Metalabel squad

Few left

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.

adg zines

Few left

This zine challenges the celebration of Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable as the founder of Chicago by looking at how narratives about him obscure the balances of power in his time. For anyone interested in reading about Chicago history, Haitian-American identity, Black-Native solidarity, and public memory.

Elysian Collective

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Six writers explore the future of our planet.

Forever Magazine

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These Days Magazine

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These Days Magazine presents the final edition of our annual Chicago Artists to Watch feature. This year's class includes m.e.h., Menace4hire, Mike DFG, Mvte, Sparklmami, Teala Vera, The Era & Woes. Read the interviews & check out the photography in our first ever digital zine.

Heartbeats

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A beautifully designed digital, seasonal journal for sensitive souls, busy minds, and anyone craving a deeper connection to life's natural rhythms. Slow down and find presence with guided reflection, embodied rituals, and creative practices. Give yourself permission to gently align with the ebb and flow of energy while nurturing your soul.

Creasidence

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The digital zine that is a result of the March 2025 Creasidence Comics Workshop held in Tokyo. Over the course of 4 days, 20 artists from around the world came together to co-create a comic zine centered around the theme of cherry blossom. Each page's center is the frame by Workshop Lead Mentor, renowned mangaka Akira Fukaya.

REINCANTAMENTO Publishing

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nCHANT's inaugural issue explores digital gardens as autonomous spaces for expression beyond platform capitalism. Features research with Trust community, essays on fractal structures, self-hosting guides, and philosophical dialogues. Published by REINCANTAMENTO, this issue offers a glimpse into a more personal Web.

Creasidence

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A new Four-Panel Comics Zine by Creasidence, created in an online workshop by 4 artists. Using the kishotenketsu structure, we explore storytelling beyond conflict, embracing surprise, openness, and creative freedom in four panel limits.

etal..(.)..

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A collaborative, ongoing project exploring collective consciousness through art, aiming to expose and reimagine power systems via curated visual language. Each work within et al acts as an ethical provocation inviting reflection on complicity, identity, and systemic constructs that challenge normalized hierarchies making space for radical empathy.

Dystopie Fleurs by Beau Bree Rhee

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A guide with 12 prompts (journaling, ecological, spiritual, social/belonging), and chosen texts, to navigate climate dystopia in the spring months. 18p, digital.

The Independent Variable

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a single-page, double-sided, black & white zine looking back at April 2025 with an accompanying mini-zine of nonsense, Bumfuzzle, and the second issue of four-headed foofaraw.

Nuts

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418 page book, each sold with a unique inkjet print from the issue Houllebecq. Vogue. 2011 Emo Facebook posts. Engrish. Jenny Holzer. Imperatives. Hal Fischer. Uniqlo. Running in a nightmare. Tone shifts. Détournement. Hijacking. Hiding. Curating the audience. The plot inside your head.

vector

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A collaborative zine that brings together 23 creators from around the world to share their aspirations for a future where creativity is liberated

HARDCORE AMBIENT

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cassette tape, mini zine and sticker combo collab between KMT and ELEVATOR TEETH