Tabloid-size zine

I wanted to create a tabloid-size zine. That’s 11×17 folded in half until it’s an 8.5×11 zine. I purchased three, pictured below at ExpoZine in Montreal.

I really like Dumbass, it’s printed on risograph. It’s a comic book. I think comics in this size are very cute.

Pure Albertacana and Clipart Crypt are also in this size. It’s not as colorful as Dumbass so fit the minimalist style of laser printing I was going for. Pure Albertacana is also in the same color I wanted to print mine (light blue).

This was very hard to achieve on a home laser printer. I had to fold the paper in half and run it through the printer. By folding it in half, it got re-folded at a different crease by the printer. So once it’s been run through four times, it was really fucked up. I wasn’t able to print double sided, because making it go back into the printer yielded even worse results. Oh well.

I reprinted it later on just regular 8.5×11 and reformatted the text. That worked better and that’s how the zine is shared.