Information about the Zine Bakery project collecting & doing fun research things with zines at the intersections of culture, tech, & justice
I just published a 32-page zine: “Rainbow Rolls: How to print with gradient inks! (aka split fountains; for Vandercook & cylinder presses)” teaching you how to do gradient inking for letterpress on floor cylinder presses with inkable rollers (especially powered rollers). #6 in my Letterpress for All! series of zine...
For the U-M Book Arts Studio, Tanner Schudlich of Stout Heart Press made a beautiful handbound book version of my recent Everyone inks the tympan sometimes: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Press zine. In addition to hand binding the zine in accordion style, they hand-inked the lovely...
I just published an 8-page minizine: “Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’”. If like me you’re coming from outside the formal Art World, but are a crafter, maker, or artist (or do these but think “I’m not a real artist though…”) You might...
I just published a 22-page zine: “Everyone inks the tympan sometimes: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Press”. It’s a letterpress maintenance tutorial on changing tympan and packing material on Vandercook cylinder floor presses like the SP-15, Universal, 3, and 4. #8 in my Letterpress for All! series...
I just published a 47-page standard-size, full-color zineication, read censored history, thwart fascists, documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” Exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship. For more info or to read, download, print the zine (all free!), visit...
I just published a 20-page standard-size, full-color zine, Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts, co-created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) and Shane Lin. “Absolute Unit”: An entity exceedingly pleasing to the eye & soul by virtue of unusual-for-its-kind square or stocky dimensions. Absolute Units are exemplars of: stability!...
I’m tabling at the third annual Charlottesville Zine Fest this Saturday, October 18th, sharing free print zines and representing both UVA Library and Virginia Book Arts. Here are some of the graphics I made for my table, which will have a shimmery rainbow tablecloth (of course).
I received a UVA Library Culture, Engagement, & Community grant to expand the capacity of the Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab public distro! Thanks to the grant program, I’ve got some funding to test out a contraption that makes assembling zines quicker (vs. my tired hands—I’ve folded and stapled over...
zines you can print for free Printing zines to read yourself I use “free zine” to mean zines you don’t need to pay to access in some way—read online, print copies of to read on paper, and/or get a pre-printed copy of from someone else. Unfortunately, printing is not always...
This week, I published a 32-page standard-size, full-color zine, co-created with: Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team: Queer Book History! Book History is the study of the book as physical artifact (beyond just the written “content” it carries) made,...
I’ve got a conference poster at DH 2025 this week, and since I needed to attend remotely and things being what they are, I went all out on making the design Very Extra and much in the spirit of this site’s design :) Enjoy! (A full PDF version, in case...
Q. Do you know of zine templates that let you import your zine content and then print it properly? A. I’ve run into this a lot, partly bc some printers have various hidden amounts of white space they’ll require to allow for where they grip the paper, even if you...
I’m presenting about the Zine Bakery this spring at the Global Digital Humanities conference, and as an invited speaker at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library’s Innovation Summit. Below are some links that had to fly by on my screen, so folks have more time to peruse them! I’m on Bluesky...
The following is an accepted proposal I submitted to the international Feminist Media Histories journal special issue on “Craftwork within the Digital”, guest-edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. In addition to giving a preview of my piece, which focuses on zines as primary method and will include the publication...
I’ve added a new page (reachable under Distros > Redistro), where I’ll host select zines and related resources by other people. When a zine/resource has a strong social justice and/or tech+culture focus (or otherwise fits my interest), I’ll provide web hosting to help with redistribution. These tend to be tutorials...
Full title: 'DIY Web Archiving' - A 22-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kremer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. CC BY-NC. DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!)....
Full title: 'Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too' - “Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too” (Zine Bakery Biscuit #2) is an 8-page, black-and-white minizine explaining how immigration rules and rhetoric impact Charottesville folks even though we’re in the middle of a state, far away from federal borders—and resources for supporting us and our neighbors vs. racist rhetoric and...
Full title: 'The Good Pets of UVA Library' - The Good Pets of UVA Library is a whopping 36-page standard-size, full-color zine created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) with text and photos of pets contributed by UVA Library colleagues: Arin Bennett Leigh Rockey Will Rourk Shane Lin Rose Oliveira-Abbey Brenda Gunn Sherry Lake Sherri Brown Zoe Spellman Holly Robertson...
My research talk on my Zine Bakery project was accepted to Global DH 2025 - My presentation on “Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines” was accepted to the Spring Global DH 2025 conference. My talk abstract is below: People often picture zines thinking of their 20th-century origin as collaged, xeroxed, free paper booklets about subcultures,…
Full title: 'Look!! Here's your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine' - I created and published a new zine: Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine. It’s an 8-page, quarter-size collage zine of odd letterpress blocks (illustrations/text mounted on a block of wood, to be inked & pressed into paper using a printing press) that…