I Self-Publish and Sell 200+ Zines Every Month! (How to Self-Pub w the Wiggle Bird Mailing Club)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- The Wiggle Bird Mailing club is a zine mailing club based on Patreon! Publishing a new zine each month from trans and queer authors since 2018 :)
Check us out: patreon.com/poolparty666
1. Why Self-Pub a Zine? 1:19
2. Picking a Printer 1:48
2a. Personal Inkjet Printer
2b. Personal Laser Printer
2c. Printing Outside your Home
3. Formatting Files to Print 5:42
3a. Layout of Mini-Zine
3b. Layout of Half-Sheet Zine 8:53
4. Test Prints 17:34
4a. Corrections
4b. Final Prints
5. Folding, Stapling, and Tools 19:12
5a. Physical tools I use
5b. Half-Sheet Zine Folding Demo 21:37
6. Distribution 22:25
6a. Distribution Methods
6b. WBMC Distribution 24:37
7. Pricing 25:21
7a. In-Person Prices
7b. Online Prices
8. Postage 101 27:14
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The zig-zag trick for pagination is not one I've ever seen before and is very useful; thank you.
Thank you for this information and I am thrilled for the opportunity to have found you!! As someone who is trans and queer myself I'm so so happy to learn about your project and to see what others have been doing too!
Thanks for sharing this invaluable information. I will let u know when I have my final project :)
Can I just say I adore you? You're so genuine and funny. You made this an amusing watch. As a writer alone, printers are my better buddy and worst arch nemesis, as an artist I've had a small amount of experience with them but enough to realize they're evil 🤣 Seriously, though. Informative and helpful af.
Been making zines for ten years and yet this video was still so helpful! Thank you for posting this.
Thank you so much for the tutorial man. Back in highschool I made a children's book for a teacher with indesign and photoshop and this video is a good refresher. I'm gonna get into making zines because I miss those days ;-;
amazing! can't believe such a well rounded complete video exists! much thanks and love!
Thank you so much for this. I'm just about to be finished with my first Zine and this comprehensive guide is so great, including tons of information that I haven't found elsewhere/even though of. You're a professional Zine maker and you're greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for all the information, planning, and time you put into this resource!
This was super comprehensive and helpful! I’m just now learning about how to make zines (even though I’ve known about them for years), so I love seeing different people’s processes. Thank you!
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to make a comic for around two years now and had no idea where to start. The story is finished but not fully fleshed out. However, my character concepts are complete with backstories and everything and I would LOVE to create mini zines for their lores 🤩 so thank you so much for introducing me to a new idea :)
So clear and really well demonstrated. Answered all my questions! Entertaining too, thanks so much for making this!
Just discovered zines and I am intrigued. Found your video this evening and I must say, you explained everything in perfect detail for anyone who is interested in starting one. Brilliant job! Thanks so much post making this video. It will come in handy. Wishing you loads of success. Best from Germany!
I delight in seeing these small books and the new wonderful name it is called. "ZINE" I taught kindergarten, first grade and second grade.This paper book was my "go to" since 1984 and REIRED 2004 to help children learn all subjects, create their own writing on and on . I love what you have done. It is not easy to write a creative story in only 6 pages.
Thank you for making and sharing this video! Everything it’s so well explained!
Just wanted to leave the comment that your video is top-shelf quality! Nice organization and presentation. Seriously- nice job and thanks for sharing the knowledge!
im late! but the blue card is a bondo card! you can usually find those in aisles where bondo for car repairs and window tint is at! or sometimes even home repair!
This was so comprehensive and thorough, thank you so much for making this!
so kind and generous of you to share such great info. Thank you.
Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing your knowledge on this subject.Very helpful to this prospective zine author.
hey thank u for making this!! been working on a zine and it's taken 12 years off my life but this was super helpful!!
wow im helping my bi friend with her poetry zine and stumbled upon this, will give it a go! thanks!
This is a pretty good guide. Impeccable editing, too.
Michael this video was so amazing and thorough. Your work is great! Thank you
This is super useful, thank you Michael!
This is incredibly well made and full of great information. Thanks for the tips and congrats on the success with your Patron.
This was SUPER informative!!! Great video, man!
This video was insanely helpful! I'm just getting into zines and this was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
Thankyou so much for generously sharing this info
Thank you! This is super helpful and I really liked seeing some of the projects you are working on or have worked on.
very informative, ty for including format options, I could not find any video that went into detail with that. very well demonstrated. Ty
This is gold. Thank you so much!
Thank you for putting it all up together, very useful and helpful!
Great video, thanks
possibly the most helpful video in the world
Hello! My name is Nicole and I’m a new crafty subscriber friend! I love zines and I’m happy to have found your channel! I’m excited to watch more of your videos
This was so helpful thank you so much ❤
Thank you for this video. Simple and concise.
I will have to rewatch this. I got confused with the software part.
Great video Mike! 🐸🐸🐸
prety informative, thanks pal
such a helpful video, thank you so much for creating and sharing!!
VERY informative! Thank you! (:
Thank you very much for the video! It's wonderful!
Dude, thanks a lot for this video! It's a great piece of information!
Very useful and thorough information! Thank you so much!
SO helpful! Thank you
Great info! Thank you.
"Fold it hotdog-wise" is a phrase that I simply have to steal, so I hope you don't mind!
I’m definitely using that zig zag method, I work in procreate so I’ve had to do a bit of guess work and irl plotting to get my printing right. Is there an adaption for the zig zag method for the quarter sized zine since it’s 8 pages double sided per each 8x11 sheet?
Whenever I print a quarter size zine I use the same zig zag pattern to arrange the pages, but only use the top of the paper. Once it’s all in order I copy paste the pages to the bottom of the page too. Then you can print 2 zines at once, not waste any paper, and only need to make one cut!
@@michaeljohnson4932 thank you! I’ll give that a try and update with my results! :D
Excellent video and what a cool club! Thank you!
SO thorough and helpful!! thank you!!
Thank you!
Such great advice! Thank you and keep up with being amazing!
Printer - brother hl-l2315d or equivalent. Prints both sides of paper. Wifi. Used toner cartridge. About $100. I love it
Love this! Thank you so much for teaching us
Wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing this.
God I appreciate this so much, can't express how helpful it is.
But the sound of that marker in headphones is something akin to insufferable.
This was fucking excellent. I’m happy to have watched it. Thanks!
such helpful and in depth video
Super helpful, thank you!!
Thank you for the information
this is so helpful, thank you so much
Holy crap thank you! Just remembered margins exist and freaked out lol
I didn't know zines were still a thing...
They never died lol
Dude same 😅 I thought they died once we got Instagram. I'm super glad people still love physical media!
This is insanely informative
Really helpful!
this is so great and very informative
u're the best man , much respect
So so cool thank you so much for this video !
This was great! Subscribed . All seemed too complicated before this video, I think I’ll start with some mini’ , do you have any mini zines for sale? I’d like to get some for inspiration . Brilliant video very in-depth and very naturally delivered (surprised don’t have more subscribers - I expect more will find you soon! ) ☺️🥰
Wow this was super helpful thank you for making this
Really cool video!
lol, 2cents black and white. i work at officeworks in South Australia ours is 20cents black and white for a4 and 75cents colour lol per side.
yeah, I haven't seen those prices since I did my printing at public libraries lol I'm always hoping to see them again tho
thanks so much for this!! what paper do you use for zines?
You can use any paper for zines! I usually use regular printer paper, but for the mailing club I print on 20 lb paper since it's the least heavy to mail
The zizagging for pagination / using pdf acrobat to auto-paginate for booklet printing .... doesnt all that exporting/importing between indesign and acrobat reduce the quality of the print?
Not that I've noticed!
@@michaeljohnson4932 clear enough to me :)
thanks for your work!
Superb and nice tutorial
Brother you are awesome, the piercings look so sick !!!
where do you get your 8.5X5.5 mailers?
Do you just use regular printer paper for your zines? I'm working on my first art zine and I'm wondering if I should print on a thicker stock
Yeah, I use 20 lb printer paper for the mailing club bc it’s the lightest (helps w shipping), but if mail weight isn’t an issue 65 lb+ is good cover stock
Very nice.
thank you so much!!! v helpful
loved this :)
Thank you so much
If you can afford it/if you have the know how:
Try to go the Linux route for printers. Windows is so assbackwards for printer compatibility and most printer problems come down to that. Really, there is no reason for Windows to have such shitty compatibility.
Edit: oh fuck. Okay. You have IOS. I have no idea how iOS and printers work together. Trying to setup a VM or a raspberry pi for printing still might be a decent idea to try and fix printer kinks.
this is so great--tysm
I might have missed it towards the end ( need sleep) how many pages can a 5x8 zine be to still be under one ounce in your opinion. never thought a forever stamp could do the trick. thanks for the video, bookmarked for future viewing
idk but just get like a small kitchen scale or take it to the post office and ask them to weigh it.
You’re amazing 🥺💛
This is awesome info
This is so informative! Thank you!
What’s your Etsy shop?
Since I made this vid I closed my Etsy to focus on the Wiggle Bird Mailing Club!You can check out my zines via the patreon i mention at the beginning :)
Wow Thankyou for this
Can you give us a pdf layout for a Half-sheet Zine?
I don't have one on hand, but it's a standard 8.5x11" sheet of paper folded in half
Nice video!
My thing is I have an outdated laptop. 😭
How do I get the zine used as your example? I really want that one...
I contacted the author, who was very happy to hear someone wanted to read it! They don't sell it anywhere rn but if you dm me your email I can send you a readable pdf :)
@@michaeljohnson4932 i know i'm late but i was wondering if i could get my hands on the PDF too, the zine looked really interesting and i was let down when google searches only yielded sport related results.
@@hopestomakeartoneday9146 shoot me an email at wigglebird666@gmail.com and I’ll pass it along :)
@@michaeljohnson4932 sorry for not replying earlier, i've sent an email, thank you for your time.
Hi! I’m the author and artist of this zine and I just saw this comment and it made me so happy, I’m so glad you liked it 🥹🐺❤
Nice
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Uh Why are you styled like our Generation and Culture and how we grew up
Now just figure out how to CopyRight your work.
It is. Copyright is automatic when it is created by the author. Registering is optional but does provide some benefits if someone infringes.
You look so cool! Also, thank you sm for your knowledge 🫶
Urgh, why is figuring out the page numbers so hard? This was so helpful, thank you!