Homemade & Bakeshop Zines


Zine Bakery zines authored by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

“Homemade” Zine Bakery zines are ones made just by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti); “Bakeshop” Zine Bakery zines are collaborations made by me + other folks.

Latest release!

Homemade (zines by me)

Biscuits (mini-zines)

Hand Pies (quarter-size zines)

Bakeshop (zines by me with co-creators)

About my “homemade” zines

Tutorial zines: “learning access level” scale

“Learning access level” rates my how-to zines on a 1-3 scale of how accessible it is for you to pick up and do the same thing I describe:

  1. You likely have everything you need already to do this on hand
  2. You may need to acquire some supplies or equipment (total <$200 for intro project, at least; hopefully more like <$35)
  3. You may need to acquire costly supplies/equipment ($200+) and/or happen to have access to equipment you will likely not be able to purchase yourself (e.g. lasercutter)

Assembling 8-page mini-zines

  1. Initial folds & cut steps, in images via Ashley Topacio (you can also Google for many video options)
  2. Getting everything lined up neatly (paraphrasing Reddit user Jay-ish’s helpful tips):
    • After folding into 1/8ths and making the cut, loosely fold into correct final shape, but don’t press yet
    • One long edge of the cover will be open (i.e. you can lift it to see it’s back side); gather all pages and this open-long-edge half of the cover, arrange carefully, and hold against table
    • Fold the close-long-edge half of the cover onto the other pages, and press all (always start from middle and move away from middle to outer edges).

Assembling a quarter-letter folded zine (aka “hand pies”, for Zine Bakery Homemade quarter-size zines)

The best how-to I’ve seen is the quarter size “how to print” page by Nathalie Lawhead from her Electric Zine Maker tool: Screenshot of the quarter-size how-to

(Do also check out Lawhead’s amazing Electric Zine Maker tool for making zines, with some truly lovely weird-web/great-art web design to boot! Doing so is not needed to complete this zine assembly, though.)