am i here? or am i still there? [zine]

Zine contributions for “Demons Yearbook” project with Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco. I was a lead artist facilitating workshops that dived into SF Chinatown’s history, character design concepts, multi-medium expressions, and communicating personal/community narratives. The official release of “Demons Yearbook” will be celebrated at Chinatown Pride 2025.

More about the project from Chinese Culture Center’s Website:

Presented by the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC), “Demons Yearbook” is an art education project in collaboration with San Francisco high schools. Working with lead artists Inky Fingers Print Collective—a Bay Area-based, justice-driven arts education collective—alongside four partnering school teachers, the program engages students in comics and zine-making as tools to resist, express, and form their perspectives on issues that link them to their local communities.

Rooted in themes inspired by the Hungry Ghost Festival, the project delves into San Francisco youth’s unseen and unspoken struggles—addressing racial injustice, state violence, the immigrant experience, identity, the mental health crisis, and more. Through creative workshops, students will shape their own narratives, transforming personal and collective hauntings into individual zines. At the project’s culmination, their work will be compiled into a powerful monster anthology—a visual archive of the ghosts, demons, and spirits that define their realities, and the rituals they create to release them.

pt.1 // haunted

pt.2 // release