How to fold a mini-zine

August 15, 2025

Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment!

  1. Fold the printed mini-zine page in half, then half in again, and then in half again as shown. Printed mini-zine, then the printed zine folded in half, then in half again, and then in half again. When you open the piece of paper, each of the pages should fit fully within a set of folds. Each of the mini-zines' pages is in its own box delineated by the folding.
  2. With the mini-zine page completely open, fold it in half with short ends touching ("hamburger style") so the text is on the outside. Using scissors, cut a across the dotted line. The mini-zine page is folded in half with short ends touching and a scissor is about to cut along the dotted line. When you reopen your paper, there will be a slit in the middle of the sheet. The reopened paper has a slit across the middle of the sheet that spans the width of the two columns of middle pages in the sheet of paper.
  3. Fold the paper in half lengthwise with long ends touching ("hotdog style"), hold the paper at either end, and fold the sheet into itself to form an 8-page booklet. Folding in half with the long ends touching and then pushing in from the short ends allows the slit to open up into a diamond. Continuing to push those short ends in to close the space in the slit makes the booklet form appear. Once the booklet form appears, ensure the cover is on the outside and crease to secure the pages in the right order. Make sure the cover is on the front!