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The No Staples Mini Zineformat is a simple, costeffective and fun way to getyour content out in the world!It just takes one piece of paperprinted on one side, and witha single cut and some cleverfolding you have a six pagebook complete with front and

back covers. It’s easy onceyou get the hang of it.. even

a monkey could do it, andmonkeys are way stupid.

On page 2 we’ll outline thesteps you’ll take to reach sansstaples, single sided zine zen...

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First, orient your piece of paper horizontally. Now

fold the piece of paper in half lengthwise /horizontally (folded down to 4.25 x 11” for letter

size... orient the paper so the fold you just made is

on top), then take that folded piece of paper and

fold it vertically in half back upon itself (for letter

size, it will now be 4.25 x 5.5” folded). Now foldit vertically in half back upon itself again (letter

size 4.25 x 2.75” folded). This will be the size of

your completed zine... but you’re not done yet.

Unfold everything, and now you have 1/8of a page segments... these will be your

front and back covers and inside pages.

Follow the guides here for whichpages go where, and in whatorientation... then plug your contentin! Pictures, drawings, writing...

whatever you want. Be sure to

watch those margins so nothing gets

cut off in printing.

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Once you have your content ready, makeas many copies as you like, then followthe preceding steps to make your zines!But as a final note, be aware of yourmargins. If you go all the way to the outeredges of your paper, content could getcut off when you go to print your copies.Account for at least 1/4” margins all theway around each page segment (unlessyou have content spilling over [bleeding]between page spreads). Copy machineslet you scale pages down in size, so takeadvantage of this feature when you needto... take your originals, copy and scalethem down where necessary, and thencut out and recombine them in the properorder onto another full size paper... thenmake copies of that template at full size.Just experiment and you’ll be fine!Remember...

WARNING: anything outsidethese dotted lines could get cutoff when making copies... thisgoes for all pages of your zine!

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The Art of Making Zines and Mini-Comicsby Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson

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Once all your content is in place, makea straight horizontal cut in the middleof the paper along the inner segments(as shown from point A to point B ).

Next, fold the paper in half horizontallylike you did before (content on the outside

so you can see it, blank side of the paper

on the inside). The next part is difficult

to explain, but easy to do. You want to

“pop” those four middle segments, oneach side of the fold, out away fromeachother (where the cut is: front cover

and page 1 on one side, pages 4 and 5 on

the other... it’s like you’re making a cube

in the middle of your zine, you’ll have to

fold the opposite way against one of your

middle vertical folds to accomplish this).

Now push the outer pages / ends (backcover + pg. 2 / pg. 3 + pg. 6) in towardeach other until they meet. It’s now a

paper cross. Fold the front and backcovers around the inner pages, and you

have a zine! Final step: make copies ofyour master, fold and distribute!

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