This is your one-stop guide to zines at St. Louis Public Library and beyond!
This guide is a tie-in with The Zine & Minicomic Collection at Central Library, the primary—though not the only—place to find zines at SLPL. While the collection has both zines and minicomics, this guide primarily focuses on zines.
📖 New book alert — new to SLPL, at least. For those interested in an academic look at zines make by women and girls, check out Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (2009) by Alison Piepmeier. See our Resources page for more info and other books about zines.
💐 Two updated books from Microcosm Publishing have arrived. Notes From Underground by Stephen Duncombe, originally published in 1997, is now in its fourth edition, with a new forward from "farmer-zinester" Emma Alice Johnson. Make a Zine! has made it to a fifth edition and features a new forward from St. Louis's own Ymani Wince.
Updated Oct 23, 2025.