If I had one word of advice for fellow webcomic artists: do some zines. Doing zines has like, quintupled my income. It's ridiculous. I'm finally earning something resembling a living wage. https://twitter.com/yamino/status/1574241349418725377

I love long-form comics, but they are hard to monetize. Printing them is a pain in the ass. Short, catchy comics in PDF form have been so much faster and easier for me to produce, at consistently high quality, and they can be priced affordably for a wide audience.

One of the reasons I love doing fanzines is that the audience already knows the characters and general story. You can dive right in to something more complex without spending tons of time worldbuilding or setting things up. They're also a lot easier to market with tags.

Marketing original short comics is harder but not impossible, especially if you have grown an established audience who will be interested in whatever you come out with next. I encourage fellow artists to not put all your eggs in one basket, and switch it up sometimes.

I have made a pay-what-you-want zine about How To Make Zines! I go over my entire process so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful! https://yamino.itch.io/beginners-guide-to-digital-zines

The guide is a part of our efforts nicknamed as https://www.apc.org/en/publications/closer-than-ever#people towards recognising and fostering a sense of connection and awareness of each other's presence, regardless of physical distance. This has gradually become a fundamental aspect of https://cometogether.apc.org/shelves/apc-guidelines-on-planning-and-designing-online-events.

Please share with your colleagues and partners if relevant.

• Shivi CTE (Closer then ever) online spaces organiser https://www.apc.org/en

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free zines from Librarians And Archivists With Palestine

some highlights:

• “A Care-Centered Guide to Digitally Archiving Palestine,” 2024
• “Exposing Ex Libris,” 2024
• “Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024: A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine,” 2024
• “The ABCs of Occupation & Resistance,” a zine by Rachel Mattson, 2014. (PDF formatted for printing on 8.5×11 paper, flip on short edge)

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“Blocing Up” (2020) by @headingnorther is a zine teaching the use of black bloc tactic at demonstrations. It is presented as a comic covering the history, basics of the tactics, and recent lessons from the streets. The zine was originally written in the context of street protests in Portland, Oregon, but this version is suitable for distribution everywhere.

Blocing Up and other useful zines for solidarity encampments can be found at linktr.ee/campingzines

see:

• https://www.instagram.com/p/C8sHN_6OTVA/
• https://www.instagram.com/p/C698TKZvORp/
• https://www.instagram.com/p/C77iYbkyF-K/