CZF 2026 exhibitors & table map

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Youth Exhibitors - 9th floor, South Hall

table number	exhibitor/distro name	website	description
South Hall 1	DeerWolf Zines	imgur.com/user/starmanofthe7thvoid	Orion enjoys daily note taking, finding the best space for it to sometimes be zines. A queer Ukrainian zinester who hopes to bring to light similar stories and leave representation in every small corner. If something resonates with at least one person, it was worth it.   Sunny has two dogs and writes zines about the struggle and joy of being a teenager. Their favorite pokemon is Manetric.
South Hall ​2	Ada and Ilan Comics, Inc.		Ada (age 8) and Ilan (age 10) are sibling zinesters and cartoonists from Chicago. They make funny comics for kids!
South Hall ​3	Webster Wildcats		Webster Wildcats have come from North Lawndale to bring you comic delicacies. Made in our art room, and sometimes at home.
South Hall ​4	Rae Z.	instagram.com/hdg1012020220	With skills learned from reading the comic section of the Chicago Public Library, Rae Z. attempts to depict teenage melancholy and sense of alienation.
South Hall ​5	Pedro vs Extinction	pedrovsextinction.com	I’m Pedro Paulino Makiyama, a 15-year-old artist whose brain runs on its own unique wavelength, exploding with more vivid ideas than my human mouth can voice or my hands can ever keep up with! I am utterly obsessed with time travel, prehistoric dinosaurs, and finding the absolute cutest, tiniest details hiding out in nature! By smashing art and science together like giant asteroids, I want to show the world that life always finds a way—and my ultimate dream is to channel this unstoppable mental storm into stories that inspire massive kindness, because the universe is a million times cooler when we all adventure together!
South Hall ​6	Teen Creative Agency	mcachicago.org/learn/teens	The Teen Creative Agency is the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s cultural leadership program for Chicago youth. Since starting in 2011, the TCA has made zines as an annual project. For the past 4 years, the program has partnered with institutions like ZineMercado, the Newberry Library, and SAIC to create riso printed zines connecting audiences with contemporary art and research. Outside of zines the program organizes various public programs for teen and emerging adults.
South Hall ​7	Otis Lin		Otis is a 6th-grader in Chicago who likes making comics about their cats' hilarious antics and their many original characters.
South Hall ​8	Marcus W	instagram.com/_CREEPYBASTA_	Marcus makes zines about graffiti and youth culture.
South Hall ​9	Buster and Klaus / One Skate Beyond and Klaus-o-Graphic		Buster and Klaus are zine making cousins from Chicago. They've been self-publishing their individual interests as One Skate Beyond, focusing on the skateboarding and community,  and as Klaus-o-Graphics, with issues covering notable cryptids like Big Foot, UFOs and more.
South Hall ​10	Pritzker Zine Club		Pritzker Zine Club is an after school program that provides a safe space for teens to engage in art, writing, and collaborative zine projects.
South Hall ​11	Knox Draws Stuff	instagram.com/knoxdrawsstuff	Knox Vaughan is a 16 year old artist who aspires to make the world laugh. He is a creative, intelligent artist with a gamer mind and a rather unathletic body, and he has been drawing the Hard Knox Life characters for over a decade.
South Hall ​12	826CHI	826chi.org	826CHI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills. We offer in-school and after school writing programs that result in publication.

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Adult Exhibitors - 9th floor, Winter Garden

table number	exhibitor/distro name	website	description
1	Aaliyah Lachel'e​ / ​PeanutbuddarArt	peanutbuddarart.com	Aaliyah Lachel’e is a black queer artist from Chicago. They write fantastical stories about vampires and losers. She wants everything to feel familiar to you.​​​ ​Aaliyah is the Chicago Zine Fest 2026 poster artist!
2	Matiz Press	matizpress.com	Matiz is an artist-run initiative that treats print as shared cultural infrastructure. Working across literature, poetry, photography, illustration, design, and independent publishing, Matiz supports artists and communities in authoring, preserving, and circulating their own visual, literary, and historical records—building pathways for more equitable, community-led cultural futures.
3	Lunar Stardust Cereal Collective / Isu, Phoebe, & Yeeseon	lunarstardust.neocities.org	LSCC is a zinemaker group of POC, LGBTQ+ friends creating zines for an expansive, playful, and imaginative world. We cover topics spanning fandom, climate awareness, everyday life, fashion, gender and sexuality, speculative worlds, cycling, video games, and cats, among other things.
4	River Kersetter	riiver.art	river ian kerstetter is a designer, writer and curator in zhegagoynak.
5	​Toasted Sister	toastedsister.square.site	Toasted Sister zines focus on Indigenous food stories and are produced by Diné journalist and podcaster, Andi Murphy. ​
6	Lindzenator Draws	linkin.bio/lindzenator	LINDSEY DANAE PEREZ is a two-spirit Tongva illustrative artist who encourages self-decolonization through visual storytelling, giving voice to gender-nonconforming experiences, cultural reclamation, and spiritual awakening in their collection of handmade, self published comic zines. Lindsey graduated from the 2024 Comics Portfolio program at the I.P.R.C. located in Portland, OR and they frequently participate in pop up markets across the west coast, selling handmade zines, art prints, buttons, stickers, sketch portraits and more!
7	Sophie Wang	wangshuf.com	Sophie Wang makes zines, comics, and other forms of art that bring a critical power lens to science, technology, epistemology, and knowledge-making, as well as other themes like labor history, immigration, and liberatory celebration.
8	Imani Warren / ​The Silver Cherry	thesilvercherrypublishing.com	Imani Warren is a St. Louis-born poet and editor specializing in chapbook self-publication and collaboration in the Chicago literary scene. While receiving her BA in Environmental Policy from Loyola University Chicago, she founded The Silver Cherry Publishing, releasing three handmade chapbooks. She has also published a full length poetry book, Chrysalis, with Raging Possum Press. Imani has been focusing on poetry performance and event curation as her career progresses.​
9	Liana Fu	lianafu.com	Liana Fu 傅嘉恩 is a queer writer and zinemaker from Chicago. As an interdisciplinary artist inspired by the Cantonese diasporic archive, she plays with photography, collage, and printmaking to explore intimacy, process, and nostalgia.
10	Visual Communication Design at SAIC	saic.edu/visual-communication-design	Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago encourages students to actively engage their world and define their role as designers by developing their critical skills, personal voice, and visual language. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students extend their work into new territories, building practices at the intersection of design, art, and culture.
11	Now Place 此间	instagram.com/nowplacesf	Now Place 此间 is an artist-run bookstore, risograph studio, and small press based in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Founded by Akaa Ling, it supports emerging artists—particularly from the Asian diaspora—through publishing, events, and community gatherings, exploring print as a way to extend shared moments and collective experiences.
12	Four Seasons		The Four Seasons is an “alien”-led initiative that creates a collective zine for Chinese-language speakers in the U.S. Midwest to write, share, and publish freely. Using perzines—personal zines produced outside mainstream print and academic cultures—the project fosters a decolonial mode of life-writing and collective healing through art.
13	Bianca Brandolino	biancabrandolino.com	Bianca Brandolino is a queer artist and designer that uses zines to explore queer identity, living with mental illness, and finding the silver linings that keeps one going on the daily.
14	abcpvd (Art Book Collective, Providence)​	instagram.com/artbookpvd	abcpvd is a collective of artists who create handmade books, zines, and other printed matter to invite people to play together. Our mediums include but are not limited to printmaking, collage, photography, bookbinding, papermaking, workshops and experiential art shows.​
15	BearBear	bearbear.co	BearBear is a self-publishing Risograph studio illuminated by Diana Chu & Ben Grzenia. We are Hong Kong- and Midwestern-grown individuals navigating life together by combining illustrations and photographs into visual art books and zines.
16	One Handed Press	onehandedpress.com	One handed press is a erotic press and distro from the south side of Chicago
17	rojas oliva	desvelosydudas.tumblr.com	Rojas is a farmer, a song sharter and a stinky binky whose zines hates borders, binaries and boredom.
18	DEMON ATTACK ZONE	daz.bigcartel.com	Demon Attack Zone is an unapologetically queer and kink-centered furry art collective, with a focus on zine-making. An ever evolving many-headed creature.
19	Smelly Jelly Ensemble / ​Jim Joyce, Jonas Cannon, Dave Roche, Vicky Lim	catmothcrow.com/zine/fixer-eraser-7 microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/artist/dave-roche vickylim.com antiquatedfuture.com/zines/let-it-sink-8	Smelly Jelly Ensemble includes Dave, Jim, Jonas, and Vicky. These zinesters, friends, and road doggies have been photocopying ink together for a few decades.
20	Riesling Design	rieslingd.com	Riesling Design is a Chicago-based studio crafting thoughtful, visually striking work that blends clean aesthetics with playful experimentation. Their zines and designs explore the intersection of everyday life, typography, and storytelling.
21	PM Press	pmpress.org	PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books, zines, and comics for these tumultuous times.
22	Perritos Independientes		We are a zine club based on the north border of México. We love see, make and share zines with our friends. All Chihuahuas Are Biutiful ▼⁠・⁠ᴥ⁠・⁠▼
23	Half Letter Press / Temporary Services	halfletterpress.com	Half Letter Press is a publishing imprint and online store initiated by Temporary Services and based in Chicago, IL and Fort Wayne, IN. Temporary Services is Brett Bloom & Marc Fischer. We have published books and booklets as an element of our collaborative work since 1998. Half Letter Press also distributes the work of our presses Public Collectors (run by Marc) and Breakdown Break Down Press (published by Brett).
24	Sojourners for Justice Press	sojourners4justice.press	Sojourners for Justice Press (SJP) is an abolitionist feminist micro-press behind the Black Zine Fair in New York City. Founded by Mariame Kaba and co-directed with Neta Bomani, we publish short-form print—zines, pamphlets, chapbooks, broadsides, and other DIY publications—by people working within the margins on independent publishing. ​
25	Illustration Student Group (ISG)	engage.colum.edu/isg/	The Illustration Student Group is the student-run portion of Columbia College Chicago's illustration program, a community that combines weekly meetings with fun events, activities, and unreserved creative strength.
26	Lee and Fox / ​Tboy Binders	instagram.com/tboybinders	Tboy Binders is a Chicago-based collective of trans artists making trans-centric zines and erotica.
27	Perfectly Acceptable Press	perfectly-acceptable.com	Perfectly Acceptable Press, founded by Matt Davis in 2013(ish) and located in Chicago, publishes short-run narrative artist books ("comics"), as well as offering for-hire Risograph printing services. As a publisher, Perfectly Acceptable aims to create objects that push the boundaries of 'zine' without sacrificing accessibility, synergizing content, craft, and form.​
28A	Kiya Hsu	kiyahsuzines.myportfolio.com	Kiya Hsu is a graphic designer based in Memphis, Tennessee. Zine making has become their favorite way to explore their thoughts in a physical form or just to document things they are interested in at the moment, like TV shows and travel.
28B	LucyDreamsOf	lucydreamsof.squarespace.com	LucyDreamsOf is an artist and designer specializing in all things mending and low-waste design. When she's not drafting garments and darning beloved, worn-out clothes, Lucy is drawing, making comics & zines, and leading monthly meetups for climbers of color.
29	Quimby's Bookstore	quimbys.com/store/	Quimby's is an independently owned bookstore that sells independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. We favor the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and the lowbrow.​
30	Arts of Life	artsoflife.org	Arts of Life is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in January 2000, with a shared vision: to create a person-centric, working artistic community and provide a work environment of equality and inclusion in Chicago. We will be sharing zines focused on Disability Justice created by our Self Advocacy Group, a comic by Rocco DiCaro, one-of-a-kind art zines and art books, one-of-a-kind book marks, our 50th anniversary book, and Arts of Life merch!
31A	Kyung Na Park	kyungnapark.weebly.com	Kyung Na Park is an artist from Koreatown, Los Angeles, who makes zines, illustrations, and animations. Their work encompasses a multitude of themes, including but not limited to family lineage and separation, grief, undocu/DACAmented limbo, queerness, disability, spirituality, memory, and love.
31B	Cool Craft Creations	coolcraftcreations.com	Based in Indiana, artist and writer Briana Jenkins has been passionate about storytelling and art since childhood. Now she hopes to share these hilarious as well as suspenseful stories with those who wish to indulge in these hybrid creations.
32A	Chicago Books to Women in Prison	cbwp.org	Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.
32B	Little Palestine Project	instagram.com/littlepalestineproject	The Little Palestine Project is excited to announce its first zine publication! The Little Palestine Project is dedicated to documenting and preserving the stories of one of the largest Arab communities in the United States. Centered on first generation residents of Chicago’s southwest suburbs, the project asks interviewees “what items they brought with them and why” to explore their migration experiences and life in the diaspora.
33A	Midwest Books to Prisoners	midwestbookstoprisoners.org	Midwest Books to Prisoners is an all-volunteer abolitionist organization based in Chicago. Our goal is to directly support inmates by sending them reading material and to build a world without the carceral system. Since 2004 we have been accepting requests from any and all incarcerated people, and mailing them reading material that corresponds to their areas of interest free of charge.
33B	Beet Street Zine	linktr.ee/beetstreetzine	Beet Street Zine is an art-based organizing and community-led publication for and by Queer and Trans Black and brown people to create a more equitable and just food system based in care and love for one another and the earth we all call home. We are invested in dreaming about and building a more radical and liberated food system by creating a platform where other food system practitioners can come together to share artwork, poems, stories, love letters, calls to action, recipes, and various other mediums.
34A	Emily Nott	emily-nott.square.site	Em is a Chicago-based zinester who loves comics, screenprinting and riso. They also run a little mobile zine library out of a vintage suitcase, designed with other educators and librarians in Chicago!
34B	Crow Champagne Studios	crowchampagne.neocities.org	Crow Champagne is a Minneapolis-based artist. They create zine forms that are shaped by the themes of race, queer identity, and more.
35A	Mothfruit Press	mothfruit.online	Ellis MacMillan (they/them) is based in Minneapolis and makes zines and prints inspired by medieval art, nature, photography, and weird little guys of all stripes.
35B	Oh Well Press	instagram.com/ohwellpress	Oh Well Press is a Chicago-based collection of art nerds from all over the world. We love to publish works inspired by our hobbies and our cultural backgrounds. We make zines, comix and prints that all feature specific quirks from each of us. Expect works revolving around horror themes, video games, international food and many more.
36A	Starberry Kaleidoscope	​​​starberrykaleidoscope.carrd.co	The Starberry Kaleidoscope Collective was started by two friends with a shared love of cats, cute things and magical girls. They specialize in bright and cute original art that is sure to brighten up your day!
36B	Kat Tuesday	kattuesday.com	Kat makes comics that celebrate tenderheartedness and goofy cartoon antics. Her current main project is a story about using imagination to combat fear, featuring a wayward young boy and a very good dog who is stealing the show.
37A	Chana Goldbloom	chanagoldbloom.bigcartel.com	Chana is a Jewish cartoonist who makes comic zines about grief, magic, and memory.
37B	Linnea Nierman	linneanierman.com	Linnea is a non-binary comic artist and Illustrator based in Kansas City. They love drawing their pets, being outdoors, and watching bad movies.
38A	Reilly Branson Illustration	reillybranson.com	Reilly Branson is a Chicago-based illustrator whose interests in fantasy, architecture, and the natural world all influence his broad variety of zines and comics. From tabletop gaming zines and fantasy comics to meticulously rendered ink drawing collections, Reilly's work aims to encourage curiosity and exploration.
38B	Elias Gonzalez	instagram.com/whateverelias	Elias is a cartoonist from the suburbs of Chicago. He makes “funny” comics for “mature” readers.
39A	Cythera15​	cythera15.itch.io	Cythera writes silly zines in Bloomington, Indiana.
39B	IMPPIC studio / ​Da-Shuang	instagram.com/justdashuang	Da-Shuang is a Chicago-based teaching artist, animator, and illustrator from Beijing. Her work connects art, education, and community storytelling through comics, animation, and print.
40A	¡Tango!	tangotangotango.neocities.org	Youth Chicago Zine featuring interviews with local and established and not established cool musicians from across the country and the world and the city, DIY to max, anti fascist to the max. 10 of 10 readers say we have a chill ass vibe.
40B	melipatas	melipatas.net	Meli makes animal art, zines about her interests and comics about the weird experiences trans people live.
41A	Alondra Araujo​	alaraujoart.com	Alondra Araujo is a cartoonist from Northeast Indiana who loves to draw comics and zines about the queer Latine experience.
41B	Adeeba Arastu	instagram.com/adeeba_arastu	Adeeba Arastu is a researcher, architect, and fashion writer based in Chicago. Their work is interested in environmental justice, material culture, and imagining a world beyond capitalism. Adeeba is the author of sustainable fashion zine series Hot Girls’ Guide and Dress Rehearsals on Substack.
42A	lydia x chang	lydiaxchang.com	Lydia is an artist based in Madison, WI where she makes zines ranging from lighthearted fictional stories to reflections on mental illness and grief.
42B	Bonnie Bee Zines	instagram.com/bonniebeezines	Bonnie is a zinester from Portland, OR who writes zines about media, hobbies, and food. She loves coffee, reading, and spending time with her dog Alphie.
43A	Serena Hocharoen​	serenahocharoen.fish	Serena Hocharoen is an artist, educator, and gardener based in Chicago. They make zines, trinkets, and prints about the entanglements of food, rocks, and diasporic storytelling.​
43B	Musu Bangura / The Baddest Glitch Zines	musubangura.com	Musu Bangura is a glitch princess living in Chicago by way of Washington D.C. They are passionate about female rappers, mermaids, and Black liberation.
44A	David Velasco	instagram.com/moonvillezines	David Velasco is a zinester and middle school art teacher from Waukegan, IL focusing on found photo, collage, and drawing combined with poetry and writing in both English and Spanish. His work is primarily introspective and focuses on topics such as chosen family, grief, identity, and shared experiences.
44B	Moody	moodythezine.square.site	Moody is a zine and small (sometimes riso) press made up of contributions by queer and/or BIPOC creatives. Issues feature paid work sharing not only images, but stories, poems, notes, QR codes to media, and anything that can fit on a page.
45A	OOO Press	juniiostudio.com	Start with a constraint. Repeat until it breaks. Print the evidence. OOO Press operates somewhere inside that loop.
45B	Black Eyed Elma	blackeyedelma.carrd.co	Black Eyed Elma is a zinester based in mid-coast Maine who writes and illustrates zines about money, labor, hiking challenges, reproductive choice, and niche curiosities. If you like chunky, stapled manifestos that give you something to chew on, you might like her zines.
46A	Moon Rabbit Blues / ​Mimisdreamies	mimisdreamies.neocities.org	Mimi Ozormoor (aka mimisdreamies) is a queer illustrator/printmaker/mixed media artist Detroiter-turned-Chicagoan whose zines combine all aspects of their interdisciplinary practice, layered in iteration, cute motifs and underlying cynicism.
46B	Hadley Richardson-O'Brien	hadleyro.weebly.com	Hadley is a midwest comic artist and indie game dev. Going outside and making things makes her happy. ​
47A	emilygostudio	emilygostudio.weebly.com	Emily Go is a Chicago native artist who uses traditional painting and drawing techniques to create zines that tell stories unique to her life and artistic expression. Her work blends personal narrative with expressive visuals to capture emotion, identity, and lived experience.
47B	Lemon o Books / ​Ethan Krause	instagram.com/februaryness	Ethan Krause is a Milwaukee-based cartoonist and illustrator who has been self-published all-ages zines via Lemon o Books for nearly 20 years.
48A	Jaromir Stoll	instagram.com/jaromir.stoll	Jaromir Stoll (they) is a comics & zines maker, researcher of comics culture in India, and professor of social science in Columbus, Ohio. They tells stories about the ineffable in life and run the Cbus Comics & Zine Society drink-and-draw, in collaboration with Lief Bennett.
48B	Fourth & Print / Mike Ginocchio	fourthandprint.substack.com	Mike Ginocchio is a Chicago-based writer and the creator of Fourth & Print, a publication and zine dedicated to the games you’re not watching—and why they matter more than you think.
49A	Xena Lopez	xenalopez.com	Xena Lopez Art is a writer and illustrator who makes comics about the effects of traumatic abuse from childhood on mental health. She loves incorporating humor, relatability, and her love for the city of Chicago. ​
49B	Jesús Blanco	chuyinjinping.weebly.com	Jesús Blanco is stuck forever in DeKalb, IL. He likes to make neurotic comics about fading, diasporic midwestern Mexican communities but more importantly, he wants to make you laugh! And maybe feel bad a little bit, kinda.
50A	Spencer Creighton	spencercreightondoesart.my.canva.site	Spencer Creighton is a wildlife illustrator and comic artist. He enjoys making silly stories about critters and drawing iconic characters as dogs. When he's not fawning over his taxidermy collection, he's missing his dog back home.
50B	Tori Holder	toriholder.com	Tori Holder is a comix zinester based in Los Angeles. She loves making work that plays with form to create interesting tactile experiences for the reader.
51A	Dark Spark Press	instagram.com/dark.spark.press	Dark Spark Press is an independent press specializing in erotic comics and illustrations, operated cross-country out of New York and Chicago. The press seeks to give a platform for artists to tell sexy and playful stories in a country that increasingly seeks to sterilize the sexuality—particularly queer sexuality—out of art.
51B	TinyGalaxyKid & DogBait Art	instagram.com/tinygalaxykid instagram.com/dogbaitart	TinyGalaxyKid is a 24 year old dyke from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives in Chicago. He writes instructional zines on community organizing & art vending and personal zines on his experiences with joy, disability, and culture.  ​DogBait Art is a QTPOC artist based in Chicago, IL. His work focuses on brown transmasculinity and cute animals in little outfits.
52A	Crispy Press	crispypress.framer.website	Crispy Press is the Chicago-based creative duo Chris and Wanda. They love making comics and zines while experimenting with risograph and other forms of printmaking.
52B	Stumpt Workshop	stumptworkshop.com	Stumpt Workshop, based in Fort Collins, CO, is run by Zine/Printmaker Ray Tollison. Ray creates short run riso printed zines filled with strange characters, bold colors (well five of them because that is all he has), and a love for the imperfect nature of the duplicator.