The third Paper Plains Zine Fest happens on Labor Day weekend.

Day 1 | August 31: Programming and Workshops throughout Lawrence

Day 2 | September 1: Vendor Event with over 100 local and regional artists on-hand selling their zines. The vendor event will be indoor/outdoor all day at Van Go, 715 New Jersey Street in Lawrence, Kansas.

It’s gonna be great.

What’s a Zine?

A zine (/ziːn/ ZEEN; short for magazine or fanzine) is a short, self-published booklet.

Since the invention of the photocopier zines have been a favored medium of creative expression as well as a means of finding power and agency for artists operating–either by choice or due to systemic oppression–outside mainstream culture. Zines inform, inspire, and instruct across infinite topics, including art & design, comics, poetry, radical politics, personal narratives, intersectional feminism, and queer culture, or dive deep into single-topic obsession and miscellany: there’s something for everyone, provided one isn’t an insufferable bore.