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Zines: Zine Making Tools

Zine Making Tools

  • Electric Zine Maker is a printshop and art tool for making zines. This tool includes a drawing interface. You can import images, size and place, write text with any font that you have installed, smudge, paint, and a number of other options. You can also save your zines, and easily re-import them by dragging the saved zine folder back into the main menu. It is built with collaboration in mind.
  • Canva
  • FLIP ON SHORT EDGE: A Punk's Guide to Printing Zines
  • Late Night Copies Press: Queer publisher offering printing services.
  • Zine Arranger: Arrange multi-page PDF files into a printable zine layout!
  • Sarabande Books Zine Lunch virtural workshops: ‘Zine Lunch!’ presented by Sarabande Books is a free online workshop on micro-writing and art. Hosted nearly every Friday from 12 - 1PM EST via Zoom, the workshops are designed to be a fun and low-stakes way to make time for creativity. In each lunchtime session, a Sarabande author or friend of the press leads attendees through the creation of a small work of writing or art in zine form. Bookmark this space to see our upcoming ‘Zine Lunch!’ sessions. 
  • https://christinelarsenillustration.com/blarg/zines
  • Stolen Sharpie Revolution
  • Random zine format and zine idea generator
  • Zine Toolbox: downloadable templates for interesting zine formats
  • Zine Ideas from Zine Libraries.info: Want to make a zine, but don’t know what to write about? Here are more than 100 prompts from a zine librarian.
  • Spectrolite: Spectrolite is a free Mac desktop app by ANEMONE to make colorful 🌈 risograph prints and zines more easily.Spectrolite helps artists, writers and publishers make prints, books and zines and other publications. Lots of people love it! Riso-ify your images! Spectrolite lets you do color separation for risograph, to make the greyscale files that the printer uses to make the stencil(s) for each ink color. Change opacity, or switch styles to halftone or posterize your artwork. Or preview a greyscale file as a single ink color.
  • Space Type Generator: create super cool modern word art! screenshot to use in zines
  • Tiny Zine Swap Shop

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