Copy That! - Zine History Workshop

All materials for making mini-zines are provided at this creative workshop on the history of zines. Shay will start out the session showing everyone how to fold a one-page zine about the history of queer zines, then give a 30-minute presentation about interesting zines from the past 100 years. After that, participants will create their own zine from a template or blank paper. Come ready to write, draw, and talk to people!

Feel free to bring zines to share if you have any!

About the facilitator: Sarah Shay Mirk (they/she) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. For six years, Shay was a contributing editor at comics publication The Nib, where projects she worked on won both Eisner and Ignatz awards. They are the author of several books, including Guantanamo Voices, an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay Pr*son, which Kirkus called “extraordinary… an eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses.” They are a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. Her book on the craft of making nonfiction comics, Making Nonfiction Comics: A Field Guide to Graphic Journalism (co-written with Eleri Harris), will debut from Abrams ComicsArts in 2025. In 2024, Shay was the Applied Cartooning Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. She is white, nonbinary, and queer.

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