Digital Zine Archives
Below is a diverse collection of zines that are available online. It includes archives from large online platforms, small lending libraries, artist collectives, and more! This list reflects just a handful of ways that zines exist online today!
Subject-Specific Zines
"Moral Revolution" by Kriti Sharma (BrokenBeautiful Press)
- BrokenBeautiful PressA collection of activist zines on social justice, mutual aid, and community support.
- POC Zine ProjectPOCZP's mission is to make all zines by people of color easy to find, distribute and share. POCZP is an experiment in activism and community through materiality. POC Zine Project curates and produces events that center POC-authored publications, has established an archive, cultivates digital platforms that share POC zines and provides grants, tools and events for zinesters.
- FANAC Fan History ProjectThe FANAC Fan History Project is devoted to the preservation and distribution of information about science fiction and science fiction fandom. FANAC.org has a large selection of the popular and important fanzines of the past.
"Radical Feminism & Intersectionality" by Yasmeen, Irene, Lexi, and Jackie Domi (Chapman University, Feminist Zine Archive)
- Chapman University Feminist Zine ArchiveChapman University Digital Commons is an open access digital repository designed to collect, store, index, and provide access to the scholarly and creative output of Chapman University faculty, students, staff, and affiliates. This Feminist Zine Archive includes writings and artwork depicting feminism and women's issues.
- The Small Science CollectiveA collaboration of artists, students, scientists and anyone else who is seriously curious about the sciences, the Small Science Collective produces small zines and web comics on topics from ants to galaxies. Answering the question: what life does science live outside the laboratory and how can it be shared, created, and questioned in the everyday by everyone?
- QZAP Zine ArchiveThe 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.
General Zine Archives
- Sherwood Forest Zine LibraryThe Sherwood Forest Zine Library is a lending library of over 2500 zines in central Austin. Its Virtual Zine Library contains hundreds of free downloadable pdfs and links to online readable zines.
- Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing (DAAP)The Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing (DAAP) is an interactive, user-driven, searchable database of artists’ books and publications, that acts as a hub to engage with others.
- Papercut Zine LibraryThis is a collection of virtual zines that are available online as PDFs or other digital versions from PZL's digital library. PZL is a free, volunteer-run browsing library in Cambridge, MA with a collection of 16,000+ zines & independent media.
- Zines on the Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. This is a collection of zines that can be found on the Archive. They cover a wide range of topics with many focused on politics, art, creative writing, and personal theory.
- Zines on IssuuIssuu is an industry-leading digital publishing platform. This is a collection of zines published on their site.