Defining A Zine
What Makes it a Zine?
Some attributes that make this piece a Zine would be its’ comic like quality, length, and digital art. The artist clearly used several images to piece together to create a whole page. The art is also very layered almost like a collage or scrapbook. The use of images as substitutions for words really gave it the quality of a zine.
How it Appears to Be Made?
Based on the clarity of all of the images and how well it looks digitally, I would say that this zine is fully digital and created all online. The images are very well edited as if they used Adobe photoshop. The images are also super clear and lack any grain that is usually in a physical print.
General Thoughts
I like how clear the pages were and how there wasn’t too much going on. When looking at a lot of the zines I noticed that many of them were pretty wordy and I felt as though that contrasted from the images and that the images should be used to say more. I also enjoyed how poetic the words were as they really contributed to the polaroid images. I found it interesting how they kept a pretty clear color palette and used flowers on every page.
My Zine
For my zine, our prompt is our passion and as a business major I typically joke and say my passion is money. The topic of my zine will be “How to Marry Rich.” I plan on incorporating lots of pictures and making it a very visual experience as I believe pictures are worth a thousand words. I make each page a step to check off like on a checklist. My goal for my zine is to clearly portray my topic with mostly images and provide a bit of comedic relief as it is a fairly funny topic.
After going to the link and finding the zine you are talking about, I have to say I agree with a lot of the points you made in this blog post. It seems to be created digitally, which I feel is a whole new avenue you can take when making zines. It made it seem a lot cleaner, but I do have to say it lacks the original feel a physical paperback zine has.
I also liked how organized and clear the pages were. Even with the floral background, it still seemed to be clear and did not seem overbearing. I agree that some zines are just too much to look at. Having too many words and pictures can be almost like an eyesore, and it can make the zine pages look cluttered. I think this zine did a great job at organizing the words and photos while also being creative and clean.
I personally liked the use of polaroid photos in this zine. That was a unique touch that I enjoyed and am now considering it in my own zine. The small number of words spoke volumes in addition to the pictures. I think this zine is overall just very unique and different but also extremely creative.
I love what you are doing for your zine. i joke about the same thing, so I appreciate what you are doing. I think adding that comical side to it makes it even better. It makes it so much more personalized to you which is what a zine is meant to do. I think incorporating pictures will be a good touch. Also, making each page a checklist sounds like a great idea. I think doing this along with adding the photos will make your zine great. I can not wait to see it for myself.