For readers of The Complete Zine Making Handbook
Five printable packs made to sit beside The Complete Zine Making Handbook. Tap a button to download. No account, no email, nothing to unlock.
Choose US Letter in the US and Canada, A4 almost everywhere else.
One-sheet mini zine (guide and line-free master), 8-panel mini comic, half-sheet and quarter-sheet booklet masters, accordion strips, thumbnail planner, lettering sheet, and hole guides for pamphlet stitch and Japanese stab binding.
Everything prints at 100% on your paper, with a scale bar to check. No copier enlargement, no guessing.
Page maps for the one-sheet 8-pager and for 8, 12 and 16-page folded booklets, sheet by sheet, front and back. A formula for any page count, a blank planner and the five checks before you print.
Pin them above the printer and you will never print a page upside down or out of order again.
96 prompts on cut-apart cards in eight themes, including new Classroom and Together themes, plus 12 constraint cards, a page on shrinking any idea into eight pages, and a dice game for picking one.
For the moment you have paper and scissors and no idea what to make.
Two timed plans, learning goals, a materials list for 20, a word-for-word fold script, access and safety notes, a photocopiable student fold sheet and exit slips.
For teachers, librarians and youth workers who want a first session that runs on time and ends with a zine in every hand.
A checklist from finished master to bound stack, a copy-shop run sheet, a zine fair packing list, and a print-run cost sheet with a worked example and an edition record.
Price your zine so it pays for itself, and never leave your masters on the copier glass.
All five packs in a single ZIP file.
Printing tips
New to the fold? Start with the mini zine tutorial or the template guide.
No. Every file downloads directly from this page. There is no sign-up, no email and no paywall.
Choose the paper your printer uses. US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) is standard in the US and Canada; A4 (210 × 297 mm) is standard in most other countries. Each edition is drawn for its own paper size.
Open the PDF and print at Actual size or 100% scale, not Fit to page. Check the scale bar at the bottom of each template page with a ruler.
Yes. You may print and photocopy them for your own zines and for non-commercial classes, libraries and workshops. Please share the link to this page rather than re-posting the files.
These files accompany The Complete Zine Making Handbook (Quillfold Studio Handbooks, Book 1) by Margo Quillfold. You may print and photocopy them for personal use and for non-commercial classes, libraries and workshops. Please do not sell or re-post the files; link to this page instead.