All my classmates know, that for the zine project I expanded my minibook, "A Survivor's Encomium" to a 11 page zine. Thanks to the suggestion from our teacher!
Making a zine turned out a lot harder than I thought. Or how it looks! I had some challenges with margins, white space, putting together completely straight text, and printing. The overall result was: Room for improvement. There ended up being a typo on one page and no back cover because of the size of the paper. I couldn't figure out how to give a classy looking backcover since all the cardstock I could find is regular size.
For putting together the zine while ill it turned out pretty good. For distrobution, I exchanged zines with my colleagues and gave one to my teacher. My family ends up with a copy and I have two left over to give out. I am mailing one to the writer S.L. Wisenberg and to my former teacher, poet Simone Muench. For the next project, I am going to do a print-on-demand work. It's a longer work, that gets professionally published by lulu.com or another similar company.
My original thought it to send out after illustrating a short story I wrote and am fond of called, "Swept." It's a comedy/romance about a man who has a hard time staying in one place.
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