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Zines

Making Zines

A Beginner's Guide to Making Zines
A guide from Sarah Burke on Vice
How to Make a Zine
A Guide from The Creative Independent
How to Make a Zine, from the Library of Congress
Instructions and template, along with links to other archives
How to Make a Zine the Old-Fashioned Way
Use readily available materials and hand-craft techniques
How to Make Zines, from Jason Luther
Finding, making, understanding, and sharing zines
Ideas & Inspiration for Zine-Making
Ideas to get you started on you zine making adventure
Let's Make a Zine
From the Eastern Michigan University Office of Campus and Community Writing
You Can Make a Zine, by DAVe Too
A digital zine about making zines
Zine Accessibility and Low Vision
Resources to make your zine accessible

Open Access Image Sources- Print out for paper zines or copy & paste into your digital zines

African Online Digital Library
ArtSTOR via OC Libraries
Biodiversity Library on Flickr
British Book Illustrations: Extending Access to 17th Century Visual Culture
British Museum
Creative Commons Search Portal
Europeana- Europe's Digital Cultural Heritage
Free to Use set from the Library of Congress
Google Arts & Cuture
Images from the National Library of Medicine
Nappy
Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.
National Gallery of Art
National Park Service Multimedia Search
Images without copyright are in the public domain and free to use.
New York Public Library Public Domain Images
NOAA Digital Image Collection
Except where noted, images are in the public domain
Old Book Illustrations
Open Access at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pixabay
The Public Domain Review
Smithsonian Open Access
Unsplash
USDA Image Collection
Public domain images
World Digital Library (via Library of Congress)

Last Updated: Nov 20, 2025 3:44 PM
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Subjects: Communication, Education, English

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