SFZF2021 Exhibitors
Tiny Splendor, Guest of Honor
Invited Guests: Ocean Escalanti, Samantha Espinoza, and Tamiko Sidore
A.B.O. Comix
Acardellart
AIWS
Anna Nguyen
Arantza Pena Popo
Asami Akinaga
Aviatrix Press
Awkward Ladies Club
Brown Recluse Zine Distro
Cammy / Tokyo Bookish Cat
Canto Cutie
Cartoon Distortion
Christina Tran
Comic Arts Club at San Francisco State
Conspiracy of Geniuses
Drifter Zine
Ellena Ruiz
Emma Lusich
Evil Twin
Flores Couture
Gerry Chow
Girls, on Film
HaviolibyHarry
Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Heyt be! Fanzin
Impostor Monster Zines
Indigenous Honeys
Itsy Bitsy Zines
iurhi peña
Jennifer Chavez
Joseph Cotsirilos
kay rodriques/silent hare studios
Kels Choo
Laneha House
Leeee
Lindsay Santiago
little study zine
Long Arm Stapler
Lost Redwoods
Luis R. Ruiz
m. suarez-thai
Maia Kobabe
Manuel Rodriguez
Maria Fong
Meggie the Ramm
Mer
MFA in Comics, California College of the Arts
Mixed Rice Zines
Mondo Fetiche
Murphy Milburn
The Mushroom Queendom
My Little Victories by Eishin Yoshida
MystoPress
Nebula SF
Neil G Ballard
Nicky Rodriguez
Ochre Comics
Off Menu Press
Okay Not To Be
One Belly
Paranoid Tree Press
Perennial Press
phishr_price
PM Press
Poppers the Pony
Rachel Lau
Rani Goel
Smashing Press
Snake Zines
Studio Machii
Tanaya
Tara Benhudjiriras
THOUGHT ROT
Tori Holder
trains magazine
Ulterior Zines
Vlasinda Productions
WAT + ZAV
yoko please
Zines & Collages by Kirages
Exhibitor Profiles
A circular image of cartoon monsters tearing down a prison
A.B.O. Comix
A.B.O. Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ prisoners through art. By working closely with prison abolitionist and queer advocacy organizations, we aim to keep queer prisoners connected to outside community and help them in the fight toward liberation. The profits we generate go back to incarcerated artists, especially those with little to no resources. Using the DIY ideology of "punk-zine" culture, A.B.O. was formed with the philosophy of mutual support, community and friendship.
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venmo @abocomix
cashapp $abocomix
paypal.me/abocomix
patreon.com/abocomix
Artist Acardellart vends with her Zines and Handmade Illustrated Goods
Acardellart
Alicia Cardell is a Queer Taiwanese Hapa that empowers Mindfulness & Healing with Handcrafted Illustrated Goods. Intentionally slowing down, she deconstructs generational trauma as a first generation Asian American woman. She believes in decolonizing systems of oppression that define, restrict, and police our minds and bodies. Her illustrations rediscover unapologetic ways to transform space for yourself in hopes of nurturing inner growth.
Links
acardell.wixsite.com/acardell
acardell.com
instagram.com/acardellart
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Black and white photo of Lex, white non binary person, sitting at the table with their zines displayed in front of them
AIWS
AIWS is an alias used by Lithuanian zine maker Lex. Through their work they explore what it means to live in the world that does not accommodate your needs. Lex is white, trans, disabled and autistic.
Links
etsy.com/shop/aiwsart
aiws.lt
instagram.com/6aiws
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Anna Nguyen wearing blue eyeliner and a denim jacket, waiting for the bus at Mills College
Anna Nguyen
Anna Nguyen is a child welfare social worker, child development researcher, and freelance artist. She is from Orange, CA and is based in San Francisco, CA. She has created comics and art for Yale University, Breakthroughtv, Mills College newspaper, and multiple magazines. Her work focuses on mental health, growing pains, and social justice.
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A girl with purple braids and a septum piercing stares directly at the viewer. She has fluorescent pink skin and the lower half of her body (from the collarbone down) is engulfed in lavender-colored petals that fade into the fluorescent pink border that frames her.
Arantza Pena Popo
Arantza Pena Popo is an angsty Afro-Latinx comic artist, zinester, and animator based in Atlanta, GA and Los Angeles, CA. She enjoys making work surrounding queerness, her immigrant identity, and mental illness. She also regularly makes cartoons for The New Yorker! When she's not scribbling she's rollerskating to Mitski and walking her chunky dog, Shakira.
Links
arantzapopo.com
instagram.com/_ara_pena_
etsy.com/shop/ArantzaPenaPopo
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venmo @Arantza-Popo
paypal penapopo@usc.edu
Artists Asami and Yasumi tabling
Asami & Yasumi Akinaga
Asami and Yasumi are sisters born in Japan and raised in the Bay Area of California. We are inspired by our Japanese heritage and Western art education, and often make works that are a blend of both cultures. We make zines as an accessible alternative to sharing our art and our experiences.
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A watercolor portrait of a white woman with short blonde hair. She has her hand raised to her chin and is surrounded by a classical border
Aviatrix Press
I’m Madeline (she/her) a Los Angeles based bookbinder, illustrator, and print-adjacent-person. Back in college, I got into bookbinding and printing when I was studying art conservation. Now I do small editions of artist books and zines that feature my art and writing under the moniker of Aviatrix Press. When I’m not making art, I work at the International Printing Museum where I get to mess with antique printing presses and nerd out about history. My work has been featured in a number of collaborative zines in addition to my own publications. I am also happy to chat about commissions for illustrations or bindings.
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Simple digital illustration of a woman with long hair and bags under her eyes
Awkward Ladies Club
Amy Burek is a Bay Area artist who spends a lot of time thinking about the internet. Her work explores how technology has shaped the way we communicate, interact with each other, and perceive ourselves. She self-publishes under the imprint Awkward Ladies Club and can be found using the social media handle @awkwardladies.
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Brown Recluse zine distro logo, a hand with a spider
Brown Recluse Zine Distro
Brown Recluse exists to uplift the work of QTBIPOC zine makers. We are located on Ohlone land and are the only zine distro soley for BIPOC and the only distro offering Black zinemakers 100% of the cover price to distribute their work. To make that possible we offer the listed prices in the zine distro to BIPOC only, we invite white folks and institutions to purchase zines by adding an additional sliding scale amount to their purchase. You can find that on our website under "Mandatory Sliding Scale for White Folks and Institutions". That sliding scale keeps the distro running and pays for all our operational costs, we donate all profits to queer and trans Black folks who are in our direct communities as a form of emergency aid.
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paypal: donate button on website (tax deductible)
venmo @brownrecluse (only use 🕷emoji)
These are my first zines, 'Bookstores in San Francisco Bay Area' and 'How to make "my stomach satisfied" in Tokyo.' They are also curated by my "bookish cat from Tokyo." (He's reviewing the cover designs now...)
Cammy / Tokyo Bookish Cat
Hi, I’m Cammy! I am originally from Tokyo, Japan and currently based in San Francisco Bay Area. “Tokyo Bookish Cat” is my ZINE project.
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AAPI with long hair outdoors with black shirt
Canto Cutie
Katherine Leung (she/her) is an artist, public school art teacher, and community organizer. She is currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, although her roots are all over the American Southwest. Her mother’s family is a part of the post-war wave of Chinese grocery store owners that catered primarily Hispanic neighborhoods, in Tucson, Arizona. Her father is an inventor and engineer, of Cantonese and Teochew descent, who immigrated to the US as an international student in the early 80’s. Katherine spent her formative years in an insular Southern evangelical multilingual Asian-American community in Austin, Texas.
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venmo @leungkz
paypal: leungk@utexas.edu
Luis Blackaller Cartoon Distortion
Cartoon Distortion
Luis Blackaller, a.k.a. Cartoon Distortion (he/him), is an artist from Mexico City with an interest in public space, issues of representation and diversity in popular culture, the life-cycles of narrative colonialism, and good old fashioned cinema. Luis lives in Los Angeles, where he self-publishes his personal work with a simple mission in mind: to express his vision of Latin American imagination and life in Mexico City.
Links
cartoondistortion.com
cartoondistortion.limitedrun.com instagram.com/cartoon_distortion
Christina tabling with her comics and zines
Christina Tran
Christina Tran makes tender, autobio comics and essays that pull us toward a more compassionate world. She has been making webcomics since 2014 and self-publishing zines since 2015. Her artmaking practice draws on roots of design, teaching, and community weaving. Find her online at sodelightful.com or in-person at a renegade community art space called Mt Caz.
Links
sodelightful.com/comics
sodelightful.gumroad.com
mtcaz.tumblr.com/press
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Mascot of the Comic Arts Club, Edgar the raven
Comic Arts Club at San Francisco State
The Comic Arts Club is a group of students and enthusiasts at SF State who love comic art, from classic to modern. The Mixed Nest, the clubs zine, is a collection of various comics made by students at the university which focus on a wide variety of topics and subjects in today's world with vastly different art styles.
Links
instagram.com/sfsu_comicarts
issuu.com/sfsucomicarts
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Logo for Conspiracy of Geniuses, a black and red heart with a raised fist in the center
Conspiracy of Geniuses
Conspiracy of Geniuses is a mutual (aid) care network for intersectional artists from the QTBIPOC community, with an emphasis on empowering its most marginalized members, namely our constituency who identify as Indigenous, Black, Disabled, Migrant, and/or as a current or former Sex Worker.
Links
conspiracyofgeniuses.org/shop
instagram.com/radcogs
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Drifter Zine
Drifter Zine is an independent publication based in the San Fernando Valley dedicated to showcasing up-and-coming artists, writers, and journalists.Drifter Zine started in April 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic in hopes to create a community space for artists that was vastly needed during this solitary time and has continued to grow since then. The publication is a two-person operation run from home by Editor-in-Chief Madi Parsley and Assistant Editor Iván Salinas.
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instagram.com/drifter_zine
drifterzine.com
issuu.com/drifterzine
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Someone holding an oil painting on paper that covers their entire body in an apartment kitchen
Ellena Ruiz
Ellena Ruiz works in oil and watercolor, drawing from each process' unique material potentials. She builds her abstract paintings like bodies and lived experience, layered and scarred to evoke generational trauma and systematic violence. Ellena harnesses watercolor’s association with intimacy to explore discomfort and unease through figurative narratives. Both threads of her work are derived from direct experience, filtered through queer theory and a Chicanx lens.
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A pencil doodle of a glowbug flying with buzzing wings in motion
Emma Lusich
Emma Lusich is a 26 yr old trans woman and zine maker living in SF making cutesy creepy crawley comics. Most often about wacky cartoon characters struggling to cope with work/life, gender, anxiety or all 3 in some form or another.
Links
emmalusich.github.io/quasipsudocomic
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Evil Twin wearing sunglasses under a tree
Evil Twin
A bit about me: I likes sequins, high heels and pratfalls. When not at work I'm suddenly sweaty with bloody knees. Favorite snack is 3-lbs of rigatoni. Favorite color is violet. My dream vacation is a Honey I Shrunk the Kids situation but with the entire human population. My two cats hate each other. I suspect they know one of them is my favorite.
Links
eviltwin.online
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Photo of a Female writer wearing a black top, long brown hair, coffee skin, brown eyes and red lips
Flores Couture
I am a writer based out of Pomona. I write poetry, short stories and current events. I self publish zines. My topics include social justice, human rights, helping the homeless community, solar energy, self love and mental health. I cover local events happening and going on in Pomona, the I.E. and Los Angeles.
I use a typewriter, markers, pencils and paper as my medium. My typewriter is a Smith-Corona Seventy. For me, my zines are art. They are unique. They help spread my stories and my art.
Links
instagram.com/flores.couture.16
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Gerry Chow, a comics artist and writer, sitting at a table
Gerry Chow
Gerry Chow is an artist and comics creator by night, and a nonprofit professional by day.
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Girls, on Film logo
Girls, On Film
Girls, on Film was founded by Steph McDevitt and Janene Scelza, two pals looking to collaborate on a creative project. Janene is no stranger to zines and introduced Steph to the craft. Since 2018, we have published 13 issues, added a full-time writer (Dr. Rhonda Baughman), numerous excellent guest writers, started a podcast to discuss 80’s movies and the zine-making process, and clocked lots of hours watching the good, bad, and meh movies of yore.
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Harry is looking at the camera and smiling. They are in their studio corner surrounded by art supplies and different multi-coloured wall hangings on the wall behind them.
HaviolibyHarry
Harry is a queer creative currently based in Essex, UK. Harry is a writer, zinemaker, filmmaker and loom weaver.
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Illustration of a person with yellow skin and several yellow fox tails, wearing amorphous clothes and a face mask, walks while carrying a black bag in one hand or paw
Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an artist, designer, and witch, who was born to Taiwanese immigrants in the Deep South under a full moon. Their work often involves ritual, ancestral myth and mysticism, animal motifs, and the cosmic, and they use zines to cast spells and open portals.
Links
helentseng.com/shop
instagram.com/wolfchirp
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Table of zines by Heyt be! Fanzin (Istanbul, Vienna, TR, AT)
Heyt be! Fanzin
In 2010, Heyt be! Fanzin was founded as a zine & artist collective by Deniz Beser, Sedef Karakas and Barıs Sinsi in Istanbul, Turkey. Heyt be!, which approaches its entire layout with collage logic and without the use of computers is an independent and timeless art publication defending analog against digital in this context.
The zine presents such contents as contemporary art, comics, illustration, interview, literature, music, and politics. In this context, Heyt be!'s primary goal is to create an alternative exhibition in a fanzine form.
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fanzineistvienna@gmail.com
A square image with a tan grid background and a blue furry monster in the foreground with large green and purple stick-on eyeballs
Impostor Monster Zines
Mick (they/them) is a fat, white, genderqueer, disabled zinester in Brooklyn, NY. They're also a radical full-spectrum doula and the editor of The Doula Project’s zine, DIY Doula: Self-Care for Before, During, & After Your Abortion. Mick was nominated for a Broken Pencil Zine Award in 2020 for their zine "Let Me Know if There's Anything I Can Do..." Mick loves hand lettering, playing the ukulele, and giant salads.
Links
etsy.com/shop/measuringspoons
instagram.com/micklikestype
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linktr.ee/monsterzinenyc
venmo @mickmonster
paypal monsterzinenyc@gmail.com
Gold cursive text with the words “Indigenous Honeys” and a small golden flower with a bee
Indigenous Honeys
Indigenous Honeys is an interdisciplinary arts collective dedicated to cultivating space for Indigenous zinesters, artists, writers, and storytellers. Our work centers the voices, experiences, realities, histories, perspectives and talents of Indigenous peoples. We are dedicated to promoting self-published material because we recognize self-publishing as an accessible and autonomous strategy that interrogates settler colonialism and capitalism.
Links
instagram.com/indigenous_honeys
issuu.com/indigenoushoneys/docs/indigenous_sensations
A 2 inch by 4 inch zines, titled "The Dream" by itsy bitsy zines
Itsy Bitsy Zines
Itsy bitsy zines are minizines, collages and poems made at home. I started making them in my small bedroom while in lockdown March 2020. They’re mostly compositions of images and words found in magazines.
Links
itsybitsyzines.com
instagram.com/itsybitsyzines
itsybitsyzines.gumroad.com
Short haired woman with glasses looks at camera with risograph printed drawings in the background
iurhi peña
Iurhi Peña (CDMX, 1989) is an illustrator and zinester interested in exploring the affections and living of women in Mexico City through comics, drawings and stuff on the Internet. Since 2006 she has been part of various feminist groups in CDMX (Autoeditoras: Hacemos Femzines, Rosa Chillante, among others) and currently heads Beibi Creisi, a small press dedicated to publish graphic work of women and people who exist outside cis-heteronormativity in Mexico and Latin America.
Links
instagram.com/iurhi
linktr.ee/IURHI
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paypal oyibanez@gmail.com
Wooden stairs at sunset with a girl sitting and smiling on the steps. She has dark hair, a long leather jacket, a light shirt, sneakers and blue jeans.
Jennifer Chavez
Jen is a Chicago born Chicana illustrator who's primary focus is on comics and zines. These stories range from ethereal worlds to personal narratives focused on mental health and complex emotions. She hopes to help normalize talking about the more stigmatized parts of mental health through a focus on vulnerability from both the fictional characters as well as her own lived experiences.
Links
jenillustration.com
instagram.com/jen.kneefe
twitter.com/jen_kneefer
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Illustration of Joseph Cotsirilos
Joseph Cotsirilos
I write/illustrate comics & stories about being Mediterranean and Latino. My work has appeared in places like Ashcan Magazine, Aviary, Inter-Connected-Circles, On Verge, art galleries, Tumblr's homepage, numerous comic book conventions, and in anthologies like Not My Small Diary and Syzygy. In 2018, I won the Ara Jo Memorial Grant and was featured by the Rock Paper Scissors Collective.
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“ecstasy (burning man sculpture) in hayes valley” print by kay rodriques
kay rodriques/silent hare studios
Kay is a printmaker, painter and artist’s book maker living and working in California. She examines the conditions and interconnections of place, space and trade.
Kay has a long-term interest in the cultural geography and landscape of Jamaica. She began creating a series of hand-made artist’s books about the island in 2019. They are being duplicated by Risograph and ink/laser jet printers.
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venmo kayrodriques@gmail.com
paypal kayrodriques@yahoo.com
A pastel rainbow behind Kels Choo with a smiling silly face and tongue sticking out. Below their face are a crossed pencil and paint brush.
Kels Choo
Kelsey Choo is a Hawai‘i-raised girl self-publishing comics, zines, and other art in Colorado.
Working in a variety of mediums, her comics & illustrative works are inspired by the colors, nature, food, and folklore she grew up surrounded by in Hawai‘i, as well as general monsters & magic.
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venmo @KelsChoo
paypal kelschooart@gmail.com
cash.app $KelsChoo
Two drawn portraits of Lawrence Lindell (Black gender fluid person) and of Breena Nuñez (Afro Salvadoran-Guatemalan person). Both portraits are drawn in black and white as they sit above the name of their website: LanehaHouse.com.
Laneha House
Dreamt up in 2019 but Founded in 2020, Laneha House is a family run small press that solely publishes the work of Lawrence Lindell, Breena Nuñez and The BAYlies Magazine Comics Anthology. Laneha House is built on the foundation of family, love of comics, zines and coffee.
Links
lanehahouse.com
instagram.com/lanehahouse
twitter.com/LanehaHouse
A #toonme of Leeee’s face merge with the iconic Tomei from Junji Ito. Tomei is a notoriously known for her two faces-one beautiful and the other is a twisted demon
Leeee
I consider myself a storyteller before an artist. I really take into consideration the mise en scene of a canvas or a piece of paper. With comics my love for stories and art really thrives.
Links
itsleeee.com
instagram.com/itsleeee45
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paypal maileevang45@gmail.com
Lindsay reading a book in an all pink room. She's holding a stuffed animals with bulging eyes.
Lindsay Santiago
Lindsay Santiago in an illustrator in San Francisco. She enjoys taking photos of flowers, birds and architecture on walks around the city which inspire her drawings. She also hand-makes cute miniature zine libraries.
Links
shop.lindsaysantiago.com
instagram.com/lindsantiago
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venmo @lindsantiago
paypal me@lindsaysantiago
cash.app/$lindsantiago
Purple and green painted illustration of two cabbages against a white background. The collective's name, "little study," is written above the cabbages in purple and green font.
little study zine
Welcome to little study! We are a publication of writings and close encounters.
This is a space…
to think without the pressure of completion;
to retrain our attention to meander, and linger;
to practice naming things that strike us as they strike;
to write without having to yield to a middleman;
to be less precious with our words and our names;
to support each other in putting work into the world;
to spout/shout/sing, grounded in a community of voices.
Links
“Imaginary Dinner Party” zine (please view as a double-page spread)
littlestudyzine.tumblr.com
instagram.com/littlestudyzine
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Maira has green hair and green lipstick, and is wearing a purple cowboy hat. They are holding a long arm stapler and are wearing a denim vest with various queer buttons on it.
Long Arm Stapler
Maira of Long Arm Stapler makes zines that focus on the intersections of gender, mental health, and pop culture. Their favorite topics are King of the Hill, karaoke, and talking about their broken brain. Perzines will always be their first love.
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etsy.com/shop/longarmstapler
instagram.com/lngrmstplr
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patreon.com/longarmstapler
paypal.me/queeranxietybabiez
venmo @bonemachine
ko-fi.com/maira
Photographer Chris Atwood poses next to a camera with a telephoto lens at the Berkeley Marina
Lost Redwoods
Christopher Robert Atwood was born in 1984 in Mesa, Arizona. He spent many years working in the darkroom, learning the craft of making photographs from start to finish. He currently resides Bay Area, and has worked as a freelance photographer/digital technician in various photo studios for the better part of the last decade. He is inspired by the rhythms of the natural world, as well as a lifelong love affair with print media.
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AtwoodPhotos.com
LostRedwoods.com
instagram.com/LostRedwoods
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venmo @LostRedwoods
paypal ChrisRatwood@gmail.com
Mixed Media collage self portrait by Luis R. Ruiz
Luis R. Ruiz
I'm a 24 year old multidisciplinary creative from Mexico City that loves to listen to others, read intimate introspections and illustrate as a means to cope with life as a queer person in the midst of sociocultural turmoil. I find beauty in vulnerability, thus I was naturally drawn towards the world of zines.
Links
literaluis.com
kickstarter.com/projects/deliria/deliria-reflections-for-queer-folk-and-those-who-love-them?lang=es
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Self-portrait of artist m. suarez-thai
m. suarez-thai
m. suarez-thai is a comic artist and student based in Berkeley, CA.
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instagram.com/msuarezthai
moushop.bigcartel.com
youtu.be/ySvIQKRPTYM
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A drawing of the head and shoulders of a nonbinary artist, facing to the right. They have brown hair and white skin, are smiling, and wearing a baseball hat with a rainbow on it. They also have a peacock feather earring and a pronoun pin.
Maia Kobabe
Maia Kobabe is the author/illustrator of GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (Oni Press, 2019) and many short comics which have been published online on The Nib, The New Yorker, and in print anthologies. Maia is nonbinary, queer, trans, and uses e/em/eir pronouns.
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A piranha - giant vehicle, destroys everything in its path. We see that an army of masked executives emerges from the piranha.
Manuel Rodriguez
Born in 1973 in Santiago de Chile. Studied art at the University “Finis Terrae” in Santiago de Chile, graduating with “Licenciatura en bellas artes, especialidad grabado” (Master of Visual Arts, major in Printmaking). European Animation Masterclass at the TV-Academy Central Germany in Halle (Saale). After working in Valencia, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, Manuel Rodriguez currently lives and works in Münster.
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Maria smiling and wearing glasses, silver earrings, and a black t-shirt
Maria Fong
Maria Fong is an artist from Berkeley who makes zines, animations, and drawings that tell silenced stories and foster interaction between people.
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instagram.com/mariafongtastic
issuu.com/mariafong
mariafong.wixsite.com/mariafong
mariafong.bigcartel.com
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Meggie is in a red hoodie with a tiny tabby kitten peeking out, asleep. The background shows a bunch of their doodles.
Meggie the Ramm
Meggie Ramm (they/them) is a non-binary cartoonist and comic educator.
They graduated from California College of the Arts with an MFA in Comics in 2017. They’ve done work for the New Yorker, Everyday Feminism and Silver Sprocket.
They’ve spent the last five years teaching comics to kids across the East Bay, and are currently working on their first full length graphic novel.
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Two mini zines featuring "mail art" collages with stamps, envelopes, decorative tape, & air mail stickers
Mer
I work in healthcare, lifeguard on the side, & make zines in my spare time. I hope to become a nurse as well as a middle aged contortionist.
Links
etsy.com/shop/sleepthroughkings
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Paypal mysteryhours@paypal.com
Three of our Comics MFA Students participating in Silver Sprocket's Comics MFA Pop Up
MFA in Comics, California College of the Arts
CCA’s graduate comics program is a space where artists and writers come together to support and challenge each other’s craft. Our low-residency structure gives you the freedom to build your creative practice from anywhere while keeping you on track with project deadlines and individualized goals.
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A hand drawing of a pair of scissors and a zine with the words “MIXED RICE zines” in the center of it. Off the the right side are fun speech bubbles saying “D.I.Y / QTPOC / ZINES / SK8ING!”. These drawings use neon pink and forest green ink.
Mixed Rice Zines
Mixed Rice Zines makes zines that feature a mixture of voices in celebrating QTBIPoC resilience. These submission based zines bring together queer and trans community to reflect and connect.
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venmo @mixedricezines
cash.app/$mixedricezines
paypal mixedricezines@gmail.com
Carlos Deth smiling and wearing Mondo Fetiche t-shirt
Mondo Fetiche
Mondo Fetiche celebrates the beautiful, strange, and bizarre world of fetish! Inspired by arthouse and grind house cinema, our x-rated films and zines explore identity, gender and sexuality in the most colorful way!
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Independent Black cartoonist from San Francisco
Murphy Milburn
I'm an independent cartoonist based in San Francisco with a "positive" black identity and an "odd" personality.
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"BEER and BOBA in the San Francisco Bay Area" zines by Eishin Yoshida
My Little Victories by Eishin Yoshida
Born and raised in Tokyo, Eishin Yoshida graduated from the New School for Public Engagement in New York with an MA in Media Studies. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she enjoys nature walks and local beers. After working as an art administrator, she started making zines and print works under her label "My Little Victories" in 2017. Her works focus on appreciating the little things in her everyday life.
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An eerie black and white ink illustration of a person whose face is cut off, revealing red interior with glowing eyes peeking out
MystoPress
Natalia is a queer Latinx illustrator making queer horror art, comics, and zines. Her retro line work and alluringly horrifying subjects pays a loving nod to horror, anime, and science fiction.
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mystopress.com
instagram.com/mystopress
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cash.app/$mystopress
patreon.com/mystopress
paypal mystodraws@gmail.com
Illustration of Jose
Nebula SF
I love typography and the visual communication of things. I’m a designer and illustrator based in San Francisco.
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instagram.com/interstellarastronaut
nebulasf.com/propaganda
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Neil Ballard sitting at a table displaying his comics and art
Neil G Ballard
Neil G Ballard is an illustrator who lives and works in the Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco. His work includes murals, comics for print and web, poster illustration and animation.
Links
neilgballard.com/culner-and-the-housing-crisis
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A square image of a white, brunette woman with a mustard beanie smiling with an electric green background
Nicky Rodriguez
Nicky is a queer Puerto Rican comic artist, flatter, and colorist. She has two ongoing webcomics, The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere, and, The Smoke in the Mirror. In 2018, she started making autobiographical zines exploring mental health, the impermanence of time and memory, her existential ennui, and the meaning of home and homesickness as a member of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Links
artofnickyrodriguez.com
instagram.com/artofnickyrodriguez
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patreon.com/artofnickyrodriguez
ko-fi.com/artofnickyrodriguez
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Ochre Comics
I started making zines using haiku and photos (Haiku and Holga), which morphed into graffiti zines (Urban Ephemera), and later transformed into comics. The comics started with queer noir (The Dame Vanishes), then a western (An Impatient Grave), and most recently a paranormal mystery (The Sheeted Dead). Inexplicably, the zines are New York focused but all of the comics are set in San Francisco.
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An illustration with a peach-colored background. There are six different fruits with cute faces outlining the words "off menu press + friends." In a circular pattern from left to right, the fruits are a strawberry, a lemon, an apple, cherries, a blueberry, and an orange. Smaller illustrations of fruits are dispersed throughout the image.
Off Menu Press
We are a zine and community space for individuals with canonically-excluded genders. We publish folks who identify as women, trans*, non-binary (or any other gender that has been impacted negatively by gender discrimination & the patriarchy) in the form of physical composite zines –– or “menus,” as we call them. Off Menu Press editors are Rebecca Gross (she/they), anaïs peterson (they/name), grace novacek (she/they), and Monica Niehaus (she/her).
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https://offmenupress.com/
issuu: 'vintage' All Female Menu issue 1
issuu: Emotional Algebra
issuu: Portal
issuu: Memory Edition
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Okay Not To Be
Emma Webster is a writer living in Alameda, CA. She recently graduated from CIIS in San Francisco with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts. She works in marketing during the day and is putting the finishing touches on her novel by night. When not writing, she can be found posting her adventures on her travel Instagram, @sexyairbnbz, hiking through Northern California, and searching for East Coast quality pizza out west.
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etsy.com/shop/okaynottobe
etsy.com/listing/907484913/vol-2-okay-not-to-be-mental-health-zine
emma-e-webster.com/okntb
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paypal ewebs122@gmail.com
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One Belly
Hi, I am Kristie. I spent a decade building consumer facing products in the tech industry following a short stint as a crime beat reporter after my art history college education. My passion is to help people understand their place in the universe more by getting back to the roots of what they eat and how the meal is made.
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onebelly.com/publications.html
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Text reads: Paranoid Tree Press: Pocket-Sized Pictures. Life-Sized Stories. Est. 2020. Imagery includes a background of several colorful risograph zines arranged in a grid. The Paranoid Tree logo is a skeleton tree being struck by lightning.
Paranoid Tree Press
Paranoid Tree is a collaboration between two friends who met while on the staff of a literary magazine. They dreamed of creating a zine that publishes stunning visual and written work while being able to pay its artists and writers, and thus Paranoid Tree was born.
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Perennial Press
Perennial Press archives truths through prose, art and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature.
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perennial-press.com/store
instagram.com/perennial_press
twitter.com/perennial_press
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paypal artopencalls@gmail.com
venmo @madi123
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phishr_price
Transfemme, non-binary Asian-American artist and internet anthropologist! Sharing humor comics as well as some essays about the current internet ecological landscape and also illustration prints.
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PM Press
PM Press is an Oakland-based independent, radical publisher of books and media to educate, entertain, and inspire. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. We’re old enough to know what we’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake. Join us to create a better world.
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pmpress.org
Ink drawing of a ponygirl wearing mini skirt and tall boots. She is holding an umbrella and reaching out for the rain drops with one hoof and tongue
Poppers the Pony
Dorian Katz is a visual artist and zine maker based in Oakland. Her art is in over 40 publications, plus self-published zines and has been on the walls in museums, kink dungeons, and other fine places. She draws in a cartoony style with sumptuous ink lines as Poppers the Pony. Dorian and Poppers welcome you to their wild animal queendom with zines, coloring books, stickers, humor and an over-the-top femme aesthetics.
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instagram.com/poppers_the_pony
poppersthepony.bigcartel.com
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Watercolour illustration of a Chinese person with short black hair. They are wearing a striped black and white shirt and a green jacket. There have a slight smile.
Rachel Lau
Rachel Lau is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and radio producer based in what's colonially known as "Vancouver". Through audio storytelling, film photography, and zine-making, they contemplate what it means to experience longing in a world that is transient. They have lots of feelings and they make things. Currently, Rachel is a co-librarian of Queer Reads Library, a mobile library of independently published queer books and zines based in Hong Kong and Vancouver.
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Rani Goel
Animal-loving, mixed-raced, married queer Gen X artist, writer, musician.
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issuu.com/ranivision
instagram.com/ranivision
ranigoel.com
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Smashing Press
Smashing Press is the collaborative self-publishing project of Nif & Anthony Hodgson. Anthony writes and illustrates short stories. Nif prints and binds books. Working in Los Angeles, Smashing Press uses antique and modern tools to explore fine art and fun through not-so-usual narratives.
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Kate and Frances of Snake Zines stand smiling in front of a redwood forest, holding a small dog. Kate is wearing a sky-blue shirt and brown pants, and Frances is wearing a red plaid flannel shirt and jeans.
Snake Zines
Kate and Frances (both she/her) started Snake Zines in 2015, and have participated in several zine fests since then. In each issue of Snake, they explore new themes while experimenting with new materials. Snake includes comics, games, recipes, interviews, infographics, and much more; it's made for all ages, and encourages and inspires exploration and creativity.
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Tanaya is wearing black pants and a white shirt with gold buttons. She has curly hair and glasses. She is holding up a banana as a phone and laughing into it.
Tanaya
Tanaya is a full time cat dad in search of the perfect straw hat. Her work is reflective of her experiences as a South Asian, queer, immigrant who feels passionately about food, Bollywood, space, coffee, pets, and personal growth, amongst other things.
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Line drawing of Tara Benhudjiriras and her cat
Tara Benhudjiriras
I grew up in the back rooms of my parents' restaurants in San Francisco and Marin County, where my brother and I would have mushroom chopping competitions. I still live in SF, where I work, draw, cook, and watch a lot of horror movies and dating reality shows.
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instagram.com/durian.dreams
etsy.com/shop/Duriandreams
carlandtara.com/static/Somedays.pdf
carlandtara.com/static/Being%20Krause.pdf
carlandtara.com/static/Skins%20-%20book.pdf
A Black woman with her head tilted up and looking to the side. She is surrounded by dozens of light orange flowers hanging from the ceiling and casting shadows on her face.
The Mushroom Queendom
The Mushroom Queendom – One of the first Wakandan Outposts established in 20XX. The Queendom is ruled by Shana T Bryant (aka MQ). Artist, author, and inclusive design geek, she draws inspiration from waaaay too many years of being Black in America. MQ is also the creator of "terrible allies," a comic about allies and "allies." Check her random political musings on Twitter at @mushrooQueendom. Follow her art and more on Instagram at @terribleallies and @mushroomqueendomart
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terribleallies.com
instagram.com/mushroomqueendomart
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THOUGHT ROT
I’m a San Francisco-based writer, research assistant, and freelance flâneur. I’ve written for Audiofemme, Broke-Ass Stuart, Collectors Weekly, and Bay City News.
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feminineitch.bigcartel.com
thought-rot.net
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venmo @Lydia-sviatoslavsky
paypal lydia.sviatoslavsky@gmail.com
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trains magazine founder and editor Frankie Bruiser poses for a selfie with her right hand under her chin looking softly into the camera
trains magazine
trains is an annual, trans-only arts publication
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trainszine.com
instagram.com/trainszine
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paypal trainszine@gmail.com
venmo @frankielorenzini
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Ulterior Zines
Ulterior Zines was created by musician and zine maker Alexa Lima in 2016 to bring awareness to issues faced by the BIPOC community, express personal thoughts and dreams from a Black-Indigenous womxn perspective, and connect with people through the zine medium.
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etsy.com/shop/UlteriorZines
instagram.com/ulteriorzines__
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patreon.com/ulteriorzines
paypal.me/ulteriorzines
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Vlasinda Productions
Vlasinda Productions has been creating art in multiple mediums for over a decade. In recent years we have also had a focus on organizing events for artists to showcase their work and network with others to help build a more connected creative community.
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WAT + ZAV
wat + zav makes stationery and multiples exploring personal and societal conflicts, nature, and folklore. Through self publishing we aspire to relate to others through observational commentary, storytelling, and drawing.
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instagram.com/watandzav
watandzav.com
instagram.com/rachelzavarella
instagram.com/chelseawatt
A portrait of Yoko Please in her bedroom
Yoko Please
Yoko Please is an experimental artist that dabbles with digital storytelling and currently, print media. She incorporates textile work focusing on sensory experience, self intimacy, vulnerability and personal interactions. All of her works bleed into each other creating a mosaic of her.
Photo by Azha Ayanna Luckman
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Zines & Collages by Kirages
Anastasia “Stacy” Kirages is a Houston-based zinester, collage artist, and community organizer for Zine Fest Houston (ZFH). Check out more of her work on Instagram: @k.llages.
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msha.ke/k.llages
instagram.com/k.llages
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venmo @Anastasia-Kirages
paypal skirages@yahoo.com
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