Making Zines with the Rutgers Art Library

All one really needs to make a zine is a piece of paper, a writing tool, and a story or idea.  However there are some basic supplies which might be helpful when making physical zines:

• Scissors, Xacto knife, paper cutter, and a cutting mat or cardboard to cut on
• Paper of any size and shape depending on your fold or binding
• Magazines, stickers, printed images, newspapers, and /or old books
• Glues and/ or tapes
• Paint, markers, white-out, stamps, pens, rulers, or any other illustration mediums
• Photocopy machine (if you want to make duplicates) 
• Long stapler or thread for assembling the pages 

For a digital zine...

• Digital template (optional)
• Editing software
• Printer (if you want a physical copy)

You can make a hybrid...which is a mix of physical and digital. You can make physical collages, scan the work, and assemble on the computer. You can also digitize your zine using a scanner.