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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 2, I talk about finding inspiration and basic direction for your zine and show off a bunch of zine examples.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:06 Photocopy or not?
2:21 Choosing basic direction
4:47 Topic ideas
11:16 Medium ideas
30:22 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 MENTIONED:
International Zine Month Prompts: stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month
Free Zines to read for inspiration: twentytwozines.com/free
My free zines: twentytwozines.itch.io
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ZINES HIGHLIGHTED:
Permacrust #4 by Miszka Malarkey
Hard Femme #1 by Kirsty Fife: kirstyfife.wordpress.com
Analog Glitches. Turn your printer into a glitch machine by Andromache Kokkinou: https://linktr.ee/Andromache
mall date 2008 by catboyriot: catboyriot.net
Draw a Garfield by Valerie Barr: icecreamcobra.substack.com
Familial Artifacts by Jam Doughty: https://linktr.ee/wormyorchids
Witches: 2019 collection by Mari Doodles: maridoodles.com
(a lovely handmade zine gifted to me [OOAK])
Divinely Cursed by Steel Transplants: https://linktr.ee/steel.transplants
Suburban Waste #1 by Jessica Flemming
Livor Mortis #12 'El Bimbo': livormortiszine.limitedrun.com
Performing Femininity /// Trials of Gender 1986-1996 by Vin Caponigro: vincaponigro.com
Triumph New Mexico by Vernon Meidlinger-Chin: arthopunk.com
Poem for the girlies sharing toilet paper in the AMC restroom before the Barbie movie by Sanika Phawde: sanikap.com
My Succulant Concrete Heart #2 by enola dismay: instagram.com/enoladismay
Fiddler’s Green ed. by Clint Marsh: fiddlersgreenzine.com
Unfair Maiden #5 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
We’ve Made a Huge Mistake: A Zine About Driving Across the Country with Everything You Own by Zachary Auburn: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_zinecollection/57/
27 Countdown: daily diary by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
The Lycans #1 by Gena Liken and Chloe Sumers: foxrock.gumroad.com/l/CdJPe
QTBIPOC Guide to staying Brown and Down: How to survive loving someone with (race/class/gender/sexuality...) PRIVILEGE by YOLOW Zines: picklewitch.org/merch-store
Sacred Pussy Volume 1 by Howl: sacredpuss@gmail.com
Goth Gang: A Memoir by Hunter Seaton: instagram.com/eterniapress
Pocci by catmothcrow: catmothcrow.com
The Observer 151223: theobservermagazine.substack.com
Unfair Maiden #1 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
No Scene Zine Issue #4: noscenezine.com
cONteNt QuE*en: contentqueenzine.com
The Hieratic Art or the alchemy of talismans by Brian Cotnoir: khepripress.com
Food to Cook When You Would Really Rather Die by Caitlin Hare: alberolingarn.wixsite.com/caitlinmhare
My Complicated Relationship With Food: Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths, Volume Two by Zachary Auburn: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_zinecollection/55/
C.H.U.D. Buddies by Carlo Vanstiphout: back-row.com
You Need More: A Pet Shop Boys Listening Guide by Kori Michele Handwerker: studiokori.neocities.org
I Made You A Mix CD Because I Have A Crush On You by Mara Gervais: maragervais.bigcartel.com
Unfair Maiden #2 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
Confessions of an Ex-Zine Editor by Alison: ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop
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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
I *heart* trades!
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 2, I talk about finding inspiration and basic direction for your zine and show off a bunch of zine examples.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:06 Photocopy or not?
2:21 Choosing basic direction
4:47 Topic ideas
11:16 Medium ideas
30:22 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
************************
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
International Zine Month Prompts: stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month
Free Zines to read for inspiration: twentytwozines.com/free
My free zines: twentytwozines.itch.io
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ZINES HIGHLIGHTED:
Permacrust #4 by Miszka Malarkey
Hard Femme #1 by Kirsty Fife: kirstyfife.wordpress.com
Analog Glitches. Turn your printer into a glitch machine by Andromache Kokkinou: https://linktr.ee/Andromache
mall date 2008 by catboyriot: catboyriot.net
Draw a Garfield by Valerie Barr: icecreamcobra.substack.com
Familial Artifacts by Jam Doughty: https://linktr.ee/wormyorchids
Witches: 2019 collection by Mari Doodles: maridoodles.com
(a lovely handmade zine gifted to me [OOAK])
Divinely Cursed by Steel Transplants: https://linktr.ee/steel.transplants
Suburban Waste #1 by Jessica Flemming
Livor Mortis #12 'El Bimbo': livormortiszine.limitedrun.com
Performing Femininity /// Trials of Gender 1986-1996 by Vin Caponigro: vincaponigro.com
Triumph New Mexico by Vernon Meidlinger-Chin: arthopunk.com
Poem for the girlies sharing toilet paper in the AMC restroom before the Barbie movie by Sanika Phawde: sanikap.com
My Succulant Concrete Heart #2 by enola dismay: instagram.com/enoladismay
Fiddler’s Green ed. by Clint Marsh: fiddlersgreenzine.com
Unfair Maiden #5 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
We’ve Made a Huge Mistake: A Zine About Driving Across the Country with Everything You Own by Zachary Auburn: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_zinecollection/57/
27 Countdown: daily diary by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
The Lycans #1 by Gena Liken and Chloe Sumers: foxrock.gumroad.com/l/CdJPe
QTBIPOC Guide to staying Brown and Down: How to survive loving someone with (race/class/gender/sexuality...) PRIVILEGE by YOLOW Zines: picklewitch.org/merch-store
Sacred Pussy Volume 1 by Howl: sacredpuss@gmail.com
Goth Gang: A Memoir by Hunter Seaton: instagram.com/eterniapress
Pocci by catmothcrow: catmothcrow.com
The Observer 151223: theobservermagazine.substack.com
Unfair Maiden #1 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
No Scene Zine Issue #4: noscenezine.com
cONteNt QuE*en: contentqueenzine.com
The Hieratic Art or the alchemy of talismans by Brian Cotnoir: khepripress.com
Food to Cook When You Would Really Rather Die by Caitlin Hare: alberolingarn.wixsite.com/caitlinmhare
My Complicated Relationship With Food: Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths, Volume Two by Zachary Auburn: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_zinecollection/55/
C.H.U.D. Buddies by Carlo Vanstiphout: back-row.com
You Need More: A Pet Shop Boys Listening Guide by Kori Michele Handwerker: studiokori.neocities.org
I Made You A Mix CD Because I Have A Crush On You by Mara Gervais: maragervais.bigcartel.com
Unfair Maiden #2 by Wesley Sueker: twentytwozines.com/distro
Confessions of an Ex-Zine Editor by Alison: ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop
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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
I *heart* trades!
