I taught a zine workshop to my son’s 2nd grade class and made them this simplified version of My Gratitude Zine to fold and cut and fill out. You can download a printable PDF of the zine here.
How to judge a book by its cover
My son’s 4th grade teacher asked me to come speak about publishing and book design. To try to show the class that “all publishing is self-publishing” and books are just fancy zines, I spent a good portion of my Saturday making a batch of zines for them:
You can read the whole thing in my newsletter.
Energy in the gap
Today’s newsletter is a downloadable zine about finding energy in the gap between your vision and your reality.
Here’s the first page:
The creative seasons
The Abyss and The Gulp
A zine about the chasms between research and writing and writing and publishing. Available to download in today’s newsletter.
Catching a wave
My gratitude zine
I made a zine about gratitude you can print and fold and fill out. The link to download it is in today’s newsletter.
Intermissions
Today’s (experimental) newsletter includes a free, printable zine.
Read the whole thing on Substack.
What does a seed look like?
Here is a zine inspired by my friend Steven Tomlinson. (Steven also inspired one of my favorite bits in Steal Like an Artist.) Most of what I learned was from The Book of Seeds. (If you scroll to the end of this post, there’s a PDF you can print out with a video tutorial to make your own!)
Here is a PDF of the zine that’s free to download and print so you can make it into your own booklet:
Here is a video showing how to fold and cut and fold and glue it into a booklet:
A zine about Miles
In the Before Times, I would occasionally make a mini zine to put in my son’s sack lunch before he went to school. Here’s a zine I made for him about Miles Davis. (It’s Davis’s birthday.) I am struck often by how when you make things for others, they wind up speaking to you.
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