OUR MISSION

The San Diego Zine Fest is an annual, two day event, dedicated to the do-it-yourself zine culture in our community. Run by volunteers and founding fest members, the San Diego Zine Fest now host over 200 Zine Makers & over 700 Attendees. Founded in 2013, the San Diego Zine Fest is a Free, All Ages, Daylong event with zines presented by over 100 regional and international independent publishers. During the fest we host zine related panel discussions and workshops open to all ages. Joined by local food vendors and musicians, in celebration of the do-it-yourself ethos.

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Born 2013

The first year was crazy !

The zine fest was organized in less than a month and we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We packed everyone into a small warehouse space located in Barrio Logan. If it wasn’t for all of our friends uniting, it wouldn’t have happened. Our friends donated tables, supplied food, passed out flyers, DJ’d and volunteered.

We had exhibitors from all over San Diego and all over California join us.

2014

#SDZINELIBRARY

The SD Zine Library was introduced during the 2014 zine fest and has remained an active component every year after.

2015

2015 was the first SD Zine Fest hosted at Bread & Salt Gallery in Barrio Logan. The owners thought we were going to be an event of 30 people. They were definitely surprised when they got there and saw 100’s of people at the zine fest. We still talk about today.

The fire department also showed up but it turned out they heard about a ‘cool’ event happening and decided they wanted to check it out for themselves.

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2016