Hannah Chinn, Author at Valley News

Mary Tasillo looks over one the very first zines she created in the Zine Library at the Soapbox March 19, 2019. Zines - those little booklets full of weirdly specific rants or homemade cartoons that predated social media - are back. The Soapbox in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood both produces and collects them. (Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Zines make a modest comeback, or maybe they never left

by Hannah Chinn Philadelphia InquirerApril 4, 2019

PHILADLEPHIA — Katie Haegele describes herself as an accidental zine librarian. It started in 2004: a trade here, a mail order there. Deadpan drawings. Animal-themed comics. A half-sheet booklet with mimeographed photos of fountain drinks…

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