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Contributor zine: Urban Legends
Sunday, September 29, 2024
“Urban Legends” is a quarter-page zine that collects art and writing about urban legends, myths, and folklore. Eighteen people contributed stories, poetry, illustrations, and collages. Work was submitted from the U.S., Canada, Scotland, Belgium, and Germany. The finished zine is 36 pages (including covers); 4.25" wide x 5.5" high; printed in black & white; and bound with staples. The cover is white cardstock. Interior pages are 24 lb white paper.
03Sep2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Just a couple notes for today. I added a few links to the Resources page. Now newly added resources have a sparkle emoji (✨). I started a new blog on micro.blog. That will be for short-form posts, like a companion to this site. If you want to follow those posts, you can use the RSS or JSON feed. No changes to what I'm posting here.
What's a zine?
Monday, August 12, 2024
"What's a zine?" is an 8-page mini zine that you can download and print on your own. It includes a brief introduction to zines: what zines are, some historical highlights, and common formats. The zine is available on Ko-fi for free (or pay what you want). Download zine on Ko-fi The PDF is sized to print on one sheet of 8.5 x 11-inch paper (standard U.S. letter size).
Original or the clone
Thursday, October 20, 2022
The Philly Zine Fest is accepting submissions for their Anthology zine. I made a collage with a bit of text I've been waiting to use somewhere. The background is photocopied aluminum foil (for real!). I simply cut a piece of aluminum foil and made a copy of it. Then I crinkled the aluminum foil a bit and made another copy. That became the background for this page. The woman's face and hands are stock photos taken by Ospan Ali, available on Unsplash.
Halloween collage
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
I contributed a page to Webs Across the Campfire, vol. 2, a special Halloween zine from Vlasinda Productions. Copies are available in their shop. For my page, I wanted to make a collage. I had paper from my ink color experiments to work with. I cut these into shapes for clouds, a moon, and pumpkins. For the spider webs, I drew on black cardstock with a white gel pen. Then I photocopied the webbing, so I had sections to work with.
How to lay out a zine in Canva
Monday, July 25, 2022
When I worked on my zine, “Timers for Travelers,” I finished the writing first. I knew I wanted illustrations throughout the zine, some hand-drawn and some digital. I decided to lay out the zine in Canva so that I could combine text, digital elements, and hand-drawn elements. I’m really happy with how the zine came out, so I want to document my process. This is less a tutorial of Canva and more a walk-through of how I used it to put together my zine.