Amanda Stevens
2013

This zine about the author’s experiences using the dating app OKCupid includes funny messages received from strangers, as well as reflections and analysis on online dating, gender roles, and consumerism.

Kelsey Choo
2012

An illustrated guide to nuptial gifts exchanged between some insect species. Nuptial gifts are objects presented to a female by a male who wishes to mate, including prey (as food or distraction), spermatophylax (biological nutrients), and symbolic tokens, just as humans might exchange.

This zine is part of the Small Science Collective, an initiative to spread science through a free, printable library of mini-zines.

(To speak of the things one loves) an exploration of embrace
unknown
n.d.

“This is an attempt to speak of the things I have loved and do love” writes the unknown author of this zine, referencing One Always Fails to Speak of the Things One Loves, the last, unfinished essay Roland Barthes was working on at the time of his death. Combining writing about Barthes’s last published work, Camera Lucida, with photographs by the author, this zine considers how love is so difficult to capture in language.

Nic Wilson
2012

Six short stories about love.
Ways 7–10,000 coming soon.

Evan Furness
n.d.

In the most apt, tape-like format, Evan Furness’ Mixtape Vol. 1 illustrates 14 of his top Valentine’s Day tracks and love songs. When you get halfway through this zine, you can flip it over and read the B-side. From Joy Division to Björk, Tom Waits to Sun Kil Moon, this zine will have you feeling the love.

Miss. C
2025

Each page of this zine features a drawing of, and information about, a beloved family member from the author’s home, including multiple furry friends.

Emily (Editor)
2015 

This zine is a compilation of anonymous stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, letters and more about falling in (and out of) love. Setting the tone for this publication, in the introduction editor Emily writes “I have come to realize that love is depressing as hell.”

@uguubella
2024

A mini zine about self-love, self-care, self-acceptance, and self-nurturing, including practical suggestions for each, plus a bonus playlist of self-love songs.

Unknown
2022

This zine shares personal reflections on a much-missed friend. The author’s dog was 13, had the same birthday as their brother, loved to go camp, had cancer, and the author misses him very much.

Lex Kartanė
n.d.

A personal zine about the author, Lex Kartanė’s cat, Stacey, and what she taught them about self-care and self-love. A very vocal cat, Stacey never shies away from asking for help, which is something we could all learn from too, as Kartanė writes, “It’s brave to accept help.”

Falling in Love Long Distance with a Boy You Met Once Whose Hand You Couldn’t Hold Even Though You Really Wanted To
Haley Shaw
2014

Intimate and immediate writings about being in, and falling in, love.

Chloe Kenning
2012

Compiled in MSN Messenger chat browsers (a ubiquitous form of communication in the early 2000s), author Chloe recounts the complicated long-distance relationships with boys they met on the internet. Chloe writes “And until our internet relationship ended, they were the best thing in my awkward, complicated adolescence.”

In The Meantime… The Single Girls Survival Guide
Lee Holloway & Anna May Wong
2006

Written expressly for “single girls”, this brutally honest, tongue-in-cheek zine classifies several “kinds of men who are inconveniently available”, each appearing worse than the last. While this zine is written all in good fun, there is power in reclaiming these choices and heeding the lessons it offers about moving on.

NOKIA: a digital archaeological examination of teenage love
Katherine Akey
2021
The traces of a love story doomed to last forever are trapped in the digital guts of an immortal and indestructible Nokia cellphone. Made for the Quarantine Public Library.