Assembling Zines

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Comment by Michael Leigh on January 6, 2020 at 7:37pm

Terry - I can't find an expample of the stitched 'zine spines at the moment but it wasa bit like this -

Comment by Terry Owenby on January 6, 2020 at 7:19pm

Thank you, Michael, for describing your binding techniques and various ways of keeping zines together. I appreciate it! I like the idea of sewing a cloth bag. That could be interesting. Being able to bind and not cover writing or art falling in the left margin is a problem for many of the items I want to bind. For example, postcards, 4x4 art cards, etc. When you bound with stitches, which binding did you use? I can't think of the name now...but I know there is a binding style that might be good for these kinds of art. Thanks again!  

Comment by Michael Leigh on January 6, 2020 at 6:22am

The next assembling 'zine I did with folded pages (A5) Card cover. 1990's

Comment by Michael Leigh on January 6, 2020 at 6:06am

Terry - If I remember rightly, the blue tape was just cheap electrical tape I used to cover up the staples used to hold the pages together - not ideal!  If there is not much of a gap on the binding side it can be difficult to read some of the pages if they have writing on. I usually left them unbound but tried to experiment a bit with overall look of the 'zine - having cloth bags made in one instance, cellophane bags, stitched binding etc.  On my next 'zine I asked for a folded sheet which made my job a lot easier as I could staple and there would be not need to try and cover it up with tape.

Comment by Terry Owenby on January 6, 2020 at 2:07am

Michael, thanks for sharing your zines. They are wonderful! I'm curious about the blue tape-like material on the left side of issue #13. Is this a binding and, if so, what is the binding name? Are the loose pages bound together? I have many projects with separate pages that I'd love to bind but I don't know which is the best way to do it. Thank you!

Comment by Michael Leigh on January 5, 2020 at 1:52pm

William - yes, an open call - no theme.  12 pages A5 folded to make 4 sides. The ones I compiled were mostly stapled but some issues were loose in paper, cloth and plastic bags.

Comment by William M on January 5, 2020 at 10:11am

thanks for sharing those michael! they look great. were they an open call or specific people asked to participate?

Comment by Michael Leigh on January 5, 2020 at 6:04am

Assembling 'zine Vol. 3 No. 6 " Museum Of Penny Candy". Contributors include yours truly, J Ricart, Antonio Gomez, Anne-Miek Bibbe, Jorg Seifert and Christain Alle. 1999.

Comment by Michael Leigh on January 5, 2020 at 6:01am

Bric-A-Brac was an assembling 'zine from the 90's. I did the first 20 issues and then passed the editorship to Patricia Collins and she did a few issues and then passed it to Joe Decie who did a few more issues and so on.

Comment by Michael Leigh on January 5, 2020 at 5:57am

Issue No. 13 of an assembling 'zine I compiled for 20 issues and passed the editorship onto others including Joe Decie and Patricia Collins.1990's. Participants in this issue were - G.D. & Theo. Breuer,Pierre Bailly,Stephen Perkins,Fabio Sassi,David Dellafiore,Patricia Collins and Lancilotto Bellini.

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