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Toronto:
OCADU Zine Library
https://ocadu.libguides.com/friendly.php?s=zinelibrary
Arts-based / OCADU is a university / in “special collections”
Seneca Zine Library (Seneca@York Library)
70 The Pond Road
https://library.senecacollege.ca/Zines
Zines do not circulate but patrons are free to browse at their leisure and to use the Zines in the Library.
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street
Has a zine collection; non-borrowing
XPACE Zine Library
303 Lansdowne Avenue
https://www.xpace.info/resources/
Canadian Comics Open Library
986 Bathurst Street
https://www.canadacomicsol.org/
Located a short walk from TZL; large collection of comics including comic zines; use the same catalogue platform as us! Lovely people.
The Beguiling
319 College Street
http://www.beguilingbooksandart.com/
Likely General
389 Roncesvalles Avenue
https://likelygeneral.com/
Secret Planet Print Shop
918 Danforth Avenue
https://www.secretplanet.ca/
Toutoune Gallery/Shop/Studio
998 Bathurst Street
https://mewnette.storenvy.com/
Art Metropole
896 College Street
https://artmetropole.com/
Libraries & Shops Elsewhere in Ontario
Kingston, ON
Blue Heron Books – Kingston, Ontario
https://www.facebook.com/BlueHeronKingston/
Some Online Resources
Arnold, Chloe (2016). A Brief History of Zines. Mental Floss. https://mentalfloss.com/article/88911/brief-history-zines
Exactly as the title says – a brief history of zines with lots of neat facts about the impact of zines on popular culture!
Barnard College Zine Library
https://zines.barnard.edu/
Broken Pencil Magazine
https://brokenpencil.com/
The (Canadian!) magazine for all things zine and DIY culture!
Queer Zine Archive Project
https://archive.qzap.org/
Searchable archive of queer zines dating back to 1974!
Stolen Sharpie Revolution
http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/
“A DIY Resource for Zines and Zine Culture”
Wemakezines
http://wemakezines.com/
An online community for zine makers and readers.
ZineWiki
https://zinewiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
like Wikipedia, but for zines!
The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe http://www.zinebook.com/index.html
Great resource on zines with plenty of references, articles, interviews, zine info and history, and links about zines and e-zines
A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press
http://zineworld.org/documents/Zines101.pdf
Published by Zine World, with information compiled from Matt Holdaway’s A Student Guide to Zines and Alex Wrekk’s Stolen Sharpie Revolution.
Mini-Zine How-To Tutorial
https://tanglecrafts.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mini-zine-pdf.pdf
Some Books
Duncombe, Stephen. Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture. Bloomington, ID, Microcosm Publishing, 2008
Piepmeier, Alison. Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
Watson, Esther and Mark Todd. Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine? Clarion Books, 2006.
Wrekk, Alex. Stolen Sharpie Revolution. Silver Sprocket, 2020.