Want to Make Zines in Your Class?
Are you interested in incorporating zines into your course? We have plenty of supplies, including markers, glue sticks, scissors, long-arm staplers, and magazines for cutting up!
Email lcoyner@elon.edu for more information!
How to Make Zines
Time-lapse video made by Violet Victoria on Cherokee Nation sovereignty for a Columbia undergraduate thesis.
- How to Make a Zine: A Kid-Friendly DIY GuideLibrarian Celia C. Pérez' DIY/kid-friendly guide to making zines.
- one shot tutorialFlickr step-by-step guide to making a zine from a single 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.
- Vice: A Beginner's Guide to Making ZinesGuide to deciding what to zine about, formatting, how-to, printing, etc.
Zine Supplies List
Must-haves:
- Paper
- Scissors
- Glue Sticks
- Copy Machine or Printer
- Long-Arm Stapler
Fun Extras:
- Fun paper
- Stickers
- Stuff to cut up (old magazines, books)
- Washi tape
- Tape (especially double-sided!)
- X-acto knife
- Thread/ribbon for binding
- Wide-eye needle
- Paper cutter
- Googly eyes
Bonus: Lots of folks include fun ephemera with their zines, such as stickers, bookmarks, playlists, buttons, etc.!