Guide to Zine Making

Thank you for perusing the books and websites below. You can access books that are in the Pollak library directly.  Otherwise, we try to provide external links where you can locate the material. CSUF faculty, students, and staff can use Interlibrary Loan to request books and articles that the Library does not have access to. Please feel welcome to share good sources you know by emailing jtian@fullerton.edu  Thank you & Happy Making!

Making Zines

• Zines, Volume 1, by V. Vale , 1996

• Fanzines: the DIY Revolution, by Teal Triggs, 2010.

• The world of zines: a guide to the independent magazine revolution, by Mike Gunderloy, 1992.

• Whatcha mean, what's a zine?: the art of making zines and minicomics, by Mark Todd, 2006.

• Make a zine, by Joe Biel, 2017. Amazon

Reading Zines

• The riot grrl colletion, ed. by Lisa Darms, 2014 Amazon

• Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture, by Stephen Duncombe, 2017 (3^rd Ed). Amazon

• The Newsstand: Independently Published Zines, Magazines & Artist Books, by Lele Saveri, 2016. Amazon

• The factsheet five zine reader: the best writing from the underground world of zines, by Seth Friedman, 1997.

• The Elements of Typographic Style, 4th Ed., by Robert Bringhurst, 2012

• Vernacular Typography

• Thinking with Type (Ellen Lupton)

• Letterform Archive

• Fonts In Use 

• Type@Cooper 

• Muzli Collections, Design Inspiration

• I Love Typography

• Typographic Resources for Printing via CartridgeSave

• The art of the fold, Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol. 2019.

• Making handmade books, Alisa Golden, 2011 

• Make a Flutter Book, master book artist Rebecca Chamlee, Otis College of Art and Design 

• Live Virtual Fold Alongs with Minnesota Book Arts

• Reflections on five essential book-binding tools, Jeff Peachey

• Calligraphy: A book of contemporary inspirations, Denish Lach , 2014  Amazon

• The Society of Scribes and Illustrators 

• Drawing on the right side of the brain, by Betty Edwards , 2012
• The Art of Collage, Jason Dunda, Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 

Video Tutorials on YouTube

Part I: Materials
Part II: Technique
Part III: History + Content

• Béatrice Coron Books

• Bhavna Mehta: My Father's Letter

• The organic artist, by Nick Nedo , 2015 

•  Make ink, by Jason Logan, 2018

• Botanical Inks, Babs Behan (Author), Kim Lightbody (Photographer)  

• Slow Stitch, Claire Wellesley - Smith , 2015 

• The Papermaker's Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Making and Using Handmade Paper , by Helen Hiebert , 2000

• Washi: The Art of Japanese Paper Making, by Nancy Broadbent Casserley, 2013