AT LONG LAST. IT IS DONE. Hopefully the first of many. Or at least several.
Read it on Webtoons (works well on mobile)
Download the standard PDF (this can also be printed on standard printer paper)
Download the print-your-own PDF
If you want to print your own like I did for psysical copies, download that PDF and make sure your select the settings Print on both sides, specifically Flip on long edge. Open the advanced print settings, and under Scale, select Actual size. If you don't do this, it won't look right when folded.
Fold the paper along the straight black lines, with the lines on the outside of the crease.
Once the paper is folded into thirds, there will be a bit of excess. Fold the excess paper to the left of the cover over to form a sort of binding. Cut the excess on the opposite side with scissors.
Fold in half like so.
Staple the edge like so.
Finally, cut off the very edges of the top and right sides to free up the pages. Flip through them to make sure you clipped all the folds.
And there you have it! This is the same method I'll be using for any future issues. Print as many as you wish. This zine will also be seeing a limited public release. Limited to wherever I can stealthily drop them.
And if you've made it this far in the blog, thank you very much for the interest!! This has been a really fun and rewarding project on many levels.
To echo what I wrote on the final page, I'd like to extend a special thanks to Wendigoon for introducing me to Dante's Inferno, my friend Kit Rogers for all their support and enthusiasm on twitter, Juice Wrld for setting the mood while working on a lot of these illustrations, Dr. Rob Buckman and Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross for helping me find comfort and humour in our collective humanity amid these very morbid times, Columbo for keeping me frickin sane and finally to the kids in school who weren't mean to me. It's only taken me 5 years to start beating my mutism, it probably could've been way worse, so thanks for showing some restraint.
