Zine guide.

Zine Guide was a review zine published by Brent Ritzel (who also published Tail Spins). Ritzel described it as "Complete contact information for 1500+ zines and assorted independent publications. Complete contents, cost, pages, size, and production quality of all available issues of every zine liste...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ritzel, Brent
Language:English
Published: Evanston, IL : B. Ritzel
Subjects:
Fan magazines > Catalogs > Periodicals.
Zines > Catalogs > Periodicals.
Little magazines > Catalogs > Periodicals.
Zine libraries > Directories.
Zines.
Genre:
Catalogs
Periodicals.
Directories.
Zines.
Online Access:
Connect to: Entry at Zinewiki.com
Local Note:
MSU: Purchased in part with funds provided by the Force Family Endowment for Popular Culture.
Physical Description:volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Zineguide.
Format: Journal
Description
Summary:
Zine Guide was a review zine published by Brent Ritzel (who also published Tail Spins). Ritzel described it as "Complete contact information for 1500+ zines and assorted independent publications. Complete contents, cost, pages, size, and production quality of all available issues of every zine listed. Indexes of bands, record labels, and all subjects/topics." With glossy covers and it's mammoth size, Zine Guide resembled a magazine in appearance, but it's content was an in-depth, cross-referenced directory of the DIY zine community. In addition to zine listings, Zine Guide also encouraged readers to vote or rate their favorite and least favorite zines and included famous zinesters, band members and indie record label owners' lists of their favorite zines. The zine printed rankings from it's readers, including the top ten zines in various categories and the top 100 most popular zines. This practice caused some controversy and Zine Guide received (and published) angry letters about this practice. Regardless how one viewed the voting and rankings, for a few years Zine Guide served as an impressive resource and up-to-date directory of zines. -- Based on "Zine Guide" at Zinewiki.com.
Call Number:Z286.Z54 Z5
Published:Began in 1999; ceased in the 2000s.
ISSN:1537-6125
Source of Description:
Description based on: #2 (winter/spring 1999); title from cover.
Latest issue consulted: #5 (fall/winter 2001).