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These lists are not comprehensive and are meant to provide a starting point for locating and acquiring zines.
Zine Resources at UD
For more information on how to research and find additional collections in the Special Collections Department here at the University of Delaware, visit this research guide for more information.
Booklyn Artists Alliance collection of zines by Call Number: Z286.Z54 B66 2000zPublication Date: 2003-2007Instant zine archive of the 21st century: 12 zines represented by various publishers, subjects, and places in the United States
Queer zines by Call Number: N72.H64 Q84 2013ISBN: 9780894390685Publication Date: 2013-20142 volumes, exhibition catalog; second edition with short essays by individuals involved in queer zines in various ways, from artists and publishers to a librarian at MoMA.- Peoples. by Call Number: [In Process]Publication Date: 2001-Fly draws portraits of friends and acquaintances -- many of whom are artists, punks, and zinesters living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan -- in her comics zine. The backgrounds of these pictures are comprised of the people in the portraits telling stories about their lives.
- Mariame Kaba zine box set by Call Number: [In Process]Publication Date: 2011-2020A set of 17 zines with ephemera: an educational primer on current thoughts, history and resources surrounding prison reform, racial injustice and transformational justice.
- Barnard College Digitized ZinesLook for an online or downloadable pdf link in the catalog record
- Broken Beautiful PressRadical zines, many by women of color, created to support radical self- & collective- growth, transformation, healing, and imagining-together. You can download PDFs of the zines for free from the site
- Coke OvenCoke Oven is a database, directory, library and resource of Zines. It is designed to allow easier discovery and sharing of content between Zine makers, readers and collectors.
- Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender EquityPage includes collaborative zine projects
- PaperCut Virtual LibraryBrowse zines from the extensive (over 17,000 zines) collection based in Cambridge, MA at the Democracy Center.
- Quarantine Public LibraryBrowse zines by genre or artist in this amazing collection of online zines!
- Queer Zine Archive ProjectThe Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
To get started with the zine archive try browsing through the collections or searching for specific terms. - Small Science CollectiveA collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics . Read online, download zines, and share your ideas!
- Zine Collection: Lesley LibraryZines are an informal mode of self-expression well-suited to the philosophy of community-building at Lesley University. The Sherrill Library Zine Collection gathers the diverse ideas, experiences, interests, and personal histories of our community and presents them as both a browsing collection and a collection that is preserved in the University Archives.
- Many zine-makers sell their work or make them available on platforms such as Etsy and Itch.io. Individual zine makers also use their Ko-fi or Patreon accounts to share their work to their supporters, or they sell them directly on their Instagram or personal website
- Want to know more? Zine-makers of all ages and experience levels can be found on Reddit. There are also various Discord groups dedicated to zines.
- The Soapbox PhillyZine library, studio with workshops, has partnered with libraries before
- Bluestockings Cooperativee-zines only
- Pen FightManchester (UK)
Queer & feminist zines, books, art, DIY, & tiny press - Silver SprocketSan Francisco Based Indie Comics Publisher