Aug
14
talkin zines, makin zines
Filed Under publishing, resources, zine news |
Recent articles about zines:
Wanted: Pen, plain old paper, imagination, Christian Science Monitor
You Could Learn A Lot from a Punker
The Rozz Tox Effect on Comics, Zines, and Libraries
Collecting the Wretched Refuse: Lifting a lamp to zines, military newspapers, and Wisconsinalia, Library Trends, by Chris Dodge (zinester, librarian, and former Zine World reviewer)
Other stuff:
Check out Barnard College Library’s online zine exhibit: Elections and Protest: Zines from the Barnard Library Collection. It includes scans of selected pages and lesson plans for three different age groups on using zines in the classroom.
Here’s a few links to booklet templates and online tools that could be useful in making a zine (as seen in LiveJournal’s zinescene community) :
- MS Word booklet templates
- BookletCreator (create a small booklet from a full-size PDF)
- PagePacker (freeware for MacOS, to make a mini-booklet from 1 sheet of paper)
Also, we’ve made a big update to our upcoming events page, adding lots of cool events that will be happening this fall.
