ZINE LIBRARY

 

Our lobby features over 500 unique zines, generously donated by Tucson Zine Fest

Groundworks is the home of the Tucson Zine Fest’s Zine Library, a permanent installation featuring over 500 unique zines available to read in the space or check out to read at home. This collection includes work by talented zinesters from Tucson and beyond. With content ranging from comics to perzines to political resources, it’s a great place to experience the variety zines have to offer!

Guests have the option to either read zines in the lobby or check them out and return them to Groundworks at a later date. The collection features a variety of zines including comics, perzines, political zines, poetry, and more.

CHECKOUT POLICY

To check out a zine, simply sign in to the checkout sheet located in the library. Zines are due back one week after checkout. They can be returned by depositing the zine in the Library Returns box during Groundworks’ regular hours. If you’re having trouble finding a good time to drop off zines, contact art@groundworkstucson.com.

 

HOW TO SUBMIT ZINES AND ADD TO THE LIBRARY

 

The Groundworks Zine Library is always growing! If you’re a Tucson zine creator, we’d love to add your work to our collection. We also encourage creators who publish regular content to submit new issues as they are released. To submit a zine, click the button below and fill out the submission form. After submitting, we will contact you via email to arrange a drop-off time.

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ABOUT TUCSON ZINE FEST

Tucson Zine Fest is a show for self publishers of printed art and word. Meet zine makers, independent comic book creators, and small handmade book distributors. This fest brings together local artists from Tucson and the southwest.

Organizers:

  • Elisa Mask(she/her) is an AZ zinester, artist, and teacher. She loves sci-fi, horror, inclusive feminism, and blues jams. Site: brainvomitcomix.co

  • Zac Finger(he/him) is a software developer and zine creator in Tucson, AZ. His zine works can best be described as political sci-fi. Site: zacfinger.com

  • Sean A. Wilcox(he/him) is a co-founding member of Subspace collective, curator of Ground Up Gallery, an often collaborator and an avid “light-painter”. Instagram: @subspacetucson @refined.undefined @groundupgallery @lumen.airy    Support the Subspace Patreon here!

  • Yolie C(She/Her/Ella) is a Salvi-Chicanx Zinester, writer and neurodivergent babe who has been creating zines for over ten years. Yolie specializes in perzines about sad girl feelings and also creates the occasional zine about coffee. She has written extensively about zines including preparing a zine lib guide for Arizona State University. She is based in Tucson, AZ with her husband Billy and their two cats Ricky and Fred. Instagram: @yolie4u

  • John Konrad(he/him) is a Tucson-based cartoonist who makes comics and ink illustrations. He is banned from using the University of Arizona photocopier to print any more zines. Website Twitter Instagram: @vomit_party_

  • Gregory Nero (they/them) is a student of light and words. You can find them staring at small shiny objects or blogging at Hummingbird Drama.

  • Ellery Page I have been a subspace member for three years, I work full-time at the downtown public library and I wish I made more zines. Volunteering for TZF is almost like making more zines and they do great work for the creative community in Tucson and building it. Instagram: @ellerysart

  • Lou Northway-Smith(they/them) is an artist that makes zines (and other fun things) about queerness, bodies, and youth culture (and other fun things)! Instagram: @sucrose.zine