Research Guides: Zines: English Zines

Forthcoming

When You Want to Die

A realistically optimistic zine about suicide and how some days it can be really hard to talk yourself out of it. Because most people don't usually know what to say.

The Imposter

The Imposter is a stream of consciousness comic zine. It explores themes of isolation, shadows, outer space, not fitting in, and old photographs. I collect old photos that include the photographer's shadow, and I've included excerpts from my collection on the back of the zine as well.

My Imaginary Friends Weren't Nice

Intrusive thoughts are “…thoughts that enter your consciousness, often without warning or prompting, with content that is alarming, disturbing, or just flat-out weird (from Positive Psychology). Everyone has them, but neurodivergents get them more often and more extremely. Following a diagnosis of ADHD, ZuZu has created a small zine about their experience with intrusive thoughts as a small child.

What If Sun and Moon Were Best Friends Once?

A small 8-page zine about a waning friendship.

Not Rude Just Autistic

Embark on a compelling journey through our 8-page zine, "Not Rude Just Autistic," printed on standard white 24lb weight paper. You'll encounter a powerful personal narrative, intimately exploring the narrator's contemplation of the challenges faced when being unjustly labeled as rude, despite their genuine intentions.

Europe Sketchbook

A sketchbook created while interrailing through Europe.

A Brain Faster than Light

This collage zine is a great representation of how the author's brain works; it’s all over the place, but somehow things work out in the end. They were sitting around their cluttered room and were suddenly hit with an amazing metaphor, so of course they had to make a zine about it.

Church Zine

Being raised in a Catholic household and attending Spanish mass in a basement really sticks with you as a kid. This zine explores the feelings of not being religious but still knowing everything about Catholicism/having very Catholic family members and how confusing it all feels.

All statues in this zine are actually at my neighborhood church! Zine is mostly in English, with some Spanish prayer included.

Print Zines

Located in the Reading Room of Geisel Library.

Basic paper airplane. No. 13, Cassette tape issue by Joshua James Amberson & friends
Call Number: ZINES A43b
Becoming Political: Finding Possibility Within Community by Christina Tran and the field team at APANO
Call Number: ZINES T73b
Cat party. #1, Five true cat stories by Katie Haegele
Call Number: ZINES H34c
Detox your masculinity: How cultural bullshit fucks up men's body image: What to look for and what to do about it by Faith G. Harper, and Aaron Sapp
Call Number: ZINES H37d
Do's and the Dont's of Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault by Leah Short
Call Number: ZINES S55d
Dogs of All Nations by W.E. Mason
Call Number: ZINES M38d
Doodles from the Boogie Down by Stephanie Rodriguez
Call Number: In Processing

ISBN: 9780451480668
Everyone Calls Themselves An Ally Until It Is Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit by Xhopakelxhit - Ancestral Pride
Call Number: ZINES X46e
Gordita: Built Like This (Teen+ version) by written and illustrated by Daisy Ruiz ; edited by Jamila Rowser
Call Number: ZINES R85g
Head Meds & Other Stories by Tatiana Gill
Call Number: ZINES G55h
My Tropey Life: How Pop Culture Stereotypes Make Disabled Lives Harder by Annie Carl
Call Number: ZINES C37m
Purissima by Megan Delyani
Call Number: ZINES D45p
Touring America: Fall In New England by 8th Street Publications
Call Number: ZINES T68t
Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore
Call Number: ZINES P37y
Zines! Zines! Zines! (for kids) by Margot Terc
Call Number: ZINES T47z

Online Zines

Zine Union Catalog
A union catalog is a resource where libraries can share cataloging and holdings information. The Zine Union Catalog (ZineCat) lets researchers discover zine holdings by searching a single catalog, and helps librarians copy catalog records to facilitate lending across libraries.
Austin Fanzine Project
The Austin Fanzine Project started as a relatively straightforward digitization and transcription project intended to improve access to the documents of a recently-historical subculture – the Austin, Texas underground music scene of the 1990s. The project has blossomed into a sandbox for creative experimentation with digital archives and digital humanities methods and tools.
Broken Pencil
Broken Pencil is a a mega-zine dedicated exclusively to exploring independent creative action. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary on all aspects of the indie arts.
Comic Book Plus: Fanzines
Collection of fanzines and remastered public domain works.
The Comics Heroines Fan Club
Comic book covers and some .pdfs.
The Corroseum: Metal Fanzines
The theme is old traditional Metal fanzines = anything from the earliest NWOBHM-pamphlets to late 80's/early 90's Thrash-rags. The quality of the zines doesn't really matter. They're all added here for archival/preservational reasons so don't expect every addition to be an absolute must-read.
eFanzines.com: Science Fiction Fanzines Online
A website with links to science fiction fanzines.
Fanzines Available on FANAC.org (1930-present)
Digitized collection of fanzines from the Florida Association for Nucleations and Conventions.
The Feminist eZine
The Feminist eZine collects and archives feminist articles, essays, editorials and writing on all sorts of topics for research purposes.
Internet Archive: Zines
A collection of zines in many languages, international in scope.
Mini Comics History Archive
from the Poopsheet Foundation, A virtual archive of mini-comics, fanzines, small press comics, newave comix and related items. The physical archive, housed at PF headquarters, is being built with personal acquisitions as well as generous donations from supporters. This project is most definitely a work in progress.
Papercut's Virtual Library
A collection of zines made available digitally by Papercut Zine Library.
People of Color Zine Project
A collection of zines created by people of color.
Punk Planet Archive
Punk Planet was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen. In addition to covering music, Punk Planet also covered visual arts and a wide variety of progressive issues — including media criticism, feminism, and labor issues.
The Queer Indonesia Archive
The Queer Indonesia Archive is a digital archiving project committed to the collection, preservation and celebration of material reflecting the lives and experiences of queer Indonesia.
Queer Zine Archive Project
The 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.
The Radical Zine Library
Collection of digital zines on education, work and living well from a socialist/anarchist perspective.
The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection
The Sandy Hereld Collection consists of thousands of digitized images of media fanzines, letterzines, and club newsletters, dating from the late 1960s through materials published online or in print in 2013. The collection is an unparalleled assembly of media fanworks that document generations of fans’ continued creative engagement with media productions meaningful to them.
Send Back My Stamps! Metal History Through Fanzines
Send Back My Stamps! is a site dedicated to reproducing interviews and ephemera from Fanzines produced in the early days of the (heavy/death/thrash/black etc.) metal underground. This era was notable for its pre-internet production of DIY media, that followed the punk tradition born out of the 80s, and gave life and communication to a disparate, global fan base within the then nascent thrash/death/black/grind underground.
Sherwood Forest Zine Library
The Sherwood Forest Zine Library is a fully functioning independent media library focusing on zines and DIY culture. The majority of our collection has been donated via collectors or the zine artists themselves.
The Small Science Collective
A 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.
Women's Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
Digital collection of writings and artwork depicting feminism and women's issues from Chapman University.
Zine Web Archive
The Library of Congress has a growing collection of zines. The Zine Web Archive was created to supplement the physical zine collection. In general, zines are: self-published, self-created, self-distributed, and non-commercial. The independent nature of these publications allows for an unprecedented freedom of expression, and as such, these materials are incredibly valuable primary source materials. Collection priorities include zines by people of color, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ and transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and organizations. Subjects and perspectives which have been traditionally underrepresented in mainstream media (and therefore libraries) are also a high priority for collection.