Why dread a bump on the head? June 2012Lesson 7: What can we tell others about TBI?

How to Make a Zine

When your students turn in their chapters, they will be on 8.5” by 11” sheets of paper, landscape orientation. These will be turned into the pages of the zine so that each chapter will have an inside spread on two pages of the zine (4.25” by 5.5” page size).

This instruction set is for organizing the zine and making a copy proof, or a mock-up, of the zine that you will use to easily make all the rest of the copies.

Materials Photocopier Long-arm/long-reach stapler & staples Cover sheet template (Zine Cover Template word document) Table of Contents template (Zine Table of Contents word document) Scissors or paper cutter Glue stick Clear tape White letter-size paper Colored letter-size paper (optional) Cardstock letter-sized paper (optional)

Figure 1: Copy of cover on white paper.

1. Make or print the cover. You can edit the Zine Cover Template on the computer and print it, or design the cover by hand (Figure 1). Be sure the cover is on white paper—if it is on colored paper, the copies will be gray and not as clear. When you are making the copies, you can copy it onto colored paper to make the zine more colorful.

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Figure 2: Table of Contents template filled out with the zine information.

2. Make and print the Table of Contents. Decide the order of the chapters in the zine, and using the Zine Table of Contents template, type in the titles and author names for each chapter (Figure 2). The Table of Contents is on page 1, so the chapters start on page 2. Note that if your students worked in groups to design zines, they may have turned in a completed Table of Contents.

Figure 3: Copied chapters with numbered pages.

3. Copy or print the finished chapters. Print the digital copies and/or make a photocopy of each hand-made chapter on a separate piece of paper (Figure 3). You will want to make changes only to the copies so as to keep the originals intact as they are.

You may find the mock-up zine chapters easier to handle if you copy them on cardstock (preventing ink from being visible from the back side), but it’s not required. You can also use the photocopier settings to adjust the lightness/darkness of the chapter if necessary.

4. Number the pages. Put the chapters in order according to the Table of Contents and use a marker to number the pages (Figure 3). Remember that the Table of Contents is page 1.

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Important: If you have an ODD number of chapters (as in this example), you will need to add an extra, blank piece of paper (or chapter) to the back. If you have an EVEN number of chapters, this is unnecessary.

Figure 4: Cutting the chapters into separate pages.

5. Cut the chapters. Fold each sheet (Table of Contents and chapters) and cut with scissors, or use a paper cutter to cut each page in half equally (Figure 4). Do NOT cut the cover.

Figure 5: Gluing the backs of the pages together.

6. Glue the chapter pages. Glue the backs of the pages together—page 1 onto page 2 and so on. You don’t have to use a lot of glue, just enough to keep the pages together—remember that this mock-up is only going to be used for the copier. In this example, a line of glue was spread onto the outside edge of the page (Figure 5).

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7. Glue the cover together. Put the inside-front cover page (the page opposite the Table of Contents) in place. If you have an EVEN number of chapters, the final chapter page will go on the inside-back cover. If you have an ODD number of chapters (as in this example), the inside-back cover will be the blank chapter you added earlier.

Figure 6: The pages of the assembled mock-up zine opened to the middle (inside) pages with the cover on the bottom.

8. Tape the sheets together. Your mock-up should now have a cover page with the stack of cut pages on the inside, arranged as they would in the finished version. Open it down the middle and lay it flat with the cover on the bottom (Figure 6). Starting on the inside, tape the pages on the left to their partner pages on the right to make 8.5” by 11” sheets—this will make copying easier. (If you end up with a page that does not have a partner, review step 4 to correct the problem.)

Figure 7: Photocopying one side of a sheet. Taping the pages together to make a sheet makes this job easier.

9. Start photocopying! Make double-sided copies of your sheets. Use colored and/or cardstock when copying the cover to make it stand out. Advanced copiers will scan each side of a sheet and then print both sides at once (Figure 7).

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Figure 8: The stacks of sheets have been folded and are set in order for easy assembly.

10. Assemble the zines. Fold each page the correct way and lay them in stacks (Figure 8). Then take one of each page in order and staple the binding with a long-arm stapler (Figure 9).You’re done!

Figure 9: Using a long-arm stapler to staple the binding.

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