Research Guides: ZINES at Williams Libraries: Zine Making

Cut & Paste Zine Documentary

Start Here: One Page Zine!

How to Make This Very Zine
This zine is about how to make a one page zine - and it is itself a one page zine that you can cut and fold!

How to Make a One Page Zine
This article from Rookie has some good pictures of the process of making a one page zine.

Want to learn how to make zines?

The library offers zine-making workshops in the Fabrication Maker Space in Sawyer library. To learn upcoming workshops, consult the Fabrication Maker Space calendar or contact Hale-Polebaum Freeman, Reference & First-Year Outreach Librarian.

Zine Making Resources

A Beginners Guide to Making Zines
(Sarah Burke for Vice, 2018) - this article goes through the steps needed to create a zine (digital and analog)
How to make a zine: a guide to ideating, publishing, and distributing a DIY zine
(Rona Akbari for The Creative Independent, 2018) - this how to guide will help you map out the entire process of making and sharing your zine. Includes resources for creating both digital and analog zines.
Zine Making Materials
GoogleDrive folder containing a variety of zine-making templates and instructions.

Zine Topic Ideas
Not sure what to explore with your zine? Take a look at this list for some common zine topics/formats.

Submit Your Zine!

Calling all Williams zinesters!

Do you have a zine you'd like to add to the circulating collection? The more representative our collection is of our Williams student community the better! Approved submissions will be added to our catalog and made available for folx to read. Email Hale Polebaum-Freeman, Reference & First-Year Outreach Librarian for more information on joining the collection.

Content on this page has been reproduced with permission from the SUNY New Paltz Sojourner Truth Library (STL) Zine Library Guide. For more about STL's zine collection and services visit their WordPress site.