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First of all, sorry for the wait in responding to your question. Having said that, let's get to my answer....
Jen, Jen, Jen! you have to realize what you're asking me! you state that you want me to think up a good title or a name for a teen relationship magazine that is made up? If you think for a moment about the nature of your question, it's impossible for me to answer it! Jen, you must realize that any name that you come up with will be based on the direction and focus you want the magazine to take. This must be decided beforehand by YOU! not me, or anyone else for that matter! Jen, only YOU know the audience that you are trying to reach with this project, and furthermore, YOU are the one who has a burning desire to create a magazine in the first place. My advice to you is to TRUST YOUR OWN INSTINCTS ON THIS! the results will be infinitely more satisfying if you work this concept through yourself rather than accept my recommendation or anyone elses. I'm not telling you this to blow you off, far from it! what I am attempting to do here is to "give you permission" to be yourself and go with what YOU feel. I know that it will turn out good.
As far as getting material for your magazine I suggest you check out some writing sites and ask writers for submissions. Writers are pretty generous about submitting work providing that you give them a by line in your publication, and also send them a copy of your work. There are a number of free sites you can go to on the internet concerning this, just type in the term "writing, poetry, etc." in a search engine and see what you come up with.
Understand also that my particular column focuses on art related problems ( as they relate to visual art) and not poetry, publications, or writing. Keep in mind also, that even when a person asks me an art related question, I never "tell them what to do" instead, I help them to discover the answer within themselves by asking them leading questions, using personal experiences to inspire and encourage them, and point them to periodicals, videos, and web sites that they may not have known about prior to contacting me.
As far as character development for a comic strip, I suggest that you first make two or three main characters, and some supporting characters. You might have a character who has all the answers and solves everyones problems, another who falls into bad relationships and serves as a comedy relief of sorts, and a third who just kind of observes everything that goes on. If you want the strip to relate to a specific audience, ie. punk, hip hop, rock etc. then target your characters in that direction. If you want your strip to relate to a wider audience then make your characters multi racial being careful not to place on race against another or to overly stereotype. Where can you get ideas? that's easy! Interview people ask a question like What was your date from hell like? once the person describes it, ask them can you use elements of it to use in your comic strip. You can even choose a problem of the week and ask a variety of people how they dealt with it. Remember to have fun on this regardless of what you do. Most people get discouraged at the awesome responsibility of putting together a magazine, but I've found that the ones who stick with it are generally the ones who have the most FUN doing it.If you're having fun, it's more like play and less like work.
A good resource that will help you is a site called "Zinebook" you can find them by pasting this address into your browser. (see below)

http://www.zinebook.com/

It is a site that has a lot of interesting "how to" articles written by a lot of self publishers like you to print distribute write and illustrate their own magazines, or zines as they call it. This site can be a bit overwhelming, so take your time with it, pass on the stuff you dont like or cant use, and Take the stuff that's useful to you.
I hope I've answered your questions.
Happy Drawing.
Elgin.