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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)!

Buying Zines

Interested in starting your own personal zine collection? Check out these shops for cool titles:

  • Printed Matter
    • Founded in 1976, Printed Matter, Inc. is the world’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books and related publications.

  • Brown Recluse Zine Distro

    • Brown Recluse is a zine distro for queer and trans folks who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color.

  • Atomic Books

    • An independent bookstore in Baltimore, MD focusing on indie comics and small press.

  • Quimby's

    • Quimby's is an independently owned bookstore that sells independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. We favor the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and the lowbrow.

  • Ooga Booga

    • Ooga Booga started in 2004 as a tiny shop in Chinatown Los Angeles specializing in independent art, books, music, and clothing.

  • Art Metropole

    • Art Metropole is a non-profit visual arts centre with a focus on contemporary art in formats predisposed to circulation and dissemination: artists’ books and art publications, video, audio, electronic media, and multiples.

  • The Concern Newsstand

    • the concern newsstand is a curated e-commerce book & zine store based in Chapel Hill, NC.

  • Other Books

    • Bookshop and collaborative space organized by Seite Books and Kaya Press. We carry new and used books, comics, and zines. The selection has an emphasis on literature in translation, POC creators in both literature and art, alternative comics, international comics and art books, independent presses, POC history, and the Other in related contexts.

  • Dale Zine

    • Dale Zine, established 2009 in Miami, is an independent printer and publisher with the goal of giving a platform to multimedia artists and designers.

  • Bluestockings

    • Bluestockings Cooperative is a worker-owned community space and bookstore guided by the principles of abolition feminism, solidarity, and transformative justice practices.

  • Downtown Books & News

    • Purveyors of used & rare books in Asheville, North Carolina.

 

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