Get ready for 448 pages of zines!  Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is the catalogue created to accompany – and represent – the exhibit of the same name that was held earlier this year at The Brooklyn Museum.  It a very nicely produced French-flapped softcover volume that assembles reproductions of and from zines created from the 1960s to the present, almost all of which have been scanned (at high resolution) directly from copies of the actual zines, and fabulously printed in the UK.  The selection encompasses a wide variety, largely chosen for æsthetic reasons and/or artistic merit, with a notable focus on punk and queer zines. 

Most of these zines have been rescued from obscurity, and will likely only ever be encountered by the average citizen here in the pages of this collection, but there are also sprinkled among the hundreds of reproductions works by better known artists who have done important work in the zine field, most notably Raymond Pettibon and the Destroy All Monsters crew, along with Richard Kern, V. Vale and others.

There are a pair of introductory essays that provide an overview, and then also six specialist essays that focus on particular aspects of zine culture and history.  But mostly, there are zines!

Here's the publisher page which includes a dozen images of/from the book.

While this book was published in the first half of 2024, this is the first holiday season (Christmas) that it's been available.

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