
Define a zine as a bad piece of art you can make on your bedroom floor, that someone has been waiting their whole life to read.
Define a recurring theme for your zine to attract readers and guide scenes: poems, stories, diaries, comics, or art around that topic.
Explore prompts to spark zine ideas, from drawing a self-portrait facing a stranger to selecting words from magazines, then creating poems or pictures.
Discover how zines promote authentic self-expression and community over grammar, status, and followers, inviting readers to trade ideas and publish real, no-filter writing.
Learn layout, folding, and binding for a zine, focusing on clear images and words, margins, bleed, readable fonts, and an eye-catching cover that invites reading.
Choose the right glue for zine pages, rubber cement over Elmer's white glue, to prevent bleed-through, and consider edges and copy machine shadows with tape.
Write what you know by creating small, joyful zines that mix sunflower facts with art, showing that even brief pamphlets (7 or 14 pages) can inspire without activism.
The world needs your creativeness. It needs your authenticity. It needs your knowledge. It needs your stories.
Zine creation can be a creative endeavor undertaken by anyone, and I designed this course for anyone interested in creating a zine for the first time, but who do not know quite where to start, and I created this course for zine writers that are looking for inspiration. Maybe you are just curious about what other creators are doing, or need a little motivation to get that next issue out— this course will get you where you need to go.
Why make a zine? To share information, to share a story, to share poetry, to share an inside joke, to create art, to motivate/inspire action, to educate outside the system,
to confess.
This is the course I needed when I was creating my first zine – all those years ago when I didn’t know a single other zine writer or where to find them. This is your stop for all the information and inspiration you need to enter the wonderful world of zine creation.
In this course you will learn all about:
· History of Zine Creation
· Zine Themes
· Layout, Folding, and Binding
· Printing Your Zine
· Getting Your Zine Read
· Hard Truths of the Zine World
· Connecting with Other Zine Creators
“It’s not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.” – Ruth Messinger.
Ready to create something new?
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-Libby James