{"id":2060,"date":"2010-08-28T21:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2010-08-28T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T20:49:39","slug":"handmade-zines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/handmade-zines\/","title":{"rendered":"Handmade Zines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the new digital age has made making a zine incredibly easy, especially with tools such as bookleteer, I thought I would take a look at the other end of the spectrum; handmade zines. Many still continue to design and assemble their zines by hand, some eschewing a computer entirely, simply photocopying pages, or even reproducing every copy by hand, often resulting in some amazingly intricate and unique creations. This opposition to the digital format seems to inspire a much more elaborate aesthetic, and many zines would be impossible to recreate digitally, save for the new wave of pop-up e-Books and iPhone apps, recently featured by Karen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some exceptional examples of handmade zines…<\/p>\n

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Abbey Hendrickson<\/a>, Andrew Neyer<\/a>, Evah Fan
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\u2026 and pretty much everything else in the handmade section on Book By Its Cover<\/a>. Beautiful.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the only way to distribute these is by hand or post, and therefore swapping zines with other makers is a staple of the scene. Knowing firsthand the amount of care and skill that has been lavished on these, surely adds another level of appreciation for the work, something I doubt sending an eBook zine could match, sadly. I’ll be writing about the impact the digital format has had on the zine aesthetic, and how they are shared, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although the new digital age has made making a zine incredibly easy, especially with tools such as bookleteer, I thought I would take a look at the other end of the spectrum; handmade zines. Many still continue to design and assemble their zines by hand, some eschewing a computer entirely, simply photocopying pages, or even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[5,75,340,24],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","tag-bookleteer","tag-handmade","tag-making","tag-zines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":108,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}