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This list was last updated Friday, March 18, 2011! 1 week, y'all!
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Nick Adam
How-to Do It.
Creative-analytic with a conscience, Nick’s work focuses towards improving humankind. He believes creating issue and audience appropriate points of awareness are invaluable catalysts precipitating change, positive shifts, and success.
James Tadd Adcox
Artifice Magazine
James Tadd Adcox is the editor-in-chief of Artifice, a literary magazine that focuses on poetry and prose "aware of its own artifice." Raymond Carver said "No cheap tricks." Artifice Magazine loves tricks--deeply moving, committed, gut-wrenching tricks.
Bradley Adita
A Day In The Air, READ Zine, PPDC
Bradley Adita saw both Chuck Berry and Nobunny on January 1st, 2011. Recently, he rediscovered his love for the 1995 film, Funny Bones. 27 is the future.
David Alvarado
Dirty Hands, Watch Me, Eat Me
I make things specifically zines, posters, comics, and artwork. I am studying illustration and currently located in the Chicago land area.
http://www.bodegadavid.blogspot.com
Monica Anderson
Endless Escalators
Hey, do you feel bad and hate most things? ME, TOO
Tenisha Anderson
Qlix Magazine
I'm obsessed with all media, but an afficionado of the print medium. Qlix is an independent fashion publication that celebrates ALL emerging talents and concepts within fashion. Inspired by the unconventional formatted publications in various global markets, Qlix’s “mag in a bag” format with multiple inserts and fold outs is definitely what sets itself apart from the traditional “flip-about” fashion publication.
Victoria Akpan
Far From Oklahoma
Arbco Records/ Nic-Fit Comics / Epic Fail Tapes
Zines.. Cheap Laffs, Dennis!, I Hate It Here, Pancakes and a Bottle, Chug Tits, and many more. Records.
Arbco, Epic Fail, and Nic-Fit Comics are a army of friends from the midwest that strive to put out artwork and music that our friends create everyday.
AREA Chicago
AREA Chicago
AREA Chicago documents and networks local social justice work in the arts, research, education, and activism
AREA Chicago is an invited organization of the Chicago Zine Fest 2011.
Oscar Arriola - Fotoflow Press
Fotoflow
Oscar Arriola is a photographer from Chicago. Fotoflow Press is dedicated to publishing awesome artwork and photography by artists from around the world. Yeah, I said it, AWESOME.
Olivia Arrow
College Doodles, HSSreader, Heart, Femme zine
Michael Arthur
Local Honey, Sky Food, Go Ye Dogs
Coffee makes Michael's stomach hurt. He is a cartoonist from the American South. He just got the "jump" card.
http://www.funnyanimalbooks.com
Eric Ayotte
The Gadabout Film Festival
Eric Ayotte is a musician and filmmaker, and part time bowler/dodgeballer. The Gadabout Film Festival began in 2002, and has remained one of the main film outlets in the DIY/Punk scene. Focusing on short films, the Gadabout's programs are very "zine-like", and fit the spirt of Do It Yourself productivity.
Eric Bartholomew
Junk Drawer
I write a zine about odds and ends, and the kinds of stuff found in a junk drawer. Also, things you might find down the alley, or at a garage sale. Despite my fondness for old things of all sorts, I am not really a hoarder, as I have a small home, and I try to find a home for everything I find.
http://junkdrawer.wordmess.net/
Tuesday Bassen
"The Velvet Cave" and "Studio Sweet Studio"
Tuesday is an illustrator living primarily in Minneapolis.
Chicago Zine Fest marks the premiere of issue number six of illustrated zine "The Velvet Cave" and a revamped issue of "Studio Sweet Studio," which features global artists and their work spaces.
Ryan Batkie
Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg
The Toucan Literary Magazine
The Toucan is a ~40 page lively ziney-lit mag from Chicago, IL, and two probably clinically insane editrices, Liz and Laura, a writer and an artiste, and Lennon and McCartney bitches. Our mascot smokes a cigar, but we don't.
www.thetoucanonline.blogspot.
Mia Beatrice
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself a Series of Rants
Mia is a new zine writer, and will have 3 zines out by the time of the Fest. She writes about being a biracial high school student. She is horribly afraid of chupacabras, and owns a furby named Comrade. This will be her first reading and she is super excited!
Sarah Becan
The Ouija Interviews
Sarah Becan is an illustrator, artist, and designer
based in Chicago, and the founder of Shortpants Press. She is a
prolific minicomics artist, and recipient of the Xeric Grant for her
2010 graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews.
Jenna Bee
Sassyfrass Circus/ Femme a Barbe
Jenna Bee makes Sassyfrass Circus, a comix perzine about social anxiety, queer puberty and over-caffeination, and edits Femme a Barbe, a compilation zine about Bearded Ladies and other gender outlaws.
http://www.sassyfrasscircus.com
zee bee
the politics of penetration, love your blood, que(e)ry, it's complicated, wanna play a game?
The zines I have are collaborative projects, the primary keywords being: queer, sex, blood, and gender. I also have zines about D.I.Y. games and the ethics of travel.
Ben Bertin
Cake, Fae Says, Fall to the Tower, Losing Sight, MIOK, UFOs for Lunch
Ben lives in Chicago, where he works part-time jobs full-time. He bikes, reads, watches, and draws in between. When home, Ben enjoys tea. When out, coffee. A caffeinated yin-yang, if it pleases you. Ben Bertin? For certain.™
Beyondmedia Education
Writer’s Block: The Voices of Women Inside
Beyondmedia Education collaborates with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the wider world, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts.
www.beyondmedia.org and www.womenandprison.org
Beyondmedia is an invited organization of the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
Biblioteca Popular
lots and lots and lots of zines, we are a zine library!
Biblioteca Popular is an autonomous community operated library and art space. As well as providing access to underground, radical, and self-published literature, Biblioteca Popular del Barrio is meant to be a safe space for the young and elderly, families, people of color, womyn, queer and trans folk, undocumented immigrants, and working class peoples. In short, this space is defined by its community participation and is a forum for oppressed and marginalized groups to forge bonds of solidarity, resistance and strength.
http://bibliotecapopularpilsen.wordpress.com
Biblioteca Popular is an invited organization of the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
Susan Simensky Bietila
World War 3 - illustrated magazine
I am part of the Collective which publishes World War 3 - illustrated, which has been publishing for 30 years now.
http://www.
Josep Blas
SpacePunks
Local artist that writes and draws a comic that is a mix of Star Wars with old Looney Tunes cartoons (with a bit of Brit humor).
Bloody Rag Collective / Fat Girl Zine Crew
Fort Mortgage, Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Life, I Could Live in Hope: Sexual Abuse and Survival
Kisha runs a mini-distro called the Fat Girl Zine Crew which features zines about body image, fat positivity, and queer issues. She is also a member of the Bloody Rag COllective, which is a group of women in Chicago focused on hosting events that feature women and trans folk!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloody-Rag-Collective/284792906788
Justin Bostian
Friction
Friction is a cross between a zine and a lit-mag. It's a collection of fiction, nonfiction, illustrations and more from up-and-coming artists scraping away at the Chicago art scene. No themes, no message, no philosophy, just great work from talented people.
Jeffrey Brown
Little Things, Funny Misshapen Body
Al Burian
Burn Collector
Al Burian, born 1971 in New Hampshire (state motto: "live free or die"); grew up in North Carolina (state motto: "to be and not to seem"). In his early twenties he began touring incessantly with bands, simultaneously producing small-run photocopied pamphlets ("zines"). He is the author of the zine Burn Collector, and has contributed to publications such as Punk Planet, Hit it or Quit It, the Skeleton and the Utne Reader. Burian has published two collections of his zine output, Burn Collector (2000) and Natural Disaster (2007), as well as a book of comics, Things Are Meaning Less (2003). He live in Berlin.
Al Burian is an invited reader of the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
Tyrell Cannon
Book One, Simon
Joseph Carlough
Today Terrific, Displaced Poetry, It Lies in States, Dark Nature, SSED, Wrenfield's Abominations, Alvessi's Orphans...
I just publish everything I write and draw. Love it. Absolutely love it. Have been way into poetry lately.
Lilli Carre
Nine Ways to Disappear, Tales of Woodsman Pete
Lilli Carré was born in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Chicago. Her animated films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Aurora Film Festival. Last year she co-founded the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, and is working on plans for the 2011 fest. She is the author of the books Tales of Woodsman Pete, The Lagoon,Nine Ways to Disappear, and The Fir Tree, and has recently contributed stories to Mome, The Believer Magazine, Best American Comics 2010, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010.
Lilli Carre is an invited film maker to the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
Josh Catrambone
Vegan Slut: Fast, cheap, & easy recipes
Josh is a personal chef and biker living in a warehouse that he swears isn't in K-town. He is also co-author of Vegan Slut.
Miranda Chavez
Chicago Underground Library
CUL is an inclusive local archive-- online and open to the public-- that examines Chicago’s creative, political, and intellectual interdependencies, tracing where ideas originated and how they spread between individuals.
http://www.underground-
The Chicago Underground Library is an invited organization of the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
Bree Chumley
Cut + Paste + Photography = heck yes!
Carrie Colpitts
Brilliant Mistake
Wrote issue #1 in an attempt at winning a fellows heart. Didn’t work. Still humoring myself with words though. He was a fine idea at the time now he’s a…
Aaron Cometbus
Cometbus
Aaron Cometbus has published Cometbus since 1981. Originally devoted to Bay Area punk bands, the magazine has evolved over the years, morphing from travelogue to literary journal, from oral history to the history of bookstores, the underground press, and various underground communities. A onetime Chicago resident, Aaron now lives in New York.
Aaron Cometbus is an invited reader to the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
Connect Force
Connect Force Zine
Connect Force is Alternatives, Inc’s Hip Hop Arts program. We work with young people from ages 8 to 24 offering academic support, life-skills workshops, mentoring, and Hip Hop Arts instruction. Our staff encourage participants to explore the Hip Hop Arts as a means of self expression and support their growth as leaders in their communities. The Zine will be a reflection on our work and also a promotion of the youth that participate in the program.
Shannon Connor
Basements and Living Rooms, Blah Blah Blah
I study printmaking at UWM, set up shows, live at The Laundry Chute where we have house shows, make zines, cds, prints, patches, and I'm also a member of the QZAP collective.
tanis clark
Vegan Slut: Fast, cheap, & easy recipes
Tanis is an artist & cyclist living in Humboldt Park. Vegan Slut is a cookzine that will open its pages for any Joe with an extra dollar in zir pocket.
Cindy Crabb
Doris
Cindy Crabb is the author of the long running, autobiographical feminist zine Doris, the first ten years of which have been compiled in the book Doris: an Anthology, published by Microcosm Publishing in 2005. She has written for numerous books and magazines, including We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, the Utne Reader, Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's Words, A Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writing From the Girl Zine Revolution, and is featured in the new accademic book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, by Alison Piepmeier. She is the editor of the zines Support, and Learning Good Consent.
Cindy Crabb is an invited workshop presenter of the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
The Crazed Chicago Project
What Do You Mean, CRAZY?
The Crazed Chicago Project is a peer based mental health advocacy network and creative collective established to build a community for and fight stigma against mental illness. TCCP is a brand new organization and we're still working on spreading the word about the project, gathering interested parties, and getting more involved in the community. The zine is our first creative endeavor as a collective and is based upon the concept of "crazy", while juxtaposing mainstream societal values against traditional concepts of "insanity".
Alana Cuellar
Curbside Splendor Publishing
Sophomoric Philosophy, a Novel; Curbside Splendor Issue 1
Curbside Splendor Publishing is an independent publisher based in Logan Square, Chicago. It was founded by Victor David Giron to self-publish his coming-of-age and debut novel, Sophomoric Philosophy in November 2010. Curbside now publishes urban-themed fiction and poetry online and in print.
Patrick Dahl
Logan Square Literary Review
The Logan Square Literary Review publishes a quarterly journal featuring a diverse array of written works from Chicago-based authors.
Lara Dendel
Checkered Past
Tom Dewing
Attack Of The Zombie Soy Boy, Written On Index Cards, Like A Ship That Never Finds A Port
Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot! is a personal zine that is about my life. Every issue is a collection of short stories and comics from my everyday life. The name of this zine came from eating lunch one day with a friend in the dining hall. I ate way too many dishes with soy in them. I told my friend that I felt like a “zombie soy bot.”
Krystal DiFronzo
Motte and Bailey, Beneath the Foundation, XCB
Ì'm a Chicago cartoonist who is interested in exploring new ways of expressing narrative in comics. My newest zine is a mini consisting of stories that deal with themes of defense.
Chelsea Dirck
Things I want but can not have, If you find this: keep it, Leaving, ETC.
Chelsea Dirck is a boston-based artist who makes autobiographical zines and prints that blur the lines between diary, comics, and illustration.
Ryan Dodgson
Various zines
Ryan Dodgson is a Toronto-based illustrator who draws and photocopies all kinds of stuff.
Sara Drake
Small Advices
Cartoonist and Shaman poet with a propensity for good vibes.
http://blaseatbest.blogspot.com/
Maranda Elizabeth
Telegram Ma'am
Telegram Ma'am is a perzine about mental health, small town adventures, my love affair with my bicycle, & the concept of home. And roller derby.
Robin Enrico
Jam in the Band, Life of Vice, Controller
Cartoonist Robin Enrico is most proud of his comics about punk rock girls. But is probably better known for making a book that looks like an old Nintendo game.
Eryca
My Little Friend, Dear High School Boy
My Little Friend is a per-zine that Eryca has been making since early high school. It follows her through high school and into her 20's. Dear High School Boy is a one shot mini zine where Eryca wrote letters to all the boys she liked in high school.
Eryca is a pop culture aficionado born and raised in Los Angeles, spent some time living in Chicago, but is now back in LA.
Falsestart Junkyard Publishing
Beep Beep Boop, The Adventures of Vampire Kitty & Space Bat
I make zines about robots and draw a comic about a kitty having adventures in outerspace. Basically, I make things that will (hopefully) make people smile.
http://falsestart.bigcartel.com
Feisty Filthy Feminist Press
not sure yet, but anarcha feminist oriented for sure
Emil Ferris
Milgrim's Ogress
Emil Ferris is a monster, a creature of substantial mystery that has never been categorized by either science or religion.
Samantha LaFountain & Jon Latzke
Half Nelson Press
Half Nelson Press, writing wrongs so you don't have to.
http://halfnelsonpress.wordpress.com
Fine Line Magazine
A new, international fine arts quarterly . A hybrid between a gallery and a traditional magazine; free of all advertising, reviews, previews and biographies.
Stephen Floyd / One Percent Press
http://www.onepercentpress.com
Amber Forrester
Culture Slut
Amber lives in Montreal, where she makes Culture Slut and runs Fight Boredom Distro; specializing in queer / feminist zines, tales of small towns, adventures, community-building, activism, body positivity, and more.
compearatives
Jim Joyce
Or Let it Sink
Or Let It Sink is a perzine stepping out of chicago's south-side catholic culture. it is a magic diary in anecdotes, memory, and jangled block prints all recalling the author palling around after bad ideas, wonder, and elusive purpose. most of this stuff is written next to a radiator, mostly humming while "supermarket fantasy."
K
A Million Birthdays, Lake Effect
I live in Cleveland, OH where I collect 7"s and make zines about the ongoing process of reconciling who you are with who you were and will be.
http://side-ponytail.blogspot.com
Chiara Keeling-Gonzalez
How To Get Fat Being Vegan
There is this notion that be vegan is a healthy way to live. I want to show in my zines in a humorous way how veganism can be deliciously sugary, buttery, deep fried and fat inducing!
Libby Keyser
Aftermath, The Hot Knife
Aftermath is a comic book all about poop, and sometimes punk rock. The Hot Knife is a compilation of various artists' comics about various poop they have to write about.
Kate Kirk
Glass Sea
Glass Sea is full of poetry that is guaranteed to pull on your heart strings. Unless of course you don't have a heart, in which case you will simply find it very symmetrical.
Ethan Krause, Lemon o Books
The Famous Hairdos of Popular Music
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Jettison Quarterly
Jettison Quarterly is a Chicago-based magazine that covers news, art and culture focusing primarily on the Midwest. The future is NOW!
Jettison Quarterly is an invited organization of the 2011 Chicago Zine Fest.
kate larson
no better than apples
Too many words meet poor line drawings, castles of nostalgia, and maximum regard for everything, ever.
June Leffler
Goodwill Zine
A quarterly zine out of Louisville, Kentucky. We got sexy talk with stenciled covers and audiozines. Recipient a Kentucky Foundation for Women grant.
Rae Logios
recinerated, Suburban Gothic
Rae Logios is a fugitive from the law of averages and writes perzines about identity, existential semi-crises, and saving yourself through the power of words. She currently lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with two cats and a considerable collection of cassette tapes.
