ZiP: Zine In Progress

ZiP: Zine in Progress

ZiP: Zine in Progress
Format	Print/Digital
Editor	Tony Longshanks LeTigre
Publisher	Noisebridge
Origin	San Francisco, CA, USA
Language	English
Frequency	NA
Active	February 2012 - November 2012
Topics	Computers, Technology, Maker, Art
Number of Issues	3
Follows	NA
Precedes	NA
Associated Publications	NA
Website	zine.noisebridge.net/zip (defunct)

ZiP: Zine in Progress is a polymegazine inspired by Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco's Mission District, in California, U.S.A.

ZiPZine was conceived by veteran zinester Tony Longshanks LeTigre and his wizardly doppelganger, the Whimsical Wizard of ZiP (aka Whimzy) in late 2011, and launched its first issue on Valentine's Day, 2012. ZiP is a "polymegazine", by which the editors mean that it is a collaborative zine with a variety of contributors, and in addition to that it is a fairly large-scale and high-end zine.

ZiP is unusual in a number of respects. For one, its pagination is in Hexadecimal or Base 16 rather than the conventional decimal system. Each quarterly installment is called a Chapter rather than an Issue or Volume, the idea being that ZiP is in fact one "megazinebook" published as a serial. In keeping with this concept, the numbering of pages will continue from one chapter to the next, rather than starting over at 1 with each new publication.

Zine Organization

Each ZiP chapter has its own unique title, treated as a subtitle of the ZZ umbrella name. ZiP has its own zine classification system, which we can illustrate with the full ZIDN (Zine Identification Number) for ZiP Chapter 1, which is:

ZiP01.2°2012Q1.7DC

This can be broken down as "ZiP Chapter 1, Folio Print, 1st Quarter (Jan-March) 2012, Chapter Title: 7DC (which, incidentally, is Hexadecimal for "2012")

Downloads

Issue	User	Link	Notes
Issue #1 (February 2012)
Issue #2 (May 2012)
Issue #3 (November 2012)

External Links

• Zine - Noisebridge Wiki
• ZiPZineWeb (defunct)
• ZiP01 Online