Community Zine Project Digital Archive

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The GNCRT Addressing Comics Challenges Community Zine Project, is designed to help spread awareness about the important work library workers, educators, creators, and communities do to support the freedom to read by creating and submitting original zines. Zines are independently made, creative works that encourage self-expression, making them the perfect medium for library workers to share their own stories.

Help spread awareness about the important work library workers, educators, creators, and communities do to support the freedom to read by reading and sharing these original zines.

  • Everyone has a story they can share to help us all fight censorship.
  • Check out these projects on social media! Search for the hashtag #GNCRTZine and tag #libcomix.

Please see our press release.

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Share the Addressing Comics Challenges Community Zine Project

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Use the Addressing Comics Challenges Community Zine Project to build your zine collection.

They have been shared under a creative commons license and are able to be distributed, so long as attribution is given to the creators.

2024 Addressing Comics Challenges Community Zines

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by Sierra Benjamin

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by Sean Patrick Casey

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by Aubrie Warner

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by Amie Wright

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by Marc Russo

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by Anonymous

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by Cassy Lee

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by Jen Stutesman

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by Ryan Douglas aka Creating Comics While Black

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by Emily Morgan & Calinda Strayhorn

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by Natalie Linn

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by Alexis Rockwell

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by Alexandra Rodriguez

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by Ziba Pérez

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by Brandi Payne

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by Marissa Hause

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by Leah Brennan

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by Layne McCaleb

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by Aidan Skipper-Martinez

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by Eti Berland

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by Sarah Jo Zaharako & Eti Berland

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by Bug Tourmaline

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by Luke W. Henderson

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by Todd Miller

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by Ryan Estrada

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by Kim Hyun Sook

Host Zine Programming in Your Library

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You can use the zines to support conversations about the freedom to read and book access. You can use them as mentor texts for patrons to create their own zines.

How to Make a Zine

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Whitworth Library's Zine Collection:

Examples of Zines and Comics

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Check out these zines and comics about censorship to find inspiration!

by Amie Wright

by Mike Dawson

by Nate Powell (Booklist's Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries: 2022)

by Maia Kobabe (The Nib, September 1, 2023)

Readfreedrawfree’s (Instagram)