Zine Project

Zine Project is dedicated to preserving artist zines online and making them available for research and inspiration.

The sheer scope of production makes creating a definitive cannon of art zines impossible. And in addition to this ongoing effort there are many wonderful archives out that focus on various aspects of zine making cultures that we've linked to below.

Preserving zines is a group activity. The sheer scope and amount of zines probably necessitates this approach.

There's something a little antithetical to the idea of cataloging zines. History isn't usually made by people thinking about history, and with zines thats particularly so. Zine makers where too busy connecting with like minded misfits and creating the communities they wanted to be apart of. Zines are also quite tactile which is completely missing online.

It's interesting that even though zines have historically connected weirdos looking for other weirdos. They have survived the internet when finding communities are easier than ever. In fact id suggest zines are more popular today than they've ever been, There subculture status is no longer bonified but the interests in then remains