'Letterpress for All!' zine series

The 5th zine is almost ready to post, several other zines on advanced techniques and maintenance are drafted—and first 4 of these zines have completed peer review as part of an accepted article in Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal! They’ll appear here as soon as that issue comes out (sometime in Spring 2025?).
- Amanda Wyatt Visconti (1/2026)

Could the type zine lead to a Surprise Press? Who can say!!!

Forthcoming zines

Nos. 1-4 in this series are awaiting the Spring 2026 publication of a peer-reviewed journal issue they’re part of, but #5 has been written & will be published when I get a chance! …So numbering will look nonsensical until those first 4 zines are published—they’ve already completed peer review).

These “forthcoming” zines will be posted here for free online and offline (download/print) reading.

1. Vandercookin’ for All Types & Sorts: An Introduction to Typesetting, Makeready, & Printing Your 1st Print on a Vandercook Press
2. Just my type: finding, buying, or making your 1st letterpress type
3. My first press: Accessing or buying a press for letterpress printing
4. Moveable Text Art Now!: (What am I trying to impress?) (Do I even need a printing press?)

5. (DRAFTED) When the press rollers just right: calibrating roller height on the Vandercook printing press (Letterpress for All! Brioche #5)
6. (ROUGH DRAFTED) Rainbow Rolls: How to print with gradient inks! (aka split fountains; for Vandercook & cylinder presses) (Letterpress for All! Brioche #6)
7. (ROUGH DRAFTED) Loaded Letterpress: How I plan complex broadsides (Letterpress for All! Brioche #7)
8. (ROUGH DRAFTED) Tidy Tympans: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Universal Press (Letterpress for All! Brioche #8)

Other free letterpress zines I’ve made

These aren’t in the peer-reviewed set of 4 “Letterpress for all!” series zines, but are still letterpress-related:

• Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts by Amanda Wyatt Visconti & Shane Lin. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #5)
• 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)
• “BookLab Time Machine (“Very Drafty V1!”) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #3)
• Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Hand Pie #1)