October 2020

My zine process

A zine about how I make zines. So meta!

Full disclosure: I wanted to draw little Daleks and built the rest of this zine around them.

Bonus material

Planning

If I don’t quite know what I want to write or draw, I plan out the zine on one page, like so:

This acts as a rough draft of my zine, so I can sort out what I want on each page.

Guiding

I like to work on zines with the page unfolded, so I use small sticky notes to label each page, like this:

This lets me work on pages in whatever order I want, without losing track of the order in the folded zine. And, having the page unfolded means I don’t have to worry about ink bleeding through to another page.

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