Risography is a digital screen printing process that brings together analog screen printing (we have zines for that, too) and modern repographics (did you know that all of the photocopiers we use these days are digital?) with bright, distinctive colors. (A risograph printer is at the top of our zine library wish list!)
A search on < zines riso* > Location: Barnard yields 49 results as of 10/19/2023. Maybe a little surprisingly, the genre breakdown is
- political zines 16
- art zines 13
- minicomics 8
- personal zines 7
- DIY zines 4
- compilation zines, fanzines, and literary zines 3 each
(note the numbers don't add up to 49 because zines can take more than one form at a time)
The top subjects of our risography zines are
Note that "offset printing" is popular because it is the term used to describe risography. The zines aren't necessarily about offset printing. The heading is likely followed by "--Specimens" to indicate the form, rather than the content of the zine. 🤓