~ Early Web Links ~

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.

ZineLibraries.info is the home of the Zine Librarians Interest Group, a collective dedicated to sharing resources, expertise, and best practices for building and maintaining zine collections in libraries and archives worldwide. Founded in 2007, the site offers guides on cataloging, collection policy, shelving, workshops, and events like the Zine Librarians unConference and International Zine Library Day.

The Olympia Zine Library is the online presence of a physical zine collection housed at Last Word Books & Press in Olympia, Washington, featuring posts about zine history, resources, reviews, and links to zine distros and infoshops. Contributors like Sky Cosby curated articles, interviews, and reading lists celebrating DIY print culture and underground publishing.

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.

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 Elke Zobl, the Grrrl Zine Network is a comprehensive international directory of grrrl, lady, queer, and trans folk zines, distros, and DIY projects spanning dozens of countries and multiple languages. The site also offers extensive resources on third-wave feminism, cyberfeminism, zine history, academic writing, and how-to guides for zine creation.

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.

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.

Sheryl Vernon is a mom-zine creator whose work covers topics like local Minneapolis news, parenting a teenager, and school refusal, available through Scope Creep Press and a network of zine libraries. Her personal site doubles as a hub for finding and buying her zines, with a retro-styled blog and guestbook adding a nostalgic early-web charm.

A retired archive from disobey.com, this page preserves two defunct early-web projects: a fiction aggregator called Collected Works and Low Bandwidth, once the largest email ezine database on the internet. The downloadable tar.gz archives offer a fascinating glimpse into late 1990s DIY publishing culture and the fragile, hand-maintained communities that surrounded early online zines.