Zines@Douglas: Where to Find Zines

Local Zine Collections

• The Regional Assembly of Text | the lowercase reading room
• Vancouver Public Library | Zine Collection

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Distros & Presses

• Lost Doll Comics and Art
• Lucky's 
• Moniker Press
• Spartacus Books

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Zine-making Collectives & Publications

• Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House | Right to Food Zine
• Powell Street Festival Society | Paueru Gaizette Zine
• Warrior Publications

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Fairs & Festivals

• Vancouver Art Book Fair
• Vancouver Comic Book Festival
• Zine Harvest

Zine Collections

• Toronto Zine Library - Toronto, ON
• Xpace Zine Library - Toronto, ON
• Anchor Archive  - Halifax, NB

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  Distro & Presses

• Partizanka Press - Hamilton, ON
• Sheer Spite Press - Montréal, QC

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  Zine-making Collectives

• Keeping Six Hamilton Harm Reduction Action League | Keeping Six Hamilton Quarterly Zine

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Fairs & Festivals

• Canzine Festival of Zines - Toronto & Ottawa, ON
• Expozine - Montréal, QC
• Sappyfest - Sackville, NB
• Zine Dream - Toronto, ON

The Internet Archive has a great collection of zines for free. 

Online Zine Collections

• The Anarchist Library 
• Barnard Zine Library
• Boston Anarchist Zine Bistro
• Chapman University | Feminist Zine Archive 
• CrimethInc 
• Fruitslice Zine
• Indigenous Action Zines 
• Internet Archive
• Keke Magazine's Zine Library
• POC Zine Project 
• Quarantine Public Library
• Quarantine Zine Club
• Queer Zine Archive Project 
• San Francisco Public Library's Little Maga/Zine Collection
• Sherwood Forest Zine Library 
• Small Science Collective
• SO FI ZINE
• Sprout Distro 

Distros & Presses

• Antiquated Future - Portland, OR (US)
• Brown Recluse Zine Distro - Oakland, CA (US)
• Burning Books - Buffalo, NY (US)
• Microcosm Publishing - Portland, OR (US)
• Pen Fight Distro - Manchester (UK)
• Portland Button Works and Spiral House Shop - Portland, OR (US)
• Sticky Institute - Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
• Wasted Ink Zine Distro - Phoenix, AZ (US)
• Zine-o-Matic Zine Subscription Service

Fairs & Festivals

• Portland Zine Symposium 
• Printed Matter's list of Book & Zine Fairs
• Zine Librarians unConference (ZLuc)

• 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 websites. 

• 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. Instagram has many zine makers and active communities.  

List of Zine Distros from Broken Pencil website offering zines at a very low cost.