Word: zine
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...wondrous cover of the first issue describes it as “an ob-literary zine, and “an experiment in experimentation.” Technically speaking, it is an almost 50 page funhouse of innovative artwork and writing on the concept of “the future.” The ’zine, which proudly included an essay by world-renowned critical theorist Slavoj Zizek, was neither distributed through University mail nor door-dropped, but was instead left in cafes and offices around Cambridge. Some adventurous members of Present! even left copies of the magazine...
Lately, building the ’zine has taken a back seat to staging events like the Cube and the Dance Conspiracy, in which a silent swarm of people vacillated and jived to rhythms supplied by Harvard radio station WHRB through portable radio headphones. These events aim at making people aware of their surroundings—their “space and place” as Present! co-founder Neasa Coll ’05 puts it. “Some of the events we’ve had have happened outside or they’ve happened in places...
...those plans develop, Hwang says he will be doing work of his own. He’ll continue in his position as contributor and grant writer for the ’zine, but he also plans to begin a few new activities. His fellow members of Present! would approve—roller-skating, middle-school-style, is at the top of his to-do list...
Pasternack reads enigmatic correspondence from a recent letter-writing event organized by Present!, the zine he co-founded...
...nearly 25 years Peter Kuper has worked to raise the consciousness of comix. In 1980, inspired by the Reagan Revolution, he co-founded the highly politicized magazine "Word War 3 Illustrated," an early conflation of 'zine and comix anthology. Since then he has expanded his repertoire into travel comix, autobiography and even the "Spy vs. Spy" strip in "Mad." (He has also done a fair amount of illustration work for TIME.) But his political comix have always been the standouts. As far back as the late 1940s, EC comics included themes of racial inequities and the hypocrisies...