First check out http://zinewiki.com/
It is a resource about Zines, their history and is actively being updated. Unfortunately its hard to actually access the Zines, but there is a bucket-load of information.
Then Check out http://zinelibrary.info/
It has a large archive of zines uploaded by people worldwide. Contains mostly politically focused, which I sometimes find tiresome, but there are many Jems. For example see the black-bloc zine, it is basically a whismical but furtive monolog from the creator, and it implements it's design & layout in interesting and personal ways. Its quite typical of whats a zine often looks like:
http://zinelibrary.info/black-bloc-zine
But Zines can really be any handmade, hand-produce publication (in my opinion), and I am more interested in zines that take on a narrative or a visual persona (those influenced by comics for example).
Anyway due to lack of time I will just give you one more link http://akzinefest.blogspot.com/
This Zinefest is held in my country yearly, and is a great place to understand the culture and the ideas behind Zines. Yah-wen & myself were lucky enough to win this year's Zine-of-the-year prize, and our Zine is for sale at The high seas gallery
Read Our Zine
Also I recently created an account at Illustration Mundo which is a very very cool website for illustrators, every illustrator should visit there regularly! So much inspiration!
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