All knowledge is contained in fanzines
Zines are small, fanmade magazines that come in all sorts of shapes and forms. They are part of a DIY / counterculture movement that goes back 100 years to the early 1900s. University of Virginia Library writes about the origins:
American zines trace their origins to the amateur press movement of the early 20th century, when amateur printers purchased their own presses in order to produce small works concerning a specific topic or interest. Components of the amateur press movement can be seen in an often overlooked precursor to zines, the “little magazines” of the Harlem Renaissance. While not unique to the Harlem Renaissance, during the 1920s, individuals or small groups of Black artists and writers used the little magazine (a short, small distribution magazine) to undermine the established literary system. These self-published works, often local in scope, featured lesser-known voices of the Renaissance along with those of greater prominence.
Zines have been a big part of the science fiction community from 1930s onwards. FANAC fanzine archive is a very cool website that has archives of these zines going back almost 100 years, starting with The Comet’s first issue, published in May 1930.
Another archive for zines is Sherwood Forest Zine Library who have a large collection of digital zines in their website from all walks of life.
I publish 1-Up to make sense of our relationship to technology as welt as to chronicle the culture surrounding video games - Raina / 1-Up, Adventures in Video Game Culture, issue 2
I have been recently exploring zine-making with my Roll the Zine board and card game zine. It’s been a fun process of learning and experimenting. As someone who has been doing all sorts of digital “publishing” through websites and blogs and social media all my life, tangible and physical zines have been a fun detour from that and has exposed me to a lot of new insights about writing and making things.
Of Dice and Meeples and is a new, 2026 Amateur Press Association (APA) for board and card game zines that collects together different zines from the community into monthly publications.