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You can also set your margins here, the number of pages you'd like to start with, and whether you want to design on a single page or two facing pages. By default, a project starts with a portrait-oriented Letter or A4 page, depending on your region. When you launch Scribus, you're asked to choose a medium to work with. When I'm working on something with more graphics than typed content, or I just need maximum flexibility for layout, I use Scribus because its canvas is freeform, and it can link to external assets rather than import them. However, if you're producing a book for print, then at least one of your targets must be PDF (or at least Postscript) because that's what printers use. You can produce books for online distribution as a comic book archive or djvu file, Epub, or even good old HTML. There are different tools for different jobs, but there can be a lot of overlap. When you're a computer nerd like me, though, you have easier access to a computer than you do scissors and glue, and my first choice for desktop publishing with open source is Scribus.

Once everything has been laid out, each page is scanned and printed on a copy machine, and distributed to comic book stores, used book stores, Infoshops, and libraries. Zines are usually created by cutting out blocks of text and graphics and literally pasting them to a master page. Filled with self-published booklets that are too niche, too quirky, or just too individual for any company to spend money on producing, zines are produced by one or two people who have something to say and want to express themselves through text and graphics.

One of my favorite shelves at my local comic book store is the zine rack.