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!)

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zine graphic: anthropomorphic slothy blob half lying on the floor with its top half holding onto a standing oval mirror. Pink on pink colors.
Blobs Feeling Things zine by H. Coleman, 2018
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cover of a spiral bound zine: risograph print of a seated, early 20th century Black woman
Resurrecting Ruby by Vikki Law, 2021
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zine cover: three color print of a city scene with buses and trees
Arboles Citadinos por Niña Diablo, 2018?

A search on < zines riso* > Location: Barnard yields 49 results as of 10/19/2023. Maybe a little surprisingly, the genre breakdown is

(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

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a screen capture of a list of subject terms followed by the nubmer of times they appear:  Offset printing12 African Americans11 COVID-19 (Disease)9 Gender nonconformity7 Quality of work life6 Gender-nonconforming people5 Social aspects5 Capitalism4 Comic books, strips, etc4 Community activists4 Fascism4 Leadership4 Police brutality4 Social conditions4 Social conflict4 Transgender people4 Blacks3 COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-

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. 🤓