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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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Optic Nerve

An American comic series by Adrian Tomine, begun as a self-published minicomic in 1991 and later published by Drawn & Qu...

Literary Art 1991 Present Minicomic

8.4 Great

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The Baffler

Founded by Thomas Frank in 1988, The Baffler is an American cultural magazine known for its sharp, analytical critiques...

Chicago Politics Literary 1988 Present

8.4 Great

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Yummy Fur

A Canadian comics anthology by Chester Brown, self-published from 1983 before moving to Vortex Comics, featuring the sur...

Literary Art Minicomic 1983 1994

8.0 Great

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Dishwasher

Dishwasher was a celebrated American zine created by Pete Jordan in the 1990s, documenting his quest to wash dishes prof...

Personal Humor Labor 1988 2003

7.8 Good

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File 770

A US science fiction fanzine published by Mike Glyer since 1978 reporting on SF fan news and community events, with mult...

News Science Fiction 1978 Present SF Fanzine

7.7 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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Sinister Wisdom

Sinister Wisdom is an American lesbian literary journal founded in 1976 by Harriet Desmoines and Catherine Nicholson, no...

Literary Lgbtq+ Feminist Lesbian

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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Mudfish

American poetry journal published by Box Turtle Press in New York, featuring contemporary poetry and maintaining a consi...

Contemporary New York Literary Poetry

6.8 Fair

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Hermenaut

Edited by Joshua Glenn in the 1990s, Hermenaut was an independent zine that applied complex philosophical concepts to th...

Philosophy Boston Literary Cultural Theory

6.7 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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Answer Me!

Created in the 1990s by Jim Goad, Answer Me! was an infamous zine known for its transgressive style, focus on violent tr...

Controversial Culture Literary 1991 1994

6.4 Fair

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Lofgeornost

Lofgeornost is a dedicated fanzine focused on the literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien, notable for its scholarly approach t...

Literary Science Fiction SF Fanzine 1977 Present

6.4 Fair

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Scrawl

Scrawl was a 1990s underground fanzine notable for its exploration of alternative comics, DIY culture, and independent m...

DIY Personal Literary 1990S

5.0 Mediocre

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Afternoons

Afternoons was an independent literary fanzine notable for its collection of contemporary poetry, short stories, and con...

Contemporary Personal Literary 2010S

4.5 Poor