TY - JOUR AB - <p>This article focuses on two independently published magazine projects, <em>Sabat </em>(2016–) and <em>Momma Tried </em>(2013–). It introduces <em>Sabat </em>and <em>Momma Tried </em>in the context of the contemporary independent publishing boom and considers their engagement with the print magazine form as affording a micro-archival stance towards the near past and personal histories as well as the magazines’ experiments with their material form.London-based <em>Sabat </em>appropriates the look and formula of women’s fashion and lifestyle magazines but reworks these templates to create a ‘lifestyle magazine for witches’ in a polished minimalist design. In three themed issues, <em>Sabat </em>establishes a meta-narrative of its own death which issue four materially enacts. <em>Momma Tried </em>is rooted in the art scene of New Orleans and started out as a celebration and record of the local community of creatives before the third issue turns the magazine into a ‘cyborg’ combining the print object with an app to create an ‘installation’. Both magazines evoke print as a way of conserving and archiving a specific moment but also engage in experiments that dissolve the magazine form, undermining its archiving function by staging the magazines’ ‘deaths’ as transformations.</p> AU - Sabina Fazli DA - 2020/11// DO - 10.21825/jeps.v5i2.15845 IS - 2 VL - 5 PB - Ghent University PY - 2020 TI - Micro-Archives and the Survival of Print in <i>Momma Tried</i> and <i>Sabat</i> T2 - Journal of European Periodical Studies UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71458/ ER -