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Bird's Nest Zine Library is an independent community zine library based inside Spark Central in Spokane, Washington, offering a browsable collection of zines, chapbooks, and minicomics. A charming grassroots cultural institution, the site provides hours, address, and ways to support this unique community resource.

Nice Marmot is a thoughtful personal blog by a U.S. Navy veteran who weaves together firsthand military history, current events, and geopolitical commentary with a distinctly lived-in perspective. Posts draw on the author's own service experience, including time aboard USS Stephen W. Groves during the tanker war in the Persian Gulf, making for unusually grounded and personal writing.

A curated LibGuide from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library that compiles digital zine archives, lending libraries, and artist collectives into one organized reference hub. It covers everything from activist zines and science-fiction fanzines to POC and queer zine collections, making it a rich starting point for researchers, educators, and zine enthusiasts alike.

The Iranian is a long-running English-language publication founded by Jahanshah Javid in 1995, covering news, culture, and commentary about Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Its archive spans from 1995 to 2021, preserving decades of features, essays, and contributor work that document Iranian life and geopolitics across multiple eras.

The official fanzine site for Tamworth FC, a grassroots football club, offering back issues of '4 Bleats to the Baah!' spanning over 43 issues produced across more than a decade. Created by dedicated supporters, the site also references a TFC statistics database and beer guides, making it a charming artifact of fan-driven football culture.

Quarantine Zine Club is an archive born out of Melbourne's 2020 lockdown, created to keep the zine community connected during isolation through shared submissions and monthly creative prompts. Hosted by Sticky Institute, the site preserves zines contributed by community members between April 2020 and February 2021, offering a time-capsule snapshot of grassroots creative expression during the pandemic.

This is a Magazine (about nothing) is an eclectic online publication from 2001 featuring contributors, curated compendia, and a live drawing tool called liveDraw. Its playful self-described identity as a magazine 'about nothing' suggests a creative, art-and-culture zine with a collaborative editorial spirit.

Antiquated Future is a small press and zine shop based in Portland with an extensive links page connecting visitors to indie bookstores, record shops, zine distributors, and zine culture resources across the US. The links section serves as a curated directory of the underground publishing ecosystem, from Quimby's Books in Chicago to Stolen Sharpie Revolution and Broken Pencil zine archives.

The EBABZ Digital Zine Library is a curated collection of free and purchasable zines hosted by the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, featuring over 100 works from independent creators on topics ranging from mental health and politics to art and cooking. A rich archive of grassroots publishing, it offers direct PDF downloads or links to view and purchase each zine, celebrating the DIY spirit of Bay Area zine culture.

Created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, Zine Bakery is a richly catalogued collection of hundreds of free zines focused on social justice, feminist tech, digital humanities, disability justice, and LGBTQIA+ topics. The site doubles as a scholarly research project, complete with dataset building, zine visualization tools, and librarianship resources, making it a unique intersection of activism and academic zine culture.