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.

Please see our press release.

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

by Sierra Benjamin

by Sean Patrick Casey

by Aubrie Warner

by Amie Wright

by Cassy Lee

by Jen Stutesman

by Ryan Douglas aka Creating Comics While Black

by Emily Morgan & Calinda Strayhorn

by Natalie Linn

by Alexis Rockwell

by Alexandra Rodriguez

by Ziba Pérez

by Leah Brennan

by Layne McCaleb

by Aidan Skipper-Martinez

by Sarah Jo Zaharako & Eti Berland

by Bug Tourmaline

by Kim Hyun Sook

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

PDF template

Canva template

Whitworth Library's Zine Collection: Making Zines

Los Angeles Public Library Zine Library

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)