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Welcome to Make Zines! -- a community for, well, making zines. We want to make zines, and we want to encourage others to make zines!
With a bit of writing, a bit of doodling or collage -- physical or digital -- and a bit of scanning or photocopying or printing, anyone can make a zine.
And that's awesome!
We want to encourage making and swapping and sharing zines :D
This community is for sharing zine resources (whether outside links or books or zines, or your own experience), asking questions, talking about plans and projects and progress, chatting about zines ... if it's zines, we're here.
( Community Guidelines )
A Few Interesting Stops:
Zine on Wikipedia: because why not, lol
The Zine Arranger: an app to help you put your zine pages in order (I've used it to make templates, too!)
Tiny Zine Swap Shop: an entire resource for a DIY minizine-making workshop
Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY resource for zines (and a zine culture, but it's not the only culture, just saying)
Tiniest Tales #1
Mar. 30th, 2025 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kalloway
I finally figured out the layout for my first quarter-sized zine, Tiniest Tales #1. It's a collection of some of the 'tootfic' stories I posted to the Fediverse last year. Each one fit in a post, so each one fits on a page. There are nineteen stories (+index+covers) for a total of twenty-four pages.
Aside from this proof-of-concept, I haven't assembled any of the others I printed, but if anyone would like a copy, let me know and I'll send one your way when they're ready. ^_^
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some inspirational links ~
Mar. 1st, 2025 12:08 pmtaicharaYes, technically~ these are links to ttrpg blogs. *lol*
However, the points behind them are universal -- with zines and otherwise -- and are absolutely worth reading if you're feeling uncertain about the whole making-a-zine thing.
(believe me I get it, imposter syndrome is a bitch)
Just, trust me on this one --
* Seedling, What's a zine? And why? : what zines are and aren't, gatekeeping, what zines are for and can be for, the freedom to create ...
* Playful Void, The Zungeon Manifesto : how and why to make "zungeons", handmade zines of ttrpg dungeons (and a lot a lot of what's in here applies to other zines) ...
However, the points behind them are universal -- with zines and otherwise -- and are absolutely worth reading if you're feeling uncertain about the whole making-a-zine thing.
(believe me I get it, imposter syndrome is a bitch)
Just, trust me on this one --
* Seedling, What's a zine? And why? : what zines are and aren't, gatekeeping, what zines are for and can be for, the freedom to create ...
* Playful Void, The Zungeon Manifesto : how and why to make "zungeons", handmade zines of ttrpg dungeons (and a lot a lot of what's in here applies to other zines) ...
Hand-Stitching Zines (a zine. lol)
Feb. 27th, 2025 12:47 pmtaicharaA new zine!
I (finally) finished off Hand-Stitching Zines (Or Other Small Book Things) -- 16 half-letter pages including the covers, explaining how to do saddle stitch, my best guess at a 18th century chapbook stitch, and a basic stab stitch.
The printable pdf version is right here:
https://taichara.smol.pub/hand-stitching%20zines.pdf
and if someone would like a copy posted (lettermail) to them, let me know; I think I can do a few, at least X3I even have some coloured paper for covers whoo
I (finally) finished off Hand-Stitching Zines (Or Other Small Book Things) -- 16 half-letter pages including the covers, explaining how to do saddle stitch, my best guess at a 18th century chapbook stitch, and a basic stab stitch.
The printable pdf version is right here:
https://taichara.smol.pub/hand-stitching%20zines.pdf
and if someone would like a copy posted (lettermail) to them, let me know; I think I can do a few, at least X3
CC0 typewriter fonts!
Feb. 19th, 2025 01:56 pmtaicharaRight over here Richard Polts has made available almost two dozen fonts adapted right off of vintage typewriters (literally).
They're Creative Commons 0 Public Domain released 833333
I could have died of joy when I found this and saw that Olympia Script was in there; my entire childhood school nonsense rushing back at once *lol*
And I still really am tempted to make a zine in the kind of magenta colour you got from spirit duplicator mimeograph machines ...
They're Creative Commons 0 Public Domain released 833333
I could have died of joy when I found this and saw that Olympia Script was in there; my entire childhood school nonsense rushing back at once *lol*
And I still really am tempted to make a zine in the kind of magenta colour you got from spirit duplicator mimeograph machines ...
Want Some Inspiration?
Feb. 16th, 2025 03:22 amkallowayZines on the Internet Archive! More than 84,000 zines to read and be inspired by on all subjects, including old fanfiction zines, punk zines, zines about alien encounters, and everything else imaginable! (And since it's everything, there's likely NSFW.)
BUT WHAT DO I MAKE?! -- some zine ideas!
Feb. 13th, 2025 03:59 amtaicharaSo you want to make a zine! And you sit down with your pen or your mouse or your phone and --
-- and your brain skids to a halt.
What should I make a zine about? DDD8
Sure, the pat kind of answer is "everything"; but that's not really helpful when you're trying to brainstorm or get out of a creative rut or making your first zine and looking for a bit of direction.
So, here is a (very much non-complete!) list of possible zine topics to maybe get the ol neurons firing ~
( Creative Stuff )
( Creative Fannish Stuff )
( Personal )
( ... but honestly, it really is 'Everything' )
And of course these aren't cut-and-dried category types either. Smash things together! It's all good!
-- and your brain skids to a halt.
What should I make a zine about? DDD8
Sure, the pat kind of answer is "everything"; but that's not really helpful when you're trying to brainstorm or get out of a creative rut or making your first zine and looking for a bit of direction.
So, here is a (very much non-complete!) list of possible zine topics to maybe get the ol neurons firing ~
( Creative Stuff )
( Creative Fannish Stuff )
( Personal )
( ... but honestly, it really is 'Everything' )
And of course these aren't cut-and-dried category types either. Smash things together! It's all good!
