#zine template

[starkittyzines]

venting zine i made using canva, public domain artwork, my own old digital drawings, pictures of myself and a couple of free use assets i downloaded back when my school provided me with an ad*be subscription

want one? get the pdf to print it on my ko-fi

i used my own template to make it on canva, here's the link if you want to use it

[moth-ghoul]

i make my zines by putting this guy in canva :)

(on canva, you can rotate text by turning the little turning arrow symbol next to your text)

[nmzinelibrary]

Hello and welcome to the New Mexico Zine Library!

You can call me Rata de Pan, or just Rata, I am the owner and runner of this account. I go by it/he/they pronouns and I am AuDHD! I will aim to post my own zines here semi-regularly, however I do have a very busy schedule and may leave for extended periods of time.

All of the zines I create for this will likely be political/relate to social justice. I would like to ask that any zines that are submitted be the same, but that is not required. I've found that zines are a very quick and easy way to spread information, and I think having an online archive people can visit so they can print out and distribute these zines will be a good way to spread that information even further. Times are scary right now, and I want to do my part in helping to spread information as far as I can as quick as I can.

Feel free to print out and distribute any zines you find on this library! That's what it's here for!

What are zines?

Zines are small handmade art books that are self published. Usually the circulation of these zines is very small, since they're typically only distributed locally, but my hope is that people everywhere will add and distribute zines from this library.

Who can submit zines to the library?

Anyone and everyone! So long as your zines aren't derogatory towards minority groups and don't contain misinformation, I will post any that are submitted! The more specific requirements are on the submissions page.

Who counts as minority groups?

I count any group of people who has historically been oppressed by the people who are in power to be a minority group. For a non exhaustive list:

LGBTQIA+ people

BIPOC

Women

Disabled people

Immigrants

People who are not Christians or atheists

Lower class people

Houseless people

Etc.

So, I will absolutely not tolerate discrimination towards those groups. Period.

As for a list of those I don't consider to be minorities:

White people

Cisgender heterosexual men

Any conservative/right leaning political group

Christians

Police officers

Politicians

Billionaires/Extremely rich people

I will accept zines that are critical of these groups. If you are a member of any of these non-minority groups and you see a zine critical of said group, I would like to request that you refrain from immediately blowing up and dismissing them out of hand. I know it can be hard to listen to criticism and it's easy to get defensive when you feel attacked. However, getting mad and blowing up doesn't help anyone, and can actually make the issues they brought up worse. Please listen, consider what you can do to help, and then help.

How can I make zines?

I have a couple of templates for zines that are in the format I will use when making zines and an instruction manual on how to make one yourself!

^ zine template with text

^ zine template without text

^ zine instructions

Happy zineing!! :3

[steve-rambo-leaks]

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This is for BOTH people who consider themselves artists and those who don't. It doesn't have to be a comic. A ZINE CAN BE ANYTHING :D It can be a tech tutorial, it can be a comic, it can be flash fiction, it can be a local history guide, it can be Street Fighter II Turbo strategies printed out to be left in arcades, it can be anything!

The video below explains the process better than I could probably in text (I suck at conveying thing through text). My video also has a tl;dr that I would appreciate everyone read before submitting.

There's some other stuff below, but if you're more visual, like not the reading type (like me) then feel free to skip and just head to the video description to jump in.

Also, you may know me for my "Raspberry Pis are for paypigs" video where I try to advocate for the upcycling for ewasted Chromebooks.

I've been into the idea of leaving around Zines for a while. Every time I walk into a coffee shop or local business, I think "wow, I really would wish there was something cool to read." So I started making things to put there: 8 small 2.5 inch panels, folded into one 2.5 inch square for those interested to unravel. I put them inside of these origami boxes that a learned how to make, ones with a logo printed on them.

So far I've made: a zine template (I call it a dog ear zine for some reason), a template for the box to put them in, a zine about using yt-dlp, a zine about a reindeer working IT (along with a collaborator) and (coming soon) a zine about a monster in a cave doing stuff. All of the odg LibreOffice Draw template files to make your own zines or print out mine are on my archive.org page (linked at top of my Tumblr). I'd really like other people to try this 8 panel 2.5 inch zine format, and I'm willing to bribe people with sweet, sweet Gabe Newell bucks to do it. You can submit as many zines in this format as you want. Just make sure they're printed out and have pictures of both the front and back (plus other pictures if you want) . In the video I mentioned you can use my submit page, which is probably the easiest for me to keep track of. You can also use the #dogearzine hashtag to enter. Please read the video description before entering, though (which includes Youtube's and Tumblr's terms of service, though this is more of a youtube thing).

Also, and this is completely unrelated, there's a lot more to me than just the faux-clickbait Wojak thumbnails. I like doing tech, wrestling, japanese, vidya and other videos, but I love to throw art in whenever I can shoehorn it in. Like, the video where I go over inchworm, butterfly, colors 3D and flipnote sudomemo - colors 3D on a hacked 3DS was my sister's first experience with digital at (she's moved up to an iPad and Procreate). So, it hold a special place in might heart, as a lot of the things I talk about do. I made a Whomp video because I miss Ronnie. I made a Rockbox video because I wished more people used dedicated MP3 players and knew where and how to download music. I want to help people do interesting things. And I also want to thank anyone who read all of this. You are cool. I hope everyone who's able to can compete in this contest and challenge themselves to get out of their comfort zone, to try something new! Also, also, thanks for liking these posts, people on Tumblr. You all have cool blogs. (^o^)丿

[herdingflowers]

24 Page Staple Zine

A tutorial for a unique zine format you can print on US letter paper. Each page is folded into quarters, printed single-sided. No scissors required, just a stapler to keep the pages bound. When formatting pages to print, make sure the images for the even numbered pages are upside down from the odd numbered pages as shown.

Tutorial also posted to my inkblot account: https://inkblot.art/profile/mcasowl

[diankatsiganka]

Here is a link to the InDesign template I used to make my zine. You can also make a one page zine using Photoshop, however, I found InDesign to be much better to use because it already had the correct spacing for content.