Zine as a post-modern art piece

Since I am still not sure how exactly will I interpret my research, there might be several theoretical concepts. But I would like to focus on the one concrete interpretation I find most interesting – zine. Most of the zines I’ve seen had only illustrations on one topic attached together as a small book, while I would like to make it a real magazine, with articles, games, letters, posters and maybe comics. It should mimic kids' magazines but on the punishments and parents-abuse topics.

I think it is really in the spirit of post-modernism, and it is also something I would definitely enjoy making, as a person who has been making school newspapers, who loves to draw comics, and who read lots of literature on the topic of raising children.
So why is it post-modernism? First of all because of its irony and outrageousness. Making something that looks as kid’s magazine but about parents’ violence? It seems a bit confusing, weird and unrepeated. Something on the border of dark humour and post-irony. As an example – I am planning to add some word puzzles about items kids could be beaten with, or colouring pictures asking to draw bruises on a kid depending on a story about how he was punished. I also thought about making a little maze that will show what kind of mental disease a child will probably have in future life.
Another aspect, that might describe my zine as a post-modern, is multiple interpretations and pluralism. The topic of corporal and other punishments would be raised in lots of different and playful ways, so people might understand it differently. Some might think that I am trying to normalize punishments. Others would understand the irony and absurd and think about the zine as about punishments critique.
I also planned to add some “letters” and open answers kids have written in the questionnaire I’ve made. And since not all kids shared their sad stories, and some thought punishments should be in their relationships with parents, that will also provide different opinions on the topic.
The last thing that might describe my zine as a post-modern art is a plagiarism. I’ve made a little research of my old magazines and figured out lots of comics and other illustrations are actually the same illustrations, with several emotions or details changed. For example, in my sponge bob magazine, all of the illustrations were official drawings of the characters taken from the internet or the cartoon itself. For the plot of the comic creators of the magazine added a few white lines on shoes as laces.
As for my zine, probably I would not add plagiarism but would try to use the same illustrations several times with few changes.
Additionally, before I wanted to interpret my research as a papier mashe or a book. I guess it would fit the post-modern theory as well because it has the same idea in it.
If it would be a papier mashe, as I originally planned it to be, it would be considered a post-modern piece of art because of its multiple interpretations and mix of low and high cultures. Since people figures wouldn’t have any emotions, clothes and etc., people would have more freedom of imagination to interpret the artwork depending on their personality, background and feelings.
If it would be a book, it would have the same criteria as the zine, but outrageousness. The irony would still be there, mostly because of the illustrations, since I’ve planned to make them in cartoony and childish style. Interpretations would also have a place because of the different narrators and different opinions, but since I was planning to prove there is no need to punish children in my book, it wouldn’t be that strong. As an opposite, am not planning to make my zine that narrow and won’t focus on proving my point.

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