Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Learn everything you need to know to make your own zine! This series is full of practical tips and tricks to making, printing, and distributing a zine. In part 1, I give you the basics of what zines are and their grounding in underground and DIY culture so you can approach zinemaking with love and respect.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:24 What is a zine?
6:21 Two-second zine history
9:51 Zine culture 101
17:07 Common zine subjects
28:04 Coming up next...

This entire guide is also available in written form on my website: twentytwozines.com/zinemaking
Zines for Greenhorns Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl2gTqFAj22XPzXQHs_FG2mMObNrAaI8r

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RESOURCES:
More on zine history: https://somad.nyc/zinehistory
My zines for free on itch, for some subject examples: twentytwozines.com/itch.io/twentytwozines

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ZINES BEHIND ME:
Anti-Capitalist Affirmations by Nik Moreno: instagram.com/knottyboycrochet
Different Worlds Same Heartbeats #17 by Nina/Echo Zines: echopublishing.wordpress.com
grafine sextant: unlikely alignments: grafine-sextant.github.io
Let's Wreck Their Precious Perfect Little Town by julia eff: crapandemic.storenvy.com/contact
no gods no mattress number 30 by Enola Dismay: instagram.com/enoladismay
The Stressed Fox by Johanna: instagram.com/joe.stone.art
Unfair Maiden #1 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
A Borgesian Diversion by Noah Mease: noahmease.com/borgesian-zines.html

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My website: twentytwozines.com
Email me at twentytwozines@posteo.net

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