Comic strips, visual narratives, artwork, reviews, fiction - the potential list is endless, but it's best to nail it down at this early stage. The name of your publication is not something to be treated lightly. Once you've settled on this, it to re-group everything and become an important reference point for everything from selecting the work to formatting it. The freedom that comes with zine-making means there are no restrictions in terms of title, so let your imagination run wild to get the perfect name.
This stage is an essential step into gaining the content you want. It's possible to do everything yourself of course, but it's a lot of work and you run the danger of everything looking and sounding a little samey. Of course, the opposite can also happen: get too many people involved and your zine could end up looking like a confusing and incoherent mess. One way to square this circle could be to set a theme or one-word starting point, and collect a response in relation to it.
This will ensure continuation and a flow throughout the ideas of your zine. Although there is no real right or wrong in the art of zine making, having some kind of structure is extremely helpful.
So once all the content of the zine is working, get to work in planning your structure out. This will then allow you to manage better the ways in which the information is organised, which makes life easier for both you and your readers.
The master copy is the test piece you create before you start printing the final publication. The final copy will often look markedly different, as the examples above and below demonstrate. Zines are generally cheaply produce, but it's still important to determine the amount you are willing to invest. Set a budget and then calculate whether you can afford to use colour or black and white, and then how many copies you can afford to print.
This is a very important step in the overall process. Easy imposition. We will do it for you! Most online printers have software to automatically impose your files and setting up imposition can actually slow down your project with a commercial printing company. Imposition minimizes printing time by maximizing the number of pages per impression and reducing the cost of press time and materials meaning a savings for you! The finalized version should be converted to PDF format, which we prefer to publish your freshly designed zine.
You are now ready to place your order with us! Either give us a call at or chat with us online. Since you already know how many pages you need, just select the number of copies you would like to print and the type of paper weight and finish. You have a couple different options when selecting your paper. Then, select gloss or matte paper based on your preferences.
Coating options include UV coating to prevent scratching and to give the cover a professional, almost wet gloss look and feel. Click here to find more information about paper and options. You might also want to request paper samples before deciding. Choices for binding are also available and include saddle stitching or perfect binding. The traditional method for binding zines is saddle stitching which is a book binding tool using thin staples inserted into the spine of folded printed material and allows your booklet to lay flat.
A zine publication with more than 92 pages will need to be bound with the perfect binding process. This process glues the pages and cover together at the spine and gives a sleek and professional look to thicker zine projects. Once your order has been placed, we will provide you with a proof. Select either a hardcopy or a PDF proof which gives you one last opportunity to confirm that the placement, resolution, text, color, etc.
Once we receive your order and proof approval, in as little as business days your zines will arrive! While you are waiting for your printed zines to show up, think about how you will distribute them.
Share them with friends and family or explore the whole network of Zine Fests out there from Chicago to Houston and Los Angeles to New York, put on by independent creators and publishers to trade and celebrate zines. If you can attend one you will really get an idea of the popularity of zines and the diversity of styles and content as well as get some feedback on your creation.
I made my first zine in high school. All it had were our sketches, and perhaps a few provocative phrases that didn't really mean anything.
But for us, it was a shareable snapshot of the creative friend group we had gathered and the ways we were mutually coping with teen angst. My friends and I learned the medium because a cool older artist had shown us. We were immediately hooked on the idea of collaborating on cheap little books together. At the time, we weren't even really aware of the rich history behind zines and punk culture. I'm OK with not having known all that then.
Because despite all the way that zines allow us to resist, they can also just be an excuse to collaborate, or to put something that's entirely your own out into the world. For that reason, making your first zine can be a formative experience. It can be a reason to ask yourself: What do I have to say?
And to give yourself the permission to say it. The world of zine-making is endlessly vast. If you're just getting started, here's a guide—complete with illustrations by Ambar Del Moral —to help you out. If nothing immediately comes to mind, get together with friends or not—making a zine solo is cool, too and decide, first, what type of zine you want to make.
The options are truly endless: It could be a poetry zine, a photo zine, a comic, a collage zine, a zine of essays, a fanzine dedicated to your favorite band or artist, or a political-manifesto-type zine. Alternatively, you can focus on a topic and go from there—perhaps you want to share recipes that remind you of home, or write about the microagressions you experience as a marginalized person, or make an informational zine about how to identify birds.
Even better: Go to a zine fest if you can. There are also zine libraries at some colleges. Plus, a lot of zine makers are active on Tumblr and Instagram. Zines can take all kinds of forms, some easier than others to make.
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