ZMACS: MAY: L' accordeon Zine

I have been reading "How To Make Books" by Esther Smith and Purgatory Pie Press, and wanted to make the one-page accordion spiral that she featured in it ...

Yep, a different kind of one-page zine!

Blogger Alexandria A lifted the diagram and re-wrote the directions from the book on her blog for others to follow. What she did not include was the advice from Smith's book to weigh down the zine after cutting and folding it -- it needs to be "pressed" into good behavior :) Alexandria A. and Smith recommend using a "bone folder" to make the folds so that they are crisp.

Et voila, a 16 or a 32-page (if both sides are used) minizine -- crazy, huh? That's twice the typical number of pages from the same A4 or 8 1/2 x 11 inch page of typing or printer paper! And ... you can copy them just like the other style of one-page minizine that we are familiar with.

So, let's make spiral accordion zines following the directions above for ... well, let's go crazy and photocopy them and send them to 3 partners. Black and white or color copies, any style or theme. The content is up to the sender, but there is one hard and fast rule for this swap: there must be one French word and one image or mention of an accordion somewhere in the zine. With 16 pages, there should be space.

Open to all ZMACS members in good standing; I will musette all unsent swaps. And, hey, let me know if you are interested in a series from this book! I want to do some bookbinding ...