/r/zinesters
r/zines is dead but I thought we could benefit from a place to talk about zines we are making and reading! This sidebar will also feature resources for zine makers, including websites, libraries and reading lists.
Redditor Zines:
Potato Maze submitted by tomorrowboy
Drawings from '13 Ways of Looking at a Record Player' submitted by makatack
/r/zinesters
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Zine Discord Servers
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WOMEN ONLY Join my Zine Grrrls discord group!
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Submission Call: Carrier Pigeon Quarterly, A Guide to Zine and Comix Releases
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Selfless Lovers - Spring Issue
Selfless Lovers is a modern-age comic book-sized zine clocking in at 28 pages (including the covers). The zine's mascot characters are a magical girl named Guillotina and her demon friend, Kismet. She was part of the Prism Blades, a magical team that fought monsters. After falling through a portal, she becomes trapped here in our dimension- specifically, Detroit. Her mission now is to punish those responsible for all the suffering in the world.
It will also feature contributors' articles, art, and fiction, handy advice for civil disobedience, deep thoughts on our world, horoscopes, silly personal ads, comics, memes, and even poetry.
We're also looking for contributors! DM me if interested.
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Having Problems with Download Links/QR Codes :(
Hey everyone :D So, I'm making a mini zine and I'm entirely done with the actual zine part, but I want a download link & QR Code on the back page, but I can't figure it out. I know there's websites like imgbb and catbox to upload images to a link, but I can't put the link of the download on the actual zine image if I don't know what the randomized link will be yet (same issue with QR Codes).
How do you guys go about putting a download link/QR on your zines??
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my newest zine issue - up for uk trades!!!
hey! for the last year, i've been working on a quarterly zine, and i've just released my fourth issue. it's personal, it's political, it's practical, and i keep costs low so i sell them starting at £1.25! i have also just released a mixtape for grrl talk 2025, so if you are interested in my zines, or an hour of female/non-binary fronted punk inspired music, check out my insta - rosie.zines or my website - rosieszines.bigcartel.com. i am also up for uk based trades!! either way, i would so appreciate if you checked out my zines (i also have a couple minizines about being queer and autistic) or shared this to someone who might be interested. dm me on insta to trade!!
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New bookstore in town is going to have a zine library because of me!!
Just a happy little thing i wanted to share. My town has a new indie bookstore coming in this year, and Ive been in talks with the owner about running craft events together (we met through a community center thing). She looked me up, saw my mini zines on my etsy, and thought they were the coolest! She was asking all about them and i got to tell her some history and culture surrounding zines before suggesting a zine library at the bookstore when it opens.
She was thrilled!!! So now I'm excited to see what ends up in there. I'll also be running zine making workshops at the shop because of this, so im really hoping my town starts it's own little zine culture <3 I just ran a couple zine workshops at the high school too, fingers crossed this momentum keeps up. Zines are the best
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Why You Should Make Junk Zines
Made this of my bf and though u guys might appreciate :))
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Open for submissions: MONSTERS ZINE 5 - THE SCI FI ISSUE
Monsters is a group art and fiction zine dedicated to all things monsters. Issue 5 is open for submissions now. These submissions should be full colour (a first for monsters zine!) and fitting under the theme of Sci Fi (science fiction) whatever that means to you. Whether it’s aliens, strange mutant beasts, dystopia or robots or maybe something else! Be creative. Just make sure it’s monsters!
I am open to submissions from anywhere in the world, submissions of art and comics, short fiction (1000 words or less) home brew table top rpg settings or characters or monsters (limited to 2 a5 pages) poetry, really whatever you would like to submit that fits the theme!
Keep in mind that this zine will be a5 and in a portrait orientation when submitting any images or text that have a particular layout. They should be 300dpi and cmyk colours for ideal printing. Jpg or pdf is fine.
Absolutely no AI generated content will be accepted for this zine.
As I will be funding the production of this zine from my own pocket and colouring printing costs more I am unable to pay any contributors however it is free to submit. Only one submission per person will be accepted. Submissions are open until March 2nd and should be emailed to petatronart@gmail.com. All accepted contributors will be notified by March 5th.
This zine will be launched at the next Brisbane Illustration Fair in April.
If you wanted to have a bit of a look at some of the art and other zines I have made you can check out my instagram (http://www.instagram.com/petatron) or you can check out these posts I have made here on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/zines/comments/1h1hcyz/monsters_and_mushrooms_and_skulls_oh_my/
https://www.reddit.com/r/zinesters/comments/1c54h60/monsters_4_zine/
If you have any more questions do not hesitate to ask!
Please enjoy the little animation I made to post about this as a reel and a TikTok.
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The joy of sending zines I’ve poured so much into to far-off places—I hope it never fades.
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