The collage drawer finally refused to close, so we emptied it onto the floor and photographed the layers.
Not everything we make becomes a zine. Some of it stays as a scrap: a half-page of lettering, a collage that never found its text, a joke that only works on the back of an envelope.
We keep a drawer for these. Every few months we empty it onto the floor and see what fits together. About a third of our issues started that way.
This post is one of those drawer-emptying sessions, written down so we remember what was in there.
If something here doesn't work for you, write in. Half of our how-tos have been corrected by readers, and the corrections are always better than the original.
Print nights are pay-what-you-can. The jar covers toner and paper most months, and when it doesn't, we hold a swap and sell the duplicates from the lending shelf.
Lou Ferreira
I have never thought about paper weight this much and now I can’t stop.
Lou Ferreira
Do you trade? I have a perzine about bus drivers I think you would like.
Pip Calloway
This is exactly the push I needed. Printing issue two this weekend.
June HallowayAuthor
Legal size works; just trim a strip off the long edge first.
June HallowayAuthor
Yes! Bring it to Thursday print night and we’ll swap.
Marcus Yoon
The bit about making the dummy first is so true. I learned that the expensive way.
Rosa Lindqvist
The bit about making the dummy first is so true. I learned that the expensive way.
June HallowayAuthor
Yes! Bring it to Thursday print night and we’ll swap.
Marcus Yoon
Bookmarked, printed, folded, and stapled into my notebook.
Ben Achterberg
The bit about making the dummy first is so true. I learned that the expensive way.
Rosa Lindqvist
Honestly this made me dig out a box of my own old zines.
Hana Sato
Bookmarked, printed, folded, and stapled into my notebook.