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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

Optic Nerve is an American comic book series created by cartoonist Adrian Tomine. It began in 1991 as a self-published m...

Literary Art 1991 Present Minicomic

8.4 Great

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The Baffler

The Baffler is an American cultural and political magazine founded by Thomas Frank in 1988. Originally based in Chicago,...

Chicago Politics Literary 1988 Present

8.4 Great

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Yummy Fur

"Yummy Fur" is a Canadian alternative comic book series created, written, and illustrated by Chester Brown, initially se...

Literary Art Minicomic 1983 1994

8.0 Great

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Duplex Planet

Duplex Planet is a zine created by David Greenberger beginning in 1979, consisting of transcribed conversations with eld...

Personal Interview Literary 1978 Present

7.9 Good

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Cannabis Culture

Cannabis Culture is a Canadian cannabis magazine and publication founded in 1994 by activist Marc Emery. Its coverage ha...

Politics Cannabis Counterculture 1994 Present

7.1 Good

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Sinister Wisdom

Sinister Wisdom is an American lesbian literary journal founded in 1976 by Harriet Desmoines and Catherine Nicholson. It...

Literary Lgbtq+ Feminist Lesbian

7.0 Good

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Banana Wings

Banana Wings is a British science-fiction fanzine edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer. Its contents center on writ...

UK British Science Fiction SF Fanzine

7.0 Good

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Smoke Signal

Smoke Signal is a comics publication edited and published by Tom Kaczynski. It is presented as a periodic newsprint tabl...

Anthology Brooklyn Art Comics 2011 Present

6.9 Fair

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Mudfish

Mudfish is a literary journal of poetry, art, and fiction founded in 1984 and published by Box Turtle Press. Based in Ne...

Contemporary New York Literary Poetry

6.8 Fair

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Hermenaut

Hermenaut was an independent cultural-criticism zine edited by Joshua Glenn during the 1990s. It used philosophy, cultur...

Philosophy Boston Literary Cultural Theory

6.7 Fair

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Answer Me!

Answer Me! was a zine created by Jim Goad in the 1990s. It became known for deliberately transgressive writing, graphic...

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

Apparatchik was a US science fiction fanzine published by Andy Hooper during the 1990s. Its editorial work was recognize...

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

Deathrealm was an American horror and dark-fantasy magazine founded by Mark Rainey in 1987. It published fiction concern...

Fiction North Carolina Horror Literary

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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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