Chapel Hill Carrboro Zine and Printed Matter Festival
A serious and locally based endeavor to foster love and community through zines and printed matter in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina! This year's festival on April 27th 11 AM - 4 PM at Carrboro Town Commons. Sponsored by The ArtsCenter of Carrboro!
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Zine Events Prior to The Big Day!
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Please plan to wear a mask to all events! Supplies provided at workshops, but BYO welcome!Zine Workshop
Mar 24, 5-6:30pm
137 West Margaret Ln, Hillsborough, NC 27278
Meeting Rm 116Zine Workshop
Apr 2, 6-7:30 pm
197 NC Hwy 87 N,
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Holmes Meeting RmZine Workshop
April 5, 2-4 pm
342 S. Spring St,
Burlington, NC 27215
Meeting Rm A
Zine Workshop
April 12, 4-5:30 PM
300 N Roxboro,
Durham, NC 27701
Conference Room 3214Festival Preparation
April 13 2-5 PM
Private Residence in Carrboro
Email or DM us for address
We will be painting signs, folding festival guides, and printing volunteer t-shirtsOpen Mic
April 24 7-9 PM
400 Roberson St,
Carrboro, NC 27510
Zinetober Prompt List
think inktober but for zines! make one a day or make one you feel like it or enjoy the idea!
1. Meet the Artist
2. Media review
3. fanzine
4. favorite art supplies
5. invent a new tarot card/suite
6. soup
7. 100 facts about _____
8. try a new format
9. hat collection/sock review
10. outfits you have no occasion for
11. coffee shop sketches/people watching
12. rainy day/bad weather activities
13. nostalgia
14. recipe(s)
16. how you self care
17. confessionals (share a secret?)
18. photos of my/a pet
19. fav local businesses
20. food
21. monochrome/fav color
22. fav meme/internet moment
23. body love
24. zine made from only one medium/source
25. distorted portraits
26. replicate an artist's style
27. zineception
28. what's in my bag?
29. my hobby/ies
30. _______ drawn from memory
31. something scary
32. childhood reminiscing
33. from the archive
34. spooky/halloween movie
35. fantasy animal adventures
36. music recommendations
37. hourly comic
38. fashion/outfit of the day
39. daily routine
40. favorite recipe(s)
41. favorite monster
42. childhood scary story
43. whats in my bag
44. local nature
45. walk report
46. bus ride
47. favorite book
48. monochrome
49. DIY project
50. to-do list
51. witchy
52. childhood costumes
53. candy tier list
54. moth/bat/owl
55. collage
56. animals with jobs
57. fake social media
58. poetry
59. cozy/fall
@agendrangel
is a fine artist turned traditional printmaker. Relief carvings, letterpress, and silkscreen – they do a little bit of everything they can get my hands on! They also create zines based on their life experiences and interests, wearables, stickers, and ethical animal bone jewelry.
Adam Casey
makes stuff— some of it ain’t half bad! Doing art with both traditional and digital tools, his work encompasses many genres. He’s best known for doing the Inktober and MerMay challenges, with the latter focusing on inclusivity. Doing over 80 events over the past 3 years, he’s put his knowledge into zines about setting up at events as well as journals of his experiences. Other zines include one about the brontosaurus which got him a promotion at his day job. No fooling!
Adam Rosenblatt
A Little Golden Promise
draws comics, both fiction and nonfiction. His fiction comics center on a group of characters he refer to as "the disaster birds." They explore themes of friendship, loss, and commemoration while playing with multiple genres (especially superhero and detective comics). His nonfiction comics include memoir about my family's Holocaust history, grappling with Jewish identity/community in the time of Israel's genocide of Palestinians, as well as works of ethnographic drawing and graphic ethnography that he has done based on fieldwork in Uganda and elsewhere. He is a co-founder, with Bill Fick, of GNOME (Graphic Narrative on the Move for Everyone), a mobile comics/zine-making studio that serves community organizations and events, and is a member of the Triangle Zine Collective.
ADRAWER4EVER
DIY cartoons with cute colors
adriana's papelaria
Childhood nostalgia writings mixed with mixed media pieces inspired by the early 2000s
alexa mintz / jelly mints
explores dualism through screen printing, mixed media, and zines, weaving poetry and satire into layered narratives. The work thrives in the tension between chaos and clarity, humor and heartbreak, creating space for introspection and unexpected connections.
Andrew Manning Harrell
makes comics and zines about food, movies, eco-distress, and interiority.
Andrew Neal
is the creator of Meeting Comics, an ongoing comedy soap opera comic book for adults. Individual issues are hand-assembled, and they are collected in book format later.
Anna Curtis
is a queer freelance artist and printmaker currently studying Environmental Health Science at UNC-CH. He worked in the past as lead illustrator for the newest edition of Mergoat Magazine, a creative director for WXYC 89.3, member of the newly formed Triangle Zine Collective, and art director for UNC's Health Humanities journal. She started making linocut prints several years ago on her dorm room floor and also enjoy creating digital and traditional art. He is very new to zine making outside of classroom projects but has two personal works currently in progress that should be done by the time of the festival!
Anticapitalist Crafts
is the duo of Charlie and their partner Reeve, where they primarily make zines, linocut prints, and collages. They have a few zines they are currently selling along with their art at craft markets and are both in the process of finishing a few more! Their work is made from reused, thrifted, and ethically sourced material as much as possible.
ApollosGlare
Original comics of the horror aligned variety, and zines of multiple varieties and original works - like finding your ideal monster bf, or a how to on killing god.
Banana Peels Press
makes and distributes satirical zines and screenprinted t-shirts. Mostly, he satirize pop culture and politics, but he's been known to delve into more serious topics. He also writes film reviews! Everything he sells (except stickers) will be written, hand-drawn, and made by him!
Barrett Stanley
is a Greensboro-based artist, writer and illustrator who creates comics and zines in a variety of genres including science-fiction, fantasy, drama, and dark comedy.
big baby small press
(luna + niya) share a love of exploratory art marking and community building. Brought together by fate (facebook roommate search), they’ve spent many afternoons putting together zines. Luna draws inspiraton from the natural and built environment, making zines related to home and belongingness. Niya makes illustrated poems in zine format and wholeheartedly embraces the diy nature of zine making.
birdbrained studio
lily and max create art by and for dykes! birdbrained studio makes linocut-print patches and totes using upcycled materials as well as sticker collages/poetry/art zines.
boyparts667
homosexuality and heresy, art about devotion and deviation
Caroline L. Smith
is debuting her graphic novel "Psyche" which should be available in book form by time of the fest, but the whole book will definitely be available in a series of 4 zines Smith has been handmaking & selling since she began the project in 2022. Scott Hensel has several collections of daily diary comic zines & books from the past 10+ yrs of making autobiographical content. Smith & Hensel co-create all their enamel pins & vinyl stickers under the Percydewd brand.
Caroline Palmer
makes mini-comics with action, supernatural powers, magic, funny character interactions, and more! They like reading and creating dynamic stories with lots of heart. Sometimes they make stickers, too!
Christopher Williams
Graphic novels and zines that touch on love, loss, trauma and depression in order to make the world feel like a more connected space.
colors by charlie
handprinted artwork to brighten your day with joy, wonder, and humor.
Counterfeit Psychic
Anything spooky and silly! Reflections of mental illness and grief, radical queerness and transness, and art of anything that makes him happy! Stickers, prints, patches, bleach dyed clothes, buttons! Working on his first zine currently but it'll be done by the time the market happens.
Cyber Nostalgia
A multimedia platform bringing your favorite childhood memories to life through zines, documentaries, and creative projects that celebrate the best of the past.
Dirtgod Raven Mack
Southern Gothicc Futurist zine is about Southern Gothicc Futurism, or what we do after the end times. It is the assorted unreal mythologies of not just survival, but finding joy and whimsy in an increasingly stifling world.
Erika Deoudes
mingles gentle horror, untamed nature, dry humor, and surreal sincerity into intimate little artworks, unconventional guides for things like meditation and landscaping, and other papery tidbits — all eco-consciously self-crafted with analog art and digital printing. She'll also whip up bespoke blind-speed-doodle-portrait zines on the spot.
Faolan Studio
is also known as the artist Maeve Shea. They create zines, screen-prints and other ephemera. Topics range from existential conversations with supernatural beings to trashy bisexual trans romance.
Fieldmouse Press
produces comics made to challenge and delight, from a non-profit publisher built to serve. We publish everything from mini-comics to hardcover collections of comics for a wide variety of interests.
Floral Dead
likes making zines about fandoms, being a fangirl (gender nonconforming) and things that make their friends laugh. They love the idea of their art helping someone have a better day.
grace gallorium
is primarily a painter who has recently branched out into zines. Their zines are pretty split between whimsical topics like “how to have a perfect nature walk” to more personal topics like “I have a secret” (a zine about gender and the fears of coming out to family).
Hipsters With Nukes
is a collective of printmakers, illustrators, and other various artists that aim to make work and zines that will make cry, laugh, and ponder on existence or it could mean nothing
hngyrn
is a painter and illustrator working in traditional media on paper. Her work is informed by both the beauty and the unease of being a second-generation immigrant in the South, blending dreamlike imagery with subjects of attachment, regret, and longing. Her hand-bound zines include sketchbook compilations and thematic drawings. She will also have some stickers and enamel pins :)
Honest Photon Art
believes in collage as magic. When making collage zine, he doesn’t get the exact images he’d like to express an emotion. This mimics the feeling of not being able to find the appropriate phrase he would need to write about how he’s feeling. Every expression is incomplete compared to the lived experience. The limitation of choosing only from the chance images he scavenged is an appropriate reflection of that lack.
The collage engages with the world in the same that way he does: As a tableau of bubbled memories, cultural attitudes, and self-image conjured from the “high-tension mix and standoff between chance and the iron laws of fate."
Hunter Ives
is the artist behind Zinetone, his independent zine and comics press. Alongside his titular collage zines featuring b/w photocopy art, Hunter will also be selling issues of "Boyd Howdy Comix." Finally, a comic for anxious people!
Hyperlocal Durham
produces a monthly zine about exploring Durham (and the Triangle broadly) via bicycle, walking, and transit; distributed to a subscriber base on Patreon. Each zine covers a different theme - usually seasonal but sometimes related to local politics, events, etc. - covering everything from urban foraging and haunted places to the history of the Durham freeway, the Triangle's Native American heritage, and more. She also creates maps and other printed media, and host events (predominantly bike tours and art workshops) based on the zines.
igamezart
is a NC based painter and printmaker specializing in fantasy, macabre, and plague inspired work!
J.B. Shear
makes comics!
jennyu
is a casual mini zinemaker and artist based in the Triangle. Her work often explores my thoughts and experiences related to being a second generation Korean American woman, grief, family, and the natural world.
Julia Boyce Studios
loves making and collecting zines because of their ability to bring people together. Whether it’s sharing a niche interest, sharing ideas or knowledge, creating action, telling a story, or just being something silly zines make our worlds a bit smaller and cozier. With their own work she focus on themes of queerness and self-discovery, learning to spend time off your phone, rediscovering childhood joy, and his own various interests. They hope to connect with others by sharing his work and learning their own experiences to the topics she creates from.
Julia Gootzeit
is an artist living in Carrboro, NC. She makes zines, comics, and illustrations in a variety of genres.
Jupiter Star Power!
specializes in neon pink cynicism. Her work is either incredibly funny or slightly sad (sometimes a bit of both). Her zines include short fiction and dumb pop culture musings.
Justice Dunne
is a trans artists who focuses on illustration and unique product design. He creates work about cats, travel, and public transit. He also dabbles in woodworking, pottery, and risograph printing. Overall he enjoys making fun, bold, artwork that shares a little about himself.
Kitschy Friends
is Mart Champlin (they/she). They are a queer-owned printmaking studio based in Durham, NC. Inspired by maximalism, queerness, nature, and nostalgia, they create hand-pulled silkscreen prints of their original designs. Beyond prints,she upcycles thrifted clothing and fabric into unique wearable art and sew-on patches, giving new life to discarded materials. Recently, they've expanded into zine and collage making, and she also offers stickers and mini prints of her work. Their artwork celebrates upcycling, self-expression, and the vibrant joy of maximalism; she adores creating bold pieces to adorn both bodies and homes.
Kris LaVelle
makes music inspired zines and works about childhood
Lady Book Witch Press
is interested in what it means to craft a material poem, with publications that explore the intersections of witchcraft, poetry, and bookbinding while drawing on feminist and pagan values. Known for her visual vocabulary based on quilting, embroidery, weaving, and collaged ephemera, she prides herselves in creating dark and whimsical books that simultaneously soothe and unsettle readers.
Lenny Ditz Comix
Meg Lentz is a queer cartoonist based in Durham, NC. Their work explores queerness, disability, and daily life, most often through autobio and surrealist humor comics and collage poetry zines.
Lime
is a comic book artist and has a combination of small handmade zines as well as more traditionally printed comics. Other merch he makes includes locally sourced screen printed shirts with my art as well as manufactured patches and prints of their digital work.
Lynnwood Art
is a high school art teacher, who dabbles in all forms of art when time allows. She has created zines with her drawing classes. They enjoy illustration, animation, and ceramics and would be selling children books, zines, and small ceramic doodads/whistles/earrings. Art for her is about curiosity, discovery, and healing.
M. Halstead
is found by you in an overpriced apartment in central North Carolina, working on zines, relief prints, writing, and more. You have uncovered no evidence of M. on social media but did eventually find their website. You retreated quietly, so as not to disturb the artist (allegedly) at work.
M.L.
M.L.'s best work is shareable experiential shit, usually mini-perzines of their life and perceptions of the world around them as a disabled queer
Maddie Priebe
is a primarily digital artist, though she likes to dabble in different mediums. she enjoys working with bright colors, making queer art, and creating zines.
Made by Murphy
makes zines, stickers, prints and more that celebrate nature and the human experience. From deep dives into trans perspectives to silly demons with big feet, Murphy has something for all! And make sure to visit the trinket trading post at Murphy's booth! ;)
Marin + Cecelia
are like if Kafka’s Metamorphosis was written using only words cut out from a newspaper ad from Lex.
max story
focuses on silly comics and illustrations of original characters/fanart!
Milk & Honey Comics
produces an anthology that is an international selection of all ages small press and indie comics
Mossy Press
is a collaborative risograph and printmaking studio in Boone, North Carolina. We seek to create publications that are equally playful and reflective of our experiences in Southern Appalachia.
MuMoo Zines
is run by Tiosa and Charlie, two lesbian North Carolinians! They create zines about queerness, media, mental health, art, etc., and various other hand crafted items.
Nicole Driscoll
is a photographer who specializes in creating zines from 35mm film photographs.
Niya Friday
is a mixed media artist from Charlotte, North Carolina. They enjoy exploring every creative medium in hopes to better understand themselves and the world around them. Their work shines a light on imagination and limitless possibilities. They hope that they give language to ideas/ emotions that are deeply intrinsic to the human experience while also honoring a world beyond. niyafriday pushes people to express themselves by any creative means necessary and welcomes collaboration.
Pippa Phillips
creates mini-chapbooks of micropoetry, haiku bracelets, and stickers and prints of haiga (a combination of art and haiku).
Root Rot Press
is a small trans/queer owned DIY record label and press focused on queer art and community. They publish a collective zine of community submissions in the GSO area, as well as host a monthly zine club.
RUMAH
Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub has a mission to foster collaboration between residents, communities, and mutual aid resources in and around Raleigh.
Sapphicrafts
makes stickers, cards, and watercolors, but has also dipped her toes into zines as well, their favorite being an illustration of her favorite poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Sarcastic Moth Press
is owned and operated by sequential artist and writer Mason Savikian. This small press publisher located in Asheville, North Carolina aims to bring creatives together to create stories focuses on the things that make our world unique.
Spacerockband
aka Cecil, is a cartoonist, who makes original zines and comics exploring short form story, themes of queerness, creation, and comedy. They love birds and bright colors.
Studio Squamata
is an appreciator of less charismatic flora and fauna and creator of zines, papercuts, and screenprints.
TART Zine
(Sweet Celery)
is a two-year-old inclusive press exploring the many sweet and sour flavors of life. Sweet Celery, editor of TART, loves to make Linocut prints, original collage art, and upcycled clothing.
The Anthill Museum
is a collection of stories about a fictional art museum and the critters that love it. Available for free online in both english and spanish, the Anthill Zine is an attempt at creating a space for faraway friends to share and create together. The two friends behind the zine project table under the name "The Anthill Museum", where they distribute printed matter, zines, and original art.
The Printed Yam
is a collaborative art project started by QuFu and Cam, an artist/author duo. Together, they make zines covering a range of topics, original art prints, and illustrated short horror fiction. All of their creations are fully self-made, meaning everything is lovingly crafted and bound by hand.
Triangle Asian American Zine Collective
are a small group of Asian American zine creators in the Triangle area who make zines about the Asian American experience and anything in-between.
Triangle Zine Collective
is a horizontal group of zine-makers dedicated to freely sharing information and resources related to radical politics and organizing in the NC Triangle. They work with local organizers (or anyone!) to make and distribute zines.
Warm Star Archive
encapsulates their love for nature and earth through handmade cyanotypes/sun prints! Prints and sustainably sourced clothing available.
wayward
is a leftist arts & politics collective. They publish limited edition zines, books, posters and other printed matter that smuggle anti-capitalist and anti-fascist ideas into our community. They aim to publish their work along with authors from the Triad region. They also host workshops on writing, self-publishing and creative autonomy for artists of all ages.
We Heal Together
provides communication, conflict resolution, mediation, and wellness resources.
WUNC Public Radio: Scorched Workers
shares about how North Carolina is seeing the effects of a warming climate. Workers in a number of industries- including agriculture, construction, and transportation - face a disproportionate impact of rising heat. WUNC created this zine in collaboration with Durham-based Mexican-American illustrator, Antonio Alanis, to support new ways to distribute news and information about the impact of rising heat on outdoor workers. The content within the zine was produced by members of WUNC’s BIPOC staff: Aaron Sanchez-Guerra, Celeste Gracia, Eli Chen, and edited by Elizabeth Baier.
Xomik Buk
is an indie comix anthology publication for outsider artists and cartoon freaks!
Yumeng Fu
enjoys making story-oriented illustrations and comics, trying to blend high-quality graphics with creative stories. Mostly, she uses digital illustration tools, but she also enjoys experimenting with physical mediums such as pencil and ink or screenprinting. She loves finding unique ways to tell stories visually.
Adam Casey
makes instructional zines about tabling at events. He has diary zines chronicling shows, a how-to one for setting up, and contributes to other zines with writing and illustrations.
adratts
explores overconsumption and healing your inner child. She also creates more personal zines about her experiences moving to the South and being the eldest daughter of immigrant parents.
ADRAWER4EVER
makes dark cartoons with cute colors.
agendrangel
makes original design artist’s prints – lino, woodcut, risograph, and letterpress.
Andrew Harrell
has some comics and doodles that would be fun to share and also hopes to have a zine with eco-distress resources in time for zine fest!
Andrew Neal / Meeting Comics
writes, draws, publishes, and hand-assembles mini comics. His comics are a comedy soap opera comic for grownups. He also makes zines about the making of his comics, art zines, and more.
Barrett Stanley
creates comics and zines in genres such as horror, sci-if and fantasy. Most of his work is narrative but he also designs games in zine /book form.
big baby small press
(Luna + Niya) share a love of exploratory art making. Together they've spent many afternoons carving lino, painting, and sketching. Luna draws inspiration from the natural and built environment, frequently spending hours drawing at community meeting spaces like the Durham library and Weaver Street Market. Niya embraces the bold, colorful, and sometimes silly aspects of life and art. Both will have prints, postcards, and zines available.
Boneman
makes zines that include a couple sketches, horror comics, and fanzines. She is also a big proponent of making art accessible for everyone and always down to haggle or do pay what you can.
bramblebug
is a printmaker, zinester, and crafter who loves upcycling materials and trying new media. His work is inspired by his experiences as a queer transmasc person, alternative witchcraft, punk culture, and weird nature.
Bri and Jenna
create personal collage zines and comics about identity, their daily life experiences, and personal growth.
BRILLIG
is a micro lit mag. It is a hand-crafted, book-art inspired, literary magazine. Brillig publishes limited editions of poetry that are both brilliant and big in 20 lines or less.
Centipeels Press
is Charlotte based duo. At Chboro Zine Fest we will just be seeing Banana Peels Press as their partner in crime can't make it. He'll be vending materials by both of them, including small zines, stickers, and hand-printed t-shirts and tote bags!
Christopher Williams
creates graphic novels and zines about love and loss, struggles with depression, and hope, as a means to (hopefully) make people feel less alone and more connected through common themes we sometimes are unaware others have experienced.
Chromatic
makes colorful, illustrative, and whimsical designs often of nature, the nude female form and how it’s been portrayed throughout history.
CoLab Raleigh
is a community arts charity that strives to make art accessible, communal, and inclusive by creating and maintaining a supportive community of artists providing opportunities to connect, engage, and learn. Their table will facilitate a collaborative hand-drawn zine to be made on-site using cheap, lo-fi hectograph printing. They'll provide all of the materials and encourage people to draw images collaboratively that will be printed and assembled as they're completed.
Comics Blogger Zine and Distro
is a zine about small press, independent comics and the people that make them. Also publishing and distributing Art forward, experimental and literary comics.
Cottonbook Press
publishes Hazel, the witches’ lifestyle zine, for young witches in training trying to figure out their place in the world, as well as smaller zines about plants, Animal Crossing, and personal tabletop rpg characters. Lucy Kagan is the editor, illustrator, and writer behind much of the work.
CRUSH zines by olivia
makes zines with lots of writing, sketches, collages, poems, playlists, etc. Her primary series, CRUSH, is about love and healing and each issue has a different theme. They also make some smaller zines on more specific topics, such as "TITS OUT," a zine about the free the nipple movement. They think zines are one of the most valuable creative activities because it involves all sorts of different types of creation and thought. She's been making zines for about a decade and loves zine spaces and communities. Besides zines, Olivia works in nonprofit communications, on the board of GRNC, and as a writer (her debut novel is coming out next year). Perhaps most importantly, she is a practicing queer cat mom.
Dana Bumbalo
is a recent graduate of UNC Chapel hill, where she studied Latin American History and Studio Art. She is planning on receiving her master's degree in Library Sciences in the fall, on track to becoming an academic librarian one day. She also enjoys children's illustration, printmaking, playing guitar, and rock climbing.
Ducky! Zines
is a comedian, painter and writer. She created Ducky from doodles she draws in her spare time. Ducky is a gay duck with anxiety going through life. The zines range in topic from zany to serious.
Elle Pierre
is a Carrboro based artist who makes illustrated prints and minicomics.
ElysDraws
is a queer latina illustrator & comic artist! She makes and print her own comics.
Eric Cabbell
makes his own prints and stickers. His art is primarily hand-draw illustrations, but he is learning how to make zines too.
fathousecat666
primarily makes b&w personalized picture zines with floating questions about gender, sexuality and how those perspectives challenge our placement in the world. She does this through snippets of poetry, selfies, doodles and old Jane Austen passages.
Fieldmouse Press
is a non-profit publisher of mini-comics, graphic novels, and graphic memoirs. Their diverse array of artists are innovators, storytellers, and tell deeply personal stories. From brilliant veterans like MariNaomi and Leela Corman to talented newcomers like Phoebe Mol and translating international comics from artists like Noëlle Kröger, Fieldmouse Press has something to offer for every reader.
GarlicBread
is a local NC artist obsessed with creating illustrations that explore the juxtaposition of the organic and inorganic.
Gr8 Golly Zines
(self)publishes local nature guides, poetry, and mental health musings. The goal of this work is to share information important to being human.
grace loves eggs
is mainly a painter, but they've been getting into zines lately. Their zines are mostly pen and ink thoughts and sketches with the occasional venture into collage. Paint wise, they often use their character Oinko Boinko as part of the subject matter while playing around with other elements and techniques. They plan to offer a mix of zines, small original art pieces, stickers, and maybe some art prints as well!
hngyrn
is a painter and illustrator working in traditional media on paper. Her work blends dreamlike imagery with subjects of memory, longing, and uncertainty. They'll mainly be carrying art prints and postcards, alongside a zine of drawings!
igamezart
is a NC based print maker and painter! She primarily makes handmade prints and trinkets with a fantasy, horror or black plague theme!
J-Mo Print Bot
is a Queer, degenerate, existential romanticist. They make prints, stickers, and zines.
J Press Co.
makes screen prints! The project she will be sharing at zine fest is matchboxes with screen printed banned books covers as the outside cover. She hopes to inspire others to question the meaning of freedom of speech and its prevalence in society/power.
jennifer
loves making mini zines about her personal life, thoughts, and topics that she finds interesting in general! She likes to think of her zines as a lil sneak peek into her internal self. She's made zines about Asian American identity and riot grrrls, mental health, personal conundrums, etc. She often finds it difficult to talk about everything she thinks about and feel with others, so sharing intimate things like old notes from her phones, fears, feelings, etc. through mini zines has been a nice, cathartic, creative outlet for her.
Jenovasilver
writes an original gay vampire novel and will also have some zines, stickers, prints, and buttons.
Jerk Press Inc.
is an indie press dedicated to helping Atlanta artists promote and print their zines for as little as possible. They are home to HaleyLazerface’s zines and Scrappy Dee’s zines!
Jillian Lea Makery
is a compulsively creative artist and arts educator living in a garden cottage in Durham, NC. She works in multiple media, primarily printmaking and fiber arts. She is inspired by folk art, heirlooms, ancestry, magic, nature and whimsy. She loves horror movies, reading, cake, thrifting, swimming, and travel. She believes that creativity is a sacred birthright and helping folks discover and nurture brings her great joy.
Julia Boyce Studios
is a recent graphic design graduate of Appalachian State University and loves making fun lil things for people, especially more heartfelt personal things. Their biggest goal in everything she does is to tell a story, whether it's big or small. They think we all have stories to tell and he loves to engage in conversations with people about these experiences. We usually have more in common than we think.
Jupiter Star Power!
specializes in neon pink cynicism. Her work is either incredibly funny or slightly sad (sometimes a bit of both). Her zines include short fiction and weird pop culture musings.
Just a Fox
makes zines, mini zines, stickers, prints, and sticker sheets. They vary in topic a lot but often include neurodiversity, mental health, and queer experiences. Animal and anthropomorphic imagery is common in my work. She really enjoys playing with diverse art mediums, printing methods, and book formats. Paper craft and washi tape art are some of her favorite things to incorporate.
Kelly Toth
makes fine art prints in a range of techniques from screenprint to lithography and hand-pressings.
Lady Book Witch Press
aka Nora Boyle is a bookbinder, poet, and witch who runs a small literary press. Interested in what it means to craft a material poem, Nora’s work explores the intersections of witchcraft, poetry, and bookmaking. Drawing on her feminist and nature-based values, Nora creates dark and whimsical books that simultaneously soothe and unsettle readers.
Lenny Ditz Comix
makes comics, zines, and other things. Their work often explores queerness, disability, anti-capitalism, creative angst, and daily life (not mutually exclusive themes!).
LOSER BRIGADE
is a 2 person art collaborative. They're in it for the love of the game, they home print and hand-bind all of their zines. They write about their lives, cooking, things they think others would find helpful, and the general highs and lows of the human experience. They especially love to write about things that you could only get away with publishing in a zine.
Lydia Weinberger Poetry
is an East-Coast poet who loves her partner, her family, and her cats, Stevie Nicks and Bobble. They have been previously published in Cellar Door, Southern Culture, TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics (for which she was nominated for a Best of the Net award), the Daily Tarheel, and the Internationalist; she is also proud to have contributed her visual art to local shows. In 2021, Lydia completed her Honors Thesis in Creative Writing from UNC at Chapel Hill, and was awarded the Ann Williams Burrus rize/Academy of American Poets Prize in recognition of her work
Lynnwood Art
makes children books, artist books, ecology themed zines, and experimental mixed media.
Madison Speyer
is a photographer and printmaker primarily creating work about the American South Queer experience and the historic oppression of the female body as it relates to the economic structures of our society.
Marty Rogers Maker
is a visual and literary artist establishing themself as a micro press. They hope to expand their printing services and knowledge into our community as their capacity increases. They are a lead organizer of Chapelboro Zine Fest.
Mason Savikian
is a sequential artist, writer, and editor based in Asheville, NC. He has been in editorial for about five years now, and owns his own small press that runs collaborative projects, called Sarcastic Moth Press. On his own time, Mason creates short stories with LGBTQ+ and fantasy themes.
Melz Printz
is a student artist looking to entertain through silly cig cat comics, dogs on skateboards, paper dolls, stickers and temporary tattoos. In her more serious works, she captures the complexity of youth culture and provide a safe space to those with bipolar disorder. She is working on zines about sexual education, safe sex, STI/STD screening information, sex positivity, and LGBTQ experiences.
Mumoo Zines
is a queer artist duo that make miscellaneous queer zines and jewelry!
MystoPress
has been home to the eerie and nightmarish since 2020. They are a queer-Latinx-owned micro press that specializes in queer horror art, comics, and zines.
Ohmyghoulia
is a Carrboro based artist and makes diary comics and not diary comics!
Petri Coulture
is a painter who dabbles in photography and videography highlighting queer and mental health experiences in their work.
r. fay
is a nonfiction writer and cartoonist. They make zines and DIY comics about my life, memory and thoughts! :) somewhere between memoir and diary.
Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub (RUMAH)
is a social center and point of connection for the Raleigh community. We print a wide variety of zines for our free library and love sharing them however we can! We also collect zines from local groups and artists to share with the community.
Renzo Ortega
works on limited-edition silkscreen prints and digital graphics. These works are connected with his cultural and musical background, creating images that narrate stories but are also accessible for people to acquire.
Ria "Air" Garcia
makes abstract comics and work about trans spirituality.
Schommie
does relief, screen print, and darkroom film.
spiderlily press
is a collective of four artists: rosie, sophie, logan, and tasso. They make fiber art including knitted and needle-felted crafts, paper art including comics, zines, mixed media, and collages and jewelry made from repurposed guitar strings.
Sunkid Creates
makes zines and prints about being queer, trans, disabled, and bodily autonomy. They combine text, media analysis, and visual imagery inspired by religion. They are the lead organizer of Chapelboro Zine Fest.
Super G Print Lab
is a community printshop located in Durham providing studio access and workshops for a variety of printmaking processes specializing in screen printing and risograph.
Trace Ramsey
makes Quitter, a long running (since 2003) zine that has been made into several books. Also at the table will be zines by his kids: Birds, Birds, Birds by Raven Henry and Cats by Finn Henry.
What's That Zine
makes mini zines about music/musical artists/film/directors etc. just whatever she's been into lately.
XelaDraws
creates cute chaos.
Xomik Buk
is an indie art collective that make cool comic anthologies and other things!
Yumeng Fu
is a Cary based artist who makes illustrations, short comics, and graphic novels.
Zan
creates slice of life comics and poetry zines, with lots of collages/doodles, mostly about growing up queer & autistic. He also makes zines/comics based off songs and found poetry. He creates in his spare time when he's able as a way to practice self-communication :)