LetterZine Issue #30: Ransom Note

Lauren Florence

Lauren Florence, Pam Galante + Kaitlin Callender

Lauren Florence, Pam Galante + Kaitlin Callender

I started thinking about what (non-crime-related) note would creep me out should I receive it, and this was the result.

Maria Ku

Once the Halloween stuff hits the shelves, I become a Reese’s pumpkin monster. I can’t help it. They end up in the shopping cart. They end up in my desk drawers. They fill every candy dish. Next thing you know, I’m writing ransom notes.

Kaitlin Callender

‘I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look foryou, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.’ - Liam Neeson in Taken. And yes, that’s a Nokia 3310 in the background.

Ayla Mirolo

911. What’s your emergency?

Cecilia Rios

I love the idea of ransom notes through history. How did different cultures at different times create their own magazine cutout threats? Did cavemen draw threatening doodles? I landed on runes ‘cause they feel so rigid and visceral—hard, jagged letters that match the message: Pay or Meet Odin

Bill Cunningham

I tried to think of something unsettling that could be on a ransom note, and this came to mind. Not exactly a ransom note... but still makes you feel weird, right?

Lauren Florence

Well, so it’s not technically a ransom note. But those Zodiac crypotgrams are so interesting.

Brittany Arita

The cheapest, weirdest, and tastiest ransom price you will ever find.

Pam Galante

Issue #30 | September 2019 | Ransom Note