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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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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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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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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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Banana Wings

A British science fiction fanzine by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer, first published in the 1990s, that has won multipl...

UK British Science Fiction SF Fanzine

7.0 Good

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Smoke Signal

Published by Tom Kaczynski, Smoke Signal is a periodic newsprint comics tabloid that features a wide array of independen...

Anthology Brooklyn Art Comics 2011 Present

6.9 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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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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Apparatchik

A US science fiction fanzine published by Andy Hooper in the 1990s that won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in both 1995...

Literary Science Fiction 1993 1997 SF Fanzine

6.3 Fair

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Kerb

Kerb was a British skateboarding fanzine created in the 1990s, notable for its grassroots coverage of the UK's urban ska...

Design Academic 1994 Present Landscape Architecture

6.0 Fair

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Deathrealm

Founded by Mark Rainey in 1987, Deathrealm was an American magazine notable for publishing dark horror fiction and weird...

Fiction North Carolina Horror Literary

5.9 Mediocre

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Chance Operations

Experimental poetry journal whose title references John Cage's aleatory compositional technique, publishing work that fo...

Experimental Literary 1990S Poetry

5.9 Mediocre

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Grue

Published in the late 1950s by Joseph Wrzos, Grue was a notable horror fanzine recognized for bridging the gap between a...

Fiction New York Horror Literary

5.7 Mediocre

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Izzard

Izzard was an underground comix anthology published in 1976, notable for featuring early contributions from influential...

Literary 1990S Science Fiction SF Fanzine

5.6 Mediocre

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Capacity

Independent literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and criticism with an emphasis on experimental and emerging voi...

Contemporary 2000S Literary Brooklyn

5.4 Mediocre