Get your ANDROMEDA zines and chapbooks on, now available at Word Up Bookstore!
Excited that they now have my works.
Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10032
The Zine Menu
How to Talk to Welli About Goya: A Broken Pencil Zine Award finalist at Canzine 2021! If you have a cursing grandma or relative resistant to changing brands that are supporting politicians trying to kill us… This Zine is for you! Colonialism, capitalism and comfort identity runs deep and is acknowledged. Pero, ¡sí, se puede!
Cover page is individually hand colored. A comic How to Zine. Drawing way too close to edges and finicky copy machine means some individual, one-of-a-kind inking. Don’t leave your zine naked! We have pretty zine sleeves for purchase. Available while supplies last in white paper and Adobo yellow cardstock paper.
12 Days of Bomba: A comic zine that celebrates some of the wonderful things that a well-run program (Los Pleneros de la 21), which teaches Puerto Rican bomba y plena, offers families and community over the years, and in the year 2020. In the spirit of 12 Days of Christmas. Learn some of the joys and medicine that is bomba y plena. For a peak of the full zine, watch the video with volume on!
Maria: A litzine and perzine set in 1970s NYC that emerges from a black and white photograph, a photograph that takes us to Maria. Life, love, loss. Deeply personal and handled with care. The seed for what became one of my novels, and my story “Jean”. Tender, glowing review by Broken Pencil Magazine Summer 2022 issue (Joshua Barton). “In just a handful of words, Andromeda skillfully but barely sketches Maria as a brash teenager, in a Puerto Rican family in New York City, and then as an equally brash ghost haunting the halls of their old apartment.”
This zine is crafted in different mediums. Sometimes using Kodak photo paper and xeroxed text from a typewriter collaged in with photographs, sometimes collaged in somber paper. Sometimes originally typed in a typewriter. Each zine has four photo album corners so that when you open the zine, it is as if you are reading a photograph.
ZINE100 How Not To Be Colonized by Outreach Programs: A How-to-zine on working with people who offer you stuff. ANDROMEDA VERSION. This zine walks you through how to get the most out of your funding partnerships! Successfully funded on Kickstarter in February 2022, and included in New York Comic Con 2022’s Kickstarter panel, this version of the zine is now available to the public, in limited supply.
THE ANDROMEDA Zine100 is 14 pages (plus cover and back) measuring 4.5 inches tall ish X 2.5 wide ish (depending on the luck of the fold) copied on white paper for the non-Kickstarter exclusive. This zine is similar to the ANDROMEDA #Goyaway advocacy zine How To Talk to Welli About Goya, which was a finalist for The Broken Pencil Best Zine Award 2021 and featured at Canzine2021. Text and cute cartoons (by a writer), hand folded and stapled in the true spirit of DIY zines. A finicky xerox machine means each has a spot of original inkwork on a page or two. Copied humorously at West Side Stationers on the Upper Fresh Side of Manhattan, NYC. Packaged in a library card pocket (various surprise colors) that are hand-stamped in blue soy based ink “MADE WITH ❤ ANDROMEDA”. Note that this zine does not come colored as in the Kickstarter photos: it’s a fun destressing color-it-yourself version in white with black ink.
BONUS: this zine violates proper grammar in its subtitle, because of both the gray zone between “people” versus “groups” offering money who-versus-that, and to quote my domestic editor: it’s spoken word and a decolonization zine. You don’t serve the Queen’s English.” However, I ❤️MY HOOD Zine100 better follows rules of grammar and uses “who”.
A collaboration between ANDROMEDA and I ❤️MY HOOD. A public health advocate zinester teaming up with a collective of loving-your-hood neighborhood muralists and style writers is pretty cool stuff.
The I ❤️MY HOOD Zine100 is 14-pages (plus cover and back) in full color, an approximately 8 inches tall X 5 inches wide zine, text with cartoons. Same text as the ANDROMEDA Zine100, but with different illustrations by I ❤️ MY HOOD. “We are a collective of worldwide Artists, Educators and Activists dedicated to serving the greater good through Hip Hop, a culture derived of social dynamics and the American (in)justice system. I LOVE MY HOOD is a movement dedicated to those connected by Culture, Loyalty, Respect and Community. No matter how strong the oppression or how deep our own faults… We stand strong to better ourselves, our quality of life and to defend our Hood; Not renounce it…. The Good. The Bad. But Always, Beautiful.” See some of their style and talent in the video below!” Printed by Radix Media (worker-owned Union printer in Brooklyn, NY).
This zine comes with a “THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY PUBLISHED” postcard with bullet points of core concepts of the zine, plus original art by Patrick Lugo.
Eye on The Prize: The adventures of Nova Odyssey (“Jean”, Jesus Christ Rides the K Train) continue in this 20 page full color chapbook, 4.5K words of prose.
A numbers-running-comic-book-reading preteen turns her grandmother into an unwitting loan shark, in a salsa-infused household where love’s for sale and liable to get stolen.
A few salsa songs get a nod here, but the main feature is “Ojos” by Willie Colón and Rubén Blades, written by Johnny Ortiz.
Nova Odyssey is in a bind. Grandma’s given the boot to her bookmaker boyfriend, Juan, and has instructed Nova to run this week’s bolita numbers for her instead. Nova, though, already spent the money Grandma had given her—on comic books, so what was she gonna tell bodega owner Yason? Her aunt and uncle meanwhile are in their typical tug-of-war of the hearts in that Cecelia has too much of one, and Marcus, like an “Ojos” crooning Ruben Blades, is all eyes. The showdown for these household characters happens at the bombazo in the projects’ courtyard: Nova’s chancleta fate, Juan’s quest for a Trojan Horse back into Grandma’s life, and a conclusion to her aunt’s heartache that would make Lieutenant Columbo proud.
Jesus Christ Rides the K Train
WHAT DOES JESUS CHRIST LOOK LIKE?
Grab a subway token, fall into a wormhole, and take a ride on the K Train.
This short zine is an excerpt of the novel The Saints of Columbus by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos. It features original photography, black book art by Tracy168 and art by Aaron Guzman. Designed by ANDROMEDA with template “MyTeamArt”. Full color, 8 pages plus cover and back. Limited publication, January 2024.
