Philippine zines collection, 2006-2017

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Summary

Abstract:
The Philippine zines reflects the feelings, aesthetics, and cultural and political ideologies of various individuals and artist collectives from the Philippines. The zine's content mostly includes creative works, such as comics, illustrations, poetry, and short stories to reflect topics, such as mental health, interpersonal relationships, culture, political climate, and more. The Philippine zines spans the years of 2006-2017, with the bulk of the material from 2017.
Extent:
4 Linear Feet (10 boxes)
Language:
The zines are predominantly in Tagalog and English. Often times, Taglish, a code-switch between Tagalog and English, is used. There are a few zines that are in Cebuano and Ilocano, languages that are native to the Philippines.
Preferred citation:

Philippine zines collection (Collection 2281). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The Philippine zines reflects the feelings, aesthetics, and cultural and political ideologies of various individuals and artist collectives from the Philippines. The zine's content mostly includes creative works, such as comics, illustrations, poetry, and short stories to reflect topics, such as mental health, interpersonal relationships, culture, political climate, and more. The Philippine zines spans the years of 2006-2017, with the bulk of the material from 2017.

The collection features zines from various individuals or collaborators who circulate their creations in small press expos, like Better Living Through Xeroxography (BLTX), or through local collectives, like Magpies Press, Saturnino Basilla Studio, and Soup Zine Library. Many of the zines from this collection are also a product from local universities' organizations or clubs, where students have collaborated to publish and print their work together.

Biographical / historical:

In the 1980s, Philippine zine culture first emerged, as a result of music fan zines that were introduced at the same time punk music was being introduced in the country. Contemporarily, the content of the zines Filpinos produce have expanded to explore different themes such as personal, political, cultural, literary, art, feminism, and more. The zine culture flourished in the 2000s due to the emergence of the digital age that allowed artists to post their zines on different platforms. Zine culture, however, was catalyzed by the emergence of a small press conference called Better Living Through Xeroxography (BLTX). This press conference was founded on empowering artists through the highlighting of problems in mainstream publishing and introducing self-publication as a solution. BLTX was able take the discontent over mainstream publishing and push for a way to educate and mobilize to address it through artistic means.

Acquisition information:
All zines have been purchased through zine fairs and a seller based in the Philippines by Jade Alburo, Librarian for Southeast Asian Studies, Pacific Islands Studies, and Religion at UCLA Library.
Processing information:

Processed by Valerie Vargas in 2018, under the supervision of Jade Alburo and Jasmine Jones; and Alejandro Adame and Rosemary Medina in 2019, under the supervision by Jasmine Jones.

Arrangement:

The collection has been intellectually arranged by title.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

Philippine zines collection (Collection 2281). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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