Self Publish, Be Free!

$12.00

by Isabella Rotman

There is a glorious freedom in self-publishing! This book is a zine, a printed, cheaply made book published independently for purposes of self-expression, creation, and information sharing and rarely motivated by or resulting in profit. Everyone deserves to make, share, and enjoy honest authentic art, so let’s make it cheap and accessible.

This zine was made for the sole purpose of arming you with information and resources to make your self-published books, including information on bindings, printers, distribution, 8-page folded mini-zines, and instructions for making a saddle stitch zine (like this one!) using either the analog or digital method.

5.5″ x 8.5″
Risograph printed

Zine | 40 pages | Self Published


Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator living and drawing in Maine. Her art is usually about the ocean, women, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. She is the author of A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent, illustrator and co-author of Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up, and Artist in Residence at Scarleteen.com. Isabella was nominated for the Promising New Talent Ignatz award in 2017, and her comic Like the Tide was nominated for Outstanding Online Comic in 2020. Isabella is the creator of This Might Hurt Tarot, a modern and queer 78-card tarot deck based on the historic Rider-Waite-Smith deck.

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