2012 Exhibitors M-Z
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This list was last updated Saturday February 18, 2012
Xavier M. Explorers Are We, Monster Hands
Perpetual childhood regret.
Shira Mario Shira Mario
Shira is a queermo, shameless dork, cultural Jew, and pop culture aficionado who grew up too fast at an early age and developed Peter Pan syndrome. Shira Mario is a perzine about their life.
Karen Martinez waffles + coffee
Perzine about life in Philly, post-college. Relationships, friendships, food, cats, coffeeshop hangs, and more.
http://www.wafflesandcoffee.com
Made by Marya Electric Voyager, Mocha Chocolata Mamma, Blue Collar Porn by Major Rainey Sneer
Marya writes zines, plays the accordion, and is the founder of ABQ Zine Fest in Albuquerque, NM.
http//www.madebymarya.tumblr.com
C. Drake McKay Magickal Quest
C. Drake McKay lives in Chicago where she has opened a very large portal to another reality tunnel. Her comic Magickal Quest is a road map for showing just how to make and explore one on your own.
http://www.caitlindrakemckay.com
Bernie McGovern DemonGun/DemonDust
Bernie McGovern makes comics, paintings, puppets, and animation in his native Chicago. He is an Artist in Residence with Snow City Arts, a nonprofit organization. He is wildly busy!
Nick Meccia wR, Sleep Is For The Dead
A former ancient Roman gladiator, Nick Meccia eventually grew tired of the over-stimulating celebrity lifestyle and spent the next several centuries exploring the globe and inventing new technology like gunpowder and paper. After a brief stint as pirate on a Chinese junk--concurrent with training to become a Japanese ninja--Nick opened an underground genetics lab in the soviet wasteland, paving the way for the biotechnology and mutant fruit-hybrids of the future.
Mend My Dress Mend My Dress
making zines, kicking off a book publishing adventure, taking photos and collecting polly pocket.
Jennifer Michael F*ck Winter
Spend winter hip-to-hip.
MidWest Zine Fest!
We are promoting the 2nd Annual MidWest Zine Fest. MidWest Zine Fest will take place in Urbana, IL in April 2012. We are looking for tablers, presenters, and speakers!
http://midwestzinefest.ucimc.org
Jaclyn Miller Oh Tiny, I Love You: A Tiny Tim Fanzine/Minicomic Mash-up Hilary in Chicago! A Sister Diary Comic
Minicomics made from a mix of autobiography, daydream, and no sense of how to like something just a little bit.
John Minkoff Purple-Faced Man and Other Sketches Corn Liquor and Other Pictures
Painter, Draw-er.
Rebecca Mir She Is Restless, In Search of Cold Places, Explorations, Between Mountains and the Sea, I was born to be an explorer, and SHIPWRECK
Rebecca Mir is a Chicago based artist, by way of Alaska and Maine. When she was too little to walk, she was pulled around on a sled by a german shepherd called Namer. Her work is primarily concerned with the perplexing character of interactions with nature.
Johnny Misfit the Muse, the News, & the Noose
John Wawrzaszek has been publishing his zine since 2006. He curates the zinester friendly reading series Two Cookie Minimum. He is also a contributing writer for Newcity and Gapers Block.
Johnny Misfit is an organizer of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Monkey-Rope Press In the Sounds and Seas
Monkey-Rope Press is run by Marnie Galloway, a print maker and comic artist in Chicago, Illinois. She makes letterpress posters designed to delight and amuse, and quiet, experimental illustrative comics.
http://monkeyropepress.squarespace.com
Monkeys + Typewriters I See Monsters, P.I. Jane, Bad Librarian
Monkeys + Typewriters is a Chicago-based small press writing team comprised of Lauren Burke and Greg Sorkin. They write comics, pilots, plays, screenplays and anything else that sounds fun.
http://monkeysplustypewriters.com
Lynne Monsoon Butch nor Femme, with an e, Shit I Didn't Tell You
Lynne is a queer, poly vegan who knits, spins, quilts, and makes zines in Chicago. They cannot be found on Facebook.
Monster House Press Austerity Pleasures
Monster House Press is a cooperatively organized small publisher of chapbooks, books, zines and other pertinent texts out of Columbus, OH & Bloomington, IN.
Belinda Moon Men Can Stop Rape by Kansas Mutual Aid. Herbs for Trauma.Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence. My Body My Limits My Pleasure My Choice by the Generation Five Collective, etc.
B. Moon is a gal from far away places. They/She is a survivor of several things and believes it's very important to take care of one self after traumatic events.
http://morethanyouwannaknow.tumblr.com
Anne Elizabeth Moore the Manifesti of Radical Literature
Anne Elizabeth Moore wrote Unmarketable (The New Press) and Cambodian Grrrl (Cantankerous Titles). She is a Fulbright scholar and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.anneelizabethmoore.com
Anne Elizabeth Moore is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Sarah Morean OCD: An Activity Book for Grown-Ups; Man Up!; OMG! Shoes; Lady Bits; Insults, Compliments and Advice vending machine
Sarah Morean makes zines and reviews mini-comics in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She blogs an awful lot and also directs the Minneapolis Indie Xpo comic book festival. Her zines cover a wide range of topics because she gets into a lot of different stuff.
Corinne Mucha My Every Single Thought, Buzz, My Alaskan Summer, The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions
Corinne Mucha is a Chicago based cartoonist who draws stories about her life featuring talking inanimate objects.
NA: Some Chicago Zinesters GoodFineOkay, Shows I've Seen at Metro, Places I've Lived,Mental Illness and Ableism: Stigma, Misconceptions, Facts, and Narratives,
We are a new still forming distro of chicago zinesters trying to combat oppressive attitudes with education as well as express ourselves through art. We are exhibiting poetry, drawing, and free educational zines about feminism, mental illness, and more.
willow naeco The Derailleur
The Derailleur is an unofficial publication of Chicago Critical Mass.
http://thederailleur.blogspot.com
Pranas T. Naujokaitis Beard, Monster Town Vol. 1 & 2, Sack Lunch, Boxcar Joe
Has been handmaking minicomics since 2006 and has a BFA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art & Design. Currently lives in Chicago with his girlfriend & cat.
Derek Neuland All Things Ordinary
Personal zine about moving, settling into a new city, family, punk shows, and other random thoughts.
Alex McKeever Komposit
Anyone interested in submitting please contact us at kompositzine [at] gmail
Mimi Thi Nguyen Race Riot, Slander, Slant
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her first book, called The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages, is out on Duke University Press in July 2012. Nguyen has published zines since 1991, including the compilation zine ...Race Riot. She is a former Punk Planet columnist and a Maximumrocknroll worker. She is also co-author of the research blog on dress and beauty threadbared.
Mimi Thi Nguyen is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Nichole Pieces, Will, Delusion
Nichole writes perzines, spins fiction, speaks HTML, and bakes bread every day. Not necessarily in that order.
Miss Nico Desensitized/ Good Sex Bad Sex/ Shitting Glitter/ Nymphette
Miss Nico is a high femme zinester currently living in Milwaukee, WI. She writes Desensitized, Good Sex/Bad Sex, and Nymphette. She writes a lot about Riot Grrrl, feminine health, sex-positivity, and emotional egocentric banter. She is a collective member of QZAP and an organizer for the Milwaukee Zine Fest.
Synthia Nicole Damaged Mentality
a perzine which touches on Synthia's recent disabling brain injury
No I in Punk Summer Break Forever, Salvaged Impetus, A Spark in The Dark, Foundation Shift/The Shifters
No I in Punk is a zine and tape distro out of Indianapolis. The focus of No I in Punk’s releases is community and DIY ethics.
No More Coffee No More Coffee, Tape Hiss, Dot Dot Dash
Short fiction for human beings.
Not Yr Cister Press Let the Trans Women Speak: A Response to Camp Trans 2010, Towards An Insurrectionary Transfeminism, My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix
Not Yr Cister Press is a distro based in Chicago, IL, distributing texts to expose the misery of life within class society, and push the contradictions and antagonisms of life under capital as far they can go. Our distro is especially interested in reproducing texts that might elaborate strategies of rendering inoperable the gender apparatus that manages our bodies, that is we seek the self-abolition of "women" and "trans" as categories, along with all capitalist social relations. If you have tabling opportunities, access to free copying, want copies of things to distro, or just have questions, comments, or whatever else, you can contact us at notyrcisterpress (at) gmail.com.
On the Cusp Zine Space
This is a submission generated zine exploring the common threads that weave their way through the world. We are all currently in the midst of transitions, constantly coming up against the “next.” By attaching these ideas to unexpected themes, our hope is that individuals will be able to explore where that takes them both personally and artistically
O'SHELL Josh, O'Shell's Shorts, A Teacher's Tolstoy
O'Shell makes movies in comic book form. he hopes people will read his stuff, talk about it for like 15 minutes, and then move on.
Ghetto P Grime Time
Chicago street art culture.
http://grimetimemagazine.tumblr.com
Parking Block Publishing Where god strikes me down – Jeremy Tubbs, Connections – Lisa Romero, Inland Architect – Christopher Smith
Established in Chicago in May of 2009, Parking Block Publishing creates small batch artist books and zines focusing on work by self-educated pen technicians, inspired photographic specialists and devoutly imaginative wordsmiths.
http://www.parkingblockpublishing.com
Marc Parker Tell It Like It Tiz!
Luke Pelletier Kill Tons Of Stuff, Destroy Everything, Can't Grow Up, Dude, Nah
Luke Pelletier is an artist from North Carolina. He makes zines, paintings, prints, and does street art.
http://lukepelletier.tumblr.com
Perfect Day Publishing Love is Not Constantly Wondering if You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life, A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami, You've Got Style, One More For the People, Somnabulist, Yeah. No. Totally
A publisher of books and zines, based in Portland, OR.
http://perfectdaypublishing.com
leslie perrine bananaslug!
Leslie Perrine is a writer and illustrator who lives in Chicago with her cat Bum. She is an organizer of The Chicago Zine Fest.
www.leslieperrine.blogspot.com
Erik Peterson T|A|G, Pink Chairs
T|A|G is a periodical devoted to giving platform to those individuals, artists and groups who self-identify under the umbrella of queer. The non-white and the non-monogamous, the poor, the gender non-conforming, the intersexed, the fat, the disabled, the unemployed, the infected, the pansexual, the polyamorous and a host of others as well as those queer culture-makers who have lived before the common era of gay liberation who are all stigmatized with social negativity by the gaystream not to mention society at large. T|A|G attempts to provide avenues of uninhibited and uncensored expression for these voices through all media via both the internet as well as in the traditional form of printed matter.
Rosy Phinick Johnny Animal in... Bacterial Turned Viral!
Bacterial Turned Viral! is a perzine documenting adventures in Chicago, told from a queer feminist perspective. It's about growing up, getting rowdy, and learning life lessons all over the place. In three words: beers and queers.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bacterial_Turned_Viral
Pickled City Watertowers Are People Too, The Edge, I ams, Charting the Interstate, The Central Park Peacock
Pickled City is Alfred Planco, a native New Yorker, who creates art zines from found books and images, as well as children's books, poetry, and photography.
Amber Pitt Day Dreamers, Leave My Heart Hanging From A Tree, Static Station Lullaby
Amber Pitt is a photographer hailing from Kenton, Ohio. Her working project, Hum Something Sweet, is a blend of real and surreal, love and disinterest. She brings together words, music, and photography, combining them into something beautiful. She fills her spare time with writing, roadtrips, and rock and roll. Static Station Lullaby is first novel, but by no means her last.
Please and Thank You, Dead Dynasty
Aaron Poliwoda Low Blow
Pulp Ink and Thread Kashka
We are a graduate student group from the Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Art MFA program at Columbia College Chicago. We make everything from letterpress printed broadsides, to handmade paper installations, to sculptural artists' books. And some of us make zines too!
http://pitcolumbia.blogspot.com
The Queer Zine Archive Project QZAP:Meta
The Queer Zine Archive Project (qzap.org) is a collectively organized website where printed queer zines and ephemera are digitized and available for download free of charge to promote and interpret radical queer history.
QZAP is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Quimby's Bookstore
Quimby's Bookstore specializes in independently-published books, comics and zines. It has been in Wicker Park for 20 years and is proud to be a sponsor of CZF!
Quimby's Bookstore is a sponsor of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Rabcity Murphy, Wolves, Show Your Teeth
My name is Steve and I like to draw. When I am not drawing I am teaching middle school art. I reside with my wife and two cats in Rabcity.
Tony Rabit Beer in Blood out, freaks, I heart cereal, dig yourself out, worst dudes
I like stars wars, drawing, and beer. I live in Chicago. My girlfriend and cats love me.
Read/Write Library Chicago Catalogs printed media
The Read/Write Library is an all-inclusive collection of Chicago-specific media, produced by and for the community. Through our unique indexing of contributors and our open venue, we provide a space for individuals, organizations and ideas to come together, and creative connections to emerge.
Daniel Resner "L": a 15-hour trip through Chicago's entire elevated train system
I recently moved to Chicago, became obsessed with its trains, set some records for riding them, wrote about it, paid a lot to print them accordion style.
Cristy C. Road Greenzine, Indestructible, Bad Habits
Cristy C. Road is a Brooklyn-based, Cuban-American artist. Road published Greenzine for ten years, and has released two illustrated novels “Indestructible” and “Bad Habits.” She’s currently working on a Tarot Deck and Spit and Passion, a graphic memoir.
Cristy C. Road is an invited guest of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Dave Roche On Subbing; About My Disappearance; It's Fuchi, No?
I'm 37 and still doing this. That's cool, right?
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064591.jpg
Roctober Roctober Magazine
Jake Austen has edited the Chicago-based music and comics magazine Roctober since the early 90's. He's also the founder of the TV dance party Chic-A-Go-Go.
Marian Runk The Magic Hedge, 6 Days in a Week, Best Friends, The Fish and the Monkey, Leanne.
Marian Runk is a Texan-born cartoonist and print-maker who is proud to call Chicago home. When she's not making comics, you can find her watching birds along the shore of Lake Michigan, practicing guitar, singing in a choir, or walking her fluffy grey cat on a leash.
www.marianrunk.com marianrunk.tumblr.com
FRED SASAKI FRED SASAKI'S & FRED SASAKI'S 4-PAGER GUIDE TO: HOW TO FIX YOU (Series 1)
Fred Sasaki and Fred Sasaki are the father-and-son authors of the new 4-pager pamphlet series called FRED SASAKI'S & FRED SASAKI'S 4-PAGER GUIDE TO: HOW TO FIX YOU.
Sassyfrass Circus Sassyfrass Circus, Femme a Barbe, Archiving the Underground, Interview Clothes
Jenna B. has a day job. In the pages of Sassyfrass Circus, you will find late night comics and rants about social anxiety, queer puberty, over-caffeination, and the precariat lifestyle. Femme a Barbe is a compilation zine for and by Bearded Ladies and other gender outlaws.
http://www.sassyfrasscircus.com
Dave Scheidt Monster Dudes Dead of Winter: A Comic Anthology
Writer and Co-Creator of Monster Dudes. Blogger for The Huffington Post. Hugger of Cats and Eater of Breakfast Foods.
Eryca Sender My Little Friend
Eryca makes a zine about her life, which at times is rather funny. She is also one of the organizers for the LA Zine Fest.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/mylittlefriendshop
sam sharpe viewotron, return me to the sea, poop, boobs, poo
I like exploring different styles when I draw. Readers are often surprised that all my comics are by the same person. Does that mean I'm multilayered? Gosh, I hope so.
Andy Siharath LQQKS: Queering Queer
LQQKS: Queering Queer, is a queer fashion magazine that allows us to share stories, looks, personal lifestyles, and to celebrate one another through a lens for queer and non queer viewers. The objective of LQQKS is not to define what queer fashion is, but a way in which we can openly explore our queer ways.
Silver Tongue
Silver Tongue is Columbia College Chicago's student-run, word-based performance series.
http://www.facebook.com/silvertonguecolumbia
Silver Tongue is a sponsor of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
The Skeleton Key Collective The Skeleton Key, Postcard, Resist Zine, Engines of Fortitude, Loach, Bernard Street, ...and more
The Skeleton Key is a collective of DIY artists, musicians, and writers focused on a creating connections with the community through creativity, conversation, and skill share.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Skeleton-Key/335737606443575
Sloppy Films Lucy the Dreamer, Too Many Cartoons, etc.
John Akre and Beth Peloff make animated films and mini-comics. They live in Minneapolis, MN.
Squean Zines
SSF TAPES Kill Yr Parent's Garden + distro
DIY tapes and zines.
Stranger Danger Zine Distro Dig Deep, Truckface, Doris, Race Riot, International Girl Gang Underground, White Blackbirds, & a million more.
Stranger Danger is a zine distro based out of Chicago that specializes in feminist, queer, & trans zines.
http://strangerdangerzines.com
Supertrooper/Angela K Roberts
lucifermorningstar.tumblr.com
Sweetgrass Magazine Sweetgrass Magazine
Sweetgrass Magazine is a zine project that publishes Native American art, writing, and media that really gets to the heart of contemporary and historical Native issues.
sweetgrassmagazine.tumblr.com
Ruby T Ink Fight
Ruby makes drawings, mini comics, sculptures, occasional social experiments, and music.
Eric Taylor Teeth, Eek And Meek, Jett Matrix
Cartoonist, Member of the Iowa City Comics Creators Club (I4C), One half of the Boxer / Taylor creative team.
Teach These Kids a Lesson and Now Yer Cookin! Teach These Kids a Lesson, Now Yer Cookin!
Teacher by day, chef by night, and rock star on the weekends. Corey Plagiarist keeps himself busy by loving The Brewers, playing cribbage, and being captain of the only BMX team on the Riverwest 24.
Daniel Teafoe Art-Zine/Chicago
Cassie Tompkins Regional: An Examination of American Cuisine
Cassie Tompkins is a Chicago-based artist and designer that has attended art school twice, once for photography at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and most recently for visual communication design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She grew up in a small industrial town in northwestern Illinois where she learned the value of finding the extraordinary within the ordinary. Her other interests include cooking, collecting vintage Pyrex dishes, and listening to Radiolab. Inspired by outsider art, old cookbooks, and modernism, Cassie’s designs include hand drawn elements, clean type, and a love for bright colors.
Transgender Oral History Project Bound to Struggle; Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine; Community in Transition: 40 years of Struggle; Selections from the Transgender Oral History Project; and more!
TOHP is a collaborative archive of transgender and gender variant experience. We produce and distribute stories from within the community, making them accessible at low or no cost. Visit us!
Kelly Tucker The Cosby Sweater Project Foods Patterns
Kelly Tucker is a Chicago based illustrator and creator of The Cosby Sweater Project which documents the best sweaters of The Cosby Show.
thecosbysweaterproject.com idrawpictures.tumblr.com
tiana tucker Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1,2 &3
Tugboat Press Clutch, Papercutter, Yes Let's, Dragons
Tugboat Press is a small zine and comics publishing house out of Portland, Oregon best know for the autobio diary comic Clutch and the underground comic anthology Papercutter.
twelveohtwo zine distro
twelveohtwo is a tabling-only zine distro that began in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 2004, and is now based out of my hometown of Toronto, Ontario. I carry rad/ical zines & other neat D.I.Y. items made with love.
send $1 + 1 stamp for paper catalogue: pobox 42 / stn p / toronto, ontario / m5s 2s6 / canada.
http://www.twelveohtwo.org shall rise from the dead by spring 2012.
Jen Twigg jen(ny) ambular, The Roethlisberger Castration Society
Jen plays punk music and loves football even though both things piss her off. Read all about it in her zines.
Jen Twigg is an organizer of the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest.
Wyl Villacres + Gibson Culbreth I Feel Pretty Writers Collective
I Feel Pretty: Writers Collective. Fiction. Non-fiction. Poetry. Zine. Online only because this is the FUTURE.
http://www.ifeelprettyonline.com
Natalie W. The Transformative Nature of Social Activism
Writer, activist, academic and genius living in a secret bunker outside of Chicago. When she's not fighting for a better world, she's busy making dinner for her dove and cuddling her ferrets.
Paul Walker The World is Mine!, Them Comic Boys Is Trouble
Aaron Weber Nonetheless/Nevertheless Vol. 1
Aaron Weber has figured out that it's okay to be 27 and "awkward as f*ck." N/N faces topics such as childhood, love, and punk and their affects on the author's life.
Alex Wrekk Brainscan Zine, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, and several zines by friends
Alex is from Portland, Oregon and has created the zine Brainscan since 1997 and wrote the DIY zine resource book, Stolen Sharpie Revolution and is an organizers for the Portland Zine Symposium.
http://smallworldbuttons.bigcartel.com
w o m a n h o u s e zine w o m a n h o u s e #1 - 4, An Unconventional Survey of Women in Pop Culture: A-Z
w o m a n h o u s e is a collection of feminist critiques relating to pop culture and modern society written by women and men. The zine has gone from sitting on the receptionist desk of the Visual Arts Building (where all three women work) at St. Catherine University (where all three women go to school) to places throughout the Twin Cities, as well as being requested nationally and internationally with the aid of the zine community on websites such as Tumblr. The name w o m a n h o u s e references an influential print by artist Louise Bourgeois and a art installation and performance organized by artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro in 1972.The anonymous feminist articles and narratives inside the pages of w o m a n h o u s e are products of the mission of the zine which is to better inform the public on how feminism doesn’t have to be a scary thing and that one person’s feminism does not necessarily have to be another’s. The goal of the feminist movement, w o m a n h o u s e believes, is at the root to work together for equality of not only gender, but race and class as well. By providing an accessible outlet for people to write about feminism in our culture today and to read about it in the non-threatening DIY medium of the zine, we hope we are meeting our goal.
http://www.womanhousezine.blogspot.com
Words 'N Stuff Ramen
Words 'N Stuff is a student organization at Columbia College Chicago that encourages and provides resources for zine making and self publication amongst students, staff, and faculty.
http://ramenzine.com
Zachary queer clockwork
Loves audio. Makes art. Is political.
Zinophobia
