Jolie Braun

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

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
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Cover of issue 2 of Batmania, featuring illustrations of Batman and Robin.

Article "The Batmanians."

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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An artist's book by Marilyn R. Rosenberg open to two colorful pages with blocks of color, text, and collage.

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...

Postcard of High Street in Columbus at night, arches lit across the street.

Postcard showing the gated entrance to Greenlawn Cemetery

Postcard that says "Columbus" with images of the city inside the letters.

Looking through a postcard collection this morning:

Advertisement in issue of the zine TV Collector for a t-shirt made by the publication with text that says "My heart is in old tv" over an image of a television with a heart in the screen.

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.

Screenshot of podcast episode page showing the cover of High Bias.

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.

Cover is handwritten text that says "This is Arcadia -- No cover, sorry, but I don't have time, what with work, diablerie, and all. -bw-

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!

Original of a page from Nancy's Magazine shows bits of cut up paper with typed text that have been glued to graph paper. Page also includes some handwritten text and drawings and white outs over errors.

Published version of the same page (white out and graph paper are no longer visible).

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.

Screenshot of the SHARP News website featuring book covers of newly reviewed books.

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!

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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!

Letter from Gene Roddenberry to Sherna Comerford and Debra Langsam, dated April 24, 1968, thanking them for their Star Trek fanzine and saying that it's shared with every new writer and individual who makes decisions on the show.

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!!

Cover of an 1825 pamphlet "The Cabinet," bottom right hand corner has been torn off and sewn back on with black thread.

A view of the repair from the other side of the page.

Found a fascinating stitched repair on this 1825 pamphlet today: search.library.osu.edu/permalink/01...

Congrats, Malcolm! Excited to read this.

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Gifted

Oh wow, this makes me want to read your zines! It seems like so many people starting makes zines during that time. I love that you've kept it up.

Screenshot of Osa Atoe saying "...but for the record this is what Wikipedia says an archivist is.....And I have to say that I maybe only relate to a quarter of that definition."

Reading this 2012 interview w/ Osa Atoe about her zine Shotgun Seamstress & playing in punk bands & it's all so good, but I especially love that when she's asked if she sees herself as an archivist, she looks up the definition of the word: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...