Homemade & Bakeshop Zines

Zine Bakery zines authored by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

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

All zines (in order of release date, starting with most recent):

  1. Queer Book History by Amanda Wyatt Visconti; Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #4)
  2. “BookLab Time Machine (“Very Drafty V1!”) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #3)
  3. Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #2)
  4. The Good Pets of UVA Library by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, with UVA Library colleagues. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #3)
  5. DIY Web Archiving by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, & Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2)
  6. Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Hand Pie #1)
  7. Speedweve for Mending (#DHMakes Methodz Zines #1) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti & Samantha Blickhan. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #1)
  8. Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #1)

Zines by type

Biscuits (mini-zines)

Hand Pies (quarter-size zines)

Bakeshop (zines by me with co-creators)

External bakers (zines led by others, with contributions from me)

  • “Play with your data”. Zineification by Claudia Berger. “Themed Reading Card Decks” tutorial section text is authored by me.

Upcoming releases!

  • “Bigger BookLab Time Machine: A charter-drafting zine for BookLabs & similar, by [you????] and Amanda Wyatt Visconti, modeled on Jess Walters’ ‘Exchanging Perspectives’ zine”. An expansion of the mini-zine version, as that really couldn’t fit the length of question, number of prompts, nor the contextual info I wanted.

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.)