Research Guides: Zines Guide: Digital Zines

ABC No Rio
ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism and known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and we retain these values to the present.
Barnard Zine Library
This collection aims to serve the needs of current readers and scholars and those of future researchers, Barnard and Columbia students and faculty, scholars from other academic institutions, and writers doing research for a major publishing house have used zines to research topics such as the Riot Grrrl movement, Sassy magazine, girls and education, radical parenting and other topics.
Indigenous Zineopedia 1.0
A collection of printable Indigenous zines for distribution.
Issuu - Zines
A DIY ethos takes many forms on issuu, but nowhere is it more raw, honest and creative than within the thousands of incredible zines found on issuu. Although originally a print-only medium, zine publishers have realized issuu is the perfect way to distribute their creations to a much larger audience. From politics to art to music and more, get ready to get lost in this wholly-original world.
POC Zine Project
POC Zine Project's mission is to makes zines by POC (People of Color) easy to find, distribute and share. We are an experiment in activism and community through materiality.
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.
Read a F*cking Zine: 50 Zines by Queer People of Color
POC Zine Project founder Daniela Capistrano collaborated with artist/activist Nia King, Queer Zine Archive Project and Barnard Zine Library to curate a list of 50 zines made by QTPOC (Queer and/or Trans-Identified People of Color).
The Start of a List of Zines about Immigration and Nationality
The Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection begun in 2011 and collect zines about life in Brooklyn, as well as zines that have relevance for student interests, or the curriculum of Brooklyn College.
STEAM Zines
Collaborative STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) public outreach project virtual conference has taken the form of daily e-zine of micro-fiction stories, poetry, and art inspired by the discoveries being presented at the conference, called "Heavy Metal Jupiters and Other Stories". It has been edited by Jessie Christiansen and Heather Clitheroe, and we are so grateful and excited by all the contributions!
Zine Nation
Zine Nation has been collecting zines for about eighteen years and is primarily a zine review blog.

Anthropozine
A zine of interviews and collages on the Anthropocene - not only as a geological epoch but as a manifold metaphor for our planetary concerns. Including interviews with Will Steffen, Natalie Jeremijenko, Manfred Laubichler, Amita Baviskar, Maya Kóvskaya and more. Borne from the Anthropocene Campus symposium at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, Nov 2014.
Atlas Zine
A zine dedicated to promoting the handmade and celebrating the amateur. The zine features design, fashion,music, art, and more. Spanish and English publication.
Book Bombs Zine
Issue #3: The Ethics of Wheatpaste & Issue #6B: Horizontalidad
Broken Beautiful Press
Radical zines, several by women of color
Broken Pencil
The magazine of zine culture and the independent arts.
Building an Asian American Feminist Movement
A zine by The Asian American Feminist Collective. They "engage in intersectional feminist politics grounded within our communities, including those whose backgrounds encompass East, Southeast, and South Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-ethnic and
diasporic Asian identities."
Chifladazine
An online zine featuring Latin@ and Xican@ voices.
Circulation Zero
Download PDFs of West Coast Punk Zines.
Illuminati Girl Gang
A zine dedicated to showcasing female perspectives in art and literature.
La Liga
La Liga is an online and zine platform that shows the many ways in which Latinxs / chicanxs / latinoamericanosxs are dissecting their cultural identities through different means of self-expression.
Men in the Feminist Struggle
This is a brief collection of writing on men and their participation in feminist/anti-sexist work that the authors, Andrea Dworkin and John Stoltenberg, have found thought provoking and motivating.
OSR Zine
Fanzines
Shabby Doll House
A quarterly zine focusing on art, literature, and poetry.
Shade Zine
Creators Abryl and Azha showcases other zinemakers, art parties, and underground artists. All of their content is original and made collaboratively. They also curate playlists, publish photo stories, and feature the artwork of people with similar aesthetics.
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A zine that showcases other zinemakers, art parties, and underground artists. All of their content is original and made collaboratively. They also curate playlists, publish photo stories, and feature the artwork of people with similar aesthetics.
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.
Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library
a non-hierarchical collective for the purpose of sharing and distributing information. Over 800 zines on a variety of topics.
Sula
Sula Collective is an online [maga]zine for and by people of color.
Womanzine
WOMANZINE is about/for/not for women. WOMANZINE claims to be "too sexy and weird."
Xicanas in Suburbia
A collection of photos and essays about being Xican@ and experiencing colorism in their communities.
Zine Librarians Code of Ethics Zine

Culture as a Strategy to Survive, Issue 1
by Tania Bruguera
Culture as a Strategy to Survive, Issue 2
by Tania Bruguera
Culture as a Strategy to Survive, Issue 3
by Tania Bruguera
Fallen Fruit Magazine, Issue #6 San Bernardino
Share your fruit! Art! and Love! by David Burns and Austin Young.
Film the Police, Know Your Rights
www.wecopwatch.org/live-streamers-make-great-informants
Making Art During Fascism, v. 2.0
by Beth Pickens
On Artists and Hopelessness
by Beth Pickens
Resistance Guide, How to Sustain the Movement to Win
by Paul Engler & Sophie Lasoff, in collaboration with Momentum

The following library databases contain articles on zines and zine culture.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text scholarly journals from a wide variety of fields. Contains the full archive of most journals, except for the current 1-5 years. Watch the How to Use JSTOR video.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to articles out of academic journals as well as general interest magazines with excellent coverage in a wide variety of disciplines. Watch the How To Use Academic Search Complete video.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. Excellent for critiques on contemporary authors. Most useful for contemporary U.S. authors. There's a great timeline useful for assignments outside of the English/Literature field as well. Watch the How to Use Literary Reference Center Plus video.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text journal articles, books and monographs as well as conference papers in the field of sociology.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text scholarly journals and other research resources in the field of communication and mass media studies.

Queer Cartoonists
Names and Information of over 550 queer cartoonists
Cartoonists of Color Database
Names and information of over 1000 cartoonists of color.