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A headshot of Kelly Chia, next to the cover of her zine, which has beautiful purple pastel flowers.
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SFYou: Kelly Chia discusses Memories of Home zine

Peak Web December 18, 2025

By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief  Memories of Home is a vivid and tender zine written and illustrated by SFU alum, Kelly Chia. It explores identity, and interrogates the dominant narratives that outline history. The zine’s opening is striking: “I am Malaysian-Chinese. There is so much this hyphen is carrying.” Memories of Home also features colourful hand-drawn illustrations of durian, starfruit, the Tambuakar (a water dragon), and more. Chia writes, “Home in the sense I’ve been exploring in this zine, is the stories we continue to tell, to listen to, and to learn from.” Memories of Home is filled with emotion, imagery,…

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Witchling is a gorgeous, albeit incomplete, tale

Peak Web June 21, 2018

By: Natasha Tar I picked up this zine four years ago, yet even now I like flipping through it for the art. Witchling is a single-issue comic zine by Renee Nault, a Vancouver-born artist. The story follows a young woman…

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Zine-phobia runs rampant in the world of Blackbird

EIC September 6, 2016

Take a second to picture a world where the distribution of self-published content could have you arrested. Now, imagine a group of rebellious skateboarding anarchists taking the fight to a corrupt government and its crooked politicians through the illegal circulation…

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