Community Zine Project Digital Archive
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.
Submissions are now closed. Check back for updates!
Share the Addressing Comics Challenges Community Zine Project
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
Host Zine Programming in Your Library
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
Whitworth Library's Zine Collection: Making Zines
Examples of Zines and Comics
Check out these zines and comics about censorship to find inspiration!
Be Prepared Zine by Amie Wright
We’re Trying to Figure Out How to Navigate These Waters by Mike Dawson
Comics are Reading by Nate Powell (Booklist's Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries: 2022)
I Made the Most Banned Book in America by Maia Kobabe (The Nib, September 1, 2023)
Readfreedrawfree’s Banned Books Week Story (Instagram)