Zine Maker & Zines general - Make your own crazy booklet or discuss others you've seen.

[AMHOLIO]

A Zine is a mini magazine, published by amature artists and writers about things they like. They've been printing ever since photocopy machines have been working, but with the advent of the internet and colored printing, they can be distributed digitally and even professionally printed in small batches. A famous genre of zines was the punk zines, made for and by Punk fans with flair.


The University of Iowa has a bunch of digitized SciFi zines for those who enjoy classic homegrown writing and art.


Modern Zines range from fan productions...


...to art projects...


...to political retardation.


This is a thread for discussing or sharing zines, whether they're a cute digital zine you enjoy, a batshit insane coomer product, or your own project you made for fun.

Which brings me to the second part of the title to this thread. Introducing one of, if not the most fun project made by a trans identified being: the electric zine maker.


If you liked kid's art programs in the 90s-2000s with fun graphics and a variety of tools to be weird with, this is for you. It allows you to import pictures if you can't draw, so play around and see what you can make. If you never want to have a program that was touched by a troon on your computer, there is still gimp, fire alpaca, and most importantly, the online version of the original kidpix for fun doodles on the net. I am encouraging shitposting or having fun doodling in general.

You can also draw/write/copy and paste images traditionally, don't feel limited.



Discuss.

 

[VF-1J Armored Valkyrie]

My only experience with zines is Steve Albini professing his undying love for child pornography in them. I do not desire to learn more.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

this shit seems retarded just post to your blog and move on

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

The OSR zine scene is really crazy. Some of them are basically professional publications which use Kickstarter in lieu of comitting to a regular publishing schedule. I can't think of any drama in that world, but you never know with gaming.

Zines used to be really important in the metal community, but they were completely nuked by blogs and Livejournal. Any "metal" zine today is undoubtedly packed with doodles of antifa trannies punching Varg Vikernes and rants about the Nazis who would rather listen to Goatmoon than Zeal & Ardor.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

They are all by troons now.

 

[Flatline]

Zines are cool if they're made by the right people for the right reasons. However, most are made by SJWs, and, no surprise, they're all shit.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

I remember zines. Like flip phones and other things from a bygone era, current-day zines are coopted by weird transexuals.

Although there is one zine I'm persuaded to read...

 

[Foxymophandlemama]

Zines used to be cool, now it's a bunch of troons larping as "real punks"

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Hell yeah, I've been wanting to make a zine thread! I love zines as a concept but definitely dislike how much of the scene is co-opted by Alphabet People and just politics in general. If you did deep enough you'll find some really cool shit. I can't really share mine here for opsec reasons, but I might be able to share projects I've been in without identifying myself and I'd like to share good ones that I come across.

My main draw towards zines is that they let me self-publish my comics in the most DIY way possible, making them easier to distribute. I'm planning to make a yearly art portfolio zine that can be included with art I sell or sent out in trades.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

My main draw towards zines is that they let me self-publish my comics in the most DIY way possible, making them easier to distribute. I'm planning to make a yearly art portfolio zine that can be included with art I sell or sent out in trades.

It's a nifty format for artists, especially those who prodice works in B&W. Using physical media forces the viewer to engage with the work more, so what you make is no longer sharing visual space with a thousand other people in an infinite scroll on Tumblr or wherever. This can blow up in your face if you are a shit artist, though...

 

[Alexander Thaut]

Some older zines go for a pretty penny, especially quite a few of the pulp fiction/SF-F/weird horror/sword and sorcery ones from back in the day.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Some older zines go for a pretty penny, especially quite a few of the pulp fiction/SF-F/weird horror/sword and sorcery ones from back in the day.

Knowing that and knowing the troon and anarchocommunist ones will be worth less than the paper they're printed on fills me with sentimental hope.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

Knowing that and knowing the troon and anarchocommunist ones will be worth less than the paper they're printed on fills me with sentimental hope.

if you're a genre-fic fan, just know that some of those 30s-80s zines for stuff like sci-fi/fantasy/horror/sword and sorcery/etc. have work in them by well-respected genre writers that have rarely been reprinted (if ever) and interviews with nigh-forgotten genre writers.

I saw an issue of one zine from the 70s that was focused on Robert Bloch and used copies were going for 150 bucks. jesus.

Any of the zines that did stuff related to Conan the Barbarian go for a pretty penny.

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

Everyone has his zine nowadays
Wake me up from cryogenic sleep when there is a nazi-ne

 

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