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Kalamazoo Zine Fest

Since 2002, Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Resource for Zines and Zine Culture has been the go-to guide for all things zine related. This little red book is stuffed with information about zines. Things you may know, stuff you don’t know and even stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know! Stolen Sharpie Revolution contains a cornucopia of information about zines and zine culture for everyone from the zine newbie to the experienced zinester to the academic researcher.

This is the 6th and latest edition of this book, published with Silver Sprocket in February 2020

Zine World: A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press was a zine review zine. Published from 1996 to 2012, Zine World offered reviews and information about zines, comics, self-published books, chapbooks, and other DIY stuff. Often called the best review zine published in the U.S., Zine World was an extensive guide to zine culture.

It is sometimes said that science is the most democratic and robust forms of knowledge.  But what life does science live outside the laboratory and how can it be shared, created, and questioned in the everyday by everyone?  A collaboration of artists, students, scientists and anyone else who is seriously

curious about the sciences, the Small Science Collective produces small zines and web comics on topics from ants to galaxies.

Read online, download the zines, distribute, make your own!

Free one-page artist’s books to print and collect at home

Browse our collection to find a one-sheet artist’s book you love

Turn your printout into a book by following our simple tutorial

Enjoy your new book—and print more to create your own library

The items in the Zine Library at the Trenton Free Public Library circulate, although most of them can be read in one sitting in the Poetry Cafe where they are located. Have a seat, read a few, and be inspired to create some of your own. We also have a non-circulating “Jer-Zines” Collection that can be used in the Trentoniana Department.

We’d love to share your zines – contact us if you’d like to contribute to the collection. We have a simple form here that you can use. You can also reach us via email zines@trentonlib.org or follow us on Instagram @trenton.makes.zines

We here at The Word are into the finer things in life - sports, cats, sex, food and things like that.  We like it light and airy and let the other distro's out there carry the heavy load.  We are also all about other DIY related projects.  Things like music, art, pins and patches. Submissions of all kinds of welcome just see the contact page for e-mail or snail mail addresses.