It contains satirical articles (such as fake news briefs, interviews, and op-ed pieces), cartoons, and photos.

As of 2014, The Zamboni creates pieces of installation art, multimedia, sketch comedy, and pranks, among other non-print projects.

The Zamboni was founded by Josh Wolk (Class of '91) in the fall of 1989 with the help of a Tufts Daily layout artist, Nicole Pierce.

Wolk described his reason for creating the magazine as: "It was basically a reaction to what we felt was a lack of sense of humor on campus (this was in the dawning days of political correctness).

It was also a slightly embittered reaction to the fact that the guys at the Harvard Lampoon were sitting in a castle just two cities away and getting every TV writing job as soon as they graduated.

The original staff was mostly seniors, and the first issues poked fun at the TCU Senate and on-campus fraternities.

After a "dry period" between the mid-1990s and early 2000s, The Zamboni went through a revitalization in content and structure in 2013, led by then-Managing Editor Graham Starr.

attitude, the Zamboni pushed more toward the conceptual art community at Tufts, and has been focusing more on experimental comedy and multimedia and digital content.

Currently, The Zamboni is either twenty or twenty-four pages long (including front and back cover, and is divided by section.

The success of the 1999 "student notebook parody" (itself a homage to The National Lampoon's High School Yearbook) led to a change in format.

In fall 2000, with the publication moved to a conventional multicolor staplebound magazine-style layout centered around a singular theme, similar to the National Lampoon magazines of the 1970s.

This was a change from the previous newspaper tabloid style of the magazine, and focuses more on artistic direction, photo manipulation, and article-based content.

In 2014 The Zamboni also became involved in mixed media and installation art pieces as auxiliaries to publication ventures.

In spring 2015, The Zamboni launched its website and started publishing digital-only content in addition to its other projects.

Also included among traditions are the Lindenbaum Memorial Library (LML) which is located in a dark alcove of the Tufts Mab Lab.