CL: Book Zine #1

Time to make a zine!

What's a zine? From Wikipedia: A zine is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier. citation

How do you make one? For this swap, the zine will be a quarter sized, or half sized zine. You can make a quarter sized zine from one standard piece of copy/typing paper. This Websitel shows how to do it. They show a 16 page zine (front, back + 14 pages) but you can do an 8 page zine (front, back, 6 pages) if you want. You can do more.

For a half sized zine, fold a standard typing/copy paper in half, and you'll have 4 pages. If you do a half page zine, it also needs to be 8 pages. More work, I know, than a quarter zine, but half the fun is having pages inside.

Additional zine information, and a better showing of quarter and half size zines can be found by downloading this pdf but I didn't want to make everyone download a pdf just to see the folds.

You don't have to use a photocopier to make your zine. You can cut and paste and make each zine unique. Either way it up to you.

for the first swap, the theme is pretty open. Since we're a book group, it's book related. You can choose to make it book related however you want. Talk about 1 book, talk about a bunch. Include book memes, quotes, recipes, photos, etc etc. Whatever you want, as long as it's book themed.

For this swap, you'll have 2 partners to send to. International Swap.

This is a group swap, so I don't have ratings requirements. However, I reserve the right to remove people from the swap if they have questionable ratings, late swaps, or haven't logged in within a couple days of the swap's start.