Celebrating the launch of the upgraded Zine Idea Generator we are having a 9 day zine jam! Ask the generator for a prompt and make something, as big or small as you like. Analogue or digital. Solo or with friends.
- Zines must be inspired from a Zine Idea Generator 2.0 prompt
- Submissions should include the prompt in the description
- If you do not like the prompt you can generate new ones
- Entries must be zines (this is a flexible concept)
- Multiple entries welcome
- Collaborations welcome
- Adult content welcome if labelled as such
- It would be nice if zines are available for free at least for the first two weeks after the jam so fellow participants can see what you made
- What is a zine?
- Zines are inexpensive handmade self-published books. Historically made via collage and then photocopied, but can be made on a computer and printed or not. What goes in them? Comics, poems, opinions, drawings, manifestos, reviews....
- You can find a longer definition here.
- We believe that zines are for everyone, and are more necessary than ever in a creative landscape dominated by corporate art and art made for algorithms. Want to make a zine but don’t know where to start? Check out the Thuban Press Guide to Analog Self-Publishing.
- Who can make a zine?
- Literally anyone. That is the joy of self-publishing. You can write on scrap paper and take a photo on your phone and submit that. Zines are not the same as the glossy anthology fanzines.
- What is the Zine Idea Generator 2.0?
- Created by Eve Harms with ideas contributed by Zine Crisis members. With the 2.0 update to the Zine Idea Generator there are now 5,575,680 possible different zine ideas! Eve also added a bunch of new features, which you can learn about here
- What are Zine Crisis and ZCMAG?
- Zine Crisis is a discord server founded by Julia Gfrörer for people who are interested in zines and the culture surrounding them. Anyone can join! Check it out here.
- ZC MAG (Zine Crisis Mutual Assistance Group) is a sister organization to Zine Crisis run by Eve Harms with help from other members of Zine Crisis. We offer:
- The Zine Crisis Mutual Assistance Grant by and for zinesters! This no-strings-attached one-time gift of $300 will be awarded to a randomly-selected applicant as frequently as funds permit. Applications are currently open until September 12th, 2022
- The Zine Idea Generator. If you've gotten this far in the page you should know what that is!
- A Virtual Festival where you can find creators of zines and small art
- A resources directory with valuable info for zinesters
- A Free zine printing service for those unable to print their own
- A Print at Home Zine Library with free zines you can print at home!
- Will my zine be featured in the Zine Idea Generator gallery?
- If you want that, yes! Make sure to check the box that says "Feature my zine in the ZIG-Inspired Zine Gallery!" if that's something you are interested in.
- Are there going to be winners?
- You win by submitting. <3
- How do you pronounce zine?
- Pronounced "zeen" like magazine.
Jam organized by Aimee/Void Notes with help from Eve, cover image design by Ezra Rose
Submissions(91)
All submissions
· Browser playable (15)
· Windows (2)
macOS (2)
Linux (2)
Android (2)
· Yes! Include my zine in the gallery (88)
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A spectre is haunting our homes — the spectre of badly behaved cats
a lewd zine that eroticizes blasphemy
a little zine about gender and bodies
heat-horror zine
a zine of horrific musical instruments
An 8-page TTRPG zine about creating artifacts from song titles
A zine about its inevitable separation from you.
a zine about plants
Chronic illness and dissociating from your body
the wellspring of song is the silence of souls.
a 16-page micro-mini zine about 8 desires that terrify me.
Forage for mushrooms from the comfort of your home in this 8-page zine!
My prompt was "make a bare minimum zine that catalogs your favorite things about cannibalism"
A zine about another life I could have lived
turning The Tempest into blackout poetry about sea monsters.
there's no such thing as fish OR:
An illustrated zine about the arrival of a teenage monster hunter.
Clash puts a mystery aside to help someone in need one wintery night.
A "Fanzine" that "Asks Questions" about "Illegal Insects"
A zine about crimes in the UK
flirting with specific types of people
iambic tetrameter in the early hours.
A game zine for recognizing thrift store treasures
an rpg minizine for making the most of the heavenly host
Silly e-zine created for Zine Idea Generator 2.0 Jam
A scented zine about the inverse of herbal tea, made for the ZIG Jam.
"Make a horror zine that is a metaphor for paint deterioration."
A [Meta] zine that [exposes] [cults] - for ZIG Jam
Made for the ZIGjam. Prompt: Make a low-effort zine that eroticizes turnips.
A mini-Zine about bugs
the mirror takes measure of you
A zine of comics, art and prose on childhood mealtime oddities, but grotesque and sentimental.
ZIGJam AI zine about bitterness
A zine about fucked up rats, made for the ZIG jam
A multipurpose zine that abstracts shoplifting.
A game of augury, for one player
ruminations on some things that happened in childhood bedrooms when i was a kid
A hard-to-read dialog about an unlikely dystopia.
Coloring book: How to build your own Vlad the Impaler.
ZIGJam art zine about godliness
A response zine that shows emotions no one's heard of
a deep dive into my last YouTube video
A analog scrap paper zine with a poem about motherhood
Zine Jam - I’m not sour about this, I promise
A zine of haikus about snacks
aro boy lamenting about a friend
A coupon book full of the BEST deals!
a tetraflexagon zine about road trips
6-page zine based on a randomly generated zine prompt!
a small zine for the 2022 Zine Idea Generator Jam, about rats that i do not own <3
a haiku zine
ZIG 2.0 Jam
An analog 8-page zine with illustrations of Permian era fauna dressed in (sexy?) Halloween costumes
just a lil' zine
For the Zine Idea Generator Zine Jam 2022
a blurry zine about god and observation
May destroy your belief in magic or ruin your childhood!
“Make a Speculative zine that Makes up fictional versions of Divine Revelations”
Make an in-depth zine that makes up fictional versions of illegal insects
What's hidden underneath
so improbable you can't even say it
Make a fill-in-the-blanks zine that eviscerates bland foods
A zine about the Bone Wars that I made with help from my 4 year old.
An innovative rubber-band-powered micro clipboard and zine manual for making pocket-sized art on the go!
zine idea generator jam submission
a lost geocities horror zine
A one-page sci-fi RPG involving treaty making as yourself
For the Zine Idea Generator 2.0 Jam!
Made for zine idea generator 2.0 jam. August 2022
Back to school
Um zine de papel de rascunho que é um diálogo sobre teorias da conspiração.
modern beauty lifehack, from a prompt from the zine idea generator 2.0
Things other than trauma
egg?
A controversial zine that diagrams turning 30
The truth behind the forms...
A time capsule zine that sells plushies I've collected
A paper plane zine about my friends' favorite food
a wordless zine that is a metaphor for guys named Geoff
A diary zine that descends into unlikely animal friendship
“Make a Grimoire Zine that Dreams About The Levels Of Hell In Dantes Inferno”
Zine about a chess piece
getting weird about fuits and vegetables
low effort zine
A zine about The Portuguese wild animal
a procedurally generated zine about shoplifting
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