FANZINES

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Library-Zine Zone

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Photo of the Zine Zone zine library at Jacksonville Public Library. Full details on their website. The library hosts monthly Zinester Meetups from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month (during Art Walk) at the Main Library. There's also a Zine Collab Drop-In with the Ex Libris Zine Guild from 6 to 8 p.m. on Mondays at Murray Hill Branch Library (if you would like to participate in a Zine Swap, be sure to take a copy of one of your original zines for trading). 📍 Zine Zone Location: Zine Collection First Floor Main Library Jacksonville Public Library 303 N. Laura Street Jacksonville FL 32202 United States

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Greensboro Zine Fest takes place in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States on 25th & 26th of July, 2026 (from 12pm to 4pm). 📍 Location: One Rep 207 S Westgate Dr. Suite A, Greensboro, NC 27407 North Carolina, United States The Greensboro Zine Fest is held annually on the last Sunday of July, which happens to be International Zine Month. This year is its tenth anniversary! Learn more about it on its website.

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Fanzine Friday!- The Big Takeover (issue #21, December 1986)

I don't know if this was the first issue of Jack Rabid's Big Takeover, but it was definitely one of the first ones that I got. 

...and it is still going! Jack and his crew just published the latest issue which looks much different than this (now it's glossy, mostly color and 200 pages).

This one was photo copied (maybe offset printed) and 22 pages and you see the bands on the cover (bands that Jack still writes about to this day). 

In those 22 pages it's crammed to the gills with reviews, both records and live shows, and plenty of photos as well (in fact there's a pic of the Milo of the Descendents from their show at City Gardens in July of 1986....that I was at...it was first time I saw them). 

Jack's intelligence, knowledge, wit and sheer enthusiasm has always come through in his writing, and nothing has changed in the past 40 years. 

Oh,and you can still order the old back issue of the Big T. just go to the website below and see the treasure trove (and a photo of Felt!)!

www.bigtakeover.com

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Zinester @alexwrekk's annual poster for International Zine Month is now live!

2026 features 31 ideas for making zines and zine-related activities; one for each day of July, as well as a handful of zine-y dates to remember across the year.

You can download high-res versions of the poster here (in case you want to print and distribute it) and visit Alex's site to find out more about the poster and International Zine Month.

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‘You Should Totally Shave Your Head’ is a zine full of useful advice by zinester Kit (@butch4prints), a repeat midnight buzz cut enthusiast. It includes pros / cons, info on the right types of tools, advice on different styles and inspirational imagery. Download it here (it's free or you can tip).

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Zine Folk NC is a day-long celebration of zines, small press comics & print media taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States on September 26, 2026. More details on their website.

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When I visited The French Art Shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa (New Zealand), they didn’t have any zines for sale, BUT they did have a Take A Zine, Leave A Zine box.

Such a brilliant idea!

They were also gearing up to launch their Lucky Drop Zine Machine (a zine vending machine, similar to the one found in Auckland’s City Library. It now looks like this shop has closed, but I’ll try to find out where the zine machine is.

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'Spells For Anti-Fascist Witches' is a mini zine featuring multiple spells for anti-fascist witches that will be helpful now and for the years ahead. Buy a copy here.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It's the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared... ✍🏼 - Voltaire

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Probably one of the most beautiful zine fest posters I've seen in a while: the poster for Olympia Zine Fest 2026 by illustrator Robin Winwood.

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'How Amazon Powers ICE' is a mini infozine by Charlie T tea, which explains how Amazon's cloud computing services support ICE and other organisations, as well as powering the genocide of Palestinians. You can download a copy for free here (incudes folding instructions). Please download, print, share and distribute.

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'FUCK AI MAKE ZINES' badge by our brilliant friends at Pen Fight. Buy them here (available in two sizes) ✂️

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from the zine i'm currently working on, tentatively titled "HOUSEDOG", a compilation of sketchbook art, original poems, and mini essays, themed around queerness, gender, and leather.

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'THIS ZINE WAS MADE ON COMPANY TIME' is a 16-page mini zine by Seven (@arcadiiian) about why you should steal company time... ✂️ Buy it here or tip them.

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'Raptor Fancy' is a zine from the 2010s made in Southern California, United States. Issue 1 compiled Raptor Jesus memes, while Issue 2 expanded into more presidential-style imagery. Read more about this zine on Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) here.

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Moonbow 11 Zine 🦊

16 pages | Quarter size | Perzine

Diary-ish writing, notes, mini zine review, drawings, and other tiny musings.