Zine Resources

Events

US

• Zine Map and Directory

• LA Zine Fest

• San Francisco Art Book Fair

• New York Anarchist Bookfair

UK

• London Anarchist Bookfair

Communities

• Zines Sub-Reddit

• Zines Raddle Forum

• Zines and Zinesters Discord

• Zine Grrlz Discord

• The Culture Zine Project Discord

• Zines Not Dead Facebook Group

• Zines A Go Go Facebook Group

• Zines Australia Facebook Group

Resources

• A guide on where to sell your zines

• Stolen Sharpie Revolution

  • July is International Zine Month — A whole month to celebrate zines!

• Zineomatic

• Zine Video Playlist

• Zine Library List — Find a zine library near you!

• Zine Libraries – Resource for librarians with zine collections.

• Zine Wiki — A wiki specifically about zines and zine culture

Distros

USA

• Antiquated Future

• Behind the Zines

• Brown Recluse Zine Distro

• Collecting Words

• Common Meter

• CrimethInc.

• Food + Paper

• Mend My Dress Press

• Microcosm Publishing

• Pioneers Press

• Portland Button Works

• Sprout Distro

• Stranger Danger

• Sweet Candy Distro & Press

• Tiny Splendor

• The Escape Artist

• Wasted Ink Zine Distro

Australia

• Small Zine Volcano

• Sticky Institute

• Take Care Zine Distro

• Xerox Days

• Zine Gang Distro

• Bloomurder

• Chicken Collective

• Natalie Michelle Watson

• Zines by Keira

UK

• Coin Operated Press

• Pen Fight Distro

• Vampire Sushi

Canada

• Label Obscura

Germany

• Black Mosquito

Japan

• Five O’Clock Zine

Physical Libraries

US

• Fly Away Zinemobile – A zine library on wheels!

• Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) – a physical space in Portland, Oreogn, USA with all things needed to make zines. Their website offers information on their library, resources, and certificate program.

• Collins Library Zine Collection — Zine collection and guide from the University of Puget Sound.

• Richmond Independent Zine Library

• SubRosa’s Anarchist Library

• Solidarity Zine Archive

UK

• Glasgow Zine Library

• Salford Zine Library (Manchester)

• Touchpaper Anarchist Library (London)

• Canny Little Library (Newcastle)

• Tyneside Anarchist Archive (Newcastle)

Portugal

• Uzinefanzine

Australia

• Copy and Destroy

Online Libraries

• Anarchist Zine Library

• Perfect Disorder Press

• Quarantine Public Library

• PoC Zine Project — Zines from people of color.   

• Zine on the Internet Archive — Contains both individal zines and zine collections.

• Library of Congress Zine Web Archive — A list of online zines and websites.

• Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library — From the University of Kansas on the Internet Archive.

• No Borders — Louisville’s Radical Lending Library

• The Radical Zine Library — A living archive of radical zines.

• Indigenous Action Media — Zines made by indigenous peoples.

• Sprout Distro — An anarchist zine distro (distributor) and publisher.

• Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) – an archive of digitized queer zines and awesome-ness.

• Untorelli Press — An anarchist publishing project.

• Send Back My Stamps! Metal History Through Fanzines — Death, thrash, grindcore , and black metal Fanzines.

• Sherwood Forest Zine Library — An independent media library focusing on zines and DIY culture.

• DC Punk Archive Zine Library — From the DC Public Library Special Collections.

Makers

• Displaced Snail Publications

• Echo Publishing

• Feral Publication

• Mild Scribbling

• Punk Rawk Dude

• Queer Indigenous Girl

• Rabbits of Realness

• Rae White

• The Stapled Spine Horror Fanzine

Series you can submit essays to

• Sapphic — A feminist and queer zine that explores radical feminist politics, gender issues, and anti-capitalist themes through creative, thought-provoking writing.

• Power Makes Us Sick — A platform offering insights on the intersections of social justice, mental health, and radical political thought, critiquing power structures and their impact on health.

• Sonorus — A zine that focuses on anarchism, solidarity, and radical liberation, often featuring direct action and revolutionary strategy.

• Drawn Poorly — A zine centered on anarchist and radical thought, featuring comics and illustrations that critique society, capitalism, and power structures.

• Hoax — A zine focused on feminist theory, anti-capitalism, and subversive politics, often addressing the intersection of space and feminist resistance.

• Dope — A publication exploring radical politics, anti-authoritarianism, and subversive cultural movements through a youth-oriented lens.

• Blind Field — A publication dedicated to exploring the intersections of radical politics, art, and anarchism, offering a platform for experimental thought and cultural critique.

Reviewers

Magazines

• Slingshot

• Maximum RocknRoll

• Razorcake

Websites

• Sea Green Zine Reviews

• Faceville Review

• Feral Publication

• The & Ranch

• Syndicated Zine Reviews – just what it says!

• Warglitter Zines

• Xerography Debt

• Zine Nation

Places you can sell your zines on commission

• Quimby’s — Chicago, IL

• Atomic Books — Baltimore MD

• Printed Matter — New York, NY

• Blue Stockings — New York, NY

• Desert Island — Brooklyn, NY

• Elliot Bay Book Co. — Seattle, WA

Online store you can set up yourself

• Big Cartel

• Squarespace

• Wordpress with WooCommerce

YouTubers

• BrattyXBre

• Catmothcrow

• Craig Atkinson

• Feral Publication

• Niji TV

• Ryan Pocket Thoughts

• SaraMarie Creates

• Sea Green Zines

• Sea Green Zines: Zine Goodness Playlist

• Twenty Two Zines

• Warglitter Zines

Podcasts

• Long Arm Stapler

• The Zine Report

KO-FI’ers

• Hadass/PMS Mess

• Pen Fight

Misc.

• Zine Event Organizers Google Group – This is a google group for zine event organizers to network, talk shop and share ideas. They also host ZOE- The Zine Organizers Event at different zine fest for organizers to meet in person.

• Compilation Station – A blog dedicated to comp zines!

• We Love Zines – Tumblr dedicated to zines

Dead for now(?)

Events

• Zine World Calendar! — Zine events around the world

Communities

• We Make Zines – An entire social media site dedicated to zinesters

  • We Make Zines Web Archive Capture

• Grrrl Zines.net – Global Grrrl Zine Network

Zine Reviewers

• Zine World (A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press) – The Web page of the long running print zine review zine. The site is chock full of zine resources and information about free speech including the Zinester’s guide to the U.S. mail!

• Broken Pencil

• Spill The Zines – A UK-specific zine review blog

Distros

• Stinney Distro

Zine series

• Forever Incomplete — A zine focusing on individual stories, anarchist thought, and radical critique, offering a space for community-driven perspectives.

Audio readings of zines

• Resonance Anarchist Audio Distro

• Immediatism: Essays Provocative and Incendiary

Place you used to be able to sell zines to

• City Lights — San Francisco, CA

• ShootFilmCo — Online

Archived

• Zine Core Radio Show – Radio show about zines!

• Zine Librarian Yahoo Group – Zine librarians talk about stuff.

• Zine Thug – Zines reviews that have bite.

• 24 Hour Zine Thing — A project that happens every July where zinesters commit to creating a zine to their skill level in 24 hours.

• Etsy Team Zine — A group of people that sell zines on the handmade-centric website, Etsy.

• International Zine Library Day — July 21^st; a day to celebrate zine libraries

• We Make Zines — A social media site dedicated to zines.

• Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Podcast – Podcast about zines being good, not supid! Also available on itunes

• Bitch Media Zine Reviews – “Cut & Paste” is a series of great zine recommendations from zinesters and zine librarians

• Book of Zines – Links links and more links with lots of articles and information about zines and zine history

• Black Ship Books– Reviews (more reviews here)

• One Minute Zine Reviews – That sort of explains it all, doesn’t it?

• Doris Press & Distro

• One Minute Zine Reviews

• Symbiosis PDX Zine Library