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Popular Stories. What Does Collate Mean? Somewhere you also should print the issue number and price. Most distributors require that UPC thing. It is often helpful to list on the cover some of the more interesting items readers will find inside, but this is usually overdone, and generally it helps readers decide they don't need your publication as often as it sells it.
Artwork: I look for publications with great artwork on the covers, which goes with my distaste for too much information on the cover. I like to see something provocative and expertly rendered.
It's irritating to see a cover with great artwork desecrated by a bunch of words. Typefaces: There are still diehards typing their zines on typewriters, and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as the design is clean and easy to read. Still, for the most part getting access to a computer and different fonts is as easy as going to your library or copy shop.
If you have a lot of text it's best to stick with a straightforward font such as Times, Garamond or Stone. Serif fonts are generally easier to read than Sans Serif. Titles, headlines, lists, sidebars, pull quotes, and captions are some of the places you can use the fancier, quirkier typefaces. Artwork: No matter how good a writer you are or how brilliant the articles you've collected may be, you need to include illustrations.
You can cut them from old books and magazines or spend the energy it takes to find good artists who will submit work, but I implore you to dress those pages up. Have pity on us poor Philistines who hate a publication with no pictures. If your printing is photocopy or web press, you're better off using line drawings because these processes often darken and muddy artwork.
I made my first zine in high school. All it had were our sketches, and perhaps a few provocative phrases that didn't really mean anything. But for us, it was a shareable snapshot of the creative friend group we had gathered and the ways we were mutually coping with teen angst. My friends and I learned the medium because a cool older artist had shown us. We were immediately hooked on the idea of collaborating on cheap little books together. At the time, we weren't even really aware of the rich history behind zines and punk culture.
I'm OK with not having known all that then. Because despite all the way that zines allow us to resist, they can also just be an excuse to collaborate, or to put something that's entirely your own out into the world. For that reason, making your first zine can be a formative experience. It can be a reason to ask yourself: What do I have to say? And to give yourself the permission to say it.
The world of zine-making is endlessly vast. If you're just getting started, here's a guide—complete with illustrations by Ambar Del Moral —to help you out. If nothing immediately comes to mind, get together with friends or not—making a zine solo is cool, too and decide, first, what type of zine you want to make. The options are truly endless: It could be a poetry zine, a photo zine, a comic, a collage zine, a zine of essays, a fanzine dedicated to your favorite band or artist, or a political-manifesto-type zine.
She writes and uses a combination of collage and drawings to document her feelings about leaving her home and moving to a new city, learning about her Mexican heritage, her love of music, and even dyeing her hair. Step 1 : Fold your sheet of paper in half. Fold it again into quarters, and then one more time so that it is folded into eighths.
Step 2 : Open your paper so that it is folded in half. Cut halfway across the middle from the fold. When you open your paper it should have a slit in the middle.
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