2012 Exhibitors A-L
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This list was last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012!
2D Cloud Brothersister, The Death of Elijah Lovejoy, Arthur Turnkey, Prizon Food, Good Minnesotan, Manny + Bigfoot, Pornhounds, Errand Services, the Old Guys, Covered in Confusion, Mind Mapping, Motherlover, Things You Carry, Yearbooks
2D CLOUD is a micro-press comics publisher based in NE MPLS. We publish paper-craft art books, mini comics, and graphic novels by an assortment of creatives.
5 x 7 Sameness, Levels and Degrees of Light, The Incredible Journey that is Consciousness, Note Well
We ask artists to explore their artistic pursuits in our format, 5x7 inch books.
826CHI
826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
826CHI is a sponsor of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Bradley Adita A Day In The Air
Michelle Aiello Indigo Zine
A Chicago native and zine slinger since 1995, Michelle Aiello is now trying her hand at country life. She lives with her boyfriend Scott in an Antebellum-era house in Central Kentucky. Indigo Zine has been in Time Out Chicago, The Onion's AV Club, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and Sticky Gallery in Melbourne Australia. Michelle still can't quite get used to the idea of blogging, therefore Indigo will always & forever be printed on paper.
www.indigozine.com, www.facebook.com/indigozine
Justin Alexander The Graffiti Coloring Book
Justin Alexander is a Graphic Designer attending Columbia College Chicago & currently interning for the Design Cloud Chicago.
David Alvarado Dirty Hands, Watch Me, Memories & Delusions, Better better/Today today, Wanderlust
David Alvarado is an Illustrator and Cartoonist he comes from the Chicago land area. His interest are zines, printmaking, and making mini comics. He enjoys the months of summer, ice cream, and pens.
http://bodegadavid.blogspot.com
Meghan Ansbach The Fall is Here The Stars were Exploding The Stars were Exploding
Autobio minicomics staring curly hair and an angry cat.
AREA Chicago
AREA Chicago supports the work of people and organizations building a socially just city. AREA actively gathers, produces, and shares knowledge about local culture and politics. Its newspaper, website, and events create relationships and sustain community through art, research, education, and activism
Oscar Arriola NSR - The New Sticker Review
The New Sticker Review features stickers from around the world as well as interviews with artists.
www.TheNewStickerReview.blogspot.com
Oscar Arriola is an organizer of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
art is dead productions little zine of horrors, american robotic zine
Art Noose Ker-bloom!
Artnoose has been printing the letterpress zine Ker-bloom! every other month since 1996, first in the San Francisco Bay Area and now in Pittsburgh, PA.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/artnoose
Art Noose is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Eric Ayotte The Gadabout Film Festival
The Gadabout Film Fest just celebrated it's 10th Anniversary! This will be our 3rd year being a part of the CZF, and this time we are involving our monthly movie challenge.
Eric Bartholomew Junk Drawer
Eric Bartholomew grew up going to garage sales, finding stuff in alleys, and collecting odds and ends. He tries not to save too much, and writes about it instead.
http://junkdrawer.blogetery.com
Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberf The Toucan
The Toucan is a zany literary mag from Chicago. It loves to chew on fiction, poetry, and papayas.
bearbook bearbook
Bearbook is an art collaboration quarterly in the form of a zine/chapbook sized book that brings artists of all mediums and concentrations together around a common theme.
http://www.bearbookquarterly.com
Mia Beatrice Sixteen, Because I Got High
Making zines since 2010!
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics16/00027548.jpg
Nate Beaty
Sarah Becan Ouija Interviews, Shuteye, I Think You're Sauceome, Why We Call Them Robots, The Monkeynauts
Sarah Becan is an illustrator, comics artist, author, and designer based in Chicago, Illinois. She is a prolific minicomics artist, and recipient of the Xeric Grant.
Backed Up Comics Feet
Ben Bertin Losing Sight, Cake, Fall to the Tower, MIOK
Ben Bertin was born, raised, and lives in the Midwest, but (surprisingly) is only slightly boring. He has lived in the city of Chicago for about six years, where he works in a toy store. draws/writes comics, and illustrates.
Bight Knot Press One Thing After Another, proliferate #1, DUH(M), Molar Mo(u)(n)th
Bight Knot Press is a small press dedicated to helping people publish. Collaborations are highly encouraged.
Billy the Bunny Proof I Exist, Zine Kids, Last Night at the Casino
Billy makes zines in his sleep and sells them when he's awake. He can lift a bicycle clear over his head, and estimates that it takes approximately 1,000 emails to equal the value of one zine.
Billy the Bunny is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Magda Boreysza
Magda Boreysza is a comic artist and illustrator from Poland, Sweden and Scotland. She draws creatures.
Bottles on the Sill Distro and The Obsesser Zine Kubba, The Obsesser, Trampoline, Labyrinth, On Becoming a Woman, and Motel.
Bottles on the Sill Lending Library and Distro started in 2003. The library has since moved to UW-Milwaukee where Jessica works on zine and comic outreach and education. She has been reading and producing zines since 1997.
http://bottlesonthesill.wordpress.com
Greg Boxer Teeth, Jett Matrix
Cartoonist, Member of the Iowa City Comics Creators Club (I4C), Other half of the Boxer / Taylor creative team.
Bri Motor City Kitty
Bri has been writing the perzine, Motor City Kitty, since 2004. She writes about her local community, feminism, bikes, playing music, trying to stay posi and more.
Neil Brideau The Plot, oh boy COMICS!, Write Now!
Neil Brideau draws minicomics about friendship disguised as tales of supernatural calamities afflicting children. His new adventure minicomic series, The Plot, is no exception.
Neil Brideau is an organizer of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Brighton No.1 Press
A selection of Zines created by Illustration students from Brighton University, England.
Matt and Jeanie Bryan Moses and Bean, Mixed Feelings Comic Anthologies, Post-Apocalyptic Bake-Off, The Book of Da, Fish
Matt and Jeanie Bryan live and create comics and animation in St. Louis, Missouri. Together they create Moses and Bean, a semi-autobiographical comic series that Matt illustrates and Jeanie writes. Matt and Jeanie are co-founders of Urchin Collective, a St. Louis-based comic illustrator and writer's group that publishes the Mixed Feelings comic anthologies, a collection of indie comics.
http://mosesandbean.blogspot.com http://urchinsketch.blogspot.com www.veggiehigh.com
Cambodian Association of Illinois Girls Club
CAI Girls Club is a teen girls group that tackles issues of identity, gender, leadership, and social pressures through art, creative writing, and group discussion.
www.cambodian-association.org
Cambodian Association of Illinois Girls Club is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Tyrell Cannon Gary, Simon
Comic creator and illustrator for video games, film, and television. Currently self-publishing Gary, a graphic novel in 3 parts which is based on the life of the Green River Killer. Also available is a collection of the last 10 years of Cannon's experimental comic, Simon.
www.tyrellcannon.com tyrellcannon.wordpress.com
Dan Carroll Stick Figure Hamlet The Political Machine
Dan Carroll draws about robots and Shakespeare. His comics seem to wind up featuring an unusually high number of skulls.
http://www.stickfigurehamlet.com
Center for Book and Paper Arts Journal of Artists' Books, Epicenter
The Center for Book and Paper Arts is dedicated to the research, teaching, and promotion of the interdisciplinary practices that support the book arts and hand papermaking as contemporary art media. The Center is part of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago, and in addition to housing both graduate and undergraduate classes for that department, it publishes a critical journal and artists’ books, mounts exhibitions, hosts artist residencies, sponsors symposia and public programs, and provides advanced study through a workshop program.
http://www.colum.edu/bookandpaper
Jeffrey S. Chapman Drunk Wombat Comics
Jeffrey S. Chapman is a professor of creative writing, graphic novels, and literature at Oakland University outside of Detroit, MI. He has been making comics and zines for 10 years.
Teresa Cheng and Sarah Creagen Dykes and their Hair, Life Advice for Life's Runner Ups, The Feelings Zine and more!
Teresa and Sarah are two Toronto QPOCS coming to Chicago for the first time! Teresa likes 'feelings' and Sarah would like all the other mixies to come visit the table, please.
Chicago Center for Literature and Photography small publisher
The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) aims to provide mainstream resources to challenging, cutting-edge and otherwise underground writers, global in focus but with a strong emphasis on local artists.
CCLaP is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Chicago IRL Chicago IRL #1–3
Chicago IRL (In Real Life) is a queer collaboration of culture & class(lessness) featuring work from current and former Chicago artists, writers, poets, lovers, illustrators, painters, comic artists, and photographers.
Chicago Publishes
Chicago Publishes is the online home of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs’ Publishing Industry Programs. We provideup-to-date information on the state of the publishing industry both in Chicago and beyond. DCA’s Publishing Industry Programs is a cultural initiative that promotes, sponsors, and supports Chicago’s publishing industry and literary community.
Chicago Publishes is an invited organization of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Marta Chudolinska Strange Thoughts, Sad Luck, Scabs, Story of your Life, Summer Daze
Marta Chudolinska is a Polish-born and Ontario-bred printmaker, bookbinder, draw-er and zinester fascinated by the mystical narrative potential of images. She likes to smile at strangers and ride her bike in the rain.
Cabin Fever
Tyrell Cannon Gary, Simon
Comic creator and illustrator for video games, film, and television. Currently self-publishing Gary, a graphic novel in 3 parts which is based on the life of the Green River Killer. Also available is a collection of the last 10 years of Cannon's experimental comic, Simon.
www.tyrellcannon.com tyrellcannon.wordpress.com
Eric Cochrane Minnie the Moocher and the Master of Disguise in: It's the Girl, Wesslingsaung, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Hippo's Odyssey
Eric Cochrane is a University of Chicago student and amateur comic artist.
Carrie Colpitts My Aim Is True, Brilliant Mistake
Connect Force Connect Force Kid Swag
Connect Force’s mission is to provide a safe place for young people to engage in the Hip Hop Arts. CF believes in helping others to develop mentally, physically, academically, socially, and spiritually.
Convulsive Editions In Forest Static, Hothouse Orphan, Selections from The World Book
Convulsive Editions is a Chicago-based micro-press that publishes chapbooks, broadside, French folds, & other printed matter featuring contemporary poetry that engages in some way with Surrealism.
http://www.convulsive-editions.org
Caitlin Constantine All I Want is Everything, I Was a Teenage Mormon
Caitlin is a zinester, blogger and writer based out of Clearwater, Florida. When she's not writing, she's running or reading or reading about running.
http://fitandfeminist.wordpress.com http://constantcait.blogspot.com
Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré is an animator and cartoonist currently living and working in Chicago. Her books of comics are The Lagoon, Nine Ways to Disappear, and Tales of Woodsman Pete.
Lilli Carré made all the amazing artwork for the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest!
Crable Zines Mixtaper Do It Better Zine, Jesse Owens Zine, Haunted Ground Zine
Crable Zines include Mixtapers Do It Better Zine (all about the glorious art of mixtaping), Haunted Ground (True Ghost Stories!), and Jesse Owens (fun stories).
Craft Leftovers Craft Leftovers Monthly
Craft Leftovers Monthly is all about living life creatively. Each month is centered around a theme that’s filled out with illustrated stories from the artist’s own life, patterns, and recipes.
http://www.craftleftovers.com/blog
Crucial Changes Printing Press This Is Omaha NOT Anywhere Else, Scenes, Interview(s), Stranger Randy
My personal take at the underground music and art scene in Omaha, Nebraska.
http://crucialchangesprintingpress.blogspot.com http://www.crucialchanges.blogspot.com
Curbside Splendor Publishing Curbside Splendor Semi-Annual Journal, Piano Rats, Chicago Stories, Sophomoric Philosophy, The Chapbook.
Curbside is an independent Chicago-based publisher that showcases literary fiction, poetry, and art that celebrate urbanism.
http://www.curbsidesplendor.com
Curiouser Jane The Apple Pickers' Union, Curioddity
Curiouser Jane (AKA Dalice Malice) is a bitter princess & zinester who loves Disney and writes autobiographical fiction.
Aaron Cynic Diatribe, This is the End
Aaron Cynic writes for the internet (Chicagoist/Diatribe Media) and on paper (Diatribe, This is the End). Contact him at aaroncynic [at] gmail.
Kevin Czapiewski PUPPYTEETH, Birthday Surprise, Waffle, Cyanide Milkshake (by Liz Suburbia), and more
Kevin Czapiewski (pronounced “chappy-ESSky”) is the Cleveland-based artist of the webcomic Project Ballad. He also edits the PUPPYTEETH anthology and writes for the Comix Cube blog.
Monica Coleslaw Endless Escalators, Wildcats, Room for Cream
Endless Escalators is a collection of childhood war stories, evidence of the writer’s bad blood, terrible drawings on tear-stained pages, et cetera, et cetera. The writer’s charmed life has surprisingly continued and is still spawning new projects to live in the shadow of what Endless Escalators has built.
http://vivacoleslaw.tumblr.com
Charles Jeffrey Danoff The Uncertainty Principle
The Uncertainty Principle is a bi-monthly collection of creations on one topic, presented by the Sophisticates Society.
Deep Dish Comics Roomies
Deep Dish Comics is the brain child of the spiteful Torres siblings, Juan and Juleesa. It's their sneaky way to break into the comic industry and take all of your money.
Christopher Deckinga 2(Cross), "I saw God shopping at Montgomery Ward"
Christopher Deckinga: Writer, Photographer, Artist, Film Maker... The Adze of the Artistic world. Christopher began his formal writing career in 2003, with the publication of his short story "I saw God Shopping at Montgomery Ward". Earlier short stories have appeared in magazines such as The Cal Literary Arts Magazine, and Etc Magazine of San Francisco. In addition to these publications, he is also the author of his own zine,"2(Cross)." Current works include a translation of the Slovene book "Med Sočo and Dravo", and a collection of writings from his time working for the public sanitations division of the city of Ljubljana.
http://christopherdeckingawriting.blogspot.com http://christopherdeckingaphotography.blogspot.com
Ron DelVillano Usual Tapes and Reach
Ron DelVillano lives in Auburn Hills, Michigan where he's probably the only guy writing comics and people at least pretend to enjoy his work.
https://www.facebook.com/rdelcomics
Tom Dewing Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot!
Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot! is a comic perzine from Pittsburgh. Every issue is a collection of comics from life. I take everyday dialog and point out the humor with in it.
Krystal DiFronzo Echo Location, Winter's Love, Motte & Bailey, Xerox Candy Bar
Cold Weather Comic Baby. 1/5 Editors of Xerox Candy Bar. Big Teeth.
www.krystaldifronzo.wordpress.com www.xeroxcandybarzine.blogspot.com
Discomfort
http://www.etsy.com/shop/discomfort
DIYCHI
We are a collective within chicago looking to help open and All Ages music venue as well as a community space that supports the arts.
Jim Donaldson Peehole
Jim lives ins Chicago and makes mildly inappropriate minicomics in his spare time for the amusement of himself and his friends.
http://jimmytwohands.blogspot.com
Sara Drake Drawing an Elephant
kris dresen gone, she's in the tress, Grace
kris dresen is an acclaimed maker of comics who has been self-publishing her work for 20 years.
Eat The Life As Boredom Sets In + Distro
tapes/records/zines. Punx
eattheliferecords.bigcartel.com
EeeBeeDee and Sproots sproots.net
Emily Bennett is the author and artist of the autobio webcomic, Sproots! She also is the creator of EeeBeeDee, where she creates unique plush toy friends for you to love!
Ashley Elander Big and White, This Is The Worst
Ashley's a Chicago-based illustrator obsessed with drawing the hilarity in sadness.
Maranda Elizabeth Telegram Ma'am, Little Acorns, Edith
I write about mental health, self-care, finding & making a home, adventures, my bike, learning stuff, & being genderqueer.
http://marandaelizabeth.com & http://schoolformaps.etsy.com
Elizabeth Elton Wild Heart Breathe Deep
Elizabeth Elton is an artist & musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is majorly enthusiastic about cats, Thai food, and romantic comedies.
Eric and Matt's Birthday Boy Comics! Eric and Matt's Birthday Boy Comics # 1
Absurdist wacky comics by men who love you and will always be there for you! First issue debut at Chicago Zine Fest 2012! Send us pictures of your uncles!
http://birthdayboycomics.blogspot.com/?spref=fb
Ramsey Everydaypants List, Everydaypants and Year One
Ramsey lives in Philly. She's on her 15th issue of her perzine, List. She is currently working on her first comic book, Year One. Ramsey works as a nanny, drinks way too much coffee, and likes to talk to strangers.
failed.attempt all the love letters I ever wrote, but set on fire before i sent them AKA LOVE HURTS
failed.attempt is chicago-based zine project that highlights queer and feminist text(s).
Marissa Falco Miss Sequential, META
Marissa Falco has been making perzines since 1995. She used to write /nothing/ and Red Hooded Sweatshirt, and has recently published Miss Sequential and META. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Fat Heart Press Purge, Yummy Ache, many more!
Born in Brooklyn, run out of bedrooms & basements for the richness of a well indulged heart, for endless cultivation of compassion & knowledge, Fat Hearts is a hopeful attempt.
fatheartpress.tumblr.com // etsy.com/shop/martaclare
Fight Boredom Distro Bring On The Dancing Horses, Culture Slut, Doris, Dykes & Their Hair, Echo Echo, Hand Sum, High On Burning Photographs, International Girl Gang Underground, Pinch Kid, Root, Rum Lad, Show & Tell, Your Pretty Face Is Going Straight To Hell and so many more!
Sharing queer zines, feminist zines, perzines, travel journals, sex work tales, diary comics, cookzines and mental health zines full of secrets and adventures and righteous anger and total sassiness. Read 'em and then tell yr own story! Plus patches, stickers and other handicrafts. And zine reviews. And a blog.
Emilja Frances Ship of Fools
Currently out of Baltimore, Ship of Fools is an autobiographical comic zine, sometimes funny, sometimes introspective, about traveling, touring, moving around, making and losing friends, and a lot of coffee & cigarettes.
Ben Frazee Leather Pizza Party CJ & Hesh
I make disgusting comics on occasion.
Adrian Fynch Beautiful Mess Sleeps With Ghosts For Lack of Better Words ZINE
Adrian Fynch is a queer artist and hair stylist living and studying in Montreal.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/sleepswthghosts
GAS MASK HORSE "START YOUR OWN HAUNTED HOUSE"
Dramatic narrations and an array of projects aimed at turning any available space into an unrelenting, horrific cavalcade of mind bending proportions. Delve into controlled terror with Gas Mask Horse!
Nicole J. Georges Invincible Summer
Nicole is a comic artist, zinester, educator & pet portrait artist from Portland, Oregon. Her graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, will be out in Jan 2013 with Houghton Mifflin.
Nicole J. Georges is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Jen Gillespie Escape Hatch. Toast. Apron String.
Jen is a local Chicago artist. She enjoys a thirsty mind with a taste for critical theory, diagrammatic oversimplification of narrative, heartstrings, and the uses for Lacanian psychoanalysis in explaining identity relationships. She also likes how the harmonium sounds like the accordion in such a way as to cause a physical experience of the synonym in the root terms: accord and harmony.
http://badatsports.com/index.php?s=jen+gillespie&x=0&y=0
Melissa Gilliland Baby Beast
I'm at art student out of Louisville, and other pasttimes include activism and eating bean burritos.
Brooks Golden Never Work Again
http://brooksblairgolden.blogspot.com
Kisston Gorgeous "Mental", "Gorgeous Attitude", & other various 1-offs (1 copy of each zine)
Kisston Gorgeous has been writing & making music for many many moons. She was recently hospitalized and wrote a journal put into zine format about her trips in & out of the mental hospitals.
http://kisstongorgeous.bandcamp.com
marlee grace feel better.
marlee grace live is grand rapids, mi. she runs the division avenue arts collective. dances with dance in the annex, performs with flowering, and loves getting crafty.
http://grscreamer.com/author/marlee
The Green Lantern Press The Archive, The Chronicles of Fortune
In addition to publishing slow-media books, The Green Lantern Press also makes zines on the regular, about contemporary art, indie lit and comics too.
http://lanternprojects.com/daily www.press.thegreenlantern.org
Anna Gross Squid
Everyday doodles transformed into obsessively detailed paper cutouts. Squid won't pull any heart strings, but it sure is cute.
Half Letter Press / Temporary Services "Revolution as an Eternal Dream" by Mary Patten
Half Letter Press is a publishing imprint and experimental online store initiated by Temporary Services. Temporary Services is a group of three people (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer).
Half Letter Press / Temporary Services is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Ayun Halliday The East Village Inky
Ayun Halliday is the Chief Primatologist of The East Village Inky zine (est. 1998). Her most recent book is the Zinester's Guide to NYC.
Ayun Halliday is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Adam Hansen Nic Cage: Auto Mechanic, Sad State of Affairs of Rooster Jack
Kyler Harter Snakes Can't Play Baseball
Heather Dig Deep, Into the Grid
Heather received a text this morning that said "Zines will be the death of you!!" & it's true. She writes about libraries, projects, friends, postcards, & positivity.
Beth Hetland Fugue, Cycles, Coordinates, and other minis!
Beth Hetland teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago by day and fights crime by night. Somehow she finds the time to make comics.
Hoax Zine Hoax #3: Feminisms and Health; Hoax #4: Feminisms and Hirstories; Hoax #5: Feminisms and Community; Hoax #6: Feminisms and Communication
hoax is a queer feminist compilation zine that attempts to bring feminisms into everyday life.
Robin Hustle The Land Line, Curdled Milk, Mirror Tricks, Power of the Impotent, Leftovers Again?!
Robin Hustle is an editor of The Land Line, a quarterly Chicago-based journal. She makes somewhat impersonal zines about prostitution, work, and language that are full of pornographic drawings.
http://robinhustle.blogspot.com http://thelandline.blogspot.com
iendsl I don't understand farming, All Wet, He who creates clouds, All the horrible things we do to ourselves, The last whataburger
Zines and comics and videos and writing.
Tara J
Tara J writes about being trans, queer, and poly in the poetry zine Stunned Lungs and their perzine, which may also contain writing about coffee, bad eyes, and tiny birds.
Nowah Jacobs Yummy Ache
“I felt like I was reading a Bret Easton Ellis novel and wearing a sweater and smoking a cigarette and fidgeting but being okay with fidgeting.”
Lady Jae presents Chicago Grace
The lovely Vixen, Lady Jae, enlightens your senses as she brings to you all things worldly, weird and beautiful!
Jessie Make Your Place, Making Stuff and Doing Things, Zinester's Guide to Portland, and much more!
As a not-for-profit, collectively-run publisher and distributor of books and zines, Microcosm Publishing nurtures self-empowerment, shows hidden history, and fosters creativity.
http://microcosmpublishing.com
Cathy G. Johnson Going Back, Relation, It was their first spring
Book artist and printer from Minneapolis, educated by Baltimore.
Georgi Johnston cursive is not cryptic, things things think about, cat island war dog
Jim Joyce Or Let It Sink
Or Let It Sink is a jittery perzine crawling out of chicago's south-side catholic culture. Jim works in the education field.
Elliott Junkyard The Adventure of Vampire Kitty & Space Bat, Beep Beep Boop, Such A Happy Mess
Elliott writes and draws the Adventures of Vampire Kitty and Space Bat. In addition to running Falsestart Junkyard Publishing, she works at Third Coast Comics in Chicago and spends the rest of her time crocheting nerdy things.
http://falsestartjunkyard.tumblr.com
Chloe Kenning
King-Cat Comics / Spit and a Half Distro King-Cat Comics, Kelly Froh, Kevin Huizenga, Jim Rugg, Carrie McNinch, Mumbo magazine, Tom Neely, Michael DeForge, Eamon Espey, KuŠ, and many more!
John Porcellino has been drawing and self-publishing King-Cat since 1989. He's run the Spit and a Half distro since 1992, more or less.
www.king-cat.net www.spitandahalf.blogspot.com
Jacob Klippenstein, Becci Behlen, Timothy Brock UChicago DisOrientation, Politics of Penetration, Hey CHICHICO Wanna Play a Game?, An Ode to Oatmeal, It's Complicated...
This is the first year we are putting together a Columbia College DisOrientation and we'd love to talk about what you think ought to be in it!
Bobby Labonte How to Achieve Your Mildest Dreams, Bobby Labonte, Lifelines
Comics with no words and zines with no pictures. I suppose I am interested in purity. LOL. By way of Chicago, Gainesville, Miami, Colombia.
The Land Line
The Land Line is a free quarterly journal of raunchy, flamboyant, interdisciplinary, and intellectually rigorous essays, poetry, and comics. The paper's editorial collective is based in Chicago.
http://thelandline.blogspot.com
The Land Line is an invited organization of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
June Leffler
June is from Louisville Kentucky, bringing Louisville made zines to Chicago. Her zine, ILH is a perzine of collage everyday surrealism. She also has audio zines.
Lemon o Books The Famous Hairdos of Popular Music, Actual Bird Song, etc.
Collaborative mail art projects and audio-visual explorations
http://thefamoushairdosofpopularmusic.blogspot.com
The Logan Square Literary Review
The LSLR is a not-for-profit literary journal based in the neighborhood of Logan Square. It's aim is to facilitate expression and contribute to the growing community of arts and ideas in Logan Square.
Monica Long Crushing Loneliness, Dax: Adventures of a Star Trek Cat
Monica lives in Chicago with a cat named Dax in their small blue house, still. Crushing Loneliness is a zine that crushes loneliness.
monicalong.tumblr.com
Loosey Goosey Loosey Goosey
Loosey Goosey helps artists display their art to the broader community, connect with an underground alliance of colleagues, and tell the world what they’ve been waiting to say. So whether you’re making art to pass the time in math class or to deal with minimum wage night shifts, we want you to know you’re not alone. Let’s get loose.
