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Literature Humanities I with Tamara Hache

This session supports zine making with Tamara Hache's Lit Hum class at Columbia University in Fall 2025. The session is led by zine librarian Jenna Freedman

Zine Elements

Covers

color * construction paper * relief print * acetate

Binding

staples * sewing * stab * pamphlet * paper types* materials

Graphics

illustrations * fair use/copyright * photographs * typography/handwriting * backgrounds

Elements

Essay * Poem * Review * Drawing * Collage * Personality Quiz * Crossword Puzzle * Playlist * Top Ten List * Likes/Dislikes * How To * Comic * Rant * Blank Space * Art * Handwriting * Typewriting * Design Software * Stick Figures

Metadata: author, title, publication location, publication date, freedoms and restrictions

Genre

personal * political * art * literary * split * compilation * minicomics * DIY

Pro Tips

  • Leave a 1/4" margin around your pages
  • Remember your zine will be copied or scanned, so light text and images may not reproduce well
  • You do you

Zine Topics

cat chewing on a box of envelopesThis zine is for getting your feet wet in zine making--not a grade!

  • Life in 2025: top ten

  • What is your personal canon (real or aspirational)

  • Dear You: zine for yourself to be read at graduation

Zine Types

One-Page Folding Zine

Note to self: use ledger paper

photo of brown hands with chipped nail polish folding a zine

Templates

Half-Size

Print as booklet 😀 😀 😀

vertical screenshot of the first three pages of the zine "The Legacy of the Blues: The Bounds of Black Queer Performance"

screenshot of "print as booklet"

Quarter-Size

Brain challenge!

screenshot of two blank pages of what will be an eight-page quarter-size zine

Quarter Size

four-up page of A Zine Idea for Each Like zine