Fave zines of all time?

[Billy Da Bunny]

I didn't make PZS, so I'm starting a new discussion! What zines changed your life?

Like I said in another post, the late great Happy Goat, by Jason Simplot, totally changed my life, and got me "plugged in" to this whole world. So that's up there for me. Go Metric was another old favorite, that I think is still around. When I got to Chicago I discovered War Against the Idiots, Burn Collector, Safety Pin Girl, Loitering is Good, and a ton of others that helped me meet zine friends in real life (as opposed to pen pals, which was all I'd had previously). I'm Johnny and I don't Give a Fuck is great. Oh, there's a great zine out of California called All About Fuckin, which is totally perverted and great. So Midwest is one of the greatest/thickest zines of all time, and anything by Zach Sternwalker is great.

How bout you?

[Synthia Nicole]

"stoked on spokes"
is the first one that comes to mind. thanks for the contributions 'all! i can look up these titles at mctc where there's a zine section in there library. - c.g.

[Synthia Nicole]

soy not oi !!!!!
my first zine,;

[Iris]

"APPLICANT" from microcosm publishing
it is the most wonderful zine i've ever encountered.

[kami]

back in the beginning it was probably the likes of "smash it up" and "dna" that made we want to do zines - last zine to really make a difference was "Confederate Mack" - totally changed my way of thinking which is a pretty good achievement considering i'd already done over forty revolutions of this planet by then

[Dan 10things]

chinagirl said:

soy not oi !!!!!
my first zine,;

Soy No Oi! was inspiring to me too, it was the first zine I got that was more like book/chapbook, similar to a lot of the stuff Microcosm publishes now, but back then no one was self-publishing books like that in the punk scene. Hippycore put that out I think. The thing is, a lot of the recipes and cooking tips were pretty horrible I learned as I became a better cook through the years. But it was a great DIY attempt to get punk kids cooking for themselves and thinking about cooking vegan, which while common place today, was a pretty new concept back in the late 80s when it was first published.

[whatwave dave]

Kicks zine did it for me.....when i first read issue #3 i was totally blown away!! Read it from cover to cover and haven't re-covered yet!! LOL...this is is the zine that made me realize that you gotta let others know what music you're into...and maybe you'll convince a few people to get into what you really like...plus have fun doing it...

Other zines that got me interested were Bomp, New York Rocker, OP and tons of others that i still have in boxes...

BTW, i'm really glad i stumbled upon this group, had no idea that it existed!

[Lorna V.]

I can't say no to Telegram Ma'am.

[Aj Michel]

This list is zines only, not minicomix, b/c that's something entirely different (to me, anyway):

Long gone:
Beer Frame
Thrift Score
Throwrug
Farm Pulp
The Glovebox Chronicles
Peko Peko
8-Track Mind
Bunnyhop
Mystery Date

Status unknown:
Semibold
Chatty Pig
Transom

Still publishing:
Leeking Ink
Fish with Legs
Hungover Gourmet
I Dreamed I was Assertive
OFF-Line

One-shots:
I was a teenage mormon
Dirt + Sky (I lent my copy to a friend who NEVER gave it back to me, and I really miss it!)
We Ain't Go No Car!

[Dan 10things]

Aj Michel said:

This list is zines only, not minicomix, b/c that's something entirely different (to me, anyway):

Long gone:
Beer Frame
Thrift Score
Throwrug
Farm Pulp
The Glovebox Chronicles
Peko Peko
8-Track Mind
Bunnyhop
Mystery Date

This could practically be my list as well, although I'd throw in Spaghetti Dinner & Dancing, The Probe, Answer Me, Dishwasher, Pathetic Life, Fucktooth and Rollerderby for gone, but not forgotten zines.

Current faves: Cometbus, Genetic Disorder (just got the new issue, first in like 2 years!), Broken Hipster, East Village Inky, Zine World and I do like Applicant (super short read!), but I thought of it more as a chapbook than a zine.

[Brittany M.]

It's great to see Doris getting so much respect! Love that zine.

[jessica domino]

that girl, definitely. i started reading zines around thirteen and it opened my eyes to a world/lifestyle outside of my shitty small town.

[ciaraxyerra]

that would be china martens, who writes "the future generation" as well.