Sometimes a zine feels like a singular work of art, while other times it feels more like a web or a collage. “Fogtown Zine Issue #1” is definitely the latter. Inside it’s pages are a grab bag of content: excerpts of interviews with celebrities and activists, submitted art and poetry, world-building in the form of imagined interviews with characters, stills from a “Fogtown” movie, and an excerpt from a comic about Tee, a lonely bird-girl navigating a post-apocalyptic city run by a bike gang. Honestly, all the chats, and doodles, and QR codes felt extraneous next to the comic; the comic is where this zine shines, and all the other content just feels like a distraction from the too-short taste of this radically rad story. Spread over 2 scenes lasting only 14 pages, the comic left me wishing for more, that I could have gone on Tee’s journey with her.

Fogtown‘s creator, Ari Gold describes the project as “an adventure of profound, joyful, and wild transformation.” I hope issue 2 dedicates more space to the comic — and less to the celebrities and submissions — as that sounds like an adventure I would love to go on.