What is a Zine?
Zines (pronounced “zeens”) and self-publishing have a long and rich history in the United States, from pamphlets on democracy like Common Sense published by Thomas Paine in 1776, to fan fiction sci-fi magazines (or zines) from the 1950s, to underground zines documenting the punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s. The 1990s saw an explosion of zine publishing, with everything from poetry and personal writing, to food and record reviews, to zines about work, cats, health, feminism, race and racism, and everything in between. What all zines have in common is that their writers have something important to say that they would like to share with others. Zines are artistic, personal, political, cultural or experimental small-circulation self-published work of original text and images.
Find Zines Online:
Sherwood Forrest Online Zine Library
Zines to the Future Zine Archive
Papercuts Virtual Library
Pinterest Collection of Digital Zines