swap_horiz The Baffler Alternatives

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Prison Legal News

Prison Legal News is an American magazine and information project focused on prisons, jails, criminal justice, and the r...

Law Activism Politics 1990 Present

8.91 Great

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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

8.69 Great

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Bitch Media

Bitch Media was an American feminist nonprofit media organization founded in 1996 by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler. It be...

Culture Politics Feminist Media Criticism

8.33 Great

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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

8.28 Great

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Riot Grrrl

Riot Grrrl was a zine movement emerging from the Pacific Northwest in the early 1990s. It provided a crucial platform fo...

Politics Feminist Riot Grrrl 1991 1993

8.23 Great

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Roctober

Roctober was a Chicago-based zine dedicated to exploring underappreciated music history. Founded by Jake Austen, it meti...

Music Chicago Culture Alternative

8.20 Great

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Learning Good Consent

Learning Good Consent is a feminist zine and pamphlet by Cindy Crabb, the writer and editor associated with the punk zin...

DIY Politics Feminist Punk

8.17 Great

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Punk Planet

Punk Planet was a Chicago-based zine published from 1994 to 2007. Created by Dan Sinker, it offered a unique blend of pu...

Chicago Culture Politics Punk

8.14 Great

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Profane Existence

Founded in Minneapolis in 1990, Profane Existence operated as a collective, record label, and anarcho-punk fanzine. The...

Music Politics Minneapolis Anarcho Punk

7.82 Good

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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

7.73 Good

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Clamour

Founded in 1999, Clamour was an American magazine that combined progressive political activism with coverage of undergro...

UK Politics British 1990S

7.73 Good

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Lumpen

A Chicago alternative culture magazine from the early 1990s blending arts coverage, political commentary, and countercul...

Chicago Culture Politics Alternative

7.60 Good

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Inside Front

"Inside Front" was an anarcho-punk fanzine published by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective. Distributed in the late...

Politics Hardcore Anarchist 1992 2000S

7.54 Good

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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

7.36 Good

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Fifth Estate

Fifth Estate is an American radical publication founded in Detroit in 1965, making it one of the longest continuously pu...

Politics Radical Detroit Anarchist

7.22 Good

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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

7.22 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

7.14 Good

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Heresies

Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics was an American feminist journal produced by a New York-based colle...

New York Politics Feminist Art

7.13 Good

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Bijou Funnies

Bijou Funnies was an American underground comix anthology founded in Chicago by Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson, with its...

Historic Chicago Art Underground Comix

6.85 Fair

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Slingshot

Slingshot is a radical newspaper produced in Berkeley, California, by the Slingshot Collective. Founded in 1988, it cove...

Organizer Politics Berkeley Anarchist

5.89 Mediocre