zines

Zines are DIY self-published magazines created for passion and community (not profit or clout!) Stemming from punk, underground, fandom, and activist subcultures, they’re an accessible way to share your feelings, thoughts, skills, or art with the world!
Some zines are assembled by hand — cut-n-paste’d, collaged, handwritten — while others are made using computer software or online programs. They’re typically reproduced using a copy machine (but not always!) and then bound by-hand with staples or thread (again, usually — but not always!)
Zines are DIY self-published magazines created for passion and community (not profit or clout!) Stemming from punk, underground, fandom, and activist subcultures, they’re an accessible way to share your feelings, thoughts, skills, or art with the world!

Some zines are assembled by hand — cut-n-paste’d, collaged, handwritten — while others are made using computer software or online programs. They’re typically reproduced using a copy machine (but not always!) and then bound by-hand with staples or thread (again, usually — but not always!)


Anyone can make a zine and they can be about almost any subject and can feature all sorts of content: words, art, wisdom, ramblings, facts, fictions… the sky’s the limit.

Zines are one of my favorite things; they are little vehicles for self-expression that exist outside the confines and restrictions of the system. From this page, you can check out zine-making resources and tutorials, browse my zines as inspiration, learn about trading titles, and read reviews of DIY creations that I’ve enjoyed.


Anyone can make a zine and they can be about almost any subject and can feature all sorts of content: words, art, wisdom, ramblings, facts, fictions… the sky’s the limit.
Zines are one of my favorite things; they are little vehicles for self-expression that exist outside the confines and restrictions of the system. From this page, you can check out zine-making resources and tutorials, browse my zines as inspiration, learn about trading titles, and read reviews of DIY creations that I’ve enjoyed.




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I’m teaching a perzine workshop (and other zine-y news)


Local folks: this March, I’m teaching a free, four-part workshop series and the first session starts this Wednesday! Tell Your Own Story is an interactive writing workshop celebrating perzines: handmade magazines featuring personal memoir writing. Through guided free-writing exercises, word mapping, collage, and word games, I’ll guide participants through writing and assembling their own 8-page perzine. If you’re in Kansas City, come hang out with me at the Public Library’s Plaza branch on Wednesday evenings, from 6:30pm until 8pm. Everyone has a story to tell — make your voice heard! While participants can choose to attend some but not all of the sessions, you’ll get the most out of the workshop […]



catmothcrow chronicle – february 2026


Hey y’all! We’re almost halfway done with February, which means that another batch of snail mail society goodies are making their way through the postal system and to mailboxes all over the country (and one’s even traveling all the way to Switzerland!) ⋆。°✩ I think this month’s issue of the catmothcrow chronicle looks especially lovely, as the collages have a sort of grunge-y fairytale feel to them. The newsletter features my picks for the Oscars, a spotlight on one of my favorite artists — you’ll have to read the zine to know just who it is that I’m spotlighting, but I’ll give you a hint: I think of them as my […]



what I learned about my art-practice by making zines in 2025


I realized that I made more zines in 2025 than any year prior, and that proliferation led to a few revelations about my “process”. Here is what making zines in 2025 taught me about my own art-practice.