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II stix Back Online After Four Years

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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Comments (7) to “II stix Back Online After Four Years”

1. Grace wrote:

   It’s about time!

   Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 9:26 am | Permalink

2. 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

3. Ki wrote:

   Thanks Ern for the linky love.

   Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 12:06 pm | Permalink

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. darleene wrote:

   oooh, thanks for the heads up.

   Posted on 02-Mar-08 at 1:51 am | Permalink

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