II stix, one of the first Asian American zines on the Internet, is back online after a four year hiatus, with a new redesign to boot. Also revived from Internet purgatory is one of the comics that editor Ki Han drew specifically for II stix, The Mochi. (Note: Ki also designed the 8Asians.com logo.)
I owe a lot to II stix; I had a regular column called These Voices back in 1999 which contain some of my earliest writing on the web and would contribute to starting a blog. I met fellow columnist Min Jung Kim there, where we were fellow columnists and became bloggers, road trip buddies, 8A writers and friends to this day.
II stix had a TON of content, hundreds of articles and columns. All of the content is archived, and I’m sure Ki will be putting up more new stuff as time goes on; it’ll be interesting to see how much of that content has stood the test of time, especially now that a lot of rabid readers have gone from being crazy college students to “responsible” adults, possible with wives and kids.
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7 Comments to “II stix Back Online After Four Years”
Grace wrote:
It’s about time!
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 9:26 am | Permalink
Roshan wrote:
That’s great news Ernie! II stix was one of the first Asian American focused sites I went to regularly in college. I actually had an Asian American Studies class in 2002 where we had to write a research paper on APA online communities and I wrote mine on II stix. Glad to see it’s back…
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 10:19 am | Permalink
Ki wrote:
Thanks Ern for the linky love.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
LL wrote:
Damn. You’re right, Ernie. I have a couple of articles on there and I am so embarrassed by them now that I am a married mother of two. Eeek!
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 4:52 pm | Permalink
Jesse! wrote:
hmm, so far can’t find any of Min Jung’s JAWBHOM articles…
Posted on 20-Feb-08 at 3:10 pm | Permalink
bumscientist wrote:
As a child, I learned a lot from reading Min Jung’s articles. I thought that name looked familiar; now I know why.
Posted on 21-Feb-08 at 7:01 pm | Permalink
darleene wrote:
oooh, thanks for the heads up.
Posted on 02-Mar-08 at 1:51 am | Permalink
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