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Pratt Institute Libraries hosts this curated guide to digital zine collections, pointing researchers and enthusiasts toward archives like the Queer Zine Archive Project, POC Zine Project, and Booklet Library. It covers a remarkably broad range of zine subjects from activism and feminism to punk, comics, and poetry, making it a strong starting point for anyone exploring zine culture online.

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.

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.

An archived message from the Nettime mailing list, this page preserves the original 1995 call for the first net.time meeting, a landmark gathering that gave birth to one of the internet's most influential forums for net criticism and digital cultural politics. Posted by Geert Lovink, the document is historically significant as the earliest known mention of the nettime mailing list, connecting art, theory, and internet culture through events like the Venice Biennale.

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.

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is a community organization dedicated to preserving and archiving queer zines, with this particular page showcasing their SWAG store featuring buttons, t-shirts, and zines with slogans like 'Read. Write. Resist!' and 'Queer Space Communism.' A labor of love for queer DIY print culture, QZAP combines archival activism with a small merch shop to support their mission of collecting and celebrating queer zinester history.

Stolen Sharpie Revolution, maintained by Alex Wrekk since 2002, is the definitive DIY guide to zines and zine culture, covering everything from making your first zine to academic research on the medium. The site complements the physical book of the same name by listing zine distros, zine fests, and international zine events for newcomers and seasoned zinesters alike.

1312 Press is an anarchist zine distro operating out of Occupied Coastal Salish Territories, publishing and distributing printable zines focused on anti-fascism, anti-colonialism, and anti-police politics. The catalog includes titles covering topics like antifascist skinhead history, Indigenous land defense at Standing Rock, settler colonialism, and resistance to grand juries, with many available for both reading online and printing.

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.

Blue Backspace is a small independent publication run by Jillian Caulfield and Quint Iverson, covering games, music, books, film, and television through personal essays and criticism. Hand-coded in HTML as an undergraduate thesis project, the site has a charming update log format and a growing archive of thoughtful long-form pieces.