List of zine distros

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This is a list of zine distros. Zines are often distributed through secondary circuits, such as: trade, zine symposia, record stores, concerts, independent media outlets, mailings, or zine "distros."


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[edit] Australia

Degraves Subway Shop 10 Campbell Arcade Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Open: Monday, Wednesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm

Postal address: PO Box 310, Flinders Lane, Victoria, Australia 8009

Email: stickyship[at]gmail[dot]com

Telephone: + 61 3 9654 8559

Basement 405 Bourke Street Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000

Open: Mon-Wed 10am-6pm, Thur-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-5.30pm, Sun 11pm-5pm

Telephone: +61 3 9670 8208

Fax: +61 3 9670 7176

E-mail: info[at]missinglink[dot]net[dot]au

[edit] Canada

  • Great Worm Express Distribution sells various types of independent media focusing on zines.

[edit] New Zealand

  • Moon Rocket Distribution is run by Moira of Child That Mind zine.

[edit] United Kingdom

  • Café Royal is a family run online store and off line publishing house specialising in Artists' books and zines. They accept submissions.
  • All that glitters zine distro is a non-profit zine distro begun in November of 2003, based in the United Kingdom, and run by Sophie Lafayette.
  • Cause and Effect Distro is run by Emma and carries zines, music, and crafts by women, queer, and transpeople.
  • Manifesta Distro is run in Leeds by Emily and is a predominantly feminist distro.
  • www.a68.co.uk has a huge number of football fanzines for sale and distributes them all over the world.
  • www.shadowplay.org.ukLucid Dreams Tape Distro is a bootleg live tape distro run by ShadowPlay Fanzine from Nottingham since June 2003.
  • CornDog Publishing is a fairly new online distro with lots of USA and Australian zines.

[edit] United States

  • AK Press is an international distro and publisher. AK Press is a workers’ co-operative wholly owned by its members.
  • Art Zine Distrois a non-profit distro that focuses on art related zines.
  • Avocado Tree Distro is a zine distro started in the summer of 2006 by Raven, located in South Florida.
  • Boxcar Books and Community Center, Inc. is a volunteer run, non-profit organization from Bloomington, IN that exists to provide new and used books, zines, magazines, and comics.
  • By Freaks For Freaks Distro is an Evanston, IL-based distro that accepts a variety of zines covering different topics.
  • C/S Distro is a distro run by zinester Noemi Martinez.
  • Driving Blind Distro was started in the summer of 2002 by Erin H of New Jersey.
  • Fall of Autumn is an online publisher, creative resource and distribution site dedicated to promoting and developing community via tutorials, audio readings from zines and open-forum discussions, started by Alan Lastufka.
  • Gigglebot distro is a non-profit distro, started by Jessaruh in May of 2005.
  • HousewifeXcore Distro is a zine distro based in San Diego, CA, run by Ari/Polly Vomit of Metasynderyne zine.
  • Learning to Leave a Paper Trail is a distro started in 2003 by Ciara Xyerra.
  • LMGSOT, located in Los Angeles, Ca, is an independent magzine that focuses on Celebrity Gossip, Music and Fashion Trends, founded by two anonymous teenagers in 2007.
  • Loop Distro is a Chicago-based distro, started by Billy Roberts, focused on distroing Chicago zinesters.
  • Love Bunni Press is a zine publisher and distro which started in 1988 by R.John Xerxes Piche.
  • Microcosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based in Portland, OR.
  • My My distro was started in June of 2004 by Taryn Hipp. http://www.mymy.us
  • Not Sorry is a zine distro based in Portland, OR that features zines and crafts about issues dealing with eating disorders, size-ism, fatphobia and fat-positivity.
  • Outhouse Publishing Distro was started in 2003 by Bob Sheairs.
  • Paper-Xerox-Staples is a zine distro, located in Tallahassee, Florida, which caters to a wide variety of readers, believing ziones are democracy and that zines are essentially anti canonistic.
  • Quimby's Bookstore is an independently owned bookstore that specializes in independently published and small press books, zines and comix.
  • Reading Frenzy is a store in Portland, OR, that sells publications from independent presses.
  • Soft Skull Press, located in Brooklyn, NY, is an independent press, founded by Sander Hicks in 1992.
  • Stranger Danger is committed to distributing zines written by feminists, trannies and queers.
  • Sweet Candy distro is run by Sage Adderley in Philadelphia.
  • True Grit Distro is a West Philly based distro that specializes in DIY, self-sufficiency, and radical zines. Founded in 2005, it is run by Paolo and Claryn.
  • Whammy! Industries is a zine distro specializing in food-themed zines, with an emphasis on vegan cookzines.

[edit] España

[edit] See also

  • Zine, for more information on zine distros
  • Fanzine
  • ZineWiki, which has separate entries for most of the distros listed above