Dawn Stahura (She/Her/Hers)
For zine help:
I will have office hours in the Library Makerspace on:
Feel free to drop by or send me an email.
A mini-zine is made out of a single 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. This size is perfect for handing out at shows, protests, and meetings.
How to make a mini-zine in English and Spanish.
A quarter-size zine is made by cutting an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper in half. You then use those halves, fold them, and make a zine.
A digest-size zine is the most popular format. You simply take an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper and fold it in half.
When putting together your zine, remember the photocopier will impose a 1/2 margin. Make sure that none of your content will be cut off in the 1/2 margin. Here is a template I created that will help with this. Simply print it out, cut out the templates and start creating! Create on one side of the template only and when finished, tape this page down to a blank sheet of paper.
If you prefer creating your zine in Google Slides:
If you prefer creating your zine in Canva:
Canva is a free graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.
If you prefer to create your zine in Word:
If you prefer to create your zine using Electric Zine Maker:
The Electric Zine Maker (⚡️📝✂️) is a printshop and art tool for making zines.
This tool includes a drawing interface. You can import images, size and place, write text with any font that you have installed, smudge, paint, and a number of other options. You can also save your zines, and easily re-import them by dragging the saved zine folder back into the main menu. It is built with collaboration in mind.
Zine Presentation by viv2102 V (Violet Victoria)
This five-minute time-lapse video made for a Columbia undergraduate thesis on Cherokee Nation sovereignty shows a student making a zine from start to finish.