After a brief hiatus, the Zine Yearbook is returning! The good folks at Microcosm Publishing will be delivering the 9th volume of the yearbook. For more information, please visit their site.

More about the Zine Yearbook...

Clamor Magazine is proud to present the 8th volume of The Zine Yearbook: A Year In The Life Of The Underground Press. Whether this is the first time you’ve heard the word “zine” (pronounced “zeen”) or you are a seasoned veteran of zine culture, The Zine Yearbook is your window into the world of underground publishing. Order now.

Who's in it this year?

This installment of The Zine Yearbook features the best of the underground zine culture from the last year, including excerpts from:

Altar Magazine • American Libaries • Anti-Up • The Beat Within • Chainbreaker • Chickenhed Zine and Roll • Complexification Strategory • Cryptozoa • Drank Too Much in Milwaukee • Fish Piss • From Brooklyn to Balata • Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book • glossolalia • Go Metric • greenzine • here • Ideas in Pictures • Imagine • Inner Swine • Insubordination • kiss machine • Kitchen Sink • Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet • Leeking Ink • Letters from a Bicycle • Limited Delivery Area • LOUDmouth • LOVE • LuLuLand • Mamaphiles • Mama Sez No War! • Media Geek • Merge • Modern Arizona • Multi-Kid • Mutate Zine • OFF-Line • Pick Your Poison • Rated Rookie • Ride On • Safety Pin Girl • Secret Mystery Love Shoes • Seedhead • Slouch • Sobaka • This Is Still Not About Your Favorite Band • Tight Pants • Trouble In Mind • With Fire in Our Throats • Women’s Self Defense: Stories and Strategies of Survival • Zine Librarian Zine • Zine World: A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press.

Advance Praise for this volume of the Yearbook

"The Zine Yearbook is like no other publication I know. It is unique, and vastly entertaining"
—– Howard Zinn

"Zines have the tang of truth about them. They're unabashedly passionate and sell nothing but ideas, whether the topic is autobiographical, political, or cultural-- and no matter that they're often roughly edited, if at all. Thanks to Jen Angel and Jason Kucsma, some of the best zine writing and graphics have been culled annually now for seven years. Their Zine Yearbook is both an interestingly diverse sampler of the real alternative press (read "non-commercial, heterodox, irregular, and independent") and a fruitful entry into a world where "publish it ourselves" makes perfect sense"
—– Chris Dodge, Street Librarian/Utne magazine

"If you have friends, acquaintances, or family who don't get the whole 'zine thing,' this is the book you want to leave on top of your unplugged TV set...This book is fun, exciting, eye-opening, important… You have no excuse for not ordering a copy, now."
—– Doug Holland, Zine World

"After all those terrible 'inside the zine world' kind of books have long since disappeared into remainder table limbo, The Zine Yearbook gives us a clear glimpse of what is really going on in the world of zines by showing us, through excerpts from various fanzines, that all over the world people are taking over the mans of production and glutting the market with reams of photocopies musings.. If you've got any interest in exploring the best that not for profit independent publishing has to offer, you should already own this."
—– Sean Sullivan, Maximum Rock n Roll co-editor

More Information about the Zine Yearbook Series

The Zine Yearbook is yearly anthology of small press writing. Each edition is a collection of excerpts from publications printed in a certain year with circulations of less than 5,000 copies per issue. There are thousands of small press, independent zines in publication today, and the Zine Yearbook seeks both to document these efforts and to provide some well-deserved visibility and recognition to people who make the zine world the vibrant community that it is.

Where most books on zines seek to categorize, label, and analyze the small publishing revolution, this series simply lets you decide for yourself by providing real excerpts from current publications. This book also serves as a great introduction for anyone looking for a place to get a foothold in the vast zine world. Contact information is provided for all zines included as well as an extensive honorable mentions section.