Making a Zine

    Over the past week our class has been working on making a zine. A zine is a is a self-published, small circulation, non-commercial booklet or magazine, usually produced by one person or a few individuals. Zines come in all shapes, sizes, topics, and formats. Most zines are photocopied, but they can also be printed offset, like a magazine or newspaper. Zines range from handwritten and sloppy to cut-and-paste (text pasted on top of background images) to artsy with handmade touches to produced on a computer with a professional looking layout. Zines have been around for a long time but they were mostly used in the late 1900s (1970-1990).Zines are used to share someones stories, opinions, art, ideas (etc). 

     Our zine is halloween themed so it revolves around horror with a touch of comedy. It has short stories, small drawings and even some made up ads and coupons. The zine we have been working on is completely handmade by us. 

Making helps to teach you to work with your hands which is a good thing for us to learn because in this day and age we don't use them much to create things, everything is on a computer. It also helped us to learn how to make quick decisions because when you are making a zine you are usually have a deadline so you don't have time to mess around. 

I liked making the zine, I liked that we got to work with our hands and that if we messed up we didn't have to start over we could just cover what we didn't like with paper and redo it. Making a zine is a fun experience that i think everyone should have but be warned that it is difficult and can be frustrating at times.