Make A Zine

$15.00

By Joe Biel with Bill Brent. Foreword by Ymani Wince
Microcosm Publishing, Portland, OR, 2025
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 5" x 7"
Cover: Paper
Binding: perfect bound
Process: offset
Color: full color cover with black ink interior
Edition size: 5,000
ISBN: 9781648417429

There are many books (and a lot of zines!) about how to make a zine but this one stands out as being very comprehensive and filled with a lot of voices from zine history over the last 30 years or so. It's a great mix of the practical, the anecdotal, historical info, and personal musings about how and why self-publishing is so totally worth doing. This new edition—the book's fifth—has been updated considerably to more accurately reflect the times and possibilities for zine making and distribution, but there's so much philosophy that remains meaningful and makes this a great enduring read. Even if you've been publishing for decades like we have, this book will still make you freshly excited about creating and publishing.

More from the publisher:

Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm’s popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine making in today's digital and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine! hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Says Feminist Review, “Make a Zine! is an inspiring, easy, and digestible read for anyone, whether you’re already immersed in a cut-and-paste world, a graphic designer with a penchant for radical thought, or a newbie trying to find the best way to make yourself and your ideas known.” Illustrated by an army of notable and soon-to-be-notable artists and cartoonists, Make a Zine! also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene, with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly (Slug and Lettuce, Peops). Part history lesson, part how-to guide, Make a Zine! is a call to arms, an ecstatic, positive rally cry in the face of TV show book clubs and bestsellers by celebrity chefs. As says Biel in the book’s intro, “Let’s go!”

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