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Zines

Collection at Pratt Institute Libraries and general information about Zines

Fortunate Horse

Fortunate Horse Magazine is a collective of comedy writers and designers who create absurd, surrealist fake periodicals and plant them in the real world for unsuspecting people to find and delight in.

magazine cover of man smoking

Mister Cigarette

Mister Cigarette, is a lifestyle magazine in the vein of Maxim, Esquire, and Cigar Afficianado, but for awful men who smoke and love cigarettes.

Drac's Place : a fascimile [sic] zine

Drawings and prints about Count Dracula

large decorated yellow letter M

Madonna/whore

This reversible zine uses the two possible aspect ratios of the book format to explore the two main archetypes of female representation in Western art history. However, the goal here isn't to reproduce a quality or style, it's to mock the Canon.

white images of mushrooms on black background

Radical Mycology

Practical manual with instructions for using mushrooms in cooking, as dyestuff, in homemade medicines, and to make paper. Also includes wild mushroom identification information, a list of recommended mushroom reading, a glossary of mushroom terminology, and many detailed photographs, drawings, and diagrams.

Two Fisted Library Stories

Pulp-inspired library stories.

white text on red paper

Txtreader Videogame Reader

TXTreader is a platform for errant thoughts, dumb jokes, and approximated projects by a range of contributors. This edition of the reader is devoted to video games, the worlds they create, and how we process them.

Trump's head on blue paper with sans-serif text

Do you have nightmares about Trump, or the Trumpian landscape?

A call for submissions for Donald Trump-related nightmares, which will be published on trumpnightmares.tumblr.com

tan brick wall with a hole through the center

Holes

This zine, featuring a physical hole punched through the pages, relates different phrases with the word "hole" in them.

pink rectangle

I nose you : zine 3

A nursery-style rhyme about a man who lives in the author's nose.

all caps sans serif font on yellow paper

The Last Word in Dystopian Literature

A number of famous dystopian novels are listed beneath the final word in their respective stories. For example, “him” (Franz Kafka’s The Trial) and “gorilla” (Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes).

Single

Inspired by Ikea's furniture assembly manuals that often illustrate two persons assembling the furniture, Hai Hsin Huang instead illustrates one person doing it alone, playfully and painfully.


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