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Books About Zines

Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics from 1976 to the Present Day by Roger Sabin & Teal Triggs
ISBN: 1899866477
Publication Date: 2000
An authoritative guide to zines and alternative comics, Below Critical Radar traces the rise of zines from the end of the 1960s era underground press to the start of the Internet publishing boom.
The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe by Chip Rowe
ISBN: 0805050833
Publication Date: 1997
A major zine and ezine resource guide, The Book of Zines includes information on zine making, legal issues, and distribution, along with interviews, a zine history, directories, and articles.
The Factsheet Five Zine Reader: The Best Writing from the Underground World of Zines by R. Seth Friedman
ISBN: 0609800019
Publication Date: 1997
This collection of zine extracts comes from Factsheet Five, perhaps the leading authority on zines. Along with a brief, informative history of zines, the Factsheet Five Zine Reader anthologizes 73 extracts from almost as many zines.
Fanzines: The DIY Revolution by Teal Triggs
ISBN: 0811876926
Publication Date: 2010
Spanning the history of the zine from early experimentation with underground presses to contemporary zines and ezines, with an emphasis on graphic design, this illustrated compendium showcases the best, most thought provoking, and strangest fanzines ever produced.
Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncombe
ISBN: 1934620378
Publication Date: 1997
One of the first academic books on the topic of zines, Notes from Underground is the most frequently cited source for zine history. perhaps more than any other work, Notes from Underground is essential to any research into zines.
Zines in Third Space:Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric by Adela C. Licona
ISBN: 9781438443737
Publication Date: 2012
Zines in Third Space develops third-space theory with a practical engagement in the subcultural space of zines as alternative media produced specifically by feminists and queers of color.

Articles about Zines

These are the most helpful databases to search in for scholarly articles about zines.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) contains databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies. It includes CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
GenderWatch
Concurrent user limit: 12
GenderWatch is a database of diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. It contains archival material, dating back to 1970. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides page images of ebooks, ebook chapters, and back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to current publication. It also offers millions of high-quality ArtStor images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world.
LGBTQ+ Life
LGBTQ+ Life provides indexing and abstracts of worldwide literature on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography is a database of citations to critical documents on folklore, language, linguistics, and literature, including articles from journals, monographs, collections & reference works.