13 tutorials and a zillion ideas to make your own zine
If you’re reading this thinking ‘uh wait what’s a zine?’ click here for: Zines 101.
Making your own zine is as easy or as involved as you want it to be. Here are some ideas:
You can use a photocopier to make photocopies of whatever you want and then staple them together into a book.
Or you could draw everything by hand on paper, cut out each image and then glue it into an old notebook or scrapbook, which will look cool if that's the vibe you're going for.
If you're feeling ambitious and have access to a computer with word processing software (or even just Microsoft Word) then there are some great free programs out there that let you create your own layouts from scratch.
Or if typewriters are more your thing (and let’s face it—they should be), there are still plenty of options for making something unique: type up your words on one page; turn around and write down ideas in another; add blank pages throughout where readers can add their own thoughts or comments—it’s all up to how much time/money/laziness factor into your process!
See ‘Ideas & inspiration for zine-making’ from the State Library Victoria
Nyx has an amazing zine blog and a few of their posts are chock full of zine ideas. Like 51 Ideas for Your Next Zine!
Want to make a zine, but don’t know what to write about? Here are more than a million trillion ideas and prompts from zine librarians.
Super stuck? Try this zine idea generator. The next zine I should make is ‘a parody zine that has things you wish you knew about privacy’. Apparently.
Get monthly zine-making ideas and join a community of creative friends with That Monthly Zine Project. Totally biased on this one because I run it!
