friendship

Scrapbook/family album of daily life in a Mexican-American family

Tips from Chicago writer/artist Julia Arredondo on living fully without a lot of money. Came in a plastic wrap.

Hearts in Transit is a collection of poetry by Kathleen Markland and Cynthia Frezek.

It took two years for this zine finally to hit print. Sema and Agatha began writing and drawing in 2012 after a close friend of their died in a car crash. After graduating high school, they backed away from the work, but ultimately were brought back together after another friend was incarcerated. The work includes a variety of prose, photography, and drawing. It is an ode to people, spoken through memories of their deceased friend and other lost acquaintances.

A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Life is a Zine that was written as a part of National Novel Writing Month. The Author, Kisha, discusses her early life and the difficulties that she and her family went through.

The first issue of the 826CHI Zine with a collection of writings by students on the 826CHI Youth Advisory Board.

Short piece about a break up and the author's search for answers about it.<br />

Short fiction tracing a series of haircuts given to herself and to her friends, through a series of dye jobs (and dye-job betrayal) done by a beauty shop worker whom the author had also bonded with through her hair.<br />

90 poems on the author's neighborhood, friends, and observations of Chicago in general., as well as thoughts on cultural and labor politics.<br />

Non-fiction stories on being swindled by a scammer into thinking he and his friends would receive $30,000, a punk band stranded in Indiana and staying in the middle of nowhere with a latex mask artist, finding punk comaraderie at North Illinois University, receiving a letter in the mail upon high school graduation that he wrote to himself in junior high, and getting hand burns from falling out of a tree house.<br />