Full-color zine about the author’s experiences with friendship as they relate to community care, moving from surviving to thriving, mutual aid, & healing from trauma, as well as topics such as competition culture & jealousy, boundary work, & radical vulnerability.

The Foodies: How pop-up chefs became the new indie rockers
Summer DIY Issue: Make Your Own Board Game, Primp Your Zine and Discover DIY Gynecology

Mad Zines: Creators confront mental illness
Plus: Piracy Hits the Underground & How Indie Ideas Become Franchises

Zines Vs. High Art: In the gallery, zines are selling for $400 a page. Is this the future of DIY?

Working Words: Introducing Emma Healey
Swap It: Bartering Becomes A Way of Life
Plus... Indie Writers Deathmatch V: the Winners (and the Whiners)

Arrested Artists, Book Thug's Punk Poetry & the YA Underground.
The inside story of zine publishing behind bars.

I Feel Funny Mommy: Shary Boyle on the Art of Shame (and Fame)
Dear E-Diary: Public Confessions and Private Doubts
Why Bother? Zine Girls Talk About the Long Road Away from Home
plus: Mark Kingwell Week, Canada Post Casual, Sick Punks
new fiction by: Heather O'Neill, Golda Fried, and Catherine Kidd
All-Girl Zine Roundup!

Reinventing the Wheel: When Bikes and Art Collide
Deathmatch's Winning Fiction, the Second Coming of Daniel Jones & Zines in Zambia

"Don't Call Me Funny": Why Our Funniest Writers Desperately Want to be Taken Seriously
Shock Comedy: Anyone Left to Provoke?
Broken Sesame Scene: Zine Tells All About Canada's Indie Darlings
Plan to Get Crazy: Katie Crown and the New Generation of Comic Wunderkinds
...This issue contains at least two Margaret Atwood jokes...

Special anniversary 100 page issue!!
Wacky, Weird and Probably Dangerous: The Media Monopoly Reports On Zine Culture by Hal Niedzviecki
Rock Writing on the Pop Treadmill by Jean Smith
The Message in the Medium: CityTV reporter Wilson Lee on tv news and his zine Minute Thirty
Giant Cross0Country Indie Media Round-Up
Punk Rocker Stalks Killer Hippie for A&E
Brave New Waves Turns 15
Adbusters Busts CNN
The Goatee as Fashion Atrocity
Hundreds of Zine Reviews