Chapel Hill Carrboro Zine 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 May 3rd 12 PM - 5 PM at Carrboro Town Commons. Sponsored by The ArtsCenter of Carrboro! Our logo was designed by Christopher Williams of Plastic Flame Press and our 2026 posters were designed by Reilly Holbert (IG@rmholbert), Georgia ([email protected]), and SamLevi Sizemore (IG@sunkidcreates)
2026 Festival Details
Resources + Archive
Important Links
2026 Festival Artists
agendrangel
Emerson is a traditional printmaker. Their practice is a labor of love, drawing upon their interests, intuition, & curiosity. Creating is a means of connecting with the world around them, both past and present — their works are deeply inspired by history, particularly premodern literature + ancient handicrafts. Their zines are about emotional expression and personal experiences; poetry, book reviews, etc.
A "almond jubilant" Cook
A Cook is an artist based out of North Carolina making zines, prints, and paintings exploring the silly and sentimental.
ADRAWER
4EVER
ADRAWER 4EVER is a disabled trans artist creating cartoons with cute colors.
Adriana’s Papeleria
Adriana’s Papeleria is all about creating and writing zines that explore their interests and identity!!
Allison Spaetzlee
Walking Distance comics are autobiographical day in the life observations. Longer projects are focused on traveling, with the current Big Picture project being a series of zines about walking the Camino de Santiago the summer of 2023. There are also stickers related to pet interests- annoyance at the car-dependent society, love for female artists, writers, and filmmakers. Maybe some paintings will show up, who can say.
Ally Haney
Ally draws cats and other cute things, she focuses on zines and books that all ages can enjoy.
Apollos Glare
Apollo sells original digital art prints and is branching out into more sequential art ventures with comics and zines!
!Bunny Hell Yeah Bunny!
Bunny Hell Yeah Bunny is a small press based in Carrboro, NC where they have been making cockroach inspired prints & zines since 2019. They believe in compost, hanging out with their friends, and committing voter fraud.
Banana Peels Press
Charlie is a filmmaker, cartoonist, and film journalist. He makes satire zines and cartoons about art, politics, and entertainment from a leftist perspective. He’s been working in the zine medium for nine years now, inspired by artists like Daniel Clowes, Gary Larson, and Don Rosa.
Barrett Stanley
Barrett Stanley is an artist and writer who creates comics, zines, and games in a variety of genres from horror to fantasy to science fiction.
c hart zines
c hart makes zines about their experiences as a queer, nonbinary person, a lifelong Southerner, a parent, worker, friend, educator, etc. Most of their zines are perzines or fanzines, and some blend the boundaries between the two. In their creative process, they love to juxtapose ephemera with personal narratives about bodies, feelings, trauma, hopes, and loves.
carmen sketches a lot
Carmen is an illustrator from Fuquay-Varina. Carmen and her neighbor Jeanette both collaborate on their YouTube channel and web comic. The pair went to Virginia Commonwealth University to study art together, and have remained inseparable.
Caroline Palmer
Caroline loves all things comics! From a published graphic novel to a wide range of independent mini-comics, their goal is to tell diverse stories in every genre across the board, from coming-of-age and slice-of-life to fiction and action.
Carrboro Really Really Free Market
The Carrboro Really Really Free Market is a grassroots mutual aid project rooted in sharing, reuse, and community care. They distribute free printed materials centered on collective care, anti-consumerism, and creative exchange.
Chestnut Zine Collective
The Chestnut Zine Collective aims to represent and promote the work of Asian American artists and zine-makers based across North Carolina. The collective's artists produce zines that are about a wide range of topics, including short personal essays, reflections on Asian American/queer identity and heritage, AAPI history, and simply random stuff that they find funny.
Chris OMalley
Christopher Williams
Frequently described as "prolific," queer cartoonist Christopher Williams (he/they) has spent decades under the radar, creating narratives in various forms. Through their screenprinted gigposter work, Christopher has long used single images to evoke intrigue and emotion, amassing over a thousand posters since the early 2000s. In their sequential work, Christopher has created thousands of pages since 2020 that focus on love, loss, and the hope to find a place in the world. Always at work on something new, Christopher resides in Durham, North Carolina, usually in their office chair, hunched over an iPad.
cicadasaint
Hal is a butch illustrator currently based out of Carrboro, NC. They love representing queer relationships in their work, with a focus on the messy, unsure side to life that makes us all human.Hal has published zines with JESSJESSPRESS in Baltimore as well as with comic and author Anna Selheim.
Corey Curtis
Corey Curtis is a printmaker, zinemaker, and spider-enthusiast. His work is earnest, illustrative, and often ponders on themes of interpersonal relationships, ecology, and antifascist resistance. He’s also bad at poetry, but he claims he’s working on it. You might have seen his solo exhibition at the Attic 506 last year, came across his work as lead illustrator in Mergoat Magazine’s Borders edition, or seen his prints hanging in your friend’s kitchen.
Cyber Nostalgia Studios
Cyber Nostalgia Studios is a multimedia creative studio founded by Aalyiah Doctor. The projects they create are inspired by the media they grew up on, all rooted in a love for physical formats like Zines, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, Vinyl, and Cassettes. Their biannual comp-zine, Cyber Nostalgia, is a love letter to the past—featuring nostalgic deep dives, art, poetry, fashion, and photography inspired by their favorite eras. They also support small shops, artists, and creators who help keep that nostalgic feeling alive while building a community around shared memories and creativity. Additional work they create outside of zines includes stickers and earrings that are similar in theme to their other pieces.
Emily Wigglesworth
Emily Wigglesworth is a comic artist, illustrator, and designer. She writes and illustrates the comic strip Midnight Diner, a comic about a vampire named Frederick who works at the local Pancake Castle, a 24 hour diner. One of her current zine projects is Everyday people; a collection of non-fiction biographical comics.
Erin Springs-McCottry
Erin makes comic, zines, and prints :)
fattieyuca
Andréa/fattieyuca (she/her/ela) is a hobby artist and comic maker located in Durham, North Carolina. When she's not working on her long-time comic project "Call Me Maddie", she mostly draws autobiographical zines about her experience growing up Brazilian-American, sexuality or anti-fascist art. She lives with her wife, lizards, and cat named Cowboy.
Fig
Fig makes real art with his grubby paws.
glittermeat comics
glittermeat takes secondhand and found materials and remixes them into horror zines and graphic-design-collages. they also document roadside attractions in the South, and draws strangely affirming comics. they also create DIY kits for making your own pride flag patches.
Hellhounds Original
Hellhounds Original specializes in radical zines, stickers, buttons, merch design, & other physical or digital commissioned art. All pieces are created in Charlotte, NC by Tess S. under the watchful eye of her 2 dogs, Avett & Puck, infamously known as the Hellhounds.
hngyrn
Adrianne Huang (hngyrn) is a painter and illustrator working in traditional media on paper. Stranger than life but more familiar than fantasy, dreamlike images of nature and animals alongside humans serve as wish fulfillment, dream diary, self-critique, and catalog of curiosity. Her hand-bound zines include sketchbook compilations and collections of drawings that explore the peculiarities of objects and chase down runaway trains of thought.
ink y hilo
As their name says, ink y hilo uses ink and thread to make bright and fun works. Their works center a variety of topics from bird facts to ballet folklórico all approached with curiosity and joy.
Inky Creations
Inky Creations is an art practice focused on handmade crafts with fun but political themes and emphasis on the local community culture.Hiro Reyes is a queer zinester/artist of color who creates art to express his ideas and experiences.
Jockworks
Jockworks is a local art team based out of Chapel Hill who specialize in cute cat merch and more! Almost all of their products are handmade and they sometimes do pet drawings.
Julia Gootzeit
Julia Gootzeit is a North Carolina-based cartoonist who creates long and short comics. For the past several years, she’s shared experimental diary comics on Instagram as @ohmyghoulia. In 2024, Fieldmouse Press published her debut graphic novel, Golem Pit 224, a queer horror story about a couple’s adventures in a constantly evolving natural environment. Currently she lives in Carrboro, NC with her husband and son.
Jupiter Star Power!
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.
Kitschy Friends
Mart Champlin (they/she) is the multimedia artist behind Kitschy Friends, a queer printmaking project based in Durham, NC. Inspired by maximalism, queerness, nature, and nostalgia, they create hand-pulled silkscreen art prints of their original designs. Beyond prints, they upcycle thrifted clothing and fabric into unique wearable art and sew-on patches, giving new life to discarded materials. Additionally, they love zine and collage making, and offer stickers and colored pencil prints of their work. Their artwork celebrates upcycling, self-expression, and the vibrant joy of maximalism; they adore creating bold pieces to adorn both bodies and homes.
krys makes stuff
krys makes stuff is about life in the rural south, robots, and what it means to be a maker.
LamentTea
creates in many forms, following whatever feels alive in the moment. enjoys traditional and digital art, dabbling in painting, stamp making, poetry, and now zines, embracing the zine format and the experimentation and freedom it offers. A lover of all things small and silly, she takes inspiration from nature, fashion, college, the absurdity of daily life, and even her backyard chicken flock. her work lives somewhere between a sketchbook and a daydream.
Lantern Light Arts
Lantern Light Arts is a mixed media artist dabbling in zines about everyday life, dreamscapes, and fantasy.
Lazy Lefty Art
Lazy Lefty Art creates hand-cut collage artwork and wire-wrapped rings using recycled materials. Their eccentric works blend humor and anti-capitalist themes to encourage us all to work less and create more.
Lenny Ditz Comix
Meg Lentz is a cartoonist and zine-maker based in Durham, NC. Their work explores queerness, disability, and daily life, most often in the form of autobio comics. They enjoy using collage poetry and surreal humor to process grief and joy on the page.
lily bryson
lily's art is made up of collage and poetry zines, colorful drawings, and prints inspired by his love of all things silly and beautiful. her work is all about being a sweetheart, a dog, and a femme dyke.
Linda Watson
Linda Watson is a cartoonist, photographer, and wildlife gardener rooted in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her comic strip, Our Turning, follows a group trying to slow damage from the polycrisis and build a kinder, greener future. Her photo comics focus on lives lived by insects, birds, foxes, and other wildlife. Linda's comics have appeared at the North Museum of Science and Nature and in three anthologies by the Sequential Artists Workshop.
Little Mouse Fun
Little Mouse Fun is an illegitimate publishing project promoting autonomy. They specialize in trans, anarchist, vegan, and generally cool literature, both the highly theoretical and extremely practical. They make cool posters too.
Lynnwood Art
Larissa is an artist and high school art teacher who finds presence and grounding in art-making of many forms. She loves the zine format for experimenting with new approaches and materials— one piece of paper, 8 blocks, worlds of opportunity! be it with drawing, printmaking, poems, smears of clay, animation frames, you name it. Many of her book projects draw inspiration from ecology, somatics, and creative play. She hopes her art offers an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, soften, and connect with wonder, grief, and joy.
M. Halstead
M. Halstead is a zinemaker, printmaker, and sometimes a writer. M feels passionately about sharing and trading accessible art, especially encouraging people from all walks of life to collect unique and exclusive art at all price points.
Macademic
Macademic Art functions on the science/biostatistics/epidemiology academia to zine pipeline, with brief forays into drawing funny little rats and Miffy fan-art.
Matthew CD ROM
Matthew CD ROM is a zinester from North Carolina. After graduating with a degree in religious studies, he has utilized zines as a primary medium for presenting research and critique. The resulting projects range from D.I.Y sewing guides to investigations into the politics of public bathrooms. Alongside his non-fiction are a variety of art focused zines capturing personal experience and miscellaneous vibes.
Max Story
Max Story is a zine and comic artist. His approach incorporates personal journal entries and mixed media collage, and makes art focusing on butch dykes and cats.
meltycat.cafe + harriet!
meltycat is a triangle-area artist who has been making zines for going on a decade, with a focus on diary comics. harriet is an attorney and fellow zinester, who works on legal advice zines as well as (hopefully) a niche nerdy zine based on the classic marathon games. harriet will be bringing zines from both herself and from meltycat.
Mook TT Game
Mook TT Game is an indie tabletop role-playing game project which includes rules, an adventure, and a mix of original and public domain art.
Mumoo Zines
mumoo zines is two lesbians making zines, jewelry, and other fun small art pieces. they care about poetry, film, photography, disability, queerness, weird media, & community.
MystoPress
MystoPress is home to the work of a queer Latinx comic artist making queer horror comics, zines, and sometimes autobiographical works that could basically count as horror too.
NelRae Toler
NelRae's zine series is titled Horror Explorations. In this series, she writes essays analyzing identity and representation in Horror media. Additionally, she also has a zine series titled Folkloric where she provides a brief glimpse into urban legends from around the world.
nights with nachos
Nights with nachos was a vision born from a need to express stifled creativity through written word, mixed media, paintings, and collages. Centered in vulnerability, creativity, and love, nights with nachos invites zine and art lovers to explore the depth of emotion to make sense of what it means to be human in a superficial world.
Niyalism
Niya Friday is a mixed media artist from Charlotte, North Carolina. They enjoy exploring multiple creative mediums in hopes of better understanding themselves and the world around them. Their work centers Black women and femmes shaping the world, a focus that guides both their creative choices and their perspective. They are drawn to nature, imagination, and the challenge of giving language to ideas and emotions that feel deeply intrinsic to the human experience. They encourage people to honor their creativity through self-expression and welcome collaboration as part of that exploration.
no flirting after dark
no flirting after dark is a photographer, printmaker, poet, disabled southerner, and non-binary barista living in durham, nc. they make art about gender identity, big love, and trying times.
novilee magpali studio
Novilee Magpali is a Virginia based artist working with zines and paper to explore their childhood memories, their Filipino-American heritage, and their familial, platonic, and romantic relationships. They use their artworks and art objects as a vehicle to honor their connections to the past and those who have molded their person. Their work reflects their life, which is boldly defined by their motto: "To be a mosaic of everyone l've loved.”Novilee's current era of zines explores their Filipino heritage through research and storytelling. Creating these zines have helped them share their culture with those unfamiliar with it as well as connect with their friends of similar backgrounds.
ofregimen
Carrboro-based artist by night! Illustrations and linocut prints.
Ollie Oop Arts
Olivia "Liv" Guenther is a cartoonist who recently fell in love with drawing comics in the summer of 2025. She focuses on her webcomic: It's Taylor! about a teen girl who goes through the trials and challenges of teenhood while going to a private Christian school.
Partly Garbage
Partly Garbage is a zine press / excuse to make stickers and t-shirts run by Colette Arrand. Works published by Partly Garbage focus on popular culture, which is a nice way of saying that most of its zines are about the great sport of professional wrestling.
Pollinator Press Art
Roan at Pollinator Press makes art about social movements, queer and trans lives, racial, gender, and economic justice, Jewishness, diasporism, community, and disability justice. He uses a variety of techniques including traditional linocut prints, watercolor, pen and ink drawing, and digital illustration.
Praxis Zines
Praxis Zines is a tiny zine shop selling primarily mini-zines about music, audio dramas, disability, and queer joy.
Prison Books Collective Publishing & Distribution
Prison Books Collective is a Triangle-based nonprofit publisher that creates literary magazines of incarcerated artists' work as sends books and zines behinds bars (books to Southeast states only, zines across the country)! All profit will go to send packages to incarcerated readers.
rabbitrabbit press
Sarah has been making zines since she was a high school student in the early 1990s, and she’s still creating them…music, personal, history, photography, collage, and how-to’s are and have always been her favorites. As a zine teacher at a local homeschool co-op, she now has a good excuse to make even more zines every week (and uses them to teach in her other classes, too, of course.)
Rat Scratch
Enid (aka Rat Scratch) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator with a special interest in printmaking, ceramics, poetry and collage—but also whichever new art or craft has become their hyperfocus of the month. Their art follows themes of trauma, queer and transgender rights, nostalgia, and the whimsical. While they have spent their life exploring and creating art in many different forms, over the past 10 years they have also been active in Greensboro’s local art community. Their current works have been focused on flora, fauna, and organic shapes and forms juxtaposed with sharp, metallic, manmade objects such as chain-link, barbed wire, and spiked collars. They are interested in the dichotomy of a “soft innocence” and a “harsh reality” in their themes. Some of the influences for their drawings come from contemporary tattoos, vintage storybook illustrations, and woodcut prints. While Enid’s artwork by itself may reflect the themes of the work, it is always the process of creating as a wellness practice that they focus on.
Reyookah
R. D. Yoon creates short form comics.
RIOT RYANN
Riot Ryann’s work features bold, playful illustrations that blend tough, tattoo-inspired aesthetics with feminine energy and humor. Using bright colors and expressive linework, the designs celebrate individuality, queer culture, and finding joy in everyday life.
Rye || Jestrarts
Rye likes making prints and zines and other stuff, too. She hopes to bring some nostalgia and whimsy back into our lives - the ancient in the contemporary. As she says, believe in more fairies and wave at more passing cars.
Samantha Tillman, MPH, CHES
Samantha is a Reproductive Health Education Specialist who has her Master’s of Public Health and is a Certified Health Education Specialist. They make zines about reproductive health as a way to improve health literacy in the community and create conversations about topics that are seen as “taboo”. She also has buttons, stickers, and bookmarks that are pro-science, pro-queer, pro-feminist, and all the other pro’s we want to see in the world.
Sapphicrafts
Meg makes a LOT of zines (an entire box full!) as well as stickers, cards, and paintings. She got really into zines a couple years ago and has enjoyed the process of making loads of mini zines on all sorts of topics, from playlists to cleaning help.
Secret Astronomer
Secret Astronomer is a collaborative and experimental writing, performance art, and publishing practice by Matia Guardabascio. Her work encompasses physical media (handmade zines and artist books), photography, mixed media, collage, and event design.
Seraphina and Rose
Seraphina and Rose are wives and printmakers working primarily in the medium of block printing. Seraphina's works are light and playful, inspired by images of animals. Rose's works are grounded in her love of local music, especially the music of her many lovers. When not making prints, Rose is learning guitar and music theory, while Seraphina talks of one day scanning their backlog of film photography.
Southern Gothicc Futurism
(dirtgod raven mack)
Dirtgod Raven Mack is a Greater Appalachian Unorthodox Priest of Southern Gothicc Futurism - self-publishing extensively in zine, print, and digital formats to create a labyrinth that blends everyday “reality” with the esoteric and the absurd.
Sweet Celery Design /
TART Zine
Sweet Celery is a local printmaker/zinester/collage artist who focuses on the weird and whimsy. They love to make blockprints and upcycle clothing with their designs. They run a local press, TART Zine, that focuses on life’s many flavors.
The Analogue Shoppe
Sai makes fun, playful art about the mundanities of everyday. His stickers seek to document and find pockets of joy in everyday life, from the frustrations of work to the struggles of getting out of bed.
The Anthill Museum
The Anthill Zine 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 Gender Gallery
The Gender Gallery is a locally based interdisciplinary performance project that explores the expansiveness of gender through community, creativity, and performance in the South. Through community workshops, pop up installations, and performances, The Gender Gallery aims to curate creative space for and by trans southerners. Write a love letter to the trans community, reflect at their altar, and receive a love letter written by a community member. They will be selling various trans centered zines, prints, and handmade wearables to raise money for the founder of The Gender Gallery to attend an international performance intensive.
The Printed Yam
The Printed Yam is a collaborative art project consisting of Qufu Lee and Cam Ashford. Together, they produce informational zines, illustrated short stories, hand printed clothing, and art prints. From start to finish, everything is created and assembled by hand in a small home studio.
The Venerable Pigeon
The Venerable Pigeon is an artist and printmaker based in Raleigh, NC. Their hand-carved and hand-printed work is primarily focused on animals, the environment, and ecological relationships. Incorporating themes of symbiosis, natural cycles, and conservation, Ven's printmaking practice endeavors to highlight the importance of the natural world and its preservation in harmony with human society. Their work is inspired by traditional scientific illustration, local piedmont flora and fauna, and connections between people and animals.
theartofmadeline
Often inspired by fantasy motifs, Theartofmadeline is a digital illustrator who lives in Raleigh, NC. She enjoys working with bright colors, making queer art, and creating zines.
Triangle Zine Collective
Triangle Zine Collective is a horizontal collective of zine-makers dedicated to freely sharing DIY information and resources related to radical politics and organizing in the NC Triangle.
wayward
wayward is an arts + politics collective dedicated to smuggling anti-capitalist & anti-fascist ideas into our local community to inspire and support revolutionary change. they like to call it an undisciplined home for radical plotting guided by pleasure and people power. they screen movies, print zines, host tabletop gaming events, and welcome rad artists to stay at their home for short residencies focusing on land care and creative autonomy. as a collective committed to decoloniality, their primary long-term goal is to rematriate the 2.5 acres of land the house is on to indigenous land stewards of the Yesáh Confederacy.
We Heal Together
We Heal Together provides communication, mediation, conflict resolution, and wellness resources written from an anarchist perspective.
What’s that Zine
What’s That Zine is a primarily music-based DIY zine with some zines about films, directors, and special interests. What’s That Zine also features handmade guitar pick earrings and hand crafted collage prints.
Zach Aliotta /
Archive Horizon
Zach Aliotta's work combines history and mythology with the present moment to create deeply meaningful images and texts.
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 :)