 Zabel's "Fear Mongers" horror webcomics was used, along with "Penny Arcade", "Fetus-X" and "American Elf", as an example of using the web to create "an explosion of diverse genres and styles" in Scott McCloud's 2006 book "Making Comics".Zabel is also a comics reviewer, having been published in such venues as "The Comics Journal", "Subliminal Tattoos", "Indy" magazine, and iComics.com.He was the editor-in-chief of "The Webcomics Examiner", an online magazine of webcomics reviews and interviews.