What is Friendcities?

Friendcities is an Arizona-based art magazine that celebrates friendship, art, and the way they bring us together. Our zine (pronounced zeen) was started in 2023 by Andrue/Voupie. With every issue we hope to give you guys good art and diverse perspectives on the prompts we cover in our zine! ✮⋆˙

How's It Made?

When we begin work on a new zine we start by deciding what prompts we will be using. The prompts used in a zine will be in the Table of Contents section. There are 3 major topics or prompts that we give our contributors to inspire a piece of statement. The prompts are decided by all of the members through an anonymous submission and voting process. Once we have voted on 3 prompts that we'd like to use, we begin work. There is a working period of around a month or so where each of the members has an opportunity to create a piece of work for any (or all) of the 3 prompts. After the due date for the submissions our editors create things like the cover, the table of contents, ads, as well as the music recommendation pages. Once all of this is completed and the zine is ready to be put out it is posted here on this website and we announce it on our social media page, @friendcities on Instagram.