Heath Row zine collection
Scope and Contents
This collection serves as a record of the work of Heath Row and demonstrates the wide variety of content and audiences for zine production and distribution.
Dates
- 1971-2009
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Heath Row was a prolific zinester during the mid-1990's zine heyday. He published a personal zine, Karma Lapel, before moving on to publish the review and criticism zine, Media Diet. Row graduated from Northwestern University where he wrote for Northwestern's N Magazine and hosted a radio show on Northwestern's radio station, WNUR. After moving to Massachusetts in 1996 he started working for Fast Company, an online business magazine. He also began writing reviews for both the zine review zine, Zine World, and for the music magazine, Mommy and I are One. Heath continues his media criticism and other writing on his blog, Media Diet.
Extent
28 Linear Feet (22 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The Heath Row zine collection is organized into five series. Series 1, Biographical, is followed by four format-based series (Zines, Magazines, Comics, and Graphic Novels) which are further arranged by topic/content, with individual titles in alphabetical order under topic.
Physical Location
4/2/D-E
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession 1999.09; 2007.11; 2007.13; 2008.07; 2009.11; 2009.24
Processing Information
K. Helt 2006; M. McCoy 2009
- Anarchism in art--Archival resources Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Fan magazines--Archival resources Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Press and politics--Archival resources--United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Underground periodicals--Archival resources Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Underground press publications--Archival resources--United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Zines--Archival resources Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Title
- Guide to Heath Row zine collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- K. Helt 2006; M. McCoy 2009
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
Repository Details
Part of the DePaul Special Collections and Archives Repository
John T. Richardson Library
2350 N. Kenmore Ave.
Room 314
Chicago Illinois 60614
773-325-7864
spca@depaul.libanswers.com
