Zine Distros
The listings below are only as good as the input I receive. I have not had zines distributed by and/or I have not ordered from every distro. I have also not been to every shop to see if they actually sell zines or checked out every zine library to see if they are still in the same location. I need you help to keep these listings accurate. I also need your help to keep these listings growing!
Please let me know of any changes or if you know of a distro, store or library to add!
Also, distros that are already included: get in touch. I’d like to add what languages of zines you carry.
Zine Distros
Stores That Sell Zines
Zine Libraries
Zine Distros North America
Alchemist’s Closet
distro maintained by: Zeraph Dylan Moore
e-mail address: alchemistscloset(AT)gmail.com
Web address: http://www.alchemistscloset.org/
mailing address: 71 Division St., Bangor ME 04401
mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: The Alchemist’s Closet Is A Magickal Zine Store Catering To The Odd Customer & Specializing In Queer, Trans, Feminist, Punk & Anarchist Zines.
Accepts submissions: Yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Queer, trans, feminist, anti-capitalist and punk zines as well as zines that are both political and personal, Pagan, spiritual, occult, sexuality & gender topics, and zines that are not carried by many
Click Clack Distro
Distro maintained by: Nicole
e-mail address: clickclackdistro(AT)gmail.com
Web address: http://clickclackdistro.com
mailing address: PO Box 35501 Richmond, VA 23235 USA
mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: Click Clack Distro exists to put independent press into the hands of readers and to help people gain volume to their voice by providing zine distribution service. Click Clack is committed to carry zines with topics among the personal, political, DIY, How-To, skill sharing, mental health, and health topics as well as anything else that may fit in to alternative living and ideas.
Accepts submissions: Yes, but I can only purchase if I am getting orders!
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Perzines, Health & Wellness
Copy That! Distro
Distro maintained by: Cheyenne Neckmonster
e-mail address: neckmonster(AT)gmail.com
Web address: copythatdistro.wordpress.com
mail order, tabling or both: mail order, occasional tabling
Short description: Copy That! Distro is a zine distro located in central Kentucky. Copy That! strives to be cheap, accessible, and informative.
Accepts submissions: Yes, but I’m kind of picky
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: zines that deal with issues around sexual assault (survivor’s issues, perpetrators and accountability processes, providing support and strategies for dealing with this issue), sexuality (sexual health, safer sex, body image), gender, general health/wellness. I especially value instructional or informative zines, though the occasional personal zine will be offered.
Crabby Media
Distro maintained by: Chris Wrdnrd & Jess Adams
e-mail address: shop(AT)crabbymedia.org
web address: http://crabbymedia.org
mailing address: PO Box 45536, Seattle WA 98145-0536
mail order, tabling or both: Online orders, mail orders, and tabling in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Short description: Crabby Media is an online info/shop for D.I.Y. publishers.
Accepts submissions: Yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Resource materials for zinemakers and D.I.Y. publishers — zines about zines and zine-making techniques, zine history, zine culture and community.
languages: Right now our selections are entirely in English, but we’re glad to consider zines in any language that fit the types of resource zines listed above.
Doris Distro
distro maintained by: Cindy Crabb
Web address: dorisdorisdoris.com
mailing address: pob 29 Athens oh 45701
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: feminist, queer, personal, political, healing, etc.
Accepts submissions: yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: feminist/queer/trans and personal zine
Fluxxii
distro maintained by: Nita
e-mail address: nita@fluxxii.com
Web address: http://fluxxii.com
mailing address: Nita D, 3660 Kent Rd #21, Stow, OH, 44224
mail order, tabling or both: mail order
Short description: Fluxxii is a mental health distro whose goal is to provide access to alternative and personal resources on mental health.
Accepts submissions: always!
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: anything encompassing the broad topic of mental health, perzines, etc.
Gimmie Brains!
distro maintained by: Mae
Web address:Gimmebrains.com
e-mail address: Youreinsanehoney(AT)gmail.com
mailing address: 1346 east san antonio st, apt. 329, san jose, ca 95116
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: Gimme Brains is a distro that supports other zinesters with projects they are passionate about.
Accepts submissions: I’m mostly interested in personal, comics and art zines.
Fight Boredom
distro maintained by: Amber Forrester
e-mail address: amber.norrean(AT)gmail.com
Web address: www.fight-boredom.com
mailing address: 344 rue St-Ferdinand / Montréal, Québec / H4C 2S8 Canada.
mail order, tabling or both: Both.
Short description: Fight Boredom Distro focuses on queer zines, feminist zines, perzines, travel journals, sex work tales, diary comics, cookzines and mental health zines full of secrets and adventures and righteous anger and total sassiness. Read ‘em and then tell yr own story.
Accepts submissions: Yes.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: I’m interested in zines by queers, feminists and weirdos who write about their lives, adventures, activism and more. I’d especially like to stock more zines created in Canada and Québec, and I accept publications written in both English and French.
The Mimi Zine Distro
distro maintained by: Sonia A
e-mail address: mimizinedistro(AT)gmail.com
Web address: mimizinedistro.wordpress.com
mail order, tabling or both: both, mostly mail order through internet,table at political events
Short description: The purpose of this distro is to make zines about reproductive health, self-care, consent, intimate partner abuse, queer politics and feminist theory widely available. It’s also a resource for folks who need information and support. We need to take our bodies and our lives back into our own hands–only we can free ourselves! This distro is here in the spirit of fierce feminist resistance and self-determination.
Accepts submissions: yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: I am very excited to accept new zines for this distro! I am looking for zines on
reproductive health, STI’s, sex, kink, gender-bending, sex work, abortion and abortion alternatives, domestic violence, consent, sexual assault, survivor support, community responses, restorative justice, men overcoming sexism, trans stories, trans health, gender theory, and queer hystory. I am also interested in hearing the personal stories, essays and narratives of folx who do not have straight male privilege–within reason. I’ll print travel narratives and punk house stories if they come from a queer/feminist perspective. The personal IS political, but let’s keep the, “I was drinking a forty on a train” narratives to a minimum, please.
Ms. Valerie Park Distro
e-mail address: msvaleriepark(AT)gmail.com
Web address: www.msvalerieparkdistro.com
mailing address: MVPD PO Box 2645 Olympia, Wa 98507 USA
mail order, tabling or both: Both!
Short description: Zines, music, books, stationary, calendars and planners, handmade odds and ends. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest.
Accepts submissions: We don’t take on a lot of unsolicited things, but we are always open to taking a look. Single physical copies in the mail with suggested wholesale and retail prices.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: We are open to all kinds, but have an affinity for anything that breaks zine norms and explores the possibilities of what a zine can be. Also love zine authors that consider themselves writers as much as they consider themselves zinesters.
Once Upon A Distro
Distro maintained by: Sarah Rose
e-mail address: piratesarah(AT)gmail.com
Web address: http://www.onceuponadistro.com
mailing address: 201 W. Evergreen Ave #1012, Philadelphia, PA 19118
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: Once Upon A Distro is all about sharing stories and building community. While commerce is good too, I’d also really like to bring workshops and readings and talks and events to communities who might not know a lot about what an empowering tool self-publishing can be.
Accepts submissions: Enthusiastically.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Personal zines, zines by queer/trans folks, people of color, cooking zines, zines concerned with feminism and riot grrrl. Zines about music, zines about radical politics. No poetry zines, please. Zines containing hate-speech will be immediately discarded and ignored.
Parcell Press
distro maintained by: Taylor Ball
e-mail address: taylor(AT)parcellpress.com
Web address: www.parcellpress.com
mailing address: P.O. Box 63875, Philadelphia, PA 19147
mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: a longstanding distributor of zines, comics, and all manner of self-published print art, aiming to provide reliable support for creators, a strong selection for readers, and bulk options for libraries and shops.
Accepts submissions: sure
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: unique printing and construction, great writing and illustration, and overall, pieces of printed art that are produced with responsibility, thoughtfulness, care and creativity.
Portland Buttons Works and Zine Distro
distro maintained by: Alex Wrekk and Derek Neuland
e-mail address: portlandbuttonworks@gmail.com
Web address: Portlandbuttonworks.com
mailing address: 5307 N Minnesota Ave
mail order, tabling or both: mailorder, tabling, and a shop.
Short description: Zine and button distro of rad stuff
Accepts submissions: Yes please.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Ones that are not done by jerks.
Roach Motel
distro maintained by: Kristin Roach
email address: info[at]roach-motel[dot]com
Web Address: http://www.roach-motel.com
mailing address: PO Box 1314, Ames, Iowa 50014
distro address: 330 Main Street, #20, Ames, Iowa 50010
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: The Roach Motel is a zine distro based out of the indie boutique Where It\’s At.
Accepts submissions: Yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: We specialize in midwest authored and themed zines + just about anything on diy, gardening, crafting, perzines, comics.
Spit and a Half
distro maintained by: John Porcellino
e-mail address: johnp_kingcat(AT)hotmail (DOT)com
Web address: http://www.spitandahalf.
mailing address: PO Box 142 South Beloit, IL 61080
mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: Underground, small press and self-published comics from all over the world!
Sprout Anarchist Collective
e-mail address: distro(AT)sproutac.org
Web address: http://www.sproutac.org
mail order, tabling or both: Tabling
Short description: An anarchist zine distro focusing on “how to” type zines that help anarchists build strong cultures of resistance and increase our collective skillset. We carry zines on tactics, organizing, collectives, affinity groups, history, etc.
Accepts submissions: Email first.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Anarchist zines, primarily those focusing on “how to” topics.
Stranger Danger Zine Distro
distro maintained by: Heather
e-mail address: strangerdistro(AT)gmail.com
Web address: www.strangerdangerzines.com
mailing address: PO Box 08168 Chicago IL 60608
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: Stranger Danger is a zine distro based out of Chicago that specializes in feminist, queer, & trans zines (most are perzines/personal zines). There are, however, a handful of other types of zines in the catalog — craft zines, interview zines, & even a few comics. As for the history of the distro, Stranger Danger was created in Detroit in 2003 by Jami & Shaun, who passed it on to LB in 2006. At the end of 2010, LB passed it on to Heather. Long live Stranger Danger!
Accepts submissions: yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: feminist, queer, & trans zines
Sweet Candy Distro
distro maintained by: Sage
e-mail address: sweetcandydistro@gmail.com
Web address: http://sweetcandydistro.
mailing address: PO BOX 13201, Olympia, WA 98508
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: Established in June of 2004, Sweet Candy Distro happily resides in Olympia, Washington. The distro carries a large variety of reading material (zines, books, comics, etc), music, and handmade items.
Accepts submissions: yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Personal zines, health issues, DIY, compilations, food zines, poetry & fiction, art zines, parenting zines and zines made by kids & teens.
Things You Say
distro maintained by: Erin H (main distro lady), Mercedes H (mail hauler and kick-ass mom), and Carol (helps fill orders).
e-mail address: erin(AT)zinedistro.com
Web address: http://www.zinedistro.com
mailing address: PO Box 656 / Keyport, NJ 07735
mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: A distro based out of Keyport, NJ that sells over 70 zines and comics, and is consistently updated with new titles.
Accepts submissions: Yes. Please check the website before submitting your project.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Perzines, comics, political zines, DIY zines, and more.
Yggdrasil Distro
Maintained By: Rowan WalkingWolf
Email: walkingwolf(AT)riseup.net
Website: yggdrasildistro.wordpress.com
Mailing Address (subject to change, due to squatting): 5614 NE 14th Street, Portland, OR, 97211
Mail Order, Tabling, Etc.: Mostly tabling. All of my zines are always free, so mail order isn’t exactly the right language. I will mail things to people for free, though, when I have money for postage. All of the zines are also available on the website, and I distro while I travel.
Short Description: (from the website) Begun in 2008, Yggdrasil Distro is an anarchist zine distributor currently based in Oregon. Yggdrasil is dedicated to bringing the reader the finest in D.I.Y. anti-authoritarian literature, and, in the spirit of gift economics, is devoted to doing so without the exchange of money.
Accepts Submissions: Sometimes, but rarely. Usually I’m only interested in submissions when people write me personal emails or messages about projects I’ve done.
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Yggdrasil publishes zines concerning ancestral/primitive skills, primitivist and anarchist theory, feminism, and, on the lighter side of things, roleplaying material, card games, and other nerd-tacular gaming material.
United Kingdom and Ireland
Good Lookin’ South
Distro maintained by: Chris
E-mail address: chris@zinecore.co.uk
Web address: http://www.zinecore.co.uk
Mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: Small DIY distro from Brighton, UK selling zines and books covering everything from punk rock and anarchism to animal rights and vegan recipe zines. Also sells Good Lookin’ South zine.
Accepts submissions: Yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Punk, Anarcho, Vegan, Animal Rights, DIY, Cycling/Critical Mass
marching stars
Maintained By: Lizzy
e-mail address: distro@marchingstars.co.uk
Web address: www.marchingstars.co.uk
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: marching stars is a UK-based zine distro selling lots of lovely zines: perzines, feminist, queer, body image, mental/physical health, racial identity, travel, riot grrrl, craft, fiction, veggie/vegan and other such indescribable zine genres.
Accepts submissions: yes, check the websiteKinds of zines your distro is interested in: Mostly perzines with a feminist/queer slant, but check the website for the full list.
Princesa Pirata Distro
http://princesapiratadistro.
Princesa Pirata is a small queer/anarcha feminist distro with a love for cycling and all kinds of D.I.Y. It’s based in Bristol, G.B. (Europe) at the mo and stocks zines, comix, badges, patches and variety of things made from re-used materials.Princesa Pirata accepts submissions! The distro is interested in autobiographical comix, mental health zines, queer zines, straight edge/queer edge zines, transgender zines, anarcha feminist material, vegan cooking/raw food zines, zines to do with cycling and fixing bicycles.
Pushpin Zines
Distro maintained by: Marceline Smith
e-mail address: hello(AT)pushpinpublishing.co.uk
Web address: www.pushpinzines.co.uk
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: Pushpin Zines is an online zine distro in the UK for zines, e-zines and books, specialising in travel, Japan, kawaii, creativity, illustration and how-tos.
Accepts submissions: yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: Travel, Japan, kawaii, creativity, illustration, how-tos.
Europe
Entes Anomicos(Germany)
Distro maintained by: Carlos Palacios & Nina Palacios
e-mail address: recontrapunk(AT)hotmail.com
Web address: http://www.entesdistro.blogspot.com
mail order, tabling or both: both
Short description: The idea came out after long time doing trades with great people around the world,trying to give the opportunity to everyone to show their work and ideas.
Accepts submissions: yes
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: music zines,perzine,art zines all kind of zine!!!!
Languages: English, Spanish, German
Heavymental Distro
e-mail address: mail(AT)heavymentaldistro.org
web address: www.heavymentaldistro.org
mail order, tabling or both: mail order & tabling
short description: Heavymental is a zine distro from Berlin, Germany. We distribute personal-, howto- and comic zines that are related to queer/feminism.
we accept submissions: yes
kinds of zines your distro is interested in: personal-, howto-, comic and other zines that are related to queer/feminism.
Australia and New Zealand
Take Care
distro maintained by: Emma and Tim
*e-mail address: takecarezines(AT)gmail.com
Web address: takecarezines.org
*mailing address: PO Box 4, ENMORE NSW 2042, Australia
mail order, tabling or both: Both
Short description: Take Care opened on January 1st 2009, is based in Sydney, Australia and stocks zines from everywhere
Accepts submissions: Yes, conditionally – see our site and FAQS for details
Kinds of zines your distro is interested in: We’re mostly interested in zines that explore issues of everyday life, mental health, gender and sexuality, eating, traveling, activism, housing, art, music, work and so forth from radical/DIY/interesting/challenging perspectives.
Australia
Planet Books – 634-636 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia
Polyester Books – 330 Brunswick st, Fitzroy, Victoria
Rocking Horse Records – 245 Albert St Brisbane, Queensland
Smiths Alternative Bookshop - 76 Alinga St. Canberra
Sticky – shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne, Victoria
Canada
ARTSHOP at Galerie Maison Kasini – 372 rue Sainte Catherine Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A2
The Beguiling – 601 Markham Street Toronto, Ontario, M6G 2L7
Lucky’s – 3972 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Regional Assembly of Text - 3934 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
Spartacus Books – 684 E. Hastings St., Vancouver British Columbia V6A 1R1
Toronto Women’s Bookstore – 73 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario
Denmark
Repo Man Records – Fensmarkgade 36, 2200 København
TTC Gallery – Gl. Kongevej 37 ST.TH, 1610 Copenhagen V
Finalnd
Kutikuti -Kangaslantie 2, 0055 Helsinki
Myymala2 -Uudenmaankatu 23 00100 Helsinki
France
Bimbo Tower -5, Passage Saint- Antoine, 75011 Paris
Grand-Guignol – 91 montée de la Grande Côte, Lyon
Le Monte-en-l’air – 2, rue de la Mare 75020 Paris
un regard moderne – 10 Rue Gît le Coeur 75006 Paris
Germany
Druck Dealer – market-Straße 102 – 20357 Hamburg
Neurotital – im Haus Schwarzenberg, Rosenthaler Straße 39, 10178 Berlin
Lockengelöt - Wohlwillstr.20, 20359 Hamburg
Modern Graphics Comics and More – Oranienstraße 22, 10999 Berlin
ProQM – Almstadtstraße 48-50, D-10119 Berlin
SupaLife Kiosk – Raumerstrasse 40, 10437 Berlin
Japan
Irregular Rhythm Asylum – 1-30-12-302 Shinjuku, Tokyo
nagi shokudo – 15-10-103 Uguisu Dani-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Nepal
The Infoshop – c/o S.Rai, PO Box 8975, EPC 4104, Kathmandu, Nepal
New Zealand
Alphabet City – 71 Mt Eden Road, Eden Terrace, Auckland
Matchbox – Level One, 166 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand
United Kingdom
56a Infoshop- 56 Crampton Street London SE17 3AE
Anarchy Records – 213 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FS
Bookart Bookshop – 17 Pitfield St, London N1 6HB
Caribou Caravan- Hopkinson Gallery, 21 Station Street, Nottingham
Cowley Club – 2 London Rd Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4JA
Here Shop-108 Stokes Crof, Bristol, BS1 3RU
United States (by state)
California
Bound Together – 1369 Haight St., San Francisco CA 94117
City Light Books – 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco CA 94133
Modern Times Books – 888 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110
Needles and Pens – 3253 16th St., San Francisco CA 94103
Rock Paper Scissors – 2278 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94621
Skylight Books- 1818 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027
Meltdown Comics – 7522 sunset blvd, la, ca 90046
Vlad the Retailer – 4270 melrose, la, ca
Ooga Booga – 943 North Broadway, ste. 203, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Secret Headquarters – 3817 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026
The Last Bookstore – 453 s. spring st, la, ca 90013
Florida
Wayward Council – 807 W University Ave Gainesville, FL 32803
Illinois
Chicago Comics – 3244 N. Clark St, Chicago IL 60657
Quimby’s – 1854 West North Ave., Chicago IL 60622
Indiana
Boxcar Books – 408 E. 6th St., Bloomington IN 47408
Kansas
Wonder Fair – 803 1/2 Massachusetts St. (Above The Casbah) Lawrence, KS 66044
Louisiana
Iron Rail Bookstore – 511 Marigny St. (at Decatur) New Orleans, LA
Maryland
Atomic Books – 3620 Falls Rd., Baltimore MD 21211
Red Emma’s Bookstore - 800 St. Paul St. Baltimore, MD 21202
Minnesota
BoneshakerBooks – 2002 23rd Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55404
Extreme Noise - 407 W Lake Steet Minneapolis, MN
New Mexico
Astro Zombies – 3100 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
New York
Blue Stockings Books – 172 Allen St., New York NY 10002
North Carolina
Internationalist Books – 405 West Franklin Street Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Regulator Bookshop – 720 Ninth St, Durham, NC 27705
Ohio
Shake It Records – 4156 Hamilton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45223
Oregon
Artifacts – 202 Cascade Ave # A Hood River, OR 97031-2056
In Other Words – 14 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR 97211
Powell’s Books – 1005 W. Burnside, Portland Oregon 97209
Portland Button Works 1322 North Killingsworth, Portland, Oregon 97217
***HIATUS*** Reading Frenzy - 921 SW Oak St., Portland OR 97205
Pennsylvania
The Big Idea- 504 Millvlae Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Rhode Island
Amigos – 200 Allens Avenue, Studio 7F 2nd Floor Povidence, RI 02903
Vermont
Winooski Welcome Center Shop- 25 Winooski Falls Way, Suite 317, Winooski, Vermont 05404
Virginia
Elliot Bay Books – 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle WA 98122
Last Word Books – 211 E 4th Ave Olympia, WA 98501
Left Bank Books – 92 Pike St., Seattle WA 98101
Orca Books – 509 E 4th Ave Olympia, WA 98501
I was going to list zine libraries here but Zine World has a very good list already so I thought I would just direct you to their list instead. Maybe in the future I will grow this list if it become necessary.
