The Zine: What and how to

I made my first 'zine' the other day and thought I should share this relatively new phenomenon with those who have yet to experience the fun.

Officially it is an abbreviation of 'fanzine' and is a self-made, small-scale publication. You could put anything in yours: poetry, cartoon, drawing, short story etc etc. It's very popular (as far as I can gage from online probing) with music, anarchy, political, sexual orientations etc etc

http://www.jeanniephan.com/ (Very cool with photographs of her whole process)

In researching for this post I found out there is a London Zine Symposium 2011. For those interested, it's 12-6pm, Sunday 17th April at The Rag Factory, Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ with free entry. Actually there are loads... just scroll to the bottom of http://www.londonzinesymposium.org.uk/ to see some international ones as well. 

"Same Shit Different Day" Erik Brunetti

A 'Burger Zine' from http://design-fetish.blogspot.com/

Here is the youtube video I used to help make my first with just an A4 piece of paper.

If you have a zine, or follow any great zine-designers please share!