A very happy International Zine Libraries Day (July 21st) to all zine libraries and librarians around the world!!! 🥳 As is tradition, if you can, please honor this day by bringing the zine librarian in your life a donut or other sweet treat to celebrate the work and play that they do! 🍩

We are incredibly grateful to be the recipient of one of this year's Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grants. About a year ago we ran out of space to store all of the queer zines that have been donated or acquired by our archive, and this grant's funding will be going to rectify that. #circleaarchivists

Agency@anarchistagency.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us in celebrating the 2026 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant recipients! This is the 4th year that Agency and @anarchist-studies.bsky.social have partnered to award grants to projects that seek to make anarchist ideas more accessible to broad audiences. More: anarchistagency.com/jen-angel-an...

www.peoplenewspapers.com/news/2026/07... Reminder that Tuesday is International Zine Library Day. Bring your zine librarian vegan doughnuts. It's tradition. I don't make the rules.* *okay but me and my friends did invent the day

Preston Royal Library to Host Zines Workshop

`On Tuesday, July 21, from 2-3 p.m., the Preston Royal Branch of the Dallas Public Library will host a workshop about the history of zines and how to create them.` What are zines? Zines (pronounced ze...

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The legendary Roberta Gregory joins the podcast to talk about BITCHY!: The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken, a collection of her classic comics from Fantagraphics.

Comic Book Club Bonus: Roberta Gregory

The legendary Roberta Gregory joins the podcast to talk about BITCHY!: The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken, a collection of her classic comics from Fantagraphics.

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Up the Academy – From the Punked Out Files of The Queer Zine Archive Project #4 is the newest edition of our ”research publication” zine that explores scholarship and research about queer zines done by folks working at or visiting QZAP. Available here: gittings.qzap.org/qzap-swag/up...

It’s wild when libraries embrace and celebrate punk zine collections. I love to see it!

DC Public Library@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · last mo.

🎸 DC Punk Archive is back on the rooftop this week! MLK Library kicks off the 12th season of live rooftop shows marking 50 years of punk in the U.S. Free, all-ages shows all summer bringing together fans and the DMV punk community. https://bit.ly/3YppyKm

We're back with a Zine of the Gay! This time June is talking about Oi Boy! No.7 from 1993 and the lost art of letter writing in zines. gittings.qzap.org/digging-thro...

Tomorrow begins International Zine Month 2026! @alexwrekk.bsky.social, creator of IZM, has posted her annual promo poster, along with an accessible text list over at stolensharpierevolution.org/internationa... July 21 is Int'l Zine Library Day! Bring your favorite zine librarians donuts 📓🍩

We were reminded over the weekend that the Dirtybird 96 Queercore Festival happened 30 years ago in San Francisco! Check out Larry-bob's website chronicling the bands, films and venues of a bi-gone era: holytitclamps.com/dirtybird/

we're super stoked to note that #alaac26 coincides with Pride this year, and we really hope that folks heading to @zinelibraries.bsky.social Zine Pavilion also take the opportunity to go to the Chicago Dyke March! We're at both (in spirit 👻)

Our friends at Laughing Grackle Zine Distro are seeking submissions of quarter-size zines to add to their new-to-them spinner rack. Quarter-size here is 4.25"x5.5", or ¼ U.S. Letter-sized paper

Part of teaching about queer zines and queer history is talking about the affair between Secret Heart Ken and Earring Magic Ken in the mid 1990s. This officially licensed post card was produced in 1994, just one year after Ken came out. Happy Pride, Y’all

Holy Shit! QZAP friend @sheerspite.bsky.social has zinified Teleny by Oscar Wilde. Once censored as smutty smut, now punk as fuck!

sheer spite press@sheerspite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

realized anything in the public domain can be a zine and i am drunk with power!!!!

I’m looking for additional adjunct work for the fall if anyone’s departments are hiring (nyc)— I have taught extensively in comics making and comics studies, history, media studies, gender studies, and writing (both composition and creative). Pass your tips? 🙏🏼

This is coming up this weekend! Finally!!! Happy queer pride and happy queer wrath month.

QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project@qzap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are super excited to announce that we’re collaborating with our friends at SEEN and Cactus+ to bring The Lollipop Generation by one of the pioneers of Queercore, filmmaker, artist and zinester G.B. Jones, back to Milwaukee.

Cool show opens 5 Jun at the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in Central London, UK. Queer as Comics features work by @rachaelhouse.bsky.social and others. qbcentre.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Queer as comics | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

We are the UK’s first and only charity for illustration - art that communicates stories and ideas - founded by illustrator Quentin Blake.

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A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of talking with Maira on the Long Arm Stapler podcast. www.buzzsprout.com/2532068/epis...

This Weds May 20th, attend a free webinar about hosting zine programming in your library! "Cut, Paste, Create: Designing Memorable Zine Workshops" will include tips for running the most exciting, accessible, & engaging zine programs possible. washstatelib.libcal.com/event/16793329 📚 #zines

Cut, Paste, Create: Designing Memorable Zine Workshops

Recently within the LIS field there has been increased interest in zines, zine libraries, and zine creation programs. Zines are an exciting way to encourage patrons’...

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We are super excited to announce that we’re collaborating with our friends at SEEN and Cactus+ to bring The Lollipop Generation by one of the pioneers of Queercore, filmmaker, artist and zinester G.B. Jones, back to Milwaukee.

New Zine of the Gay!! This time Rowan wrote about Raptor Fancy out of southern California from the 2010s (and finished their BFA in the process!!* Go Rowan!) gittings.qzap.org/raptor-jesus/ #raptorfancy #zineofthegay #gaydinosaurs *unrelated to ZotG

Black Zine Fair returns to New York City on Saturday, May 9, 2026 (11am-6pm): blackzinefair.org The fair features 100+ tablers, 10 workshops, a reading room curated by writer/educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed, a take-a-zine-leave-a-zine station, a zine-making station & more! Spread the word! #zines

I made a new Public Collectors postcard! The text is extracted from something I posted here about 6 months ago. The design came to me in a dream (or night of bad sleep). Mail them to friends who need a creative nudge to self-publish. They are 4 for $3.00 from halfletterpress.com/leave-a-reco...

We're back after a busy couple of weeks with a new Zine of the Gay post! This week Erica wrote about Hello Pussy #1, a multi-lingual zine from 2003 that explores sex, gender and Hello Kitty. gittings.qzap.org/hello-pussy/

ANNOUNCING! COMIX LAB with JOHN P. and LYNDA B.!!! ONE-DAY COMICS WORKSHOP with John Porcellino and Lynda Barry Saturday May 30, 2026 10 am to 4 pm Madison, Wisconsin (Exact class location revealed upon enrollment) No Experience, No Problem! This class is for anyone and everyone! 1/3 -->

We're working on getting our shit together a whole week ahead of time this year! Come visit @chrisqzap.bsky.social and @tea-spo0n.bsky.social who will be tabling for us this year while M is at UMD w/ @zinelib.bsky.social.

Chicago Zine Fest@chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Milwaukee Zine Fest is happening Saturday April 18th! We'll see you on the train up to MKE! 🚆 #zines #MKEZineFest #MKEZineFest2026

I'm moderating a panel with my ZFF @miloblue.bsky.social from the @qzap.bsky.social, @jrdarchivist.bsky.social of the DC Punk Archive and students Diya Shah & Alexa Boltaz who edit a campus zine. It's at UMD on Sat 4/18. Join us! We'll talk about important stuff that makes you feel good, not bad.

While zines have been made by folks in an ongoing movement of self-publishing since the late 1970s and are (sub)culturally relevant always, somehow they've been "making a comeback" in the last year or two. 🙄

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

🌻Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest hosted by ZINEmercado and @newberrylibrary.bsky.social on May 16 at The Newberry!🌻 www.newberry.org/calendar/zin...

Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest

Join ZINEmercado and the Newberry Library for a Zine Fest showcasing Indigenous artists.

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Oh, HAY!! It's time for another Zine of the Gay! This week Erica is looking at just a few of the many 8 page mini-zines that we have in the collection. gittings.qzap.org/small-but-mi...

Cool to see this in print! I contributed Chapter 11 From Mutiny to Community: Establishing Best Practices for Queer Zine Archives. Thanks to editors Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell for inviting me to write!

University of Toronto Press@uoftpress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory