Zines: Find Zines

A guide to making, finding and using zines.

Local Zine events, communities, libraries

WNY Book Arts Center
Located in Downtown Buffalo, the WNY Book Arts Center hosts workshops open to the public on zine making, printmaking, book binding and more.
Buffalo Zine Fest
Hosted at the WNY Book Arts Center, the Buffalo Zine Fest brings together zinesters from around the region every August.
Gutter Pop Comics
This comic book store in Buffalo carries a collection of zines and mini-comics.
Buffalo State Butler Library
Butler Library at Buffalo State has a zine collection that is non-circulating, but can be viewed in the library.
Queer Zest Zine Fest
While this zine fest is entirely online, it's organized by some zinesters from Western NY. There's also a Discord server you can join to connect with others in the community.

These libraries hold zines in many formats—printable zines as PDFs, digital zines hosted on platforms like Canva, Issuu, or Flipsnack, and more.

Beware: As zines are self-published, broken links abound in online zine libraries.

Sherwood Forest Zine Library
Hundreds of free downloadable PDFs and links to online readable zines, listed by topic.
Small Science Collective Zine Library
Printable zine collection on science-related topics.
POC Zine Project
A project aimed at making zines by people of color easy to find, distribute and share.
Papercut Zine Library
Hosted on LibraryThing.org, this collection includes 381 zines with digital copies available and can be navigated by topic.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive hosts a collection of 90,000+ digitized zines.
Queer Zine Archive Project
A project to preserve queer zines.

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