swap_horiz Dishwasher Alternatives

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Cometbus

Cometbus is a zine produced since 1981 by Aaron Cometbus. It offers intensely personal reflections on experiences of urb...

Personal Literary Punk 1981 Present

9.5 Brilliant

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is a long-running zine offering fiction, humor, and literary content since 1998. Founded b...

Fiction Humor Literary 1998 Present

9.0 Excellent

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Doris

Doris is a zine created by Cindy Crabb beginning in 1991. It’s notable for offering deeply personal explorations of trau...

Personal Feminist Riot Grrrl 1991 Present

8.8 Great

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Weirdo

An American alternative comics anthology edited by Robert Crumb and published by Last Gasp from 1981 to 1993, showcasing...

Humor Art Underground Comix Robert Crumb

8.4 Great

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Chunklet

Atlanta-based music zine founded by Henry Owings in 1993, known for sardonic criticism of indie rock and an annual list...

Music Humor Alternative 1993

8.0 Great

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Duplex Planet

Duplex Planet is an American zine started by David Greenberger in 1979, notable for its compassionate presentation of tr...

Personal Interview Literary 1978 Present

7.9 Good

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Young Lust

Underground comix anthology launched in 1970 by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney that parodied mainstream romance comics wit...

Humor Alternative 1970 Underground Comics

7.9 Good

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Gobbledygook

Alternative small-press publication using the term for meaningless bureaucratic language as its title, produced within a...

DIY Personal Culture Humor

7.6 Good

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Neat Stuff

An American comic published by Fantagraphics in the 1980s, created by Peter Bagge, featuring working-class family humor...

Humor Art Minicomic 1985 1990

7.5 Good

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Processed World

Processed World was a radical American magazine founded in San Francisco in 1981 that critiqued modern office labor and...

Politics San Francisco Labor Anti Work

7.2 Good

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Labor Notes

Labor Notes is a monthly magazine and organizing project for union members and labor activists based in Detroit, founded...

Politics Union Detroit Labor

7.1 Good

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Ben is Dead

Ben is Dead was a prominent American zine founded in Los Angeles in 1988 by Darby Romeo, known for its sharp cultural co...

Humor INDIE Pop Culture 1988 1998

7.0 Good

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Scam

Scam is a long-running American punk zine created by Erick Lyle in 1991 in San Francisco, chronicling the underground mu...

Personal Punk San Francisco 1993 Present

6.9 Fair

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Hip Mama

Founded in the mid-1990s by Ariel Gore, Hip Mama was a groundbreaking zine that explored the realities of radical, indep...

Personal Parenting Feminist 1993 Present

6.8 Fair

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Temp Slave

Temp Slave was an American zine created by Jeff Kelley in the 1990s that used dark humor to chronicle the exploitation a...

Personal Labor Anti Work 1993 1999

6.8 Fair

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Murder Can Be Fun

Murder Can Be Fun was a cult classic American zine published by John Marr starting in 1986 that explored bizarre histori...

Culture Humor True Crime 1986 2001

6.6 Fair

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Beer Frame

Beer Frame was an American zine created by Paul Lukas in the 1990s that functioned as a subversive consumer report, revi...

Satire Humor 1993 1999 Consumer Culture

6.5 Fair

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Chunga

An American science fiction fanzine published by Andy Hooper, Randy Byers, and others, known for critical commentary on...

Humor Science Fiction Northwest SF Fanzine

6.5 Fair

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Juke Box

Music-focused publication named after the coin-operated record player, covering popular music history, artists, and reco...

Music DIY Personal Culture

6.5 Fair

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Crank!

Published in the 1990s by Mark Prindle, Crank! was an influential music fanzine covering the underground emo and post-ha...

DIY Personal Humor Punk

5.9 Mediocre