Available Issues

Zine World #25.5: This supplemental issue features 150+ reviews and updates to our lists of zine review zines and zine libraries. Published in March 2008, issue #25.5 is available for free to all current subscribers. If you’re not a subscriber, you can get a copy by sending $1 (or a couple of US stamps).

Zine World #25: Published in August 2007, this 48-page, full-size issue contains:

Each copy of ZW #25 comes with a free copy of the Zinester’s Guide to US Mail, which covers the various options zine publishers can use for mailing within the U.S., including detailed information about the new First Class rules, Media Mail, and Bound Printed Matter. (You can also download a copy of this guide, in PDF format.) Price for this issue: $4 US, $5 Canada, $7 overseas.

Zine World #24: Published in February 2007 (48 pages, full-size), features indepth articles on the end of the Independent Press Association and Clamor magazine, the bankruptcy of Tower Records and Publisher’s Group West, and what these events might mean for independent publishers. Plus an updated zine review zine list, the column "Everything is Politics," and Zine World Asks: a new feature sharing comments by zinesters on the pros and cons of using PayPal and where they do their printing. More than 220 reviews; art by Alan Lastufka, Christoph Meyer, and Derek Ballard. Price: $3 US, $4 Canada, $6 overseas.

Zine World #23: Published in July 2006 (48 pages, full-size), features news articles on persecuted & prosecuted students, the government opening your mail and restricting free speech, and other First Amendment issues; dispatches from New Orleans zinesters affected by Hurricane Katrina; information on zine libraries; more than 250 reviews; and art by Shannon Wheeler, Sue Clancy, Drew, and Pat M. Price: $2 US/Canada, $4 overseas.

Zine World supplement: A supplemental issue released before #23, in April 2006, with more than 100 reviews. Price: $1, 2 U.S. stamps, or free by request with purchase of any other back issue.

Zine World #21: Published in June 2004 (48 pages, full-size), features articles on students being punished for websites they’ve created, the Bush administration’s use of fake journalists to propagandize, Tower’s recent bankruptcy and reemergence, censorship, and the perils of open records requests; Throwing off the Shackles: How to Break Free of Microsoft; about 200 reviews; and art by Sharon McGill, Dave Kiersh, and Sue Clancy. Price: $2 US/Canada, $4 overseas.

Zine World #20: Published in January 2004 (64 pages, full-size), features articles on how media-created misperceptions led to more support for the Iraq invasion, just how bad Fox News is, plans to end anonymous mail, student’s being punished for their writing and drawings, and how owning an almanac can make you suspicious; these columns: "Two Years Later, and the Water in the Hole is Still Rising" by Grant Schrieber, "The Underground Press vs. The Crossknit Crocheters" by Christoph Meyer, and "Bits & Pieces" an illustrated piece by Jim Sumii; Zines 101: A Student Guide; more than 300 reviews; and art by Cole Johnson, J. Chris Campbell, and Susan Boren. Price: $2 US/Canada, $4 overseas.

Zine World #19: Published in Summer 2003 (64 pages, full-size), features an excellent article by Michael Jackman about the dangerous consequences of recent government actions, like the Patriot Act, taken to supposedly increase the safety of our citizenry; other articles on topics such as the lies behind the war in Iraq, students being punished for expressing themselves, adults getting in trouble for protesting, Internet filters in public libraries, and zero tolerance victims; columns by Susan Boren, Grant Schrieber, Loren Rhodes, and Paul Riismandel; 22 pages of reviews; and art by Mike Twohig and others. Price: $2 US/Canada, $4 overseas.

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