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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.

Lauren's blog Flotisserie is a thoughtful micro-blog covering media criticism, AI ethics, book culture, and the state of digital discourse. Posts link out to notable reads while adding sharp personal commentary on topics like LLM misuse, influencer credibility, and the erosion of authentic intellectual engagement.

A research guide from Olympic College Libraries compiling major physical and digital zine archives, from the Barnard Zine Library to the Queer Zine Archive Project and the Library of Congress Zine Web Archive. Students and researchers exploring zine culture will find curated links to hundreds of self-published works covering politics, art, creative writing, and counter-culture movements.

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.

A library research guide from Salem State University created by zine librarian Dawn Stahura, covering everything a beginner needs to start making zines, from choosing a topic to selecting formats, templates, and printing methods. The guide includes mini-zine tutorials in English and Spanish, Canva and Google Slides templates, a student zine collection, and resources for teaching with zines in an academic setting.

Twilight Times is an award-winning digital ezine dedicated to speculative fiction, poetry, and fantasy artwork, publishing online since July 1998 under editor Lida E. Quillen. Visitors can browse quarterly issues featuring short stories, poems, and illustrated fiction from contributors spanning contemporary fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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.

Mothership Zeta is a quarterly digital science fiction and fantasy magazine edited by Mur Lafferty, publishing original fiction, nonfiction, and reviews for $2.99 per issue. Part of the Escape Artists family of genre podcasts and publications, it features thoughtful speculative fiction spanning sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and the weird.

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.

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.