I ordered a bunch of zines in the mail and in the stack was one about the residents and goings-on within an apartment building in Chicago. I thought it was pretty brilliant to limit a publication to such a small area for content. My husband thought we could make a publication about an even smaller place, our house. Lots goes on in our house, even though it's just the two of us. In American Stuccolow, we have sections on the bills we pay, when the alarm goes off accidentally, what pools are nearby, what our contractor has for lunch, and more. The most popular section of the publication is "Fight Club" which chronicles some of our fights. People love to read about marital dischord.

The title, "American Stuccolow" refers directly to the publication "American Bungalow," but the similarities end there. American Stuccolow is the first collaborative publication between Louis Marchesano and I. We are looking forward to putting out a second issue, but missed the deadline for the Christmas issue. The first one came out in June, 2005.

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