On Sept 16, 2022 Kim Knight led a workshop on academic zine making. Participants gathered with tape, glue sticks, scissors, and their creativity to construct zines for the 3rd floor Little Free Zine Library in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building.

Scans of the zines are coming soon, but for now we’ve got a photo of creativity in process and the handout that shared tutorials, inspiration, and academic work on the context and uses of zines.

Zine Planning Templates

• Different layouts and folding methods https://tallisalevelphoto.weebly.com/zine-making-resources.html
• Multi-page templates for MS Word https://anatomicair.com/book-templates/

Inspiration

• The Feminist Bilbliothecary’s list of Zine Archives (includes archives by queer/women/poc zine makers and more)
  • https://thefeministbibliothecary.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/where-to-find-free-digital-zines/
• Zine Games https://zine.games/
• Art Zines http://www.artzines.info/

Further Resources

• Baker, Sarah and Zelmarie Cantillon. “Zines as Community Archive.” Archival Science. 2022.
• Beins, Agatha, ed. “Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Feminist Zines.” Signs. Vol. 35, no. 1, Autumn 2009.
• Gimeno-Sánchez, Andrea. “Urbanism of Zines: The Potential of Environmentalist Zines as Sources for Planning History.” Planning Perspectives. 2022.
• Gray, Emily M. et. al. “Between Activism and Academia: Zine-Making as Feminist Response to COVID-19.” Gender and Education. 2021.
• Robinson, Lucy. “Zines and History: Zines as History.” In Ripped, Torn and Tut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976. Manchester UP, 2018, pp. 39 – 54.