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 (as long as you credit Zine World.

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

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, zines@brokenpencil.com ($6.95)

Xerography Debt, the review zine with latent per-zine tendencies. Reviewers are select the zines they review and how they approach their reviews. Reviews also posted online at xerographydebt.blogspot.com . Send zines to: Davida Gypsy Breier, PO Box 963, Havre de Grace MD 21078; order new issues from: Microcosm Publishing, 222 S. Rogers St., Bloomington IN 47404; davida@leekinginc.com, www.leekinginc.com/xeroxdebt ($3)

Zine World is what you?’re reading. Produced by an all-volunteer staff, ZW reviews anything self-published: zines, comics, chapbooks, books, and other DIY stuff. Published two to three times a year. PO Box 3556, Portland, OR 97208, 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

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 sometime 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)

Free Rent Community “?is a printed zine, website, and an online radio station/podcast. We review zines and short DIY DVDs which are directly, indirectly or barely related to love, feminism, and/or women creating a better world through direct action and/or civil disobedience. We will review zines of all types, including online zines as long as they are PDF. Please include the form found on our website:” www.FreeRentCommunity.org.? Send materials for review to: Free Rent Community, c/o OFC 5215 N. Lombard St., Suite 2 – #136, Portland OR 97203.

Media Junky: Review zine whose mission is to “promote authentic DIY production and cultural engineering and provide contact to increase the nodal connection in the underground to the point of infinite reiteration.” Jason Rodgers, PO Box 8512, Albany NY 12208. ($1/trade)

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)

One Minute Zine Reviews “is a DIY homemade radio production that is broadcast on eight low-power community radio stations. Zines for potential review would be welcomed and appreciated, although I cannot guarantee all of them will be chosen for review. Zines may also be reviewed in my print zine, One Minute Zine Reviews or on my website, www.zinereviews.blogspot.com.” Frederick Moe, 36 W. Main, Warner NH 03278.

Off the Beaten Path produced by the same crew as Dwelling Portably, this annual zine offers short zine reviews. c/o Lisa Ahne, PO Box 181, Alsea OR 97324

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

PrakalpanA LiteraturE: ?”Zinesters may send us non-mainstream literary/art books & zines for short review.?” Send zines to: P40 Nandana Park, Kolkata 700034, India.

Queer Zine Explosion reviews queer zines. After five years of inactivity, Larry-bob published a new issue in August 2009. Many older issues are archived at holytitclamps.com/qze.html . Larry-bob, Box 590488, San Francisco CA 94159-0488.

Zine review websites:

365 zines a year is a zine review blog where Matthew reviews at least one zine or minicomic every day. 365zines.blogspot.com, tomorrowboy@gmail.com.

Dead Trees Review reviews books (small press and self-published) of all genres except poetry, romance, or horror. www.deadtreesreview.blogspot.com Send materials to: Paul Lappen, PO Box 386, Manchester CT 06045-0386. (Older reviews can be found at: www.deadtreesreview.com.)

Gloomy Sundays is a blog by mail artist and zine maker Gianni Simone; it sporadically 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. (last updated Aug. 2010) gloomy-sundays.blogspot.com

Hello Amber! is by Amber, a queer feminist who publishes the zines Culture Slut and Fight Boredom. She reads a lot of zines and reviews them on her blog, hello-amber.blogspot.com

I Read Zines publishes reviews of zines at ireadzines.tumblr.com. (last updated Aug. 2010) Send zines to: Hannah S., PO Box 1458, Springfield MO 65801.

Library Journal began publishing a quarterly zine review column in 2008; in 2009, the reviews moved to online only: www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/Reviews/Magazine/index.csp. Send zines for review to: Anna Katterjohn, Library Journal, 160 Varick St., New York NY 10013.

OutsideWriters reviews just about anything with a DIY ethic, including zines, small press books, chapbooks, etc., www.outsiderwriters.org. For more information, contact reviews@outsiderwriters.org.

Paniscus Revue ?”?Online collection of reviews and amusements with an emphasis on the extreme. Cult, horror & adult film reviews, punk, gothic, industrial & metal music reviews, underground commix, and zine reviews. Any poetry submissions will be roundly mocked,?” home.earthlink.net/~newpaniscus. Tom Crites, PO Box 21448, Long Beach CA 90801, tmcrites@earthlink.net.

Poopsheet Foundation reviews mini-comics only. The site is a meeting place for the mini-comics community with social networking, community blog, historical archive, forums, reviews, and more, www.poopsheetfoundation.com. Contact: Rick Bradford, PO Box 343, Bedford TX 76095-0343, ricko@poopsheetfoundation.com

Randy Spaghetti reviews zines on a monthly basis at sddzine.blogspot.com. Send zines to Randy Spaghetti, PO Box 3331, Hayden ID 83835, darlenezine@yahoo.com.

Reclusive Obscenities, reclusiveobscenities.blogspot.com, is the blog for the perzine Reclusive Obscenities, but also posts zine reviews (in video and written format), persephone@angryhippie.info.

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: Allen Freeman, 6442 Ambrosia Dr., Apt. 5108, San Diego CA 92124-3150.

Small Press Review, small companies and many self-published books and magazines are reviewed and advertised; established in 1967. Now published online only; subscription required to read reviews, www.dustbooks.com. Dustbooks, PO Box 100, Paradise CA 95967 ($35 per year individual)

Syndicated Zine Reviews reprints zine reviews & news 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, 1496 Elmwood Ave., Lakewood OH 44107

Too Many Cookies is a review blog by Chantal Lefebvre, a zinester and graphic design/illustration student. “?I like to review zines that are mainly about: feminism, gender, art, personal, small cities, travelling, and anything else that sparks my interest.”? too-many-cookies.blogspot.com, toomanycookieszr@gmail.com (last updated Aug. 2010).

TRS2 ?(The Review Sheet Squared), reviews comic zines, primarily British (sporadic updates), www.bugpowder.com/trs2. Jez Higgins, 34 Forest Rd., Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9DH, jez@jezuk.co.uk

We Make Zines (an online social network for zine publishers) includes some video zine reviews, contributed by Billy (of Proof I Exist) and others. wemakezines.ning.com

Zinethug, www.zinethug.com. Marc Parker, 2000 NE 42 Ave #221, Portland OR 97213-1399 (no reviews posted since 2009, but may be resurrected).

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 ($8 US, $9 Canada, 5 euro Europe, £2.70 UK)

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

Maximum Rocknroll, especially punk zines. Published monthly. PO Box 460760, San Francisco CA 94146, maximumrocknroll.com ($4)

Pussy, pop culture zine, irregularly published. P.5!, HC01 1030, Kaunakakai HI 96748, pussymagazine@hotmail.com (but she checks it infrequently) ($4)

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

Roctober Magazine, mostly reviews music, but also some zines/minicomics. 1507 E. 53rd St. #617, Chicago IL 60615, editor@roctober.com, www.roctober.com, roctoberreviews.blogspot.com.

If you have information on a zine-review zine or website not on this list, or a correction to a publication listed here, please let us know: PO Box 3556, Portland, OR 97208jerianne@undergroundpress.org.

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

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

Beating Hearts of the World Unite, Jyoti, PO Box 444, Wollongong NSW 2250, Australia

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

For the Clerisy, Brant Kresovich, PO Box 404, Getzville NY 14068-0404, biggestfatporker@yahoo.com

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

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

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

String Bean, Mab Matthews, PO Box 182, State College PA 16804, octopusrapids@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

These zines/websites have ceased publishing:

Almost Normal Comics

Alternative Press Review

The Best Zines Around!, Supreme Nothing Review

Best Zine Ever!

Comixville

Feminist Review

Northwest Zine Works

Slug and Lettuce

Xeens and Things

Zen Baby

Zineocracy

List updated March 2011

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 3556
Portland, OR 97208,
jerianne@undergroundpress.org