The handmade, self-published book scene is thriving in Philly.
The zine library at the Soapbox, a West Philly community print shop. Studio coordinator Mateo Dresden , board president Karen Lowry, and fellow Belle Handler sit among the zines.Temple University) are handmade, self-published booklets, often xeroxed and stapled together for a small audience about a particular topic. Hallmarks of DIY culture, they have endured far longer than many of the forces that seemed sure to make them irrelevant.
“There’s something about the experience of the endless scrolling that is fleeting,” Heinly said, compared to the physical experience of reading a zine. “It was a very solitary thing for me, but then just spending one day there I felt a part of something,” Haegele said. She met her husband at a New Jersey zine fest in 2009 and has made a host of zine friends over the years. One of them, a “long distance zine friend” namedwill be visiting Haegele from Australia this fall. They’ve never met in person, but have kept in touch by mailing zines back and forth.
“Zines never went away. But they’re rediscovered every so often by new generations,” said Jill Luedke, the art and architecture librarian at Temple University Libraries. The Temple archives house science fiction fanzines from the 1930s, punk and Riot Grrl zines from the ‘80s and ‘90s, and a contemporary zine collection, seeded by Heinly, that continues to grow.
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