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A friend that I trust recommended it to me. The inter-tron-net tells me that it is back after a long absence with issue #18.

What do you know about it?

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

It's Jessica Hopper's zine that she started when she was a wee lass in Minnesota in the early '90s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

it's only pure, undiluted genius!

― Wrinklepaws (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

i guess she started it because Cake wouldn't let her write for it. El Guapo didn't approve.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

it is also home to some of the finer Sapphic delights of the literary 'zine scene. totally fuckin' punk rock to boot.

― Wrinklepaws (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Issue #18 Front Cover: AIDS Wolf

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I honestly think HIOQI was the best zine around in the late 90s, hands down, regardless of what you think about the woman some call Stressica Hopper*. Funny, varied, smart, all that.

* who I think is great, so, make of that what you will.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Great writer, great zine. I have the first four issues!

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

The only issue I have was the Un-Unwound issue, where Jessica laments that she wasn't able to get an interview with Unwound, which was the main piece... (which I thought was funny because Unwound are/were very amiable, approachable folks, but just don't play the "we're interviewing right now" thing very well at all, but are very talkative informally -- so I was surprised that even socially retarded me got to "interview" them before she tried and failed.)

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 31 March 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

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