"Twenty-volume folios will never make a Revolution. It is the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared."

— Voltaire, the French writer/philosopher/infidel      

Because I want to work with type and layout it makes sense 
to work with publishing and copy text.  Initially, my idea 
was to produce a grid for a magazine and create my own 
content.  However, I think that the content in a magazine is 
not as focused as it should be given my subject matter.

A zine ( /ˈziːn/ ZEEN; an abbreviation of fanzine, or 
magazine) is most commonly a small circulation  
publication of original or appropriated texts and images. 
More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published 
work of minority interest usually reproduced via 
photocopier.

A popular definition includes that circulation must be 
5,000 or less, although in practice the significant majority 
are produced in editions of less than 1,000, and profit is 
not the primary intent of publication.

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Another definition i've found:
'A zine
(an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine)
is an independently created publication, featuring original
or appropriated texts and images. Zines can be put together
by one person or a group of people and are usually
photocopied.
The contents are anything you want them to be; personal
experiences and journals, art and design, political ideologies,
music, travel stories, comics, photography, ephemera, single-
topic obsession.'
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I've looked into 'zines'.  Using the word for a long time, i've 
never really known the exact definition.  By defining this 
term I can really direct my project in a way that answers the 
brief successfully.  - if I don't even know somethings meaning 
how can I claim to have any understanding of said 'thing'.

Well known Zines:

[ COMETBUS ]

A quick search into google reveals that 'COMETBUS' is one of the 
worlds most well known zines.
Cometbus is most famous for publishing the zine  Cometbus, which 
he began in Berkeley, California in 1981.^[5] Cometbus has self-
published the usually-handwritten zine ever since, despite a few 
breaks. The name Cometbus was coined by Gregg Turkington during 
the early days of the magazine when the name changed from issue to 
issue. Cometbus consisted of band interviews, personal diaries, artwork, 
and observations on the punk subculture in the San Francisco Bay Area 
and beyond. The zine captured a slice of life in Oakland and Berkeley,  
California from the late 1980s through the 1990s. This includes squatting, 
collective living, falling in love and other perils of the punk rock lifestyle. 
Cometbus's writing is characterized by stories of loneliness and alienation, 
 tempered with episodes of brightness and perennial hope in the ability of 
humans to connect to one another.
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[ DAZED & CONFUSED ] 

'The magazine with the long established reputation of having the best 
fashion, photography and art content in the entire world, Dazed & 
Confused also includes equally high-quality pieces on film editorial 
and music, and is one of the best magazines for any lover of culture.'
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It began in 1991 as a monochrome poster / / zine, however, it quickly 
grew to the status of a fully printed, colour magazine.  The founders 
Rankin and Jefferson Hack first met at London College of Printing 
((Present day) London College of Communication) in London’s 
elephant and Castle.






Similar to Dazed and unlike Cometbus, I want to approach my 
reading of a zine in a muchmore considered sense from a design 
point of view.  for example, layoutwill be a main focus.  For now, 
it doesn't necessarily have to be consistent, more, focusing on 
existing rules of type and layout.