A Star Wars Zine
I found a Zine online that is about Star Wars. It has drawings of different characters and different scenarios involving different characters are inside. There’s a video in which someone is flipping through the book to give you an idea of what is inside.
It’s about the size of the Zines we are going to be making for class. There’s lots of creativity within it, and while it has aspects of a comic, it’s not entirely a comic. It also has pages and pages of art. It’s really a fan-made book about Star Wars characters. I think these make it a Zine.
I think they made a lot of it digitally, especially the art. There may be more than one artist, so I’ll refer to them in the plural sense. The people who created these drawings must’ve done it digitally because the art is too precise and fine for it to be done with pens or painted. Also, it would make more sense since all the pages are clearly ink-printed.
The whole Zine is about Star Wars characters and is thus obviously inspired by the franchise. However, from what I can tell, all the scenarios within the Zine are original, they’re like fanfiction or head cannons about these characters. So, as far as media goes, they used Star Wars and their own imagination.
Zines in general are pretty cool and give people a huge chance to explore. People can make Zines about what they’re passionate about, interested in, or want others to know about. They can make Zines like the one I talked about, making short stories involving their favorite characters. Zines can be a way of sharing part of yourself with other people if that is your goal or desire, and I think that’s cool.
My own Zine is going to be about the only book series I’ve ever been invested in, The Chronicles of Narnia. They are children’s books, but I’ve been interested in the series since I was a child, and it would be great to share what I know about it with others. I think it would especially be great because I think reading is wonderful and sharing what we’ve read is a wonderful thing to do as well.
Here is the link to the Zine I was talking about: https://worldbetweenworldszine.tumblr.com. Scroll down to one of the posts posted on March 4, 2022 to see the pictures and the video.
Star wars is one of, if not the best movie franchises in cinema history. And since star wars was so good obviously so many people are fans and would be impacted and there is so much star wars content on so many platforms. I have noticed when looking at ideas for zine’s, I saw a couple of star wars zines while searching for ideas and some of the formats were actually very helpful and might be used on making mine. I also realized that the format for most all Zines is very similar but there are still some that are different or set up with text or a picture in different areas, etc. I try and use the ones that I have seen such as some of the star wars zine’s, and a few others to help construct my own by using those as a frame of reference.
I think I think chronicles of narnia are really good for a zine and have a lot of potential, and also really good story line which would be perfect for a zine. I have to agree with you and wonder what other peoples thoughts are when it comes to the books, and also the movies and they’re similarities and differences. The nice part about doing a series like that too, is being able to talk about the many characters, key parts of the story, the plot of each book, etc. The possibilities are endless when it comes to what you can do with that zine because of the topic, and that is the nice part of doing a zine, is having the option to do whatever you really want to with it. The zine should come out really good because of the series that you’re doing it on, and all that you can do the zine about when it comes to the chronicles themselves with that being either the books or the movies which the zine is based off of.