The decades between the 1960s and late 1980s are known in Italy as “the years of lead”, characterized by a social and political upheaval during which the Italian feminist movement boomed. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the Italian political and socio-cultural landscape underwent major changes, also impacting feminist discourse. This project addresses how feminist content was disseminated through the unexplored field of comics zines. At a time of turmoil, comics were used for the first time as a means of political confrontation, finding in the creation of amateur publishing products, self-produced and often self-distributed, its main platform: comics zines. Using comics zines held across archives in Italy as primary sources, this project examines feminist content between 1966, when the first known zines was distributed (Comics Club 104) to 1995, when the first digital comics zine was published online (Lo sciacallo elettronico). By adopting a feminist lens and a cultural studies perspective, combined with qualitative content analysis, the project unveils the history of Italian comics and visual counterculture from a feminist perspective. In so doing, the project will chart comics zines produced in Italy in the chosen timespan, providing the first mapping of feminist Italian comics zines. The project innovates the field of comics studies by using feminist theory to examine comics zines and offers a novel perspective on the history of the Italian feminist movement.