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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.

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.

Ronan Jouchet's 'blag' features weekly roundups of curated links spanning music discoveries, tech commentary, geopolitics, and cultural oddities from his life in Montreal. Each post is a personal digest mixing Bandcamp embeds, Kottke finds, and bilingual (French/English) reads that reflect a curious, wide-ranging mind.

Common Pest is a personal creative hub by a maker who goes by the same name, hosting self-produced zines, music logs, and various creative projects while learning HTML and CSS from scratch. The site features a charming bat-filled illustrated tree as its navigation, a blog, and a music section covering artists like Tears for Fears, the Deftones, and Twenty One Pilots.

Alligatorzine is a Belgian alternative press e-zine featuring an impressive roster of over 100 international poets, writers, and artists including Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Cecilia Vicuna. Running for 252 issues, it blends text, image, and multimedia in a resolutely non-mainstream, non-profit spirit.

The Book of Zines, edited by Chip Rowe, is a comprehensive directory covering every facet of zine culture including archives, libraries, distribution, legal issues, history, and interviews with zine editors. Running since 1996 and paired with a published book available on Kindle and other platforms, it serves as an essential reference hub for zine makers and enthusiasts alike.

Aardvark Daily is New Zealand's longest-running online daily news and commentary publication, now in its 30th year, run by Bruce Simpson covering science, technology, and current events with a distinctly Kiwi perspective. Visitors will find opinionated columns on topics ranging from energy policy and fuel scams to computing history, making it a veteran voice in independent tech journalism.

Lunaseeker Press is the zine catalog of Australian creator Zachary Kai, showcasing a growing collection of handmade mini and quarter-size zines covering topics from fantasy book recommendations to gardening, travel, sci-fi, and personal essays. The zines are held in notable collections including the Glasgow Zine Library and the National Library of Australia, and are available through several independent distros.

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.

TAZ-LAZ is a community zine distribution network that guides people in setting up their own free zine boxes in public spaces, similar to little free libraries. The site covers everything from choosing weatherproof box hardware to maintaining and restocking locations, making it a practical resource for grassroots zine sharing.