Media & Design Center - Labs, Software & Equipment: Creating a Zine
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A zine is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine. Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation. Wikipedia
Tools
Storyboarding your zine
Storyboards help filmmakers and artists create a rich story and keep it on track. Using our storyboard worksheet can help you think through the process and help you organize the content for your zine.
Some tools available to help you create a digital zine include:
- Creating a zine in Adobe InDesignSkillfUL session handout on creating a zine
- Creating a zine in Microsoft WordSkillfUL session handout on creating a zine
Templates/Tutorials
- Adobe InDesign Zine TemplateTemplate for creating a zine using InDesign
Books
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? by ISBN: 9780618563159Publication Date: 2006-06-26A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favorite bands, personal stories, subcultures, or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews, and stories. They can be by one person or many, found in stores, traded at comic conventions, exchanged with friends, or given away for free. Zines are not a new idea: they've been around for years under various names (chapbooks, flyers, pamphlets). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since before there were printing presses. This book is for anyone who wants to create their own zine. It's for learning tips and tricks from contributors who have been at the fore front of the zine movement. It's for getting inspired to put thoughts and ideas down on paper. It's for learning how to design and print your own zine so you can put it in others' hands. Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? is for anyone who has something to say.
Girl Zines by ISBN: 9780814767511Publication Date: 2009-11-18The first book-length exploration of the quirky feminist booklets With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I'm So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism's third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded with handwriting, collage art, stickers, and glitter. Though they all reflect the personal style of the creators, they are also sites for constructing narratives, identities, and communities. Girl Zines is the first book-length exploration of this exciting movement. Alison Piepmeier argues that these quirky, personalized booklets are tangible examples of the ways that girls and women 'do' feminism today. The idiosyncratic, surprising, and savvy arguments and issues showcased in the forty-six images reproduced in the book provide a complex window into feminism's future, where zinesters persistently and stubbornly carve out new spaces for what it means to be a revolutionary and a girl. Girl Zines takes zines seriously, asking what they can tell us about the inner lives of girls and women over the last twenty years.
- Catalog search for ZinesBooks covering zines located at UNC Libraries
Media & Design Center Staff
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919-962-2559
Zine Collections/Exhibits @ UNC
- Joseph C. Sloane Art Library Collection of Artists’ Books and Zines
- Zines: Publishing for All - Exhibit
- A Brief History of Zines
- Ruptures Vol 1 & Vol 2 (Center for the Study of the American South Zine)
- Alterity E-Zine (School of Music)
- MEJO 482: Media Design Zines
Zine Collections/Exhibits outside UNC
Notable Zines
- Giant Robot - focusing on Asian and Asian-American popular culture,
- Bust - women's lifestyle
- Maximum Rocknroll - not-for-profit monthly online zine of punk subculture