During its nine-year run, Sidewalk Bubblegum has been published in hundreds of magazines, books, and zines including Z Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Funny Times, Comic Relief, Creative Loafing, Factsheet 5, Metro Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Hufvudstadsbladet, Finland’s largest Swedish-language daily newspaper.
The magazine was launched in the 1990s by Doug Holland as a more opinionated alternative to Factsheet 5, but has continued publishing since its larger competitor's disappearance in 1998.