Attendees at Saturday’s zine making workshop, hosted at the Charles County Library Potomac branch, had tables full of arts supplies to choose from, including magazines, markers, colored pencils and scissors with different-shaped blades.
Instructor Mary DeMarco-Logue of Bryans Road demonstrated how to fold a piece of paper into eight panels and cut it down the middle to make the zine structure.
Zines, short for magazines, are books of various sizes meant to be copied and distributed. Some convey a political message while others focus on a specific topic or theme. Once a zine is complete, the original can be photo-copied for others to enjoy.
Mary DeMarco-Logue of Bryans Road, center, shows Ruby DeMarco-Logue, 13, of Bryans Road and Tress Washington of Waldorf how to fold a piece of paper to make a zine at the Charles County Library Potomac Branch on Saturday. The folding technique creates eight different panels, and a cut down the middle forms the book-like structure.
Tress Washington of Waldorf selects a picture from a National Geographic magazine to use in her zine at the Charles County Library Potomac branch on Saturday. She joked that, since the zine making workshop was only scheduled for an hour, she was going to use larger pictures to save time.
Mary DeMarco-Logue of Bryans Road leads a zine making workshop at the Charles County Library Potomac branch on Saturday afternoon. Zines, short for magazines, are made of a piece of paper folded into eight panels and can be distributed to the community.
