Coin-Operated Press is an artist-led organisation based in Scotland. We host workshops, run zine fairs, produce, publish, and distribute zines.
A coping mechanism for our poor mental health that we use at Coin-Operated Press is to step outside at least once a day. We give ourselves a task on this small outdoor adventure to take photographs of a different thing each time, and if we can manage it, walking further and further away from our […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Depression Walks ZineUP ON THE VLOG NOW! Check out the making of the Hallozine 002! HALLOZINE Part 002 features 41 fangtastic artists and their most spooktacular work! Inside this zine you will find illustration, poetry, essays, collage, short-stories, artwork, photography, and many more tricks and treats! We hope you enjoy sinking your teeth into this howlingly terrific […]
Read More VLOG: Making the HALLOZINE!Please enjoy browsing this master list of all the zine distros we could find in the UK!! If you can recommend any more for us to check out, please drop them down in the comments below or send us a message on any of our socials @CoinOpPress and we will add the distro to this […]
Read More A List of UK Zine Distros!Is it a bird?! Is it a plane?! No! It’s a new call for submissions for the Coin-Operated Press NERD ZINE!!! Dust off your cosplay, put on your one ring, find the droids you’ve been looking for, stop your variant from destroying the world, secure your glass slipper, pack your rock salt and holy water, […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NERD ZINECoin-Operated Press is really excited to announce that we are tabling at Edinburgh Zine Fair 2021!! Edinburgh Zine Fair Saturday 23rd October 2021 11am – 5pm, free entryat out of the blue, Leith walk, edinburgh “The Edinburgh Zine Fair is a place for zine makers, artists, small presses and self-publishers to exhibit their work, exchange […]
Read More we’re tabling at edinburgh zine fair 2021SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS CALL YOU FORTH TO JOIN COIN-OPERATED PRESS FOR AN AFTERNOON OF SPOOKY ZINE-MAKING!!! Grab your broomstick, sharpen your fangs, carve your pumpkins, and channel all of your spookiest energy to make creeptastic Hallozine zine pages! What is a zine? A zine is a booklet-style artwork that you make yourself, and give away, […]
Read More HALLOZINE Making Workshop with Coin-Operated PressSPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS CALL YOU FORTH TO SUBMIT TO THE COIN-OPERATED PRESS HALLOZINE PART 2!!! Grab your broomstick, sharpen your fangs, carve your pumpkins, and channel all of your spookiest energy to submit your creepy creations to part two of our Halloween themed zine! We want to see your love poem to a vampire, your […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: HALLOZINE PART 2PUNK CABARET IS FREEDOM! Our Dresden Dolls Fanzine is now up on the Coin-Op Shop Katie and Chloe both met through the original Shadowbox and as a nod to our punk-cabaret friendship roots we named our zine shenanigans Coin-Operated Press. So in celebration of our namesake, we have created this zine about our love for […]
Read More A Dresden Dolls Fanzine“A zine by Janet (writer of Brick: a zine about abortion), Barren is about happily living a childfree life, with writing, cut ‘n’ paste action, and comics. On why she doesn’t want children, the pressure women face to want and have children, what she really thinks when she hears “I’m pregnant!”, shit people say about […]
Read More ZINE REVIEW: BARREN a zine about being childfree
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