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Zines

Resources for reading and making zines

Make your own zines

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Guide: How to Make a Zine

An excellent introduction to zine-making! Zinester Rona Akbari walks you through each step, from developing your idea through distributing your zine(s).

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A Beginner's Guide to Making Zines

Learn how to make a print or digital zine! Sarah Burke goes through key considerations for choosing a topic, formatting, printing, binding, and more.

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Creating a Digital Zine in Canva

Learn everything you need to create a digital zine using Canva. T. Walker shows you each step. Watch the whole video or expand "show more" to jump directly to the sections that interest you (e.g. layering images and text 08:23).

Zine Kit

A plastic case labeled Zine Kit (McCabe), full of materials for making zines

The Libraries have a portable kit of materials that can be used for making zines, containing glitter pens, bone folders, thread snips, collage materials, and more. Check it out from the Reserves Desk in McCabe for up to a week.

Creator's Map of McCabe

First Floor:

  • Zine Kit (on reserve)
  • Printers (b/w)
  • Scanner
  • Staplers, including long-arm and booklet staplers
  • Tape
  • Pencil sharpener
  • Paper cutter
  • Free books
  • Little Free Art Gallery
  • Colored pencils + crayons
  • Exhibits

Second Floor:

  • Zine Library
  • Zine Correspondence Course packet from East Falls Zine Reading Room
  • Comics
  • Exhibits

Third Floor:

  • Books about zines and making books
  • Art books (N call numbers)
  • Fiction, poetry, memoir (PN–PZ call numbers)
  • Rare Book Room

Local Zine Clubs and Publications

Zine Templates

How to Make a Mini-Zine [Microsoft Word]

Step-by-step instructions and a template for printing a mini-zine (8 pages on a single sheet of paper)

Mini-Zine Template [Google Slides]

Use this template to make an 8-page zine from a single piece of paper. (see instructions in the speaker notes!)