Other Zine Review Zines

We don’t want to be the definitive word on anything, so don’t just take our word for it. There are plenty of other fine publications out there to send your zines/comics for review and to scope for new zines. Most of these publications accept cash only. Please see our own no-check policy for more information. Please feel free to reprint or otherwise disseminate this list.

These zines exist to review zines, including up to hundreds of reviews in each issue:

Best Zine Ever! is published annually (usually in February) and lists the reviewers’ favorite zines of the previous year. Tugboat Press, PO Box 12409, Portland OR 97212. www.tugboatpress.com

Broken Pencil mostly covers Canadian zines, but has a good-sized American-zine section, plus excellent articles/reprints on zines, publishing, and other nifty topics. Great source for what’s going on underground north of the border. Published quarterly. PO Box 203, Stn P, Toronto, ON M5S 2S7 Canada, www.brokenpencil.com, editor@brokenpencil.com($5.95)

Xerography Debt, the review zine with latent per-zine tendencies. Reviewers are given free reign in the zines they review and how they approach their reviews; only prints reviews of zines they like. Published three times a year. Davida Gypsy Breier, PO Box 963, Havre de Grace MD 21078, davida@leekinginc.com, www.leekinginc.com/xeroxdebt,xerographydebt.blogspot.com ($3)

Zine World is what you’re reading. Published three times a year. PO Box 330156, Murfreesboro TN 37133-0156, jerianne@undergroundpress.org, www.undergroundpress.org ($4)

These are also primarily review publications, featuring dozens or scores of reviews in each issue:

The Curmudgeon, Steve Marlow, 733 Gleneagles Dr., Kamloops BC V2E 1J7, Canada, marlsj23@yahoo.com

Dead Trees Review reviews small press and self-published books of all genres except poetry, romance or horror. Quarterly. Paul Lappen, PO Box 386, Manchester CT 06045-0386, www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/4587/mainpage.html ($1)

Fanzine Fanatique Quarterly: "We’ve been in continuous publication for nearly 30 years. We review publications in a variety of different languages. Reviews are, however, currently in English. We hope to become multilingual some time in the future. We review fanzines, small press publications, semi-prozines, and selected professional publications." Keith & Rosemary Walker, 6 Vine St., Greaves, Lancaster, LA1 4UF, England, fanzinefanatique@aol.com (trades)

Hobnail Review: A Guide to Small Press & Alternative Publishing is “a review and listings guide featuring independent, self-published and small press publications,” relaunched in Sept. 2006. Box 208, 235 Earls Court Rd., London, SW5 9FE, UK (free, donation)

Narcolepsy Press Review: "Dedicated to keeping print zines alive." Randy Robbins, PO Box 17131, Anaheim CA 92817-7131 ($2 or stamps)

Neufutur is a zine and a website. "We have reviewed different zines for quite a few years. The zine isn’t all about zine reviews, but we try to give reviews a major part of the website and fit in about 10-15 reviews each print issue we release (once every 2-3 months)." James McQuiston, 650 Morris #6, Kent OH 44240, neufutur.com($2)

Opuntia, "does not review music or comics, just zines." Dale Speirs, Box 6830, Calgary, AB T2P 2E7 Canada ($3)

Small Press Review, small companies and many self-published books and magazines are reviewed and advertised; established in 1967. Dustbooks, PO Box 100, Paradise CA 95967, www.dustbooks.com ($25 per year individual)

String Bean is a new review zine geared toward perzines: "all reviews, no filler. Will review almost every zine received." Mab Matthews, PO Box 182, State College PA 16804, octopusrapids@yahoo.com

TRS2 — The Review Sheet Squared, reviews comic zines, primarily British. Jez Higgins, 47 Sandford Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9DX, jez@jezuk.co.uk, www.bugpowder.com/trs2

Xeens and Things, James N. Dawson, PO Box 613, Redwood Valley CA 95470, jamesndawson@yahoo.com ($3 or trade)

Zine review websites:

Almost Normal Comics, reviews zines and comics, usually monthly, including cover images, members.tripod.com/almostnormalcomics/index.htm. Send items to PO Box 12822, Ft. Huachuca AZ 85670, flesh_on_bone@yahoo.com

Fall of Autumn — Zine, book, album, and podcast reviews, www.fallofautumn.com. Send zines or CDs/records to: PO Box 254, Manhattan IL 60442, shop@fallofautumn.com

Free Rent Community "is a printed zine, online zine and an online radio station/podcast. We review zines and short VHS / DVD videos which are directly, indirectly or barely related to love, activism and/or creating a better world. Please include the form found on our website: www.FreeRentCommunity.org." Send materials for review to: Reviews c/o April, PO Box 1932, Olympia WA 98507 or: FRC DSAME c/o G.I., PO Box 268, Hillsboro WV 24946

GirlPunk — "We accept magazines and zines for review. Please include all contact information (name, address, email, website url and cost) for the zine," www.girlpunk.net. Send submissions to: GirlPunk.Net, PO Box 177, Roebling NJ 08554, Jessica@girlpunk.net

Gloomy Sundays is a blog by mail artist and zine maker Gianni Simone; it reviews zines, audio/video, books, and anything else he finds in his mailbox. This is mostly an invitation-only site, which means Gianni will contact you and invite you to send in your stuff. Unsolicited material is not guaranteed a review. gloomy-sundays.blogspot.com

Lick My Lit! Distro is seeking zines to review for its website. "My main goal is to encourage zinesters. … I do not talk shit about artists’ zines, however I do give honest critique." Visit the website to get contact info: www.freewebs.com/lickmylit.

Livejournal, www.livejournal.com/community/zinereviews

Musea Reviews — “Musea guarantees a review for all artwork in any conceivable field,” musea.digitalchainsaw.com. Include contact info and $5 processing fee. Reviews also posted on alt.zines. Send zines to: Tom Hendricks, 4000 Hawthorne #5, Dallas TX 75219, tomhendricks474@cs.com

New Pages Zine Rack — www.newpages.com/magazinestand/zines/default.htm. Send items to: ZineRack — NewPages, PO Box 1580, Bay City MI 48706

Northwest Zine Works — zine distro and review site, www.northwestzineworks.com. Reviews also available at www.indymediareviews.com. Send items to: Caroline Tigress, 11500 NE 76th St. #A3-38, Vancouver WA 98684

Paniscus Revue, reviews zines, audio and video, "but no poetry of any sort will be reviewed." Has previously also existed as a print zine, but is not currently being published, home.earthlink.net/~newpaniscus. Tom Crites, PO Box 21448, Long Beach CA 90801, tmcrites@earthlink.net.

Phantom Power Comics Podcast is a podcast by Jenni Moody, who review comics and zines, www.ppcp.libsyn.org. Send comics and zines for review to: Jenni Moody, 895 University Ave. Apt. # 1, Fairbanks AK 99709, ppcpodcast@gmail.com

Rise and Shine — "The site only re-launched last month but we hope to build up our zine review section so would be very happy if you could find a way to list us," www.rise-and-shine.com. Mailing address unknown.

Sample Press Online – once a real zine, now a webzine, includes zine reviews. www.samplepressonline.com. Send zines to: SAMPLE Press, PO Box 471159, Fort Worth, TX 76147, samplepress@gmail.com.

She Reviews Zines is a review blog kept by Robyn, who runs the Omaha Zine Library, shereviewszines.blogspot.com. Send zines to Robyn, 3030 Marcy St., Omaha NE 68105.

Small Press Newsroom "Where people discover cool comics! Finally, a blog for Small Press Comics that honestly reviews your work!" smallpressnewsroom.blogspot.com. Send items to Fan-Atic Press Newsroom, 3106 Dade Cove, Owensboro KY 42303.

Syndicated Zine Reviews reprints zine reviews from a variety of sources, making them available to you via its blog or RSS feed. New reviewers are welcome to submit. syndicatedzinereviews.blogspot.com. Send zines to: Jack Cheiky, PO Box 609, Alief TX 77411.

ULA Review Blog, book review site, ulabookreview.blogspot.com. Reviews "underground literature." For more information contact Victor Schwartzman, victor@mts.net.

Zinethug, updated 2-3 times per year, www.zinethug.com. Marc Parker, 2000 NE 42 Ave #221, Portland OR 97213-1399

The primary purpose of these publications is not reviewing zines, but they do have large review sections:

Black Velvet, 336 Birchfield Road, Webheath Redditch, Worcs. B974NG, UK, www.blackvelvetmagazine.com ($6 US, €5 Europe, £2.50 UK)

The Comics Journal, comics only. 7563 Lake City Way NE, Seattle WA 98115, www.tcj.com ($6)

For the Clerisy, Brant Kresovich, PO Box 404, Getzville NY 14068-0404, kresovich@hotmail.com (trade, the usual, or $2)

Give Me Back is a punk zine, picking up where HeartattaCk left off. PO Box 73691, Washington DC 20056, www.givemeback.org (free)

MaximumRockNRoll, especially punk zines. Published monthly. PO Box 460760, San Francisco CA 94146 ($3)

The New Scheme "is a quarterly publication dedicated mostly to music." Stuart Anderson, PO Box 19873, Boulder CO 80308, www.thenewscheme.com ($2 US, $3 foreign)

Pussy, pop culture zine. P.5!, HC01 1030, Kaunakakai HI 96748, pussymagazine@hotmail.com, www.p5spussymagazine.com Note: No new issue has been published in quite a while; we’re not sure if or when a new issue will come out. ($4)

Razorcake, punk mag with zine review section. PO Box 42129, Los Angeles CA 90042, sean@razorcake.com, www.razorcake.com ($3)

Slug and Lettuce, especially punk zines. Chris Boarts, PO Box 26632, Richmond VA 23261 (55¢ stamp)

Urban Guerilla Zine, Jay, PMB 419, 1442 A Walnut St., Berkeley CA 94709, disintegration@wethepunx.com, www.wethepunx.com ($2)

We have not heard from these publications in ages; status unknown:

Alternative Press Review prints lots of reviews, including excerpts from zines they like. Published quarterly. Box 4710, Arlington VA 22204, www.altpr.org, editors@altpr.org ($3)

Anuario de Zines, Danielle Sales, Caixa Postal 4768, 01061-970, SP/SP, Brazil

The Best Zines Around!, Supreme Nothing Review, PO Box 211, Burton OH 44021, Denell@hotmail.com

Chaotic Order — Bob Smith, 15 Digby Close, Doddington Park, Lincoln LN6 3PZ, UK

Comixville — PO Box 697, Portland OR 97207

The Free Press Death Ship, lots of reviews (including excerpts), interesting letters section, articles about publishing, and commentary on free press/speech issues. Will not review items containing ISBN. (Note: No new issue has been published in quite a while; we’re not sure if or when a new issue will come out.) Violet Jones, PO Box 55336, Hayward CA 94545 (free/donations accepted)

Gecko Newsletter, Pille Weibel, PO Box 5037, 6002, Luzern, Switzerland

Sour Grapes is a new music and zine review zine. 509 Lauren Dr., Nicholasville KY 40356, sourgrapezine@gmail.com, myspace.com/sourgrapeszine

Speck Fanzine, Bleek, 2573 Oxford St., Vancouver BC V5K1M9 Canada. speckfanzine@yahoo.com

Underground Society Zine, Philippe, 13 Rue John Kennedy, Lotissement Du Lac, 40990 St Paul Les Dax, France

Weird Zines, C. Marriott, 328 16th St. Dept D, Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Zine Solar System, Yul Tolbert, PO Box 02222, Detroit MI 48202-9998, yul_tolbert@yahoo.com, timeliketoons.tripod.com

These zines have ceased publication:

Factsheet 5: Publication dates came and went with no releases; the website is still up but hasn’t been updated. Whatever. PO Box 6245, Arlington VA 22206, factsheet5@comcast.net, www.factsheet5.org

Punk Planet, punk mag with zine review section. 4229 N. Honore, Chicago IL 60613, reviews@punkplanet.com, www.punkplanet.com ($3.50)

Small Press Feedback, Allied Comics, 1805 Girard St., Utica NY 13501

Zinetopia is a review zine that does interviews, articles, and tutorials on zines and the DIY community. Sarah Rose, PO Box 38, Bluefield VA 24604 ($2)

List partially updated August 2008

If you have information on a zine-review zine not on this list, or a correction to a publication listed here, please let us know:

Zine World
PO Box 330156
Murfreesboro, TN 37133,
jerianne@undergroundpress.org