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Zines@Douglas: Online Zine Distros

Zines at the Douglas College Library, Zine resources for faculty and distros Zinesters

Internet Archive Zine Collection

 

The Internet Archive has a great collection of zines for free. Zines are self-published, non-commercial publications with typically small circulations. They cover a wide range of topics with many focused on politics, art, creative writing, and personal theory.

Googling for Zines

Some of the Zines listed in this guide can be Googled to find the pdf versions for easy printing.

Examples:

Ancestral Pride / Zig Zag 

Anarchist Urban Planning & Place Theory

Prison was created for the poor: an interview with the mothers of FIES prisoners / Xose Tarrio Gonzalez and Gabriel Pombo da Silva

Google Web Search

Zine Distros

List of Zine Distros

These distributors from the Broken Pencil website offer zines at a very low cost

Online Zine Collections

The Anarchist Library

  • Free online collection of zines with links allowing users to download copies of zines. Despite its name it is an archive focusing on anarchism, anarchist texts and other texts of interest to anarchists.

Queer Zine Archive Project

  • Free on-line searchable database of a collection of past and present queer zines with links allowing users to download electronic copies of zines.

Indigenous Action Zines

  • A collection of printable Indigenous zines for distribution. 

Warrior Publications

  • Warrior Publications is published in occupied Coast Salish territory (Vancouver, Canada).  Its purpose is to promote warrior culture, fighting spirit, and resistance movements. This website is maintained by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw nation), who frequently writes under the pseudonym Zig Zag.  Includes a section with Zines written by Zig Zag covering Indigenous topics such as Indigenous resistance, colonialism, anti-colonialism.  

Semo Distro

  • Semo Distro is an anarchist distribution project based out of occupied Chonnonton territory in beautiful Hamilton, Ontario (KKKanada).  Free zines available for download.

Zine Distro

  • Free zines available for download.

The Book of Zines

  • This website provides links to zine archives and zine libraries. Information on copyright, distribution, online catalogues, zine reviews, history, how to guides articles and essays on zines and much more.

Broken Pencil

  • Canadian magazine published in Toronto. Reviews zines and other alternative press. Links to more zine resources.

Boston Anarchist Zine Bistro

  • Boston Anarchist Black Cross functions as the defensive arm of local anarchist struggles. Their work involves an organized support network for local activists in need and for folks behind bars. They seek the ;total abolition of prisons and work on projects in support of this cause. Some of our activities include doing legal research and mailing literature for prisoners, and maintaining a distro of anarchist and abolitionist zines.

Community Radio Distro

  • Zine Distro from London, Ontario. Community Radio Distro is the love child of prolific zinesters Jillian Clair (of Forest City Zine Fiends) and Jenna Rose Sands (of Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians). The pair says they share a deep commitment “to community building, social justice and having a cool time doing it.”    

The Feminist Bibliothecary 

  • Small list of Digitized Zine collections available mostly for free

Feminist Zine Archive (Women's Studies) Chapman University Digital Commons

  • Writings and artwork depicting feminism and women's issues.

POC Zine Project

  • This site increases accessibility to find and share zines produced by people of color.

Great Worm Distro

  • (minimal cost)

CrimethInc

  • Small zine collection. Downloadable mainly for free (or minimal cost) and in imposed pdf format which is easier for printing in zine format.

Anarcha Library

  • An anarcha-feminist and gender anarchy resource which provides contemporary (and older) anarcha-feminist documents, including books, opinions and zines. Search using the tags and in particular the pdf tag. Ensure you have a zine and not a blog.

KEKE Zine Library

  • Small collection of free zines.

Keeping Six Quarterly Zine

  • Keeping Six – Hamilton Harm Reduction Action League is a community-based organization that defends the rights, dignity, and humanity of people who use drugs. It was formed in response to the ravages of the opioid crisis.  Currently only a few zines available. 

Partizanka Press

  • Partizanka Press is a micropress and distro of zines, artist's books and multiples, based in Hamilton, Ontario. 

Right to Food Zine 

  • Right To Food Zine’s mission is to promote the human right to food that is healthy, nutritious, affordable, and presented with dignity. Our voices reflect the diversity that is the Downtown Eastside. RTF Zine has published 3-4 issues a year and available for download.

Sherwood Forest Zine Library

SO FI ZINE

  • So Fi Zine is an indie publication for sociological fiction, poetry, and visual art. Standing against the exclusive practices of academic publishing, this is a space for true creative experimentation and every edition of the zine is free to read online and offered in a DIY print format.  The ten editions published explore many elements of creative social inquiry, from voice and future imaginaries to the conditions under which stories are told. So Fi Zine has published 227 creative pieces.

Sprout Distro

  • Covers a wide mix of topics, from critiques of identity politics to developing deeper relationships with the land.

Zines & Things (Portland Zine Team)

  • Reasonable priced Zines and on the Home Page you can sign up for a free Zine tutorial