Mid-Missouri Comics Collective

• Maude Vintage
  810 E Broadway, Columbia Mo. 65201, 573-449-3320
• MU Bookstore
  Inside Brady Commons on MU campus, 573-882-7611
• Peace Nook
  804-C East Broadway, Columbia, MO 65201, 573-875-0539

Regional zine collections

• Kansas City Public Library: Zines, Mini-Comics, and Mail Art Collection
• Springfield: The Radish Infoshop
• St. Louis: Bread & Roses Library/Infoshop

General zine resources:

• We Make Zines
• Zine Resource Wiki

Zine timeline

1968

• July: Creath Thorne starts publishing the fanzine Ennui, which lasts for 2 issues (Dec. 1971-May 1972). He later publishes The Hog on Ice, which also lasts for two issues (Dec. 1971-May 1972).
• According to Roc Smithway, Hank Luttrell and Lesleigh (Couch) Luttrell formed the “Missouri SF Association” on the MU Columbia campus. They were both involved with fanzines and regional conventions in the 60′s and 70′s. While in Columbia they published Starling and were involved with APA-45 and DUFF. (Starling #14 -23 was published in Columbia; They left for Madison Wisconson in August of 1972.) Lesleigh and her family printed many zines, and she was even mentioned in Fredrick Werham’s The World of Fanzines (1973). Carl Barks sent Lesleigh a letter for Starling #19 in 1971. Starling would later publish early comic work by Dennis Kitchen, Reed Waller, and Dan Steffan.

1971

• July: Terry Hughes starts publish the fanzine Mota (which is atom backwards) in Columbia. He published several issues over the years and was active in fandom. He died in 2001 and was buried in Windsor, Missouri, where he also endowed a Science Fiction collection at the public library there.

1972

• (1971-72?) Doug Carroll publishes the zine Cowboy Angel for two issues. In 1972 he also publishes The Last Shot, which is subtitled ‘Columbia Fandom — 1967-1972′. It included comments from the “Luttrells, Chris Couch, Doug, and Terry Hughes.”

1977

• April 7: The Missourian has a story about a group of local Dungeons and Dragons players publishing a zine called the Dungeon Chronicles. The zine contained “additions to the basic rules” of the game, and some Klutzo Kobold comics by Kevin McCauley.

1980

• Winter: Columbia Anarchist League creates first issue of the zine Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.

1981

• Summer: College student Flint Mitchell starts the zine LISFAN, a fanzine devoted to the TV show Lost in Space.

1990

• College student John Tynes publishes a Call of Cthulhu role-playing game fanzine called The Unspeakable Oath. Issues 1-10 were published in Columbia until he moved to Seattle, Washington in 1994.

1992

• Boone publishes the first issue of The Trouble with Normal.

1996

• Sean Mclachlan releases the second issue of the zine Ichthyoelectroanalgesia, a travel/archeology zine that he published while in Columbia.

1999

• March 8: Ariel Gore from the Hip Moma Zine speaks at MU as part of a School of Journalism lecture series.

2000

• MU’s college radio station KCOU came out with the zine Sno-cone which was published for several issues. It later went online in 2002 for a while too.

2004

• April 19: APOP Records opens at 807 Locust St. They carry some comics and zines. They are around for a couple of years, then close.
• November 5-6: Midwest Asian American Student Union has a leadership conference in Columbia and people from Giant Robot magazine make the keynote speech.
• The zine Greasy Spoon by Dirk Burhans ceases publication with #18. The zine used to be called “Burger Boy.”

2005

• The zine Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed moves publication headquarters to Berkley California after being in Columbia off and on since the 1980s.

2006

• July 28: Sparkle Kids zinemaking workshop at Ragtag Cinema. This was a put on by people touring for Clamor’s Zine Yearbook.
• September 10: Zinester Bill Brown shows some movies at the Ragtag Cinemacafe.
• September: The first issue of the zine Sex Patriates is released.
• October: No Coast Collective Infoshop opens. They have a reading library containing books, zines, and comics. They also have space for group meetings, bands, and art shows.
• This kind of Billy is released by Billy. It’s a zine packaged with a CD, with illustrations by Stubby Abbot.
• (2005-2006?) The Leah Quinelle All-Stars created a bunch of folded 1 page (double sided) zines called The Nose Knows. Some members of the band were also responsible for creating two issues of Pea Zine in Columbia. LQAS eventually migrated to New Orleans.

2007

• April 13-15: Create Conference in Columbia featuring a weekend full of hands-on DIY workshops and discussions. (Put on by people involved with the No Coast.)
• April 18th: Zinesters Cristy Road and Nicole Georges come through town on tour with Sister spit at Ragtag Cinemacafe. (Nicole recounts her visit in two pages of Invincible Summer volume 2.)
• June 17: Zinester Dishwasher Pete gives a talk and shows movies at Ragtag Cinemacafe. He gives an interview on 93.9 the Eagle on June 15th.
• Fall: The MU Bookstore starts carrying a lot of zines.
• September: No Coast Collective Infoshop closes.

2008

• Feburary 22: The MU Bookstore has a Zine Fest. On the 23rd the MU Craft studio did a zine workshop in connection with the fest.
• November 7: Postsecret creator Frank Warren gives a talk at MU.
• December 2: The MU Craft Studio has a zine workshop.

2009

• Several zines are released.
• October: Bodytalk E-zine started.

2010

• May: The Trouble with Normal reaches it’s 100th issue.
• September 5: Zinester & comic journaler Nicole Georges shows up at Ragtag.
• Ben Chlapek and Morgan create some new zines.

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