Creativity for Community Impact |
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Wasted Ink Zine Distro (WIZD) is a small-press distribution center, storefront, and library that houses local and international zines. WIZD represents over 250 artists and provides a hub for creativity and community impact. WIZD contains an on-site zine library with over 700 titles to read through to gain inspiration and understanding. WIZD hosts and supports over 50 zine and literary events each year ranging from zine workshops to the Phoenix Zine Fest.
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Wasted Ink Zine Distro is a community event space run solely by a passionate queer, disabled zinester named Charissa Lucille and a great community. Charissa has published zine titles like Fem Static, Unfinished, and Blunt Talk. In addition to curating and maintaining this collection, we also host a number of literary events including zine making workshops, zine release parties and rotating art shows.
Wasted Ink Zine Distro provides people with alternative forms of media with publications about a myriad of different topics ranging from, educational and woman’s studies, personal and political activism, music and punk history, photography, art and more. WIZD is constantly growing and expanding and receiving more material every week. |
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What is a Zine?"A zine - pronounced zeen - derived from magazine - is an independently- or self-published booklet, often created by a single person. Zines are customarily created by physically cutting and gluing text and images together onto a master flat for photocopying, but it is also common to produce the master by typing and formatting pages on a computer. The end product is usually folded and stapled. Zines can be printed and bound in any manner. Offset printing is a relatively common alternative to photocopying, though there is some controversy among zine writers as to whether professionally printed products may be defined as zines."
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Press
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Zine Stack Podcast |
PHX Zine Fest |
Phoenix is spread out across a vast desert landscape connected by stacks of freeway systems, yet it's full of bold zine makers and artists. Zine Stack Podcast aims to amplify the voices we represent through Wasted Ink Zine Distro and the Phx Zine Fest. We will interview local Arizona zinesters, plug various events, and provide commentary on what we see and experience in our growing zine community. There's never a bad time to get involved. Reach us at wastedinkzinedistro@gmail.com.
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Phx Zine Fest is an annual gathering for DIY Small Press enthusiasts who create and enjoy zines, indie comics, photography books, perzines, political pamphlets and the like. Arizona has a lot of creativity to offer and Phx Zine Fest provides the space to show it off! This is the event to share your self-published work and to connect with the growing community. Enjoy panels, zine making, alternative voices and a ton of bright creativity.
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Local Presses We Love:Pachanga Press
Abalone Mountain Press Shut Eye Press Cardboard House Press Holum Press Hoot 'n' Waddle Press Plankton Press Prickly Pear Printing Other Arizona Spots To Find Zines: |
Zine Fests We've Tabled:928 Gilman Zine Fest 2016
Albuquerque Zine Fest 2017 Denver Zine Fest 2018 Grid Zine Fest 2018 LA Zine Fest 2015, 2016, 2017 Long Beach Zine Fest 2015 Phoenix Zine Fest 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Portland Zine Symposium 2016, 2020 (virtual) San Diego Zine Fest 2017 San Francisco Zine Fest 2015 |