Coin-Operated Press is an artist-led organisation based in Scotland. We host workshops, run zine fairs, produce, publish, and distribute zines.
Applications are now open for our first ever fanzine! In celebration of our namesake, we want to make a zine all about our love for The Dresden Dolls! Katie and Chloe both met through the Shadowbox and as a nod to our punk cabaret friendship we named our zine shenanigans Coin-Operated Press. In this zine, […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dresden Dolls FanZineZines as we commonly conceive them, have been around since 1776 when Thomas Paine self-published ‘Common Sense’ to promote ideas that contributed to the United States War for Independence. However, it could be said that zines existed – in a loose form – much earlier than that. They can arguably be traced back to when […]
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