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.
With the support of an Amplify Grant from the President's Climate Commitment Fund, Chris Stone '23 created two zine carts to be used for local environmental storytelling. One cart is located on campus, stewarded by Professor James Padilioni, and the other is located at Iffy Books in Philadelphia. If you are interested in using the cart, please contact Professor Padilioni.
An excellent introduction to zine-making! Zinester Rona Akbari walks you through each step, from developing your idea through distributing your zine(s).
Learn how to make a print or digital zine! Sarah Burke goes through key considerations for choosing a topic, formatting, printing, binding, and more.
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).
Step-by-step instructions and a template for printing a mini-zine (8 pages on a single sheet of paper)
Use this template to make an 8-page zine from a single piece of paper. (see instructions in the speaker notes!)
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This book is for anyone who wants to create their own zine. It's for learning tips and tricks from contributors who have been at the fore front of the zine movement. It's for getting inspired to put thoughts and ideas down on paper. It's for learning how to design and print your own zine so you can put it in others' hands.
This little red book is stuffed with information about zines. Things you may know, stuff you don't know and even stuff you didn't know you didn't know! Stolen Sharpie Revolution contains a cornucopia of information about zines and zine culture for everyone from the zine newbie to the experienced zinester to the academic researcher.
From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking. Whether you’re a writer, a scrapbooker, a political activist, or a postcard collector, let book artist Esther K. Smith be your guide as you discover your inner bookbinder. Using foolproof illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Smith reveals her time-tested techniques in a fun, easy-to-understand way.
Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel addresses zine making in today's digital and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine! hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability.
Before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak out against sexism and oppression, creating a powerful new force of liberation and unity within and outside of the women's movement. The Riot Grrrl Collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and printed matter for the first time since their initial distribution in the 1980s and '90s, and includes an original essay by Johanna Fateman and an introduction by Lisa Darms.
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead is an irreverent yet practical guide that combines solid writing advice with guerrilla marketing and promotion techniques guaranteed to launch you into print-and into the limelight. You'll learn how to: get your work and your name out in the world where other people can read it; be an anthology slut and a brazen self-promoter; apply real-world advice and experience from lit stars like Dave Barry, Susie Bright, and Dave Eggers to your own career.
Everyone has something to say about their dreams, thoughts, and weirdest obsessions. Whether you're a pen-wielding Riot Girl in an urban landscape, a prairie cowgirl with the soul of a beat poet, or someone who just wants to kick back and take in the self-expression revolution, this book is for you.
This is the first comprehensive guidebook to the Zine Movement of self-publishing which started anew in the early 1990s, and continues with Internet blogs and publications like Found. Used in college classes, this how-to volume covers all aspects of self-publishing, including layout and design, promotion, marketing and distribution. Historical background covers everything from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack to the science-fiction mimeographed zines of the 20s.
This highly visual compendium showcases the best, most thought provoking, and downright weirdest fanzines ever produced. With topics ranging from punk to personal politics, Fanzines includes both widely known fanzines as well as rare publications culled from passionate collectors. Spanning the history of the fanzine from the early experimentation with underground presses to contemporary and electronic fanzines, this is a comprehensive and unprecedented look at a fascinating phenomenon.
Books Without Paste or Glue demonstrates basic and elaborate ways to bind books without adhesives and requires no presses or other heavy equipment. A needle, a pair of scissors and a few other minor tools are all that is needed. It also speaks to a mindful approach to bookbinding from the perspective of an image-maker: binding is considered an integral part of the statement rather than an afterthought.
In as little as an afternoon, beginners will be on their way to folding, gluing, and sewing handmade books in a variety of shapes and styles, from rolled scrolls to Jacobs ladders, folded flexagons to case bindings. Complete with photographs of the authors own master books and statements by more than 40 established book artists, this collection is sure to inspire.
The book consists of prompts and space to write, providing opportunities to reframe aspects of your life in thoughtful and interesting ways. Among other ideas, you'll be asked to write: a virtual tour of your hometown; a description of what's in your purse or wallet right now; a list of all the lies you've told; an account of a historical event from your own lifetime, in a way that reveals something significant about yourself.
Writing should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. Whether you're writing a scholarly article, an administrative email, or a love letter, this book will inspire you to find delight in even the most mundane writing tasks and a richer, deeper pleasure in those you already enjoy.
Step-by-step projects, prompts, and creative inspiration make it fun and easy to draw one hundred everyday items. Whether it's a pet, the local café, or the contents of the kitchen cabinet, Draw Every Little Thing demonstrates just how easy it is to render the world around you with little more than a pencil, paper, and paint.
Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including. This expansive book focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970.
Meet the bubble-headed bombshells of the '40s, the lovelorn ladies of the '50s, the wimmin libbers of the '70s, and the grrrowling grrrlz of today. Her commentary is paired with a ton of rare comic book art pulled from the best girl comics published since World War II. Bridging the gap between Ms. and Sassy, between Miss America and Naomi Wolf, From Girls to Grrrlz reminds us how comic book characters humorously--and critically--reflect our changing culture.
