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All About Zines

Learn about what zines are, how to make one yourself, and where to look at zines in Western Massachusetts (and beyond)!

Online Zine Collections

Here's where to view zines online!

  • 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.

  • Sherwood Forest Zine Library
    • The Sherwood Forest Zine Library has hundreds of free downloadable zines and links to online zines. Our goal is to host and provide access to information, stories, and voices that are often buried in the mainstream media. Our collection ranges from art, poetry, and fiction to political theory, social issues, and historical discussion, and everything in between! We try to update regularly, so check back often as new zines are being submitted to us daily!

  • Papercut Zine (Virtual) Library
    • This is a collection of zines that are available online as PDFs or other digital versions.

  • Quarantine Public Library
    • Quarantine Public Library is a repository of books made by artists. The works published here are for anyone to freely download, print and assemble—to keep or give away.

  • Sticky Institute Online Zine Library
    • This online zine library is a collection of zines donated by zinemakers from around the world. Take some time and have a browse at your leisure. It’s the online equivalent of browsing the shelves at Sticky Institute.

  • Black Photo Booth

    • Activist Mariame Kaba put together her collection of found images of Black people visiting photo booths.

-> Did we miss your favorite? Email librarians@nmhschool.org and we'll add it to the list!