Mantras For Shoplifters

most beautiful word in the english language is... resist

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poems by ellen marie hinchcliffe

Paint the Town

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Script for a play produced by Insurgent Theatre summer of 2008 - spring of 2009.

If anyone is interested in producing their own version of this play, i'd love to help. Contact information inside script.

http://insurgenttheatre.org/theory/PAINT.pdf

Pataphysical Vibrations Issue 1 - "We Shall Survive Without A Doubt"

"We Shall Survive Without a Doubt"

Bittersweet in our first conception, revolutionary artist and cultural thinker Emory Douglas' poster "We Shall Survive Without A Doubt" just so happens to best represent the theme of Volume 1, Issue 1. Each article is in its own way a tale about the survival and continuity of life- let it be a society or individual.  read more »

Pataphysical Vibrations Issue 2 "Summer in the Light and Winter in the Shade"

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This second time around we created an open invitation for the public to submit writings, pictures, and music in the theme of "Spring". We took the title, "Summer in the Light and Winter in the Shade" from a quotation by Charles Dickens as it neatly and very nicely captures the season.  read more »

Pechyvo

Pechyvo #1

It is a literary-graphic almanac.
Languages are ukrainian, russian and english,
but the main language, by the way the oldest language of civilisation is a graphic.
You can download 10 issues at http://pechyvo.com.

Pechyvo#11

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Дура! Ты никому ненужна! Чудовище!
Тимати - жыв !
Шок, отец отрезал учительнице ногу. Видео!
http://pechyvo.com - здесь.

http://zinelibrary.info/files/pechyvo11.pdf (9.05 mb)

Planet Slime Issue 2: Part of the Disease

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planet slime is my mind's divergent reality, these are some things i have captured and observed, thanks!

Planet Slime Issue ?: Its OK Not to Know

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these issues are all out of order, but i'll post them all eventually! sketches and rants from the last few years, including a coloring page and the introduction of my segment, the hippi and the nihilist! Enjoy! (4 pages printed front back front back ect)

Poetic Terrorism, Art Sabotage, and How to Create Your Own Pirate Utopia

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This zine serves the purpose of an induction into the ranks of Poetic Terrorism. An overview of the techniques of Art Sabotage to bring down the Corporate Spectacle and help you seek out other life experiences contrary to Capitalism. Through this, Pirate Utopias can be created and found.

Preliminary Doses

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This is a highly diverse selection of my work between the ages 19 and 21. It is meant to be an introduction to what has been and will be my later writing and art. You will find horror, phenomenology, lyrical poems, absurdist rantings, romance, and quite a lot more therein. There is linear intentions with the lay out which has lead me to remove a table of contents. Something inside should capture just about anyone who might pick it up.

Problem of the Head, The (Tiqqun)

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“The innate part of the failure that determines a collective enterprise like the avant-garde is its incapacity to make a world. All the splendors, all the actions, all the discourses of the avant-garde unceasingly fail to give it a body; it all happens in the head of the few, where the unity, the organic content of the ensemble flourish, but only for thinking, that is to say, externally.”

public spaces, fall 2004

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public spaces is a seasonal review from paradise 29 artel. p29a is the inevitable result of the claim to space made by you, a growing number of economically-bound crafts people, creative expressionists, free-thinkers/feelers, and the like.  read more »

public spaces, spring 2004

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public spaces is a seasonal review from paradise 29 artel. p29a is the inevitable result of the claim to space made by you, a growing number of economically-bound crafts people, creative expressionists, free-thinkers/feelers, and the like.  read more »

public spaces, spring:summer 2005

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public spaces is a seasonal review from paradise 29 artel. p29a is the inevitable result of the claim to space made by you, a growing number of economically-bound crafts people, creative expressionists, free-thinkers/feelers, and the like.  read more »

public spaces, summer 2004

ps, summer 2004

public spaces is a seasonal review from paradise 29 artel. p29a is the inevitable result of the claim to space made by you, a growing number of economically-bound crafts people, creative expressionists, free-thinkers/feelers, and the like.  read more »

public spaces, winter 2005

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public spaces is a seasonal review from paradise 29 artel. p29a is the inevitable result of the claim to space made by you, a growing number of economically-bound crafts people, creative expressionists, free-thinkers/feelers, and the like.  read more »

Queer Chican@ Zine

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Queer Chican@ Zine, #1.
Art/Poetry. The creative issue.
check it out/submit/follow at http://queerchicanowzine.tumblr.com

Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike

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Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist"...a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.

Claire Fontaine also has very close connections to TIQQUN.  read more »

Remembering Rosemont

In my Mind's Eye

Remembering Rosemont

by Joseph Jablonski

Communicating Vessels, Issue 22, Fall-Winter, 2010 - 2011, page 18

FALL IN SPRING  read more »

RockPaperScissors - Issue 5

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www.thespider.org.uk

RockPaperScissors is a magazine published on the third Tuesday of every month.

We’re like-minded people, following the same path. We’re not so concerned with where this path started, but more with where it goes – towards a sane and sustainable way of living.  read more »

shock and consequence

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i am a zine about

experiences.
life . sex . mental illness
friends . losing it . hope
places . people . support
time .
love.

i am ready to print.

feedback: shockandconsequence@gmail.com

Society of the Spectacle

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A new reprint of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. Now made with a fancy hipster design for all your aesthetic needs.

From the Institute for Experimental Freedom
http://it-est-futurum.blogspot.com

Solidarity Forever Motherfuckers!

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Happy May Day ⁄ International Worker’s Day!

Sweet Angel, Suicide Kiss

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by Lola Batling
Now with more blood and indie rockers! Sweet Angel, Suicide Kiss is the story of a young girl named Angel. Just your average 17 year old with average troubles and average motivations. The only difference is, she just killed her parents which has turned her world upside down. In more ways than one. Through the bloody event she learns some shocking things about her past and just how that will impact her future.

This Is Not A Manifesto — Ideas Towards An Alternative Design Practice

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Zine about the role of Graphic Design in Capitalism, and some possible alternatives towards a more libertarian/anarchist direction. Also includes a critique of The First Things First Manifesto of 2002. Produced by Garage Collective.

This is not a manifesto: Towards an anarcho-design practice (2011 version)

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If graphic design is understood as the expression and reflection of a particular set of values, systems and interests, then most artistic practice today tends to express the interests of the class that controls and profits from society. It is these interests that dominate the standards of value in design, defines its emphasis, and excludes its more subversive, egalitarian alternatives.  read more »

To Libertarians (a much nicer version)

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"Organizations pass, but subversion will never stop being loved."

A great text about prisoners and solidarity, released under the moniker "International Friends" in August 1980 and currently attributed to that Debord guy. Signed by 25,000 people upon it's release, it plead for the release of Basque political prisoners in the spirit of revolutionary solidarity.  read more »

Ulysses' Crewmen

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Script and essays for a play Insurgent Theatre has been touring North America with since Sept 2009.

If anyone is interested in producing their own version of this play, please contact the author. I'd love to help.

http://www.insurgenttheatre.org/theory/ULYSSES.pdf

Underground

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This essay aims to combine the pieces which constitute
the contemporary underground design. An exploration
linked with the conditions prevailed in the
western societies by the expansion of the new technologies.
A whole new environment elevated from
obscurity and infused the urban and electronic infrastructures
with such characteristics that disable and
appropriate parasitic cultures (such as the underground
cultures) as parts of the dominant mode of
production.

Vajcak_1

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Vajčak - Review of East Slovak literature, #1, Jeśeň 2011
Hlaśňik Vichodoslovenskoho združeňa VALAL

OBŠAH:
Peter Moskaľ "Moski" - Pankpop
Ivan Meďeši "Šuker" - Špaciri po spodku dunca
Bombuľare - www.DavidovskaKreu.tk
vitvarni kucik - Bukovohorska keramika
Mirko Horňak "Kole" - Pľuvaňe i druhi pisňi
Jožko Jenčo a KĽUD - Džvirata na koncu deskoch  read more »

Womb Envy

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zephyr: love & lessons on anatomy, autonomy and anarchy

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zephyr, vol. 1: love&lessons in anatomy, autonomy, and anarchy
(now without technical difficulties)

inaugural issue, yo!
short nuggets on the finer things in life, namely:

stealing, sleep deprivation, sin,
politics, poetry, pretty pictures
awkwardness, anger, alcohol
existential crises, etc, etc, etc

there are no answers here. but there are guava trees and gender issues. read it already!

ZIGZAG #1

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The first issue of ZIGZAG, a collaborative arts magazine based in SRQ, Florida. Started by Ringling College students without support from the administration, this independent publication reflects the do-it-yourself spirit of the times. It is open to international contributors of fine art, illustration, photography, poetry, and stories.

Download at:  read more »

ZIGZAG #2

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ZIGZAG is a collaborative arts magazine based in SRQ, Florida. Started by Ringling College students without support from the administration, this independent publication reflects the do-it-yourself spirit of the times. It is open to international contributors of fine art, illustration, photography, poetry, and stories.

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/zigzag2.pdf (26.8 mb)  read more »

ZIGZAG #3

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ZIGZAG is a collaborative arts magazine based in SRQ, Florida. Started by Ringling College students without support from the administration, this independent publication reflects the do-it-yourself spirit of the times. It is open to international contributors of fine art, illustration, photography, poetry, and stories.

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/zigzag3.pdf (11.6 mb)  read more »

ZIGZAG #4

Cover of Issue #4

ZIGZAG is a collaborative arts magazine based in SRQ, Florida. Started by Ringling College students without support from the administration, this independent publication reflects the do-it-yourself spirit of the times. It is open to international contributors of fine art, illustration, photography, poetry, and stories.

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/zigzag4.pdf (18.8 mb)  read more »

ZIGZAG #5

Cover of ZIGZAG #5

The fifth issue of ZIGZAG, a collaborative arts magazine based in SRQ, Florida. Started by Ringling College students without support from the administration, this independent publication reflects the do-it-yourself spirit of the times. It is open to international contributors of fine art, illustration, photography, poetry, and stories.

Download at:  read more »