Hi, I'm a freelance illustrator and I was interested in making zines. Do you have any general advice to give to someone who is getting started?

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I am am artist and here is a link to a zine I produced in 2021.

Thank you

Stephen

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heya , i’m creating a digital zine for my project at college but before i do that i need to do research on them. Apart of the research i need to do is historical research, if anyone could drop any good websites or just own knowledge for history of zines or how colour is used in zines etc that would be great.

Stop by Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op at 138 Bradley Street in New Haven from 12pm-5pm to pick up the Inaugural Issue of PIZZA BEATS Issue #1: Zuppardi’s Apizza!

For the past few years I’ve been working on a series of paintings dedicated to Pizzerias in Watercolor. This zine serves as an outlet for me to share all the extra art, info and images I’ve accumulated while working on this series.

I've been making zines since I was in high school, primarily about music and graffiti. However, I've had an idea for a novel for a while now and want to attempt making it as a DIY publication. I'm not sure how to use the traditional zine creative style with the typical 8-20 page templates and what not, and transfer it into making a novel that's over 100 pages. The only thing I can think of is writing everything out and sending it to a press, but I really want to be as hands on as possible. Thoughts??

New Zinester here, just finished second issue of a horror fiction zine, with a collage cover. I'm looking for advice for refining my collage process, since it's kind of a mess. I'm printing everything on a Brother black and white laser printer. Here's what I'm currently doing:

1. Storyboard/plan collage.
2. Google up images, largest possible, as jpegs.
3. Put images into Gimp one by one, change color to grayscale, save as new jpeg.
4. Resize and fit all images into an openoffice doc for printing.
5. Print, cut out, arrange, paste onto cardstock for a master.
6. Scan with a better scanner than my home one, save as pdf, print for cover copies.

I know Photoshop would make this easier, but $$$. I know Gimp can theoretically handle making the collages, but neither I nor a friend who's taught Photoshop could figure out Gimp. The grayscale trick was about the only thing I learned how to reliably do on it.

This is surely not the simplest way to make black and white collages. Can y'all help me figure out a better way to do this?

Read Issue 16 here - https://shem-shelley.itch.io/from-utopia-issue16-apr24

is anyone willing to trade zines? i have a decent amount of mini zines i’ve made that i’d love to share

I'm participating in my first virtual zine fest and I'd be so grateful if you checked out mine and my partner's shop <3

https://canzine.myshopify.com/collections/vendors?q=Wonderfolio

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Hi! This summer im traveling to Italy and i want to visit some stores and buy zines, luckily from locals! Do anyone know zine stores o places in Rome, Florence and Venice? (:

There are about 10 of us that would contribute to celebrate completing our training as therapists. I remember when I was younger a local church would make a recipe book that people would contribute to. I would appreciate any ideas on a theme (like recipes) that we could all contribute to, as a way of commemorating the time we spent together :)

Any longtime zine makers here? I have a question...

Do all of you make in-between zines or stop-gap zines that is totally far from the subject covered by your main zine?

For context, I've been publishing a fanzine on undeground music (mostly punk but bits of metal and other genre too...) since 2005 (18 issues so far...) and when I'm hit with blockades like artist/writer's block, depression, etc... I usually make some little zines to battle any personal issues I have. Whenever I'm having a writer's block, I draw or take pics outside the publish them as mini-zines. When I'm having artist block, I write little poems and haikus, or walk around town to observe what I love and what I hate about it, which gives me the subject to write and rant.

Right now, I think I have a dozen or so titles that I go back to from time to time whenever I'm not working on my main zine.

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Hello zine friends!

We are delighted to announce that the fundraising zine pack for our 2024 mutual assistance grant is now live. Last grant period we raised $600 for two mutual assistance grants for zinesters. Can we do it again?

This year’s featured zine is Automosity: A Collection of Automobile Animosity, Edited by Veronika Dawydow. This zine 14 page zine features comics, illustrations, poetry and rants about how much we hate the machines that have infiltrated our lives: cars. Contributions from: Kathrin Freudenberg, MontaRae, Veronika Dawydow, Celadon Guerrilla, Eve Harms, Luke W. Henderson, Gus Becker

Check it out! 2024 ZC MAG Grant Zine Pack, featuring Automosity

A digital or physical copy of the zine are available, as well as The Zine Crisis Oracle, a digital-only zine by Veronika, and… STICKERS.

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If you contribute $8 you'll get the digital downloads and two awesome "zines" stickers designed by Julia Gfrörer. One with metallic purple ink on a black background, and the other white ink on a clear background! Dimensions: 5.5" x 2.13". Postage included!

If you contribute $12, we will mail you a physical copy of Automosity, and the two stickers in addition to the digital downloads.

Thank you so much for considering donating, and please spread the word!

2024 ZC MAG Grant Zine Pack, featuring Automosity

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I’m creating a joint zine for a university project. It will be 3 zines and I’d like to bind them in a way they become one larger zine. Anyone have experience with this?

NYC-area zinesters: Check out the Black Zine Fair on May 11 in Brooklyn!

https://blackzinefair.org/