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Journeying the Page The psychogeography of text and image in the zine Tanja Kapp Abstract Psychogeography today has moved from more traditional literatures into ephemeral forms of writing, such as zines. This development coincides with the advent of a ‘new psychogeography’, which additionally contemplates the situated perspective of the writer. By looking at two zines by British creators Emma Charleston and John Molesworth, the article seeks to examine the ways in which zines use intermediality to convey psychogeographical walking. Especially by considering the combination of words and images in the zine, this analysis seeks to show how the experience of travelling correlates with the experience of reading. Within their inherently subcultural, disintermediated medium, zine creators playfully experiment with visual and verbal storytelling in order to question ideologies that govern spaces, both on the page and on the street. Hereby, image and text are used to create a non-dialectical, situated environment that tries to replicate the psychogeography of walking. The psychogeographical zine thus provides a territory into which the reader sets out to travel, a practice that, in this medium, requires its audience to subjectively complete an abstracted, simplified world of text and images. Keywords psychogeography, radical walking, zines, perzines, travel, travel writing, intermediality, word and image combination, situated knowledges DOI 10.25364/08.6:2020.1.11 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 6 2020, 171–188 Open Access: content is licensed under CC BY 3.0