How-to and Webliography

The following list includes some of our favorite resources for making zines, reading zines online, and connecting with zine-makers and collections.

Zine Making Guides & Templates – Instructional pages, articles, and templates to guide your zine-making process.
How-to Videos– Hands on instruction for laying out zines.
Read Zines Online– links to digital archives and collections.
Find Zine Fests– links to websites and social media for groups that host regular zine fests (where you can trade / buy zines and meet other folks in the community.
More Zine Libraries– links to collections in New York and across the country.

…And here are a few printable resource sheets we’ve created about the zine-making process:

Tips + Tricks

Printing your Zine

Zine Making

Zine Making Guide (Wikibooks)

Beginner’s guide to making zines (Creative Bloq)

One page zine about making a one page zine! (Kat Bingaman-Burt)

Templates!

Google Slides template for laying out standard size booklet zine printed on 8.5 x 11 paper (NP Zine Library)

Google Slides template for laying out a quarter page booklet zine printed on 8.5 x 11 paper (NP Zine Library)

How-to Videos