KC ZINE MACHINE

Rest in Peace, Kansas City Zine Collective, 2012-2015.

The Kansas City Zine Collective was a group of zine makers that did work to establish a zine culture and continue a zine legacy from 2012-2015. We introduced Kansas City people to zines and helped connect zine makers through social and educational events. Some of what we did included workshops, zine readings, gallery exhibits, pop-up libraries, zine distribution, and classroom visits. We took a large trunk of Kansas City zines with us to represent our city at the 2014 Chicago Zine fest and the next year we founded our own zine con.

Our work culminated in 2015 with the launch of KC Zine Con and the donation of a large zine archive to UMKC's Labudde Special Collections. At the 2015 zine con we released a free zine review zine.

Our collective goal of fostering and establishing a zine culture in Kansas City has been achieved. We are happy our work with the KC zine collective has come full circle.

Many of us continue working with zines. Some of us are organizing the next KC Zine con. To continue staying up to date with zine news related to Kansas City and the midwest, please follow KC Zine Con on Facebook and tumblr . The retired KCZC Facebook and tumblr pages will stay online and serve as an archive of our work.

We’re looking for zines to be included in a review zine that will be launched on August 29th, 2015 at the KC Zine Con at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, MO.

This is a quick turnaround time on the deadline! All zines must be received by August 1st to be included in the review publication. Send us your zines now!!!! Because of the short turnaround, we may be willing to look at some zines digitally that would otherwise normally be in print. 

This is a great opportunity to get your information out there about your zine at the upcoming Kansas City zine con! 

Jess and I recently had the pleasure engaging with students in the New Zine class at the Kansas City Art Institute. Instructor Hugh Merrill defines “new zine” as being anything outside the traditional academic art medium that doesn’t take a great deal of theory to create. It was interesting to hear Merill and students share thoughts on what makes a zine and how they plan to create their own.

Adopt-a-zine-stand

We're looking for people to adopt three zine-stands that were designed by members of the KC zine collective. Each stand will come with a free starter package of zines from Jess's collection! 

These zine/information exchange stands were constructed by supplies that make them better suited for the indoors.

If interested in adopting a zine stand, please e-mail us by November 15th about which zine stand you are interested in and why you want to be involved. We are also curious about your ideas on how to work with the zine stand and caretake them.  If you are on the tumblr web site, hover your mouse over the photo until the arrow shows up to be able to scroll through photos of zine stands that are up for adoption. 

Tonight October 24, 7 PM at Front Space -- Things Swamp No. 3 Issue Release shindig!

More info on facebooks:

Friday October 24, 7 PM Things Swamp No. 3 release party.

Music, comix, and zines in Kansas City!

Facebook Event:

Jess and I are working on a short lecture about KC zines that will be presented this upcoming Friday, October 10 at 7 PM inside the InterUrban ArtHouse in Overland Park, KS. We will tentatively address the following points: 

A micro snapshot of present and past zines created within our KC community.

How KC zines serve as sacrifices of labor, a means of authenticity, and operate outside of the normalized capitalized exchange system.

What's going on in KC zine culture with pop up libraries, advocacy and outreach, community building, and cultural zine events.

Where we are at in our zine advocacy and archival efforts. 

Please RSVP to the speaking engagement here: http://bit.ly/1ue8Eut or visit on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/543626605768833/