@joliebraun.bsky.social
Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about zine history. Program chair for the Aldus Society, book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL. Always interested in knowing your favorite Beatle. https://joliebraun.com/
Registration for the SHARPIES—our totally online Book History Festival—is now open and free for SHARP members! 📚😀 If you're not a member, it's easy to join (membership is between $55 and $100). The festival will take place July 7th-9th with events across time zones.
events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
"Sorry, only 30 pages this issue; inflation strikes!" Note in the bottom corner of a page of issue 4 (1965) of the comics fanzine Slam-Bang (seen at Billy Ireland Cartoon Library).
Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York
Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...
Just registered, this looks like an awesome event.
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes
Visited the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library last week to look at early issues of Biljo White's Batman zine, Batmania. So beautifully illustrated! Originally free, issue 2 of the fanzine notes, "As Batmanians, we crusade not for monetary gain but for the enjoyment of seeing our ideas materialize."
Cover of the day
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If you happen to be on OSU's campus or nearby next Wednesday afternoon, please feel free to stop by RBML's open house of artist's books, visual poetry, & illustrations, curated by our student worker, Kate Jeffries. Info at: library.osu.edu/events/maril...
Looking through a postcard collection this morning:
Ad for a t-shirt available from the zine TV Collector, seen in a 1983 issue, says "My heart is in old TV." (I would absolutely wear this shirt.)
Listening to this episode now, it's completely delightful.
Just listened to this super interesting interview w/ Marc Masters about his book, High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (apparently not new, but new to me 🙃): newbooksnetwork.com/high-bias
Makes sense. Thanks!
Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.
The cover of a 1944 zine, Arcadia: fanac.org/fanzines/FAP...
Sorry, should have included that. It’s part of the Nancy Kangas Papers: library.osu.edu/finding-aids.... Let me know if you have any questions!
This is super interesting. Did you find using digital design tools faster / easier, though? (Asking just because I'm fascinated by why people choose the process they do for making a zine!)
Yes, thank you!
Talking to students this week about physically making zines & sharing some masters & printed zines of Nancy's Magazine so they can see the process of creation for this pub. Love the use of graph paper, white out, & glued bits of paper.
New reviews up at SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social's! Books on marginalia, letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., manuscript cookbooks, hybrid media, the small press the Jargon Society, & more: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/.
Bowling Green does!
If I'm remembering correctly, $8k 🙃
Awesome. I'll have to take a look at the zine collections & see if I should come for a reading room visit!
In case you too are interested in learning about how a collection of 3,000 pieces of hair jewelry & wreaths was built: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...
Oh cool, that's good to know about Oberlin's collections!
Not the point, I know, but I didn't realize you're also in Ohio!
1968 letter from Gene Roddenberry to Sherna Comerford & Devra Langsam thanking them for their Star Trek fanzine which he says is "'required reading' for everyone in our offices." Reprinted in Spocknalia #3: fanac.org/fanzines/Spo...
😂 me too!!
