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Zine and Booklet Making and Publishing

Have a zine-making assignment at Pace? Use this guide to learn about how to make a zine or fanzine. This guide includes "old school" zine making with paper, glue or tape, scissors and a photocopier; zine making using Word; and making zines using In Design

Print copies of your Zine

If you have created a zine in Google Docs or Word following the templates provided here, you can easily print copies of your zine. You must use a printer that can print double sided, however. You can do this as the library, the computer labs, or off campus at Staples or Fed Ex.

Just download the file; select File > Print; select double sided; select FLIP ON SHORT EDGE (not long)

Voila! You can even print color copies if you visit the library. Below is a PDF example of a zine that can be downloaded and printed if you follow the instructions above.

For binding your zines:

Zines and other booklets are usually "bound" or held together with a staple (for some reason, called "saddle stitched"). Others are sewn with needle and thread or string-- or even sewn on a sewing machine. Others are just not bound at all: the pages are just folded, and generally they stay together. All these choices are up to you. You can use the long-arm stapler at the Pace University Zine Library on Williams St. Just email me for access! sthomas7@pace.edu (A normal stapler doesn't work when stapling a booklet.)

 

Self-Publish (With some help)

Publishers of Artists' Publications (and More)