Main Lobby Exhibitors
San Francisco Zine Fest
Special Guests
Guest of Honor
V. Vale
Invited Guests
Penelope Houston
Joe Donohoe
Russ Forster
Exhibitors
Tooltip: The exhibitors are arranged alphabetically by column. On mobile they should display in alphabetical order, on a computer you can use control F to search the page for exhibitors by name.
Adrian Matias Bell is a writer, musician, editor, homosexual, and transsexual working on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA. His writing has appeared in Faultline, Protean, Dialogist, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where he served as editor-in-chief of Prism International. His favorite locations include gardens, libraries, and saunas. Find him online at ajmb.info or @ajmb.zip on Instagram.
Ajuan Mance is an Oakland based artist and writer. Ajuan is the author and illustrator of two portrait collections, 1001 Black Men and Living While Black, as well as the children’s picture book What Do Brothas Do All Day? Ajuan’s comics have appeared in several anthologies, including, most recently, Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project. Gender Studies, their first solo comics collection, was nominated for the 2024 Ignatz Award for Best Comics Collection.
Al Neun is a queer, trans cartoonist & illustrator who thrives on swimming around in the muck of the strange and monstrous. His work focuses on using fictional and fantastical imagery to evoke real queer people, bodies, and experiences.
Alyssa Ragni (they/them) is a queer cartoonist living in Oakland, CA with their partner and two orange cats. They love risograph printmaking and comics! When they're not drawing, you can find them playing table top games and day dreaming.
Amonda Kallenbach is a narrative artist living in San Francisco. They find comfort in cartoons,
telling stories with weirdly-shaped characters, and city wildlife. They’ve graduated from RISD in
2022, with a BFA in Film/Animation/Video.
Anicka Chaffey is comic artist and illustrator who is passionate about finding creative ways to make learning about science fun and accessible! She is originally from California but currently lives and works in northern New York.
Avy Jetter writes, draws and self publishes the comic book series Nuthin Good Ever Happens at 4 a.m. a horror comic set in dystopian Oakland ca. featuring primarily a BIPOC cast of characters fighting their way through hordes of zombies. A huge horror and sci-fi movie fan, she enjoys all things blood,guts, strange and creepy. She also writes, illustrates and self publishes zines about mental health, grief and healing as well as Black history.
Autumn White is a local archaeologist and printmaker. Their illustrations depict hybrid creatures in states of transformation: a reflection of both historic anxieties about androgynous bodies and their own sense of transgender revelry. Autumn's work in both the sciences and arts reflect their profound desire to find the beauty in the grotesque, and to reveal that loveliness to as many people as possible.
Henry Wu is a San Francisco Artist at James Lick Middle School that creates comics, draws, folds origami, loves insects, and enjoys acting. His comics are about foods, beards, spies, and soon, about numbers.
Black & White Projects (BWP) promotes creativity, community, and experimentation in the arts to spark ongoing, and often difficult, conversations. As an intersectional collaborative team of creators, we function as a laboratory for projects and foster mutual aid and knowledge sharing. Our collective publications include art zines and books, multigenerational zines, cheeky coloring books, booklets filled with rituals, sound archives in print, poetry books, giant anti-Comstock law stickers, satirical comics, and AfroFuturist speculative archives.
Ben Seto is an independent comic book creator based in the Bay Area that self published his comics as Black Sheep Comics, occasionally he’ll free lance as an illustrator for toy companies and video game studios. Ben is currently working on his comic series, “Usagi Jane and Tne Skullbunnies”.
Amy Wibowo is a creative technologist and zine writer who focuses on writing non-fiction zines about how technology works, her relationship with technology, and about her Indonesian American heritage. She self-publishes her own work and runs a risograph studio in San Francisco.
Home to many bugs, a cat, and a guy. 2 interdisciplinary artists making weird, queer stories, zines, and prints.
Meghan's work as a creative technologist across 3D, animation, illustration, coding, typography and design mark her as one of the true renaissance designers in the field today. Her work has been featured in the One Show, How magazine, Cannes Lions, and the Webbys. She also experiments and works in multiple print mediums: letterpress, screenprinting, risograph, and 3d printing original character designs. In recent years, she has been working on writing and illustrating longer graphic novels & shorter zines exploring environmental issues and personal memoir with a light tone. Meghan currently runs a multidisciplinary design studio, Calcium75, in Berkeley, CA.
Human cartoonist, childcare worker, and life enjoyer based in SF!
Cassy Lee, a recent grad of the CCA MFA Comics program, focuses on the power of zines and comics as a process for healing and connection in her work as a comics artist, librarian, and teacher. You can find more of her work at cassylee.com or on IG @readfreedrawfree.
my name's emily (emmie for short), I'm 26 years old and I live in Oakland, CA. I love drawing, playing music, skateboarding, and reading.
i self publish comics and make illustrations, usually all drawn in pen without very much thought beforehand.
i believe in the importance of doing things yourself, fixing up broken printers from facebook marketplace, trial and error. i love zines that are sort of busted or imperfect, rough around the edges. i think art shouldn't be about whether or not you went to art school or even if you consider yourself an artist, but more about expressing yourself freely and saying what you have to say in your own terms.
CHEEKY CHONG is a pseudonym an illustrator/designer from Oakland, CA, named Shirley. Her work is born from whatever unhinged thought skips through her mind she took seriously enough to render into art–many times humorous and encouraging the viewer to be an asshole, but, like, in a chaotic good kind of way.
Christina Hu is a writer and risograph printer based out of Berkeley, California. She loves food, women, and being Chinese—and makes art about it.
Clown Dog Collective consists of Alondra, Deuce, and Miguel. We make zines about our dog, the local music scene, and other things we're fans of. We like incorporating collage, printmaking, and photography into our zines.
CODY IS AN INDEPENDENT CARTOONIST, ILLUSTRATOR, SELF PUBLISHER, AND A PREPETUAL SAD BOY WHO LIVES IN THE BAY AREA.
WHEN HE'S NOT MAKING COMICS, HE CAN BE FOUND PLAYING THE SAME GAMES ON HIS COMPUTER OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND BEING THE BEST CAT DAD HE CAN BE.
Current Editions (Emeryville, CA) celebrates micro histories, niche artifacts, and public discourse. An artist-run press formed by Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan in 2017, we research, design, and publish assorted ephemera. For fans of: vernacular, curiosity, information architecture.
DRY. comprises Daniel Zhou, Raul Higuera, and Yasmeen Abedifard, all Bay Area-based comic artists. They make comics, zines, riso prints, hand made apparel, and plenty of mistakes.
Amani Hope is a writer and artist from the Bay Area. She writes the book recommendation newsletter, Books & Banter, hosts a podcast interviewing authors, and runs a monthly snail mail club for book lovers called the Dearest Reader Club.
Delta Rat is a dreamscape project centered on the Sam Joaquin Delta in California. Through poetry, short story, and the occasional conspiracy zine, I trudge up living and stored memory and bring it to you.
DesignNurd Diego Gómez
Diego Gómez is a Queer Chicano muralist, & teacher who created the books, comics, & zines: 1963 Is Not an End But A Beginning, Daddy Issues magazine, Hard Femme EX-MEN, Hell Babes, Hemp Milk & Honey, Piss and the City, Totes Masc, Uncanny X-Slur, and have designed hella stickers. They also probably illustrated the club flyer to the party you blacked out at. Find them @ DesignNurd
Deth P. Sun is a Cambodian-American artist living in Fort Bragg, California.
I'm a Black Biracial sexagenarian, advocate, ally, cisgender, Covid cautious femme with roots in Nigeria. I’m a cartoonist who combines my love for language musicality and history. I have published children’s books with Tilbury House, Boyds Mills Press, and Scholastic Press. Before moving to the Bay Area, I raised two daughters in Brooklyn, NY. I recently graduated from California College of the Arts with my MFA in Comics. I am currently working on my graphic memoir.
Double Down is a collective zine based in San Francisco highlighting and empowering skateboarders from all over the world
EBABZ (East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest) is an annual festival for writers, artists, makers, and everyone who creates or appreciates zines and alternative books. We strive to make EBABZ reflect the diversity, vibrance, and sense of community of the East Bay. Each year over 100 zinesters gather at the fest to share their wares, meet new friends and collaborators, and have an amazing time! We hope to see you at this year’s fest!
Ilsa Zhang is a Chinese-American illustrator and comic artist based in Northern California, USA. With a love for all things color and surreal, they have created illustrations, merchandise designs, and concept art for clients in mobile games, toys, entertainment, and TTRPGs. They have also previously contributed artwork for independent original anthologies, fan publications, and gallery exhibitions (Gallery Nucleus, Chunky Things). Their hobbies include watching food documentaries and going on Wikipedia article deep-dives.
Eddie Ahn is a self-taught artist, with a national bestselling graphic memoir “Advocate” published by Penguin Random House as well as a following on Instagram @ehacomics. In addition to his longtime nonprofit work, his illustration work is displayed on utility boxes and walls across San Francisco, and he has been recognized as a Cartoonist-in-Residence by the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Em Young is an artist based in Oakland, California who makes comics and abstract drawings. Em's drawings are playful and dynamic, gently guiding you through a scene with no solid ground and letting you float along, enjoying the view. They have curated projects including Rat House Radical Library and the Fermentation Closet, both based out of a renovated backyard shed in Portland, Oregon. Em values community, sharing resources, and connecting through art and printed matter.
Ali is a printmaker, cultural worker, and a collective memory steward of mixed Armenian descent living at the confluence of two rivers in Portland, Oregon. She produces her work under the name Entangled Roots Press. They create zines uplifting people's movements and cultural knowledge. Ali’s prints pull from ancestral stories and push towards liberatory futures; entangling lessons from the land, symbols in coffee cups, woven threads stitched in diasporic spaces, to the printed page.
As an independent comics publisher, Fieldmouse Press is dedicated to thoughtful, distinctive graphic narratives. We champion work that pushes boundaries, explores unique voices, and challenges conventions in the comics medium. Our catalog features everything from intimate personal stories to experimental visual narratives; books that might not find a home elsewhere but deserve to be in readers' hands. We're committed to publishing comics as an art form, working closely with creators to bring their visions to life with care and attention to detail.
Fish Juice + Friends represents an intergenerational group of makers throughout California. Fish Juice & Friends is always human, always friendly, and always a little juicy.
Fish skins press is a free-wheeling solo operation focused primarily on analog printmaking and drawing methods — from hand-carved linocuts and analog drawings to scanner-bed riso prints and zines. The work explores a fantasy world of creatures and symbols, personal spirituality, the Bay Area, and what the little scraps of paper on our desk do when we're not looking.
I named myself Fog Owl because I come from the San Francisco fog and I stay awake into the wee hours. Some of my zines are small personal stories about friendship or riding the bus at night. Others compile interviews with musicians, artists, and creators. I love talking to people and publishing their stories.
For The Pueblo is a multimedia collective dedicated to creating political, educational, and cultural works through a decolonial lens. Through art, prints, zines, and other forms of cultural production, the collective uplifts community knowledge, collective memory, and struggles for liberation. Rooted in critical dialogue and creative practice, For The Pueblo explores histories of resistance while imagining just futures. Its work bridges education and culture, fostering spaces for reflection, solidarity, and transformative social change.
Fourteen Hills is a graduate student-run and award-winning literary magazine that has been part of the Bay Area literary community since 1994. We have featured both emerging and established authors including Tommy Orange, Angie Cruz, Brenda Hillman, Noah Eli Gordon, Victoria Chang, Bob Hicok, and Mary Gaitskill. Our published works have been selected for the O’Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, the Best American Poetry Prize Anthology, Best American Short Stories, and more.
We are three friends whose art and zine projects are forever winding around each other. We make art about life, grief, nostalgia, aging, creative blocks, and seagulls.
We are SJSU's Printmaking Guild. We are a student run organization that holds printmaking workshops which expose students to techniques like relief, RISO printing, intaglio, letterpress, and screenprinting! We hold student galleries to showcase our work, and we table at events. As a club, we make a semi-annual zine showcasing student work through the RISO printer at campus. Our members have lots of interest in making zines about personal topics, interests and more!
I'm Jack, a proud transgender artist. I'm an aspiring author who has previously worked in disability pride advocacy, trans activism, DEI, and for a queer publishing house in warehouse and inventory management. I create zines as a way of encouraging folks to DIY and learn about new topics.
George Washington is a comprehensive high school located in the outer Richmond of San Francisco, complete with an amazing view of the Golden Gate Bridge. We offer 4+ years of studio arts classes, where students learn everything from color theory, figure drawing to multiple color reductive printmaking.
Goat-head Nebula is nebulos and Stack of Goats Studio's combined creative endeavors (we're a couple). We make art, writing, tabletop RPGs, comics, and games and code. We aspire to make art that serves as a manual for building a better world.
Grassy Field Art is the project of Northern California artist Aimee Ledbetter. The zines, comics, paintings, and prints she creates focus on environmentalism, climate change, and the emotions around living in a rapidly-changing world. The grassy field symbolizes untouched or healed nature, in defiance of development for profit and alienation from our own Earth. A better future can start as small as a plant growing from asphalt cracks.
gummygunk is a non-binary artist of Asian and Native Hawaiian descent who resides in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Theyʻre driven by a deep fixation of physical and digital ephemera and how it serves as an informal portrait of current day society. They also enjoy creating artwork in a variety of mediums!
Harry Nordlinger is an artist, cartoonist and illustrator from San Francisco. He is the editor and publisher behind the long running horror comics series Vacuum Decay, as well as the cartoonist of standalone comics such as Night Cruising, Shadows Over Springfield, and his new comic from Floating World Comics, Laser Quest.
hello murry carries a mix of genres in her zines: mental health, grief, filipino folklore, and filipino american bay area history
“Create 2 Activate” (C2A) is an 8-week program that centers creative expression and harm reduction advocacy. Participants (ages 15-24) exchange knowledge and develop practical skills while collaborating to build resources, like our 24-pg harm reduction zine and a documentary short on vaping in SF. C2A meets at Huckleberry Youth Health Center, located in the Haight, where young people (12-24) can receive free and confidential therapy, case management, health education, primary and reproductive care.
Isabel Li is a Chinese and non-binary illustrator, writer, and creativity researcher from the beaches of Tāmaki Makaurau. After studying computer science, creative writing, and new media at UC Berkeley, they have mostly been documenting the dog breeds at Alamo and heaving against Chinatown inclines. They were recently an artist-in-residence at Now Place SF, and have been dabbling in riso and comics. Their work can be found @ilyues. They laugh easily!
Jennifer Ma is the artist behind J.MA Studio. She’s a first-generation Asian American and LGBTQIA+ artist currently based in San Jose, California. She creates bold and colorful illustrations, riso prints, zines, paintings, ceramics, punch needle decor, and more. Her work focuses on bringing joy and fun to any space—for both children and adults alike.
James Spooner is an award-winning graphic novelist, filmmaker, and tattoo artist. His debut graphic novel The High Desert, the anthology Black Punk Now, and his forthcoming hybrid memoir It Starts with Anger (Pantheon, August 4) continue to center the Black punk experience first documented in his seminal film Afro-Punk (2003). He co-founded the Afro Punk Festival, which now draws worldwide audiences in the hundreds of thousands,
Always true to his DIY roots, James continues to screen Afro-Punk internationally and gives talks on punk, comics, authorship, and Black identity.
I named myself Fog Owl because I come from the San Francisco fog and I stay awake into the wee hours. Some of my zines are small personal stories about friendship or riding the bus at night. Others compile interviews with musicians, artists, and creators. I love talking to people and publishing their stories.
Johnny Damm’s minicomics and zines have been featured in The Washington Post, Boing Boing, and In These Times and named in The Comics Journal’s best comics of the year. Damm is also the author of the acclaimed graphic novels Failure Biographies and The Science of Things Familiar, both published by The Operating System. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Jon Xabier Garaizar has been drawing comics and small cartoons since youth in California. After studying printmaking and Illustration in San Francisco. He began showing work in Oakland before relocating to Seattle where he paints, makes printed goods, and illustration. His work reflects his fascination with his Basque Heritage, European art histroy as well as printmaking, comics,
jules m.e.
a 30-something trans man looking for meaning, whimsy and more coffee. I always need more coffee.
Julie Cardenas is a Chicana comic artist and painter from San Jose, California. Her work focuses on childhood, food stories and adventures in the natural world.
Junk Drawer is made up of the queer wife duo Tori and Joa Dimas-Bowler! Oakland based, we love making art alongside our four pets, whether it be zines, comics, prints, or pottery.
Cynta draws a lot of fictional memoirs/comics based on their life growing up as a trans nonbinary muslim Malay person. Most of their work is influenced by his Malaysian culture/heritage, growing up aggressively Southeast Asian, and their deep love for cosmic horror mixed with a touch of sci-fi. They are also currently working on comics that focus on his alien immigrant status in the United States, living in small odd spaces in Oakland, and general writings about the international student experience.
K. is a letterpress printer in the East Bay who has been printing the zine Ker-bloom! He very other month since the summer of 1996.
Kyla Aiko is an author and artist who's always looking for good soup noodle recommendations (the spicier, the better). She loves to explore wonder, whimsy, and wistfulness through visual narratives, and her debut middle grade graphic novel, Foxlight, is forthcoming from Feiwel & Friends.
Kyle Harter (they/them) is a cartoonist, illustrator, and fine artist with over 20 years of experience creating comics, zines, and graphic novels. Their work has appeared in magazines, anthologies, galleries, and murals across the United States. Kyle has collaborated with LGBTQIA2S+ organizations and filmmakers, including the Transgender District and the award-winning documentary Fish Out of Water. Based in Sacramento, California, they enjoy spending time with their partner and dog.
Anna B. is a Cantonese heritage speaker born and raised in San Francisco, CA. Their zines aim to connect with other third culture kids through sharing experiences, fun facts, food, and play.
I'm a poet, illustrator and community arts organizer based in Berkeley, CA. I create vivid, sparkly, colorful poetry comics and zines that speak to themes of self advocacy, fat embodiment, queer friendship, solidarities across social movements, and crip pleasure. I live to defend the weird, sexy, funny people and places of the Bay Area.
Loveimps
I'm Loveimps! I'm a beginner zinemaker that absolutely adores zines and comics of all kind. I relate to being a little critter, and I strive to spread a colorful and cartoony aesthetic while also delving into topics of mental health struggles.
Mao Nishiura is a comic artist and zine maker creating heartfelt manga and illustrated zines about motherhood, childhood, and everyday life. Her work captures small but meaningful moments through soft, playful illustrations inspired by her children’s growth, family life, and imagination.
MAPURL is an artist and illustrator who occasionally draws original comics and (even more occasionally) makes games. She loves both horror and clowns!
Mike Rossi is a cartoonist, illustrator and lover of cheese based in SF. His comics work is mostly memoir and slice-of-life. While he is seeking a home for his graphic memoir, Branches, he recently finished Volume 1 of his second book, Gela, the story of how two dog people adopted a (pregnant) cat.
Miles MacDiarmid, cartoonist from San Francisco- SFAI alum, cofounder of Freak Comics (2017-2022)
I've been writing and drawing comics for most of my life. I ran a successful kickstarter to fund my first largescale graphic novel project titled HIVE, a full-color 120 page story. Last year, I self published the first part of a three-part comic series called Key Change. In July I plan to finish part 2 a 60-page continuation of the story.
Established in 20XX. The Mushroom Queendom is ruled by Shana T Bryant (aka MQ). Artist, author, and inclusive design geek, she draws inspiration from way way too many years of being Black in America. MQ is also the creator of "terrible allies," a comic about allies and "allies."
Check out her random political musings on Threads at @MushroomQueendom. Follow her art and more on Instagram at @terribleallies and @mushroomqueendomart.
No Rulers is a small collective of of cartooning locals from the Bay Area (SF, Oakland, Richmond) drawn together figuratively and literally by the shared appreciation for creating stories rich with heart, and illustrations bursting with color and energy. Our work ranges from science fiction, to fantasy to adventure comedy. As independent cartoonists, we are working toward forging our own path into self-publishing, helping each other to find ways to break conventions of the establishment.
Noa Soriano is a comic/zine/print/bike/rock-skipping lover. They make comics, zines, prints, and sometimes ceramics! Noa rides bikes all the time and is really good at skipping rocks.
Ocean Escalanti is an indigenous Kwatsaan visual artist and writer residing in Oakland, CA. Her work is interdisciplinary specializing in fiber art and self publishing printed works, creation is to be seen as diary and archive. She is a facilitator and community programs associate at NIAD Art Center, a progressive art studio serving artists with developmental disabilities. Ocean teaches natural dye workshops during the summer at SF Public Library and volunteers as a print monitor at Max's Garage Press.
My name is Ocean Yount Harker and I am 9 years old. I have been making zines since I was 6, and art for as long as I can remember. I love to draw people and animals and recently started drawing anime. I like to write short stories as well as musicals and have performed in two shows, Matilda and The Sound of Music. Ballet is also an enjoyment for me. I love sharing my artistic practices.
Laila “Amir” Makled is a multi-hyphenated educator, artist, and event producer. They are known for their communication and gathering education and tools that support us in building power through relational healing. Amir is a part of the Lebanese and Palestinian diaspora, neurodivergent sweeties club, and fruity queer society. They are proudly a mental health and disability justice advocate.
I write speculative fiction, cultural criticism, humor, and journalism, with a particular interest in retrofuturism, video games, fandom, and forgotten corners of pop culture history. My work has been published by Wired, Rolling Stone, Slate, McSweeney’s, Alta Journal, Flash Fiction Online, Underland Press, and Shacklebound Books. I also publish the online newsletter and zine Pop Cultural Precursors.
Prism Comics is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization promoting LGBTQ+ comics, comics creators, and fandom from coast to coast. Founded in 2003, Prism Comics exhibits at conventions to make sure queer comics are available to a broad readership, fosters the careers of up and coming queer comics creators, and, since 2022, organizes and presents the annual all-LGBTQ+ comic convention, Q Con, in West Hollywood.
Rachel Burstein is a Bay Area-based historian, educational researcher, writer, and zinemaker. Her zines examine the intersections of history and contemporary politics and often feature the voices of community members who add new meaning to historical documents.
At Ride Guides, we believe public transit is more than just a way to get from point A to point B—it’s a gateway to vibrant community life. We help people explore their neighborhoods, support local businesses, and engage with their communities. We hope to empower readers to embrace their journey, celebrate local culture, and advocate for a more sustainable, connected future.
Robin Larisch is a queer disabled artist centered in the East Bay. Their work is in conversation with their identities and community in trans and crip spaces using physical media.
San Francisco Schoolhouse
San Francisco Schoolhouse is a small private school in Hayes Valley where talented and dedicated teachers foster students’ agency, nurture their curiosity, and ignite their passions through meaningful experiential learning.
Our group of artists, comprising former and current students, united to publish SFSU's first Transgender Anthology! The anthology contains unique stories from each of our artists, covering their personal journeys with gender and identity, as well as more educational stories. After nearly a year of work, this project wouldn’t be here if not for the SFSU Comics Program.
Sierra Edd is a Diné artist who grew up in Durango, Colorado. She is Tł'ógi, born for the Kinłichii'nii people. Recently, she has been making and collaborating on zine projects (“Portals of Indigenous Futurism Zine” and “Indigenous Collective Futures”).
Julianne Marella Villegas (they/them) is a queer Pinay printmaker, fiber artist,and self taught handpoker born and raised in San Francisco, CA. Always juggling between grief, joy, depression, and love, Villegas translates whimsical illustrations into silly little gifts for others, through tattoos, zines, risograph prints, and stickers. They graduated with their BFA in Printmaking from California College of the Arts, and now reside in Sacramento, CA.
Small Supply is a full-service letterpress and publishing studio founded in 2016 by Danielle Freiman in San Francisco, CA, offering custom and specialty paper goods, limited edition zines, and hands-on workshops.
Danielle is a queer and chronically disabled interdisciplinary artist and designer. She prioritizes people-first projects that center mental and reproductive health, chronic invisible conditions, queerness, and restorative justice.
Sophie Wang is a queer Chinese American artist, researcher, and educator based in Minneapolis. She makes zines, comics, prints, and art books that bring a critical power lens to science, technology, epistemology, and knowledge-making, as well as other themes like labor history, queerness, and immigration. Her artistic goal is to incite people to ask questions about processes or knowledge that they may have not known that they could (and should!) ask questions about.
The Spooky Haus is a queer artist collective of over a dozen transgender and gender nonconforming artists. We make unique art and accessories that uplift all genders and look cool as hell. Our primary zine making members are Nathaniel Bice and Sean Owens, who make zines and art about San Francisco, queer life, and sometimes Cowboy Jokes.
October Stoner is a trans, AuDHD, and jewish queercrip in the Bay Area who makes zines about all sorts of personal, abstract, and educational subjects. Many of its zines blend personal with educational, in the hope of helping others understand concepts that aren’t taught in the mainstream. October creates a few series of zines on trans identities and culture, disability justice, and autistic experiences and culture. It has also made catharsis zines about more difficult topics, like manipulative friend breakups and sexual assault.
Stella Condrey
Stella Condrey was confirmed by both a doctor and clergy member to be "uncool". Her love of not paying a lot for things and roleplaying games combined one day as she devled into the world of indie publishing and diy attitude.
activating knowledge and promoting critical discourse through bootlegs, zines, and printed ephemera.
studioshum showcases a critical artistic and research practice and explores zines as a way to raise awareness and document learnings in the fight for environmental justice and self-determination with frontline communities around the world.
The Sunset Media Wave teen artist collective consistently pushes the boundaries of creativity through painting, filmmaking, digital art, music production, poetry, collage, screen printing and beyond. Our program is an open intersection of cultures, nurturing a safe space for traditionally marginalized voices to flourish. Our mission is to make work that is personal, empowering and expansive. We believe art heals and drives personal transformation, that community uplifts us and offers courage, and that teen voices must be amplified!
13 year old Fehren Rojas draws kids comic books. His first comic series, The Superfruits, is about a ragtag collection of crime-fighting fruits, trying to save the world from bad food, one french-fry at a time.
I run a small Risograph studio, T-Nest Press, out of my apartment in Oakland, CA. My zines speak to my own queer and trans experience and how these core parts of me show up when I’m moving through the world. In my work, I share stories about crying at beautiful things, having crushes, and going to dance parties alone and staying until the end.
That Deaf Zinester (TDZ) offers an array of zines, posters, stickers, and education for a cultural shift. Their artwork serves as a portal to understanding and inclusion, crafted with care and fueled by the passion for a more accessible world. Alternative communication is fun and will open up your world.
Tierra y Libertad Press is an autonomous, self-managed, and member-organized zine press that publishes zines connected to Chicanx/Xican@, Latinx, Black/Afro-descent, mixed-race, and Native/Indigenous people from Las Américas. Our aim is to collaborate, design, create, publish, and disseminate zines that draw from various mediums of creative and analytical expressions. In the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), rasquachismo, and Punk sensibilities, we create zines to spark revolutionary imaginations and possibilities. We desire to create a radical community of creative, cultural, and artistic practitioners and zinesters.
Trixie Simsarian
Trixie Simsarian (She/they/he) is a senior in High School in San Francisco. They have a background in oil painting and plan to major in Illustration in college. She can be found playing roller derby, moshing, or telling someone “I can’t, I have rehearsal.” Their work is inspired by their love of circus and all things theatrical, his experience growing up gender queer, and her love of San Francisco.
vidya enjoys making zines about anything and everything including: wildflowers, watercolor comics, salt pond color palettes! check out more of her experiments at: vidyagiri.com
Vincent Lau makes comics about dreams, nature, and the otherworldly. He spends his summers watching baseball and his winters raging on online chess.
Wahab Algarmi is the writer and artist of the recently released graphic novel, Almost
Sunset. Wahab has been teaching, making comics, and creating a community space for
other artists in the Bay Area for years now. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife,
three kids, and two bunnies, where he is hard at work on his next book, Breaking Point.
Crystal Andres (XIRENV) is a Los Angeles–based Chicana artist, illustrator, and self-publisher. Through zines, handmade books, and narrative illustration, she explores cultural memory, personal mythology, family histories, and everyday life. Influenced by her background in anthropology, her work combines storytelling and visual worldbuilding to create intimate publications rooted in identity, community, and imagination.
YAFUTAE / Yae Furuta (she/her/they) is a seventeen-year-old illustrator and Mangaka based in the Bay Area and Kamakura. She works with digital and mixed media to create vibrant illustrations and manga.
As an Asian artist, her work features nostalgic, colorful Japanese watercolor as well as artwork derived from European fairytales.
Furuta got her first professional job at fifteen, later going on to illustrate for authors and large publications.
Aliensriracha (they/it/he) is the artist name of Nico Olmstead, a multimedia artist whose work centers the curiosities of science, queerness, nature, and eroticism.
I’m an illustrator and a maker based in San Francisco. I teach illustration at California College of the Arts. I love visual storytelling and zine is my preferred way to share with the audience.
Conor is a Deaf artist, creative, and a staunchly anti-ai advocate! He teaches preschool to deaf kids when he’s not busy eating sour candy and binge watching silent films.