This new edition of Microcosm’s popular DIY guide to zine making is updated 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.
Make a Zine also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly. 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!”
Joe Biel is an author, filmmaker, the founder and manager of Microcosm Publishing, and cofounder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, the Oregonian, Punk Planet, The Spectator (Japan), and Maximum Rocknroll, among others. His work can be found at JoeBiel.net.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.