Exhibitors
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Here is a partial list of confirmed exhibitors who will be tabling on Saturday, March 13 at Columbia College's Conaway Center.
Some exhibitors have opted to not be listed on the website or in the program. Please visit the exhibitor registration page for information on exhibiting. This list was last updated February 25, 2010.
826CHI
826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826CHI works with thousands of students throughout the city each year creating zines, chapbooks, and professional publications. What might you find in an 826 chapbook? Cantankerous crayfish, lava-laced milkshakes, potatoes in jean shorts, a menacing grantula (half grandma/half tarantula), essays on education, ruminations on family, sarcasm, silliness, thoughtfulness, and more than a few touches of the bizarre. And that's usually in the first ten pages.
Monica Anderson, Endless Escalators
I am about to graduate with a BA in Filmmaking, of all things, but before I liked making movies, I liked writing stories. Endless Escalators is a perzine full of a lot of stories. Embarrassing ones, sad ones, ones that I shouldn't even really be telling anyone else, but usually ones that I want plenty of people to read. I am also starting to dip my toes into the terrifying and icy water that is drawing comics, and I plan to have at least one issue full of these in time for this event! That is, if I don't die trying to graduate first. WE'LL SEE.
http://takeyourteeth.blogspot.com/
AREA Chicago
AREA Chicago Art/Research/Education/Activism is a publication and event series dedicated to researching supporting and networking local social, political and cultural movements.
Eric Bartholomew, Junk Drawer
I enjoy writing, photography, and finding odds and ends of all sorts. All this kind of came together in my zines. Specifically, they are about stuff that doesn't really have a place to belong, but that is saved anyway. Like you'd find in a junk drawer, and their stories.
Nate Beaty, Brainfag, BFF
Nate Beaty is an artist, writer, photographer and author the long running zine Brainfag that was recently collected into the book BFF. He is also a frequent contributer to Papercutter and the Trouble Club collections. Originally from Oregon, he now lives in Chicago.
Jenna Bee, Sassyfrass Circus/ Femme a Barbe
Jenna Bee is a sideshow freak from Baltimore, Maryland who spends most of their time drawing comics about pet rats, coffee, freaky sex and Bakhtin's theories of the grotesque. They make Sassyfrass Circus, a comix perzine about social anxiety, queer puberty and over-caffeination, and edit Femme a Barbe, a compilation zine about Bearded Ladies and other gender outlaws.
http://sassyfrasscircus.wordpress.com
Sarala Bee, Beautiful Mess, Sleeps With Ghosts, For Lack of Better Words
Sarala writes personal zines about depression dealing with life, love, and sex among other things. She is in her mid-twenties & living in montreal until she gets the itch to move somewhere else. She is also working on a zine project and sells his zines for him
wemakezines.ning.com/profile/beautifulmess
Ramsey Beyer
Ramsey has been making a zine called List since 2003. It's filled with autobiographical lists about various aspects of her life, from personal relationships to punk rock to favorite words and everything you could possibly learn about her dog, Rover. Each list is accompanied by an illustration or comic. The quality of which get better with each issue. Ramsey has no idea how her first zine idea is the one that she's stuck with for 13 issues. She grew up in Michigan on a farm, lived in Baltimore for the last six years where she went to art school, lived in a punk house, and biked all over. She moved to Chicago a year and a half ago but usually still feels like she just moved here. Ramsey is one of the co-organizers of the Chicago Zine Fest and it's helping her feel like she's part of something in Chicago for the first time.
Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown has been reading and drawing comics all his life. His first graphic novel "Clumsy" was written for his MFA thesis at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been featured on NPR's This American Life, as well as in the anthologies McSweeney's #13 and the Best American Comics 2006. He lives in Chicago with his partner Jennifer and son Oscar.
http://www.jeffreybrowncomics.com http://jeffreybrowncomics.blogspot.com
Jeffrey Brown is a special guest of the Chicago Zine Fest.
Brayton J. Cameron, Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark
Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark is, to say the least, a zine which, for a very long time, bounded about inside of my head with very little direction or structure. After about a year of thinking about it I finally started putting things on paper and using it as a quarterly awkward satire and humor zine about deer, wolves, bears, sharks, and the mythical deer wolf bear shark. Oh yeah, and I have this weird interest in writing messages intended to emasculate heterosexual sexual encounters. For some reason that's funny to me
Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré is an artist and animator living in Chicago. Her animated films have shown in the US and abroad, and she has created several books of comics, including her most recent work Nine Ways to Disappear. She also contributes comics to the Fantagraphics anthology Mome and to the Believer.
http://www.lillicarre.blogspot.com http://vimeo.com/user2070092 http://lillicare.com
Lilli Carré is a special guest of the Chicago Zine Fest.
Chicago Underground Library
The Chicago Underground Library tracks the past, present and future of independent media in Chicago. Whether you create independent media or just love it, the CUL is your salon, your gym and your playground - a meeting place for a scattered, diverse population. If you're a Chicagoan (at least in spirit), we already like you. Check out our archives and learn how you can get cataloged! We provide an open forum for creative exchange between all producers and patrons of Chicago's independent media, facilitating collaboration and awareness within diverse communities. Through innovative and inclusive approaches to acquisitions, cataloging and programming, we illuminate connections and provide both a historical and contemporary context for the creation of new local media.
http://www.underground-library.org
Shannon Connor and Audrey Pennings, Blah Blah Blah - OMG Becky & Pigs Do Have Legs / Deer Don't Have Wings
Audrey and I (Shannon) are roommates in Milwaukee! I am a printmaking student at UWM. Audrey is a musician and babysitter. She is in the bands Audrea and World's Smallest Puzzle. We have a lot of super fun DIY shows at our house, The Laundry Chute. We started Blah Blah Blah in June 2009 with our first issue OMG Becky. We made this for the Audrea / Danger Stranger tour of that summer. We made our second issue Pigs Do Have Legs / Deer Don't Have Wings in September 2009 for Milwaukee Zine Fest. This is a zine that flips over to become another zine! Our zines are a collage of our stories, comics, photographs, prints, drawings, and more! We make Blah Blah Blah to share stuff we like with our friends. We will have a new issue for Chicago Zine Fest!
Dan Copulsky, Concisely Magazine & assorted projects
Dan Copulsky edits Concisely, a magazine of stories under 500 words. He also works on various other zines and projects.
http://www.conciselymagazine.com
Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary
The Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary is Indiana's first comprehensive animal sanctuary and protection organization. We are working to expose and stop animal cruelty through research and investigations, legal and legislative actions, public awareness campaigns, youth education, direct action, and direct rescue and refuge efforts. Our sanctuary in Spencer, Indiana, provides lifelong care for rescued animals, who serve as ambassadors for at-risk animals everywhere by educating visitors about the realities of animal industries.
We are a nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to animal and earth liberation. We make zines. We make comics. We save animals.
http://www.deeprootssanctuary.org
Jakob Hawk Dennis, Scatter Radiation
Radical queer veterinary technician. Scatter Radiation is the anthropology of my life and the people in it. Stories mostly about animal rescues-from kittens and pigeons to the penguins and pelicans of south africa. Also, LOVE.
Will Dinski, Habitual Entertainment + Covered in Confusion + Mind Mapping + artist prints
Will Dinski lives in Minneapolis with a girl he met at a comic book convention. In 2009, he won the Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics for his book Covered in Confusion. Will graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a degree in comics. His graphic novel Finger Prints will be released by Top Shelf Productions this fall.
Doc McGurk's Family Fun Zinesmithing Etcetra and Beyond, Western Dirt Farmers, Ghostface photo album
Bawbee is bout 'round six feets and three inches long. He makes zines with drawings in them.
Bawbee stays up late most nights contemplating the possibilities of a world in which he lives in the foothills of the Big Rock Candy Mountain where he spends his days in the company of song birds that dole out the spare cigarettes as liberally as their songs.
http://brosefstallin.blogspot.com
Ryan Dodgson, Drawing-based zines and bookworks
I am a graduate of the illustration program at the Ontario College of Art and Design. My illustrations have won awards from Creative Quarterly, 3x3, Communications Arts and American Illustration. I am currently living and working across from a chocolate factory in Toronto, Ontario. I make drawing-based zines and bookworks.
Rachel Doelling, Stream of Consciousness
I began my humble zine-writing career a year ago with my "perzine" Stream of Consciousness and have since produced two issues.
A more ambitious project has consisted of my publishing the graphic design-y zine of a late friend of mine who never got the chance, simply called "The Zine." My most recent zine doesn't really have a name, although the word "purge" is written all over the cover, which is indicative of the vomit-themed content (both literal and metaphorical). All of these zines are available at Quimby's, located in Chicago, or via snail mail. Hit me up!
Sara Drake & James Payne, Comics, buttons, misc. zines and paper craft
super fly. On all levels.
Fat Girl Zine Crew/ Black Carrot, Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life, Fort Mortgage, Fat Ass, etc
My name is Kisha and I live on the southside of Chicago. I'm 29 and I've been involved in zines since the tender age of 14. I've written too many one-offs to list them, but am currently responsible for Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life, Fort Mortgage: Punx Buyin' a House! (with Dave Fried of Black Carrot), and I've put out some awesome riot grrrl mixtapes. I distro a couple of friends zines that I love!
Erin Fection, Really Gay!, Famous Whales
Erin Fection is an assistant at a west side high school here in Chicago. She enjoys arty romantic films, the Mr. T Experience, and eating her boyfriend's stash of coffee ice cream. Really Gay! is a scholarly personal survey of radical LGBT youth communities, especially why theydo or don't exist in certain places, as well as what it means to belong to (or be excluded from) one of these communities. Famous Whales is a volume of profiles of famous whales, complete with illustrations. No whale of any importance has been left out.
Amber Forrester, Culture Slut, Fight Boredom!
Amber Forrester is a longtime zinester and feminist. She makes a perzine called Culture Slut and a comp zine called fight boredom. She likes writing about adventures, small town revolutions, and queer (in)visibility.
http://www.hello-amber.blogspot.com
Emilja Frances, Ship of Fools
I'm a crazy radical from Asheville, NC (originally Grand Rapids, MI) who drinks way too much coffee and spends most of her time drawing comics, and the rest of it playing accordion or having adventures with friends. And then drawing comics about the adventures. Which is the subject matter of my comic zine, Ship of Fools, of which I just finished the first issue. I'll also be tabling with some other comic & photography zines.
Andy Gardner, Struggle With Words, The String of Friendship, There there
Andy hails from Olmstead Falls, Ohio and used to be a sponsored skater when he was in high school. He enjoys readings and writing and has self-published a couple of children's stories as well as his latest, a concept-zine featuring his haiku. Andy has been known to raise heck over pro wrestling and make his friends laugh with relentless sarcasm and social commentary on nonsense.
Golden Age, Plain + Fancy by Nick Gottlund, Mind Maps by Robin Cameron
Golden Age is a project space in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to sharing ideas through exhibitions, performances, and printed matter.
Gothic Art Chicago, KILTER: the Journal of GothicArtChicago.com
KILTER is the print journal of GothicArtChicago.com. This magazine focuses on Chicago nightlife and the dark art community of the midwest and beyond. Contributors include Peter Propaganda, Scary Lady Sarah, Mistress Xena, Happy Dave, Caroline Farrow of the Chicago Paranormal Research Society and Micheal Kleen.
Monika Haris, Grrrl Please, et al.
Monika is a queer POC goddess who makes zines and community
Matthew Hendrickson, Jettison Quarterly
Jettison Quarterly is a magazine dedicated to covering news, art and culture, especially as it relates to Chicago and the Midwest. Jettison Quarterly is published four times a year on its website. Jettison is free to view and offers a free subscription service as well. By embracing the digital revolution in publishing, Jettison offers its readers an interactive platform for getting their information. Unlike many other online magazines, Jettison still offers its content in a traditional and easily consumable medium. Each issue is completely original, and viewable without any scrolling or zooming, much as one would read a traditional print magazine. Readers can also download a PDF of the magazine or print out their issue themselves. By being an online pioneer, Jettison seeks to be where it's readers are in a medium with endless possibilitys.
Jettison will release its first issue of 2010 on March 26th.
http://www.jettisonquarterly.com
Indigo Productions, Indigo Zine
Michelle Aiello is a Chicago-born writer, self-publisher and stationery designer. She began publishing Indigo zine in 1995 and organized the first Ephemera Festival in 2005. Her projects have been featured in The Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Jose Museum of Art and Sticky Gallery in Melbourne Australia. Indigo zine is part of the Chicago Publisher’s Gallery, a permanent collection at the Chicago Cultural center. She lives in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood with her boyfriend Scott and a lanky, ill-behaved cat named Basil.
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Ryan J, Brash Hymns, Real Bad Scrape
Ryan pays monthly bills in Columbus, Ohio. He is a quarter century. He is invested in music: Going to, booking, and participating in a lot of shows. His first two zines are poetry and prose; playful and philosophic on a kindergarten level; written in the plain language.
www.friendsandwieners.wordpress.com
Foster James, And Then She Cried Out..., Things I Thought Would Make Me Stronger
I am a sweat and sensitive boy from the west coast who loves the windy city. ATSCO: a bit louder, fun, sassy & endearing. The name is taken from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's a bit of fun. TITWMMS: sadder, more solemn
Jim Joyce, Or Let It Sink (no. 1, 2, 3)
or let it sink is a jittery perzine crawling out of chicago's south-side catholic culture. it is my nocturnal journal in hand-wringing anecdotal stories, shoddy poems, and jangled block prints all recalling the author palling around after bad ideas, wonder, and elusive purpose. i dig it what keats' thought about "truths found in the imagination [getting] access holy authority" and i top it off at 60pgs. #1 is about sexuality, #2. is teaching, and #3. is disbelief.
Melissa Sue Jung, This Endless Present: Dreamzine
I have always been fascinated by dreams...what they mean, the process of how our mind puts them together, the feelings that these evoke in us, the imagery and bizarre, distorted sense of reality that they bring us into. This Endless Present: Dreamzine is a continual collaborative work full of creations of any kind that are inspired by dreams or future dreams as the subject.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Miles is an independent political journalist and aspiring comic artist.
http://milesklassin.gather.com
Shaylah Kloska, Little Brother
Little Brother is an art collective in the form of a zine compiled by Shaylah Kloska (Chicago, US) and Lauren Hunter (Edinburgh, UK). In its inaugural issue, Little Brother's pages are filled with poetry, comics, portraits, and prose from an international group of artists. Although just in its springtide, Little Brother plans to take root and stick around, with quarterly issues and an ever-growing and evolving circle of contributors and readers. You can follow our progress at heylittlebrother.tumblr.com.
Ethan Krause, The Famous Hairdos of Popular Music
Approaching its fourth volume, this book compiles the results of a project where friends and strangers submit drawings appended to famous musicians iconic hairdos
thefamoushairdosofpopularmusic.blogspot.com
Vicky Lim, Dear Jaguar (no. 1 & 2)
dear jaguar is a flawed perzine. the first issue includes a dream, unrequited lesbian love whining, a few lists of things like office duties and my dis/likes, a cameo from my younger brother. the second issue tries to grow up, sort of. it's a series of nightmare stories, just more bad luck with a few good interludes. both issues are handwritten, typewritten, an unfancy mix of text & images by a cut and paste style, half-standard long, and somewhere about thirty or more pages of myself, vicky from chicago, il.
Allison Lindner, Dead Men's Things
Allison is a printmaker and student living in Milwaukee. She is president of UWM's Print Club, who made Dead Men's Things in Fall 2009 for Milwaukee Zine Fest. This zine features drawings, collage, and prints by Allison Lindner, Jessica Bublitz, Shannon Connor, Bryanna VanCaster, Greg Martens, and Sharon Giesfeldt. Allison will also a new zine(s) featuring drawings, prints, collage, and poetry. Check out her original prints too!
The Logan Square Literary Review
The LSLR is a not-for-profit, journal of words, based in Chicago Ill. It aims to facilitate expression and contribute to the thriving community of ideas in the neighborhood of Logan Square.
The LSLR will be published quarterly.
http://loganliteraryonline.blogspot.com
Anthony Marvullo, Friday Night Death Slot, I Drank Up All The Money, Various Segments of Industry
I am a 22-year-old writer and educator out of Boston. I have 3 poetry zines written a year apart. I also have a self-made short story book about breaking and setting world records. I'm working on a Zine Fest exclusive called "Engineering, Design, and Fabrication of Automated Assembly and Processing Machinery For Various Segments of Industry: New & Selected Verse." It is a chapbook with poetry about power tools.
Microcosm Publishing
Microcosm Publishing is primarily a publisher and distributor of zines and related work, based in Bloomington, IN and Portland, OR. Joe Biel started the distro and then-record-label out of his bedroom in 1996 and since then we've grown to become one of the largest zine distributors in the world, reaching an international audience through our website and retail store. We hope to add credibility to zine writers and their ethics, teach self empowerment, show hidden history, and nurture people's creative side!
http://microcosmpublishing.com
Megan Milks, Mildred Pierce Zine
Mildred Pierce is a zine of innovative cultural criticism and art, edited by Megan Milks and John Bylander.
http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com
Milo Miller, QZAP:meta, Heavy Mayo, Gendercide, Mutate, et al
Let's see... I am a nerdy zinester bread baker urban gardner punk rock poly bi switchy witchy outgoing home body... or something like that. I've been making zines since about 1992.
In 2003 my partner-in-crime and I co-founded QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive Project. We've been scanning and making available the vast history of queer zines dating from the 1970s-present. We're always accepting zine donations, and hope to soon have a zine library space to physically share these amazing documents. Currently there are about 200 queer zines on QZAP, and we probably have a total of upwards of 800. I spend the majority of my time working on QZAP these days.
In addition to zines, I bake bread, cook, garden, sometimes make super8 films, ride my bike, read YA fiction, listen to a variety of musics and dance around in my underwear. I am co-founder of QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive Project, and co-moderator of the Yahoo zine librarian's list.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Staunch critic of consumerism and media activist Anne Elizabeth Moore has been writing, publishing, and interceding in culture since the age of 15. Author of "Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity," founding editor of the Best American Comics series, and former editor of now-defunct Punk Planet has seen her work exhibited in major museums, praised by the business press, and forcibly ejected from retail establishments. She currently teaches as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and travels throughout the globe to lecture on corporate and governmental oppression and freedom of expression.
Anne Elizabeth Moore is a special guest of the Chicago Zine Fest.
Sarah Morean, OMG, Shoes! + Quarter Life Comics + Criminal + OCD: A Workbook for Adults
Sarah Morean has a lot of hobbies. When those hobbies become obsessions, a zine is born. When she's not working on handmade books, she reviews them for the independent comics site The Daily Cross Hatch, creates the Make Better Books Podcast (a resource for self-publishers), coordinates the Twin Cities Zinefest, and co-coordinates the Minneapolis Indie Xpo (which debuts this fall).
Corinne Mucha, My Alaskan Summer, My Every Single Thought, Shithole, I Hate Mom's cat
Corinne Mucha has been drawing comics for almost 7 years and making mini comics for 5. She grew up in New Jersey, lives in Chicago, and likes to believe in unicorns. She writes stories about things that happened, things that did not happen, and things that could possibly happen, but probably won't.
Nic Fit Comics, Dennis!, I Hate it Here, Meth Mouth, Thoughts, Chug Tits, and so many more
Nic Fit Comics is a small press comic and zine publisher existing solely to destroy the monotony and boredom of everyday life through creation and the creative process. Through our art we hope to create more friendships and with these friends we hope to create more art.
Open Books
Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago and beyond. In March, Open Books will launch its first zine-making workshop for tweens and teens, helping them to discover their literary DIY genius.
Parking Block Publishing, Strays and Salvage, Its Broken Do You Think You Can Fix It , Buster Bear Go Hard
Established in Chicago in May of 2009, Parking Block Publishing creates small runs of handcrafted artist books and zines focusing on work by self-educated pen technicians, inspired photographic specialists and devoutly imaginative wordsmiths.
Leslie Perrine
Leslie Perrine has written a bunch of books and zines, mostly about talking animals of herself, or herself as a talking animal. These include "the lonely hippopotomous" "goodbye for now squirrel" and "aurthur and the whale" She is a hip nanny living in Chicago who loves her cat Bum and making vegan chocolates.
www.leslieperrine.blogspot.com
Rosy Phinick, Bacterial Turned Viral!, Spokes and Static
I am riveting like another famous Ros(ie)(y). Bacterial Turned Viral! is a personal serial zine about (mostly) beer, college sexytimes, queer feminism, and touring musicians. Spikes and Static is all poetry (all the time).
www.etsy.com/shop/bacterialturnedviral
Polkaostrich=Fun, Excitement and Adventure; Likes and Dislikes; Likes and Dislikes 2; Very True; Toxic; Etiquette; Cereal Boxes and Milk Crates
I make a lot of zines about fun stuff. I love research, antiquated photography, and dogs.
Excitement and Adventure is an interactive zine about Depression-era gangsters, with envelopes that contain gangster ransom notes, fingerprints, and trading cards. Likes/Dislikes are lists of my likes and dislikes. Toxic is a zine about Britney Spears. Etiquette is a book of etiquette for the common person. Cereal Boxes and Milk Crates is a zine about zine libraries and infoshops. Very True is a book of pomes.
John Porcellino
John Porcellino has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, "John Porcellino's comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive."
John Porcellino is a special guest of the Chicago Zine Fest.
Quimby's Bookstore
Quimby's specializes in independently published and small press zines, comics, and books, with an emphasis on the weird and subversive.
Quimby's Bookstore is a sponsor of the Chicago Zine Fest
Lisa Quintero, IMUR
http://imurfanzine.wordpress.com
Renegade Handmade
Renegade Handmade (1924 W Division St., Chicago, IL) is your one-stop destination for handmade goods of all kinds, including a slew of handmade goods of all kinds, including a slew of papergoods, cards, rock-posters, art-prints, clothing, jewelry and more! The shop also houses the offices of the Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago's largest free-to-attend outdoor market of handmade items by indie designers from all over the county. Be sure to check out our 8th annual event in Chicago this September.
renegadehandmade.com renegadecraft.com
Renegade Handmade is a sponsor of the Chicago Zine Fest.
Megan Speers, PinkSock series, Being Gay is A-ok!, WATCHING YOU, An Alphabetic Compendium of Demons and Evil Ghosts (a colouring book)...
Ben Spies, No More Coffee
I make coffee for people for a living, and in my spare time write a zine called "No More Coffee". Ironic, no? I have lived in several places in the U.S. and plan to keep moving soon, but for right now I like it here in Chicago. No More Coffee is a zine of original short fiction. I try to stay away from the whole "flash fiction" thing and write longer, more in-depth stories, though a short-short does get by me every so often. I really love being able to make literature on my own terms, to share it with other people, and especially to
enjoy their projects as well.
Brian Steinberg, Soup Zine and Fat Years
Soupzine: Is a mostly funny autobiographical narrative, four panel a day comic from my life in Portland, Oregon, spanning seven issues. Fat Years: Is a autobiographical humor comic of rants, observation, and random stories about my weight loss.
process.
https://soupzine.wordpress.com
Stranger Danger Distro, Truckface, Angry Black-white Girl, Love Letters to Monsters, Roots of Hope, etc
An independent online zine distro based out of Chicago that specializes in feminist, queer, trans, and radical activist zines.
Amanda Tague, This is My Moat These are My Sharks This is My Drawbridge on Fire, If Only We Could be as Civil as a War, Everything is a Sinking Ship, Poorly Drawn Illinois, Quit Yet Bitchin Getting Vegan in the Kitchen
Personal zines about superheroes, cowboys heartbreak, sketchy people, dogs & a vegan cooking zine.
Ruby Thorkelson
Ruby is a visual artist working in bookmaking, zines, painting, and drawing. Most of her publications are short picture poems. The website listed below is under construction, but it should be up come March.
Sara Titanic
Tugboat Press, Papercutter, Clutch
Tugboat Press is tiny zine and comix publishing outfit out of Portland Oregon. We mostly focus on our flagship title Papercutter which is an anthology comic dedicated to promoting the work of young, unheralded comic book artists. Issue #12 will debut at the Chicago Zine Fest. Besides Papercutter we publish the annual Invincible Summer split zine and the occasional graphic novel by artists like Rina Ayuyang and Aron Nels Steinke.
Tugboat Press is a special guest of the Chicago Zine Fest.
Twelveohtwo Zine Distro // the Toronto Zine Library
twelveohtwo zine distro began in Edmonton, AB in 2005, and is now based out of our hometown of Toronto, ON. Twelveohtwo carries radically-focused zines, handmade crafts, & other neat D.I.Y. items made with love. Send $1 + 1 stamp for catalogue to PO BOX 42/ STN P/ Toronto, ON/ m5s 2s6/ Canada. Online mailorder as of Spring 2010! Follow us on Twitter for updates on future tabling events & other zine-y news. http://www.twitter.com/twelveohtwo
the toronto zine library was started in 2006 and currently houses over 3000 zines in a small room on the 2nd floor of the Tranzac Club in downtown Toronto. the TZL is run by a collective of zine readers, zine makers, and librarians. we enjoy strong coffee and long bike rides on the beach. http://sitekreator.com/zinelibrary/main_page.html http://torontozinelibrary.blogspot.com/
Two With Water, Two With Water
Two With Water is a collection of literature and art welcoming both new and experienced authors and artists, a weekend getaway a few hours down the road from the uninspiring alienation that seeps into day to day life, an open-air venue with a stage for stories (written and visual) that reflect the brilliance and burden of inheriting the contemporary world.
John Wawrzaszek, The Muse the News and the Noose
This is a short story zine. Each issue is different, but the main content usually focuses on relationships. MNN is based out of Chicago and has printed 5 issues since 2006.
Richard Wehrenberg, Continually Deferring Meaning, Kids: Poems From Walls Elementary, Think Tank For Human Beings in General
Richard walks around Columbus, Ohio and tries to eat kale fairly often. He used to walk around Kent, Ohio and drink coffee and kombucha all day. His first zine, Continually Deferring Meaning, which he prefers to call a "pocketbook", pauses briefly on the subjects of loss, life, and the moon and comes with a link to download a three-song EP. His second zine, Kids: Poems From Walls Elementary, exhibits a sample of poems written by a third grade class from Kent, Ohio, Richard's thoughts on the poems, and other philoso-psycohological meanderings through childhood, teaching, learning, curiosity, oppression, and ideology. It also comes with a download link to a six-song EP of kids songs. His third work is a split chapbook of poetry co-written with friend and intellectual partner Jordan Castro called Think Tank For Human Beings In General. He hopes you are 'doing okay.'
http://simperingfool.blogspot.com
Max Weinstein-Bacal, Gutwrench
Gutwrench Zine...it's uh...something I do. A little writing, a little drawing, some poor quality binding with a stapler. Let's see what someone else had to say about it...
"I picked this zine up on a whim at the 2008 Richmond Zine Fest. Instantly I was impressed with the artwork - but after reading - I wanted even more!" ...that seemed a little self congratulatory. Anyway, I like to do trades. I could draw you a portrait, but you will probably look like a bear, or a cat.
http://www.clickclackdistro.com/F-J.html
Matt Whispers, Effigy
Effigy is a lot of things -- symbolism and the destruction thereof, the highs and devastating lows of our alternative lifestyles, a way to list and categorize all the chaos of being a punk into something handheld. Also it is a poetry zine based on things I've done and thoughts I've thought. I am a writer living in Logan Square in Chicago by way of Syracuse and Boston. I try not to miss those places too much. I wear a hat every day even though it'll make me go bald.
Chris Wilde, QZAP:meta, Queers in Stardust and the Spiders from Halifax, Wicked Wipeout, Abrupt Lane Edge
Christopher Wilde is a zine editor and archivist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
In 1992, Christopher Wilde released the first issue of his queer punk zine, Abrupt Lane Edge. It was followed by five more issues, the third from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the zine editor lived during the summer of 1993. He returned to Minneapolis where he produced issues four through six before moving to San Francisco in 1996.
Upon moving to Milwaukee in 2002, Wilde was one of the co-founders, with Milo Miller, of QZAP, the on-line archive of queer zines that allows readers to download free copies of zines. By 2009, even more zines had been added to a rapidly expanding collection of zines at QZAP.
http://www.qzap.org
Bri Z., Motor City Kitty
Bri Z. is a feminist, an artist, sometimes poet, sometimes musician, and she makes "Motor City Kitty." She has been making zines for 10 of her 24 years and hopes to never stop. MCK is a perzine that touches on the issues of identity, queer (in)visibility, mental and sexual abuse, but also talks about small town fun on train tracks, riding bikes, goals, dancing and more.
http://www.myspace.com/motorcitykitty
Eric Zimmermann, Queer Polyamorous Romance Graphic Novel (title TBA) & This American Farm
I live in milwaukee and make art, including zines and illustrations for Dead Man's Carnival. I also teach puppet making workshops. My Queer Polyamorous Romance Graphic Novel is about a young circus performer who finds his life in shambles after losing his closest partner and his job. Determined to get his life back on track, he resorts to donating sperm and taking out a sizable loan from the mob.
This American Farm contains autobiographical stories about living and working on Springdale organic farm CSA, interviews, short stories, and lots of comics.
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