Guide to Being Broke & Fabulous zine

Guide to Being Broke & Fabulous zine by Julia Arredondo zinester indie publishing Vice Versa Press

Guide to Being Broke & Fabulous zine is a contemporary self-help publication that aims to navigate modern life on a serious budget - BUT IN STYLE. From confidence, recipes, to navigating cheap dates…AND MORE; Guide to Being Broke & Fabulous covers simple techniques that make cheap living less of a bummer. This zine was made during an artist residency at Spudnik Press in Chicago, IL.

Guide to Being Broke & Fabulous zine cover by Julia Arredondo zinester Vice Versa press Chicago

Zine details:

Guide to Being Broke & Fabulous was published as part of my residency at Spudnik Press, and is my full reason for moving to Chicago in the first place. The zine’s first run was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign. Thank you!

The zine is 5” x 7” in size and 32 pages in length. The zine is saddle-stitched and was originally published through Vice Versa Press. A mix of photocopy and risograph were used to print each edition.

Copies are available for borrowing around the USA.

Overall, it’s a self-care/self-help zine oriented toward young people in urban areas who don’t have a lot of money. I could see this being a pretty cool resource for a lot of teenagers in general, just for the author’s tough, positive attitude.

Indiana Laub, Razorcake Magazine