Caribbean and Latin American zine collection

Collection

Caribbean and Latin American zine collection

• 1985-2022 (Production)

16.00 linear feet (30 boxes)

An ongoing collection of comics and zines added to the holdings of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, with a focus on zines produced in and/or about the Caribbean and Latin America, including diaspora communities. Zines are typically independent and self published booklets popular in underground subcultures. The first zines were fanzines, started in the early 20th century by science fiction fans documenting the genre. The format truly took off with the punk rock movement of the 1970s, as a do-it-yourself spirit inspired legions of underground punk fans to start raw but vibrant journals documenting the nascent music scenes in their communities. Zine topics would broaden throughout the 1980s and 1990s to cover a variety of subject areas, from comics to anarchist politics to women’s rights, to more mundane subjects like dumpster diving, alternative fashions, tattoo art, and much more. Despite the expansion of topics, the format usually remained the same—self-published booklets printed in limited editions and typically produced with a photocopy machine.

This collection is open for research.

Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.

University of Miami does not own copyright. It is incumbent on the user to obtain copyright from the original authors.

• anglais
• espagnol

• latin

• Zine Collection

• Zines

• Latin America
• Caribbean Area
• South America
• Ecuador
• Mexico
• Chile
• Argentina
• Colombia
• Puerto Rico