FRIDAY, AUGUST 18
PRE-ZINE FEST MIXER
- Friday, 8/18 from 3-5pm
- At the Denver Zine Library: 1900 35th St, Denver CO 80216
- Inside the Bob Ragland branch of the Denver Public Library
- FREE to attend!
Come browse the Denver Zine Library’s collection during this informal mixer and socialize with zinesters and fans of zines! Please note that the Denver Zine Library will be closed on the day of the zine fest, so if you want to check it out this weekend, this is the time to do it!
DOODLE FIGHTS
- Friday, 8/18 from 7-9pm
- At Ratio Beerworks: 2920 Larimer St, Denver CO 80205
- Hosted by Lonnie M’F’ Allen
- FREE to attend!
Explosive things can happen when Denver’s talented cartoonists community gets together to jam, and now you can take a ringside seat and get a taste of the zany action at Doodle Fights! A friendly elimination competition and comics reading showcasing a crew of local artists. And if you go, you’ll be more than an innocent bystander: “Doodle fighters” will take subject cues from audience members and work madly behind the scenes while their cohorts read comic excerpts on stage, and winners will be determined by a vote from the crowd. Imagine a mash-up of poetry readings and WWE for the nerdset. There’s a high possibility of inadvertent adult material! Some of the best indie cartoonists will be reading their comics, as well as an assortment of artists battling against each other on the easels armed only with sharpies!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19
2023 DENVER ZINE FEST
- Sat, 8/19 from 11am – 5pm
- At Globeville Center: 4496 Grant Street, Denver CO 80216
- Masks requested at the fest. Masks will be available at the event.
- FREE to attend!
- RTD is free through the end of August! Use their website to map your route. The #8 or #12 are about a 10 min walk from the venue and the A line is about a 20 min walk.
- Invite your friends by sharing this webpage or inviting them to the Facebook event.
What to Expect
- Incredible exhibitors! Check out the impressive bios below.
- Zine Club: A safe space for zine-making, creativity, sharing resources and information, and building community. Come join us in making a community zine or working on a personal project. Come as you are!
- Coffee by Mutiny Information Cafe (for purchase)
- Hydration provided by Liquid Death (complimentary)
- Pizza by iPie (for purchase) – gluten free options available!
- Free table: Want to make your zines available for free to attendees and don’t have an exhibitor table? Add them to the free table!
DENVER ZINE FEST AFTER PARTY
- Sat, 8/19 from 6pm – ???
- At Fort Greene (bar): 321 E 45th Ave, Denver CO 80216
- Across the street from the zine fest!
Not ready for the excitement to be over? Head across the street after the big event to grab a drink and hang out with other zinesters and attendees from the fest.
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Questions? Contact us at denverzinefest@gmail.com
Organized by The Denver Zine Library
The Denver Zine Library is a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 whose mission is to preserve, protect and promote the culture of zines and self-published original work through archival collection, workshops and events. The Denver Zine Library currently houses one of the largest zine collections in North America with a preserved collection of over 20,000 independent and alternative zines. The organization is entirely volunteer run, and the public can access the full library and archives during open hours on Saturdays and Sunday between 11am-3pm or by appointment.
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EXHIBITORS
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Aayjah Royston
Denver, CO
Aayjah (he/they) is an artist based in Denver, CO. He makes art about love, food, loss, and sunshine. Find their art on Instagram at @aayjah.art.
Adán De La Garza
Denver, CO
Adán is a bit of a misnomer. Adán is your favorite local artist’s acquaintance. Adán makes moving images, sounds, and performances, and curates with a few collectives. Adán is currently based in Denver, Colorado, where he hates writing in the third person.
Website | Collective Misnomer Website
AHKS.Comics
Boulder, CO
Based out of Boulder, CO but influenced by all the immigrant communities across the west she has grown up in Arva Syed makes zines, comics, and illustrations that combine her unique cultural upbringing with her love of science and design. She has been making and selling comics since 2016 and is excited to debut her work and collaborate with many others to represent our thriving community.
Website | Facebook | ahks.comics Instagram | diymag.co Instagram
AJ Urbina
Broomfield, CO
AJ Urbina is a Colorado local who draws comics and landscape illustration with a focus on original art and story telling.
Alto Gallery
Denver, CO
Alto Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in Feb. 2016 and is owned and operated by 501(c)(3) non-profit Birdseed Collective. After moving from Denver’s Berkley neighborhood to a temporary location at the Evans School, Alto Gallery is now located at the new RiNo ArtPark. In collaboration with Redline’s new satellite studios, Alto’s new location promises to offer more than just the typical art gallery experience. A vibrant and diverse studio community, innovative and educational program partners, and beautiful and ample public outdoor spaces makes the new Alto location a destination worth visiting again and again.
Andrea Pearson
Chicago, IL
Andrea Pearson is a cartoonist living in Chicago. She writes and draws about her life in her autobiographical zine series No Pants Revolution. She has also written and illustrated a zine on her curly hair process titled My Mixed Hair. In her spare time she runs Aquatic Panda Distro, an art and comic zine distro, whose goal is to highlight and uplift the voices of artists of color. Follow her on Instagram @Saturn2169.
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B Erin Cole – Little Brain Comics
Denver, CO
B. Erin Cole is a cartoonist and historian based in Denver, Colorado. Their comics tell stories about history, belonging, mental health, and cute characters in awkward situations.
Benschop Books
Denver, CO
Benschop Books publishes photography books and zines, and are handmade by Vera Benschop.
Blake A. Chamness
Westminster, CO
Blake is a cartoonist, painter, and teacher living in Westminster, CO. His current comics series are “Sentience,” a robot adventure story, and “Distortion,” a solo anthology that includes autobio, strips, fiction, illustration, and poetry.
Bombastic Plastic
Parker, CO
Neil Ewing is an artist and designer from South Eastern Colorado. With a keen interest in crafting toys, comics, and soft goods.
Bri Gawkoski
Salt Lake City, UT
Bri Gawkoski is an artist originally from Colorado. She has been behind a camera for fifteen years, working in both film and digital photography.
Her current work is minimalist, collage art which attempts a lighthearted approach to heavy topics such as failed relationships, mental illness, women’s rights, and more.
Bri creates both analog and digital collages sourced from vintage magazines.
Colfax Community Cats
Denver, CO
Connecting the Denver community through education & peer support.
Commodity Creature
Westminster, CO
Alex White is an interdisciplinary artist from Colorado who draws his creativity from music, painting, poetry, photography, and film. He’s performed with The Boulder Laptop Orchestra, The Boulder Symphony, the Thornton Community Band, and improv punk group Black Market Translation
Conner Herbison
Fort Collins, CO
Conner is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Fort Collins, CO. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Beyond self publishing, he’s contributed artwork to projects from various publishers. Including art assistance for comic artist, ZACH HOWARD on, The Cape: Fallen from IDW Publishing, and Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: The Return of Effie Kolb, from Dark Horse Comics. He’s currently working on his debut graphic novel, Darvey Plunk, debuting 2024.
Cori Redford
Denver, CO
I am the illustrator of the award-winning weekly editorial comic “What’d I Miss?”, which is featured in The Colorado Sun. I have lived in Denver for over 30 years, and hope I can continue to keep living here. I am a human, and I breathe air, and definitely have human skin. I do not have wings or a secret underground lair.
derekwk
Denver, CO
Derek Knierim is a Denver based Comic Book Illustrator, game artist, instructor and graphic designer. He created his own comic series “Manifest: Future” of which he exhibits at comic conventions including San Diego, Salt Lake City and various others around the nation. His work has been featured in various publications such as art books by Playstation Europe and the local Birdy magazine. With a supreme passion for illustration, detail and storytelling, he is pursuing a career in the Comic/Videogame/ Entertainment industries.
Dustin Holland
Longmont, CO
Dustin Holland makes surrealist genre fiction comics in Northern Colorado
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Dweeb Draws
Longmont, CO
I started drawing worms in 2014 as a means of mindfulness to cope with anxiety and nearly ten years later I’m still at it. I use art to express my mental health journey and am using zines to destigmatize the discussion around such topics.
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Dylan Edwards
Aurora, CO
Dylan Edwards is an award-winning queer & trans comic artist, best known as the creator of TRANSPOSES and VALLEY OF THE SILK SKY. His work has been published in anthologies from Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, and Oni Press, and has been featured on The Nib, PEN America, and Splinter News. You can find more of his comics at http://www.studiondr.com/
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Tumblr | Twitter
Emilie & Curtis Tucker
Denver, CO
Emilie and Curtis Tucker have been making cool art for cool people in Denver, CO for over 10+ years. From zines to embroidery, they’ve done it all. Curtis loves photography, street art, and letterpress, and Emilie likes fun, playful, and bold anything. Together, they create artwork that makes people think and makes people happy.
Hoity Toity Goods: Website | Instagram
curtismadethis: Website | Instagram
EMMA Studios
Denver, CO
EMMA Studios is a collaborative, creative effort between childhood friends Eric Meyer and Matthew Anderson. They always liked comics n’ stuff, so decided they’d start making their own.
Faith Lyons
Denver, CO
Faith Lyons is a Denver-based zine artist and crafter. They work in digital drawing, colored pencil, paint, crochet, polymer clay, and the occasional found object. Their zines center on themes of home, sentimentality, and anxiety. They love sudoku, talking about zines, and their cat Greg.
FANGIRL Zine
Denver, Colorado
FANGIRL is created in the spirit of music zines passionate about their local scene. To transport you to kick ass live shows, life changing music, and the rad people that make them. We want this handmade publication to be the fan-club manual to our favorite Colorado bands. This collaborative effort features the work of local artists on every cover, record pressing by Snappy Little Numbers, vibrant printing by riso printer View Shed Studio, and the chance to take the band on a hot date and get to know each other better. Because dammit, these artists deserve it!
Femme Salée
Denver, CO
Femme Salée (F&S) is a digital, intersectional arts platform that publishes, curates, facilitates, and exchanges accessible conversations and artworks for all by feminist, queer, BIPOC, poor, and (dis)abled/crip bodymind creatives. Our goal is to provide intimate and equitable space for collective visibility and agency through a biannual zine, an annual art journal, and an ongoing salon.
Gabrielle
Aurora, CO
Gabrielle is an artist and educator based out of Colorado. Her work centers on fandom, poetry, and her personal experiences.
Hi-Fi Anxiety Zine/Get On Board Man
Pueblo CO
Hi-Fi Anxiety is an interactive flip zine that focuses on music, movies and collecting.
Inga Wittgraf
Denver, CO
Inga Wittgraf is an American artist, cake and cookie baker/decorator living in Denver, CO. Her art comes in many forms: traditional drawing and painting, cake and cookie decorating, crafting, sewing and more. She loves everything cute, cool, zany, and strange. Things that inspire her work include: music, Dr. Seuss, kawaii culture, her Scandinavian roots, cool stuff, dad jokes, dancing, and having fun! She is a strong believer in enjoying the small things, and her work aims bring a smile to someones day.
is PRESS
Denver, Colorado
is PRESS is the Denver publishing press and studio space of Peter Miles Bergman and Heather Link-Bergman. The “is” in is PRESS is an acronym for The Institute of Sociometry – a 27 year running culture jamming, art activist and “pranktivist” collective. (Archive available at sociometry.com.)
Peter Miles Bergman is an Associate Professor of Communication Design in the Department of Art at MSU Denver, a partner in is PRESS, and the Special Agent In Charge of the Institute of Sociometry. Peter’s work intervenes in and documents the lived experience.
Heather Link Bergman is an Affiliate Professor of Communication Design in the Department of Art at MSU Denver, an MFA candidate in Art Practice at the School of Visual Art in NYC, a partner in is PRESS, and the Director of Intelligence of the Institute of Sociometry. Heather’s practice includes artist books, zines, collage, photography, performance, and interventions in public space.
Jaromir Stoll
Columbus, OH
Jaromir (they/them) is a comics creator, zine maker, and social science professor based out of Columbus, Ohio. They create comics and zines on the ineffable in life, with a recent focus on poetry about grief and environmental collapse, autobio comics about body image and friendship, and illustration collections about wrestling, X-men, and otherwise. They also research and publish on comics cultures in India, including a recent zine of interviews and illustrations, Sketches of Indian Comics. They used to live in Denver and miss the zine scene ridiculously much.
Jeff Washenberger
Denver, CO
I work in the library by day, and make art by night (and by day). I hope I can use my powers to spread peace and happiness.
JENNMU
Aurora, CO
JENNMU is a Colorado creator who likes to take pictures, make art, and write zines about nature/animals, travel, and average adventures. You can check out her work on Instagram @jennmu.
JESSE LEE PACHECO
Denver, CO
I make art using discarded and reused materials. Turning trash into art!
Jovieinks
Lakewood, CO
Thea Hunt is a Illustrator raised on the east coast and locally active in Lakewood Colorado. Organic flowing landscapes, portraits, and fantasy stories are a major focus in her artwork. She spends her free time leading comics, painting, and some ceramics workshops! Her work can be found here at https://jovieinks.com/
Joy and Spider
Englewood, CO
I draw a simple comic that I love to share. I will share my table with Tyler Hurula who is a poet superstar
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Jude Novak
Moving to Denver CO in August
Jude is 25 year old non-binary power wheelchair user. They are Disabled with ME/CFS, POTS and Arthritis among other things. Jude has been an advocate since a young age and started creating photo art at the end of 2022 as a means of advocacy and self expression. They are are also a pet parent to 2 cats and an avid zombie media fan.
Karl Christian Krumpholz
Denver, CO
Originally from a city on the East Coast, award-winning cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz’s work has appeared in many different formats, publications and even animated in a documentary. He is the author of several comics series set in The City including ‘The Lighthouse in The City”, ‘It’s Oola!!’, ’30 Miles of Crazy!’, and ‘Queen City.’ Karl continues to live in the city, though now a different one, and also owns way too many hats.
Kevin Gibbs
Denver, CO
New zine maker with a dual love of poetry and photography. A lot of my work is working to combine those two loves to tell beautiful and compelling stories.
KhameleonwithaK
Denver, CO
Khameleon is a black/queer/woman, interdisciplinary artist, small business owner (Art Hoe Goods), cat mom and friend from Detroit, Mi. Her work explores trauma, longing, loss and what it means to be a black woman just trying to make it when the world is working against you.
Little Read Books
Denver, CO
We are a revolutionary socialist political education collective that works to facilitate the study of revolutionary theory through readings and screenings. We strive to provide a space for revolutionary left politics of all stripes and work with organizations that are fighting to transform our world. We have no owners, no bosses, no profit motive, and are committed to building a just world where all may live free of oppression and exploitation.
Love and Chaos (FKA Basement)
Erie, CO
Enjoy this presentation of graphical manifestations and illustrative speculation on possibilities of existence to commemorate the start of another revolution. An invitation to the friends I’ve met, and an introduction to the ones I haven’t to the party of our shared experience of creating our pockets of peace amid the dystopian realities created for us to survive while riding a spinning, blue, rock flying around a star at literally insane velocity.
I make subjective, fast moving, graphic manifestations that aim to personify broad concepts. Characterizations over abstract backgrounds, to present, free from context, an instant to which the viewer is invited to imagine the story.
As opposed to vast, wildly intricate presentations, where the viewer can go deep, explore, and get lost in every line and detail, these are made to be encountered on the whole, rapidly delivered and experienced. BAM! Here’s the image, here’s the line, now imagine what you will. A visual approach to “Less progressive concept albums, and more just real good punk rock songs.”
Take from this work what you will. And do with that as you will. Other worlds aren’t just possible, they exist. Waiting to be built, and explored, by those who dare to imagine them.
Mara Gervais
Davis, CA
Mara Gervais is a queer, gender-fluid non-binary artist and zinemaker living in California. They make art zines, photozines, perzines, comics, and fanzines – all printed with a riso GR 1700 in their garage. They also make foil prints, risograph prints, and stickers. All their work is self-published printed at home!
Marsh & Mellow
Fort Collins, CO
Meca’Ayo (Tameca L Coleman)
Denver, CO
I’m a queer poetry-centric multi-genre writer and artist who currently lives in Denver Colorado. My writing and photographyare featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, journals, anthologies, and other venues and publications. My first book, an identity polyptych, a multi-part, multi-genre work, explores familial estrangement, identity as a mixed-race Black person, and movement towards reconciliation. It debuted from The Elephants on the Salish Sea Fall 2021.
I’ve made zines for a long while, but made it a more serious practice during Covid isolations as a way to connect and collaborate with people in ways that were possible. I intermittently also have a poetry postcard practice towards these same aims, and I create work that is tangible instead of solely online, where a lot of our thoughts and images click down a social media feed into oblivion.
Zines are a fun way for my introverted self to connect and collaborate and create.
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Megan Archer
Golden, CO
Megan Archer is a cartoonist based in Golden, CO. She got her start creating the comics for her University’s weekly newspaper. She has had short stories featured in various anthologies since then, and in 2022 she created her own comics anthology, Twisting Time, featuring mind-bending science fiction comics from independent artists.
Michael Putlack | Night Noon Games
Fort Collins, CO
Michael (he/him) has always loved zines and for the past decade+ has been an avid tabletop role player as well. The pandemic gave him the opportunity to combine these two passions and start making zines for the vibrant TTRPG Zine Community!
His most successful zine, MechTek, was funded in 2020 as part of Kickstarter’s Zine Quest 3 initiative, and he’s cooking up plans for a new crowdfunding campaign for a Shadowdark RPG adventure influenced by sources like The Wicker Man and Midsommar in late 2023.
When not playing games and making zines, Michael can be found spending time in Fort Collins, spending time with his partner Kim, drinking craft beers, watching movies, or getting into other shenanigans.
More of Michael’s work can be found at NightNoon.games
Miles Davitt
North Fork, CA
Miles Davitt is an Australian artist, animator, zinemaker and critter drawer. He ordinarily lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa/New Zealand but is currently on sabbatical in the Sierra Nevada. He’s previously hawked his wares at many New Zealand zine fairs, and one in Australia, and was shortlisted for the Broken Pencil Zine Awards in 2020 and 2022.
Mystic Multiples
Houston, TX
Mystic Multiples makes swampy art prints and zines for people who love green. We’re a letterpress and risograph publishing group located in Houston, Texas. Begun in 2008 by James Beard and Sarah Welch, Mystic Multiples exists to produce exciting, new work in print for designers and artists.
Nash’s Comic
Denver, CO
My name is Nash. I’m eleven years old. I really liked Adventures In Cartooning (by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost) and then my dad asked me if I wanted to make some comics. I came up with the characters: a smiley sun, a knight, an elf, a princess, the Cheerful Reaper. My dad writes scripts and I do all the art. I did a table selling my comics at Pike’s Peak Zine Fest in 2019 when I was eight and again in 2022 and people like them a lot. It was super fun. I will have issue #4 new for the Denver Zine Fest.
Nicolas Comics
Denver, CO
Nicolas Comics is Denver’s favorite mail-order comics distributor since 2018. Legendary cartoonist Nic Sequeira sells a wide range of hand-drawn comics, literature, music, and video content throughout the Denver Metro area, and ships internationally through the postal service. Nic has a deep-seated respect for obscure means of communication and has been dedicated to comics as an artform since his youth. He is also on a mission to expand the potential of the Denver arts scene. This will be his first year tabling at the Denver Zine Fest and he looks forward to partnering with the Denver Zine Library, an institution he holds a lot of admiration for.
Nina Judson
Fort Collins, CO
In 2019, I took up Urban Sketching and sketched my way around family, kids, work, and a trip to Latvia. In 2020, my illustrations were published in Enjoying the Work, a book of poetry by George N. Wallace. Also in 2020 and 2021, I offered original sketches in exchange for donations for Covid relief. Since early 2022, this has morphed into my current projects to fundraise for Ukraine.
Perpetual ambivalence
Minneapolis, MN (but CO is home)
I am a zinester living in Minneapolis via Denver co. I started making zines in highschool with political, social activist focus. After I learned more and worked with the DZL I started making my own perzine “Perpetual Ambivalence” which has evolved artistically as I have grown as a person. My current projects are around telling a queer non racist and intriguing history of Science through comics and art. I also just love to draw read n be a dork.
Primordial Pals
Fort Collins, CO
Ian Haramaki is creating original illustrations based around prehistoric life, helping to bridge the gap between science and pop art.
Rory Pedersen
Fort Collins, CO
Rory Pedersen is a queer and trans art student at CSU who works in a wide variety of mediums including painting, animation, comics, and fiber arts. He grew up in Austin, Texas and started making art from a young age. They started their academic career in zoology then decided to make the switch to art in 2022 and has never looked back since and their work is still deeply inspired by their love of nature. Outside of making art, Rory enjoys playing video games and reading with his cat, Maxine, and often finds themselves inspired by the media he consumes. He has been obsessed with making zines ever since he made his first one.
S.A.P. Pressing
Denver, CO
S.A.P. Pressing publishes zines on the interrelated topics of sci-fi/fantasy, colonization/racism, science/magic, and futurism/history. Climate change history series (“A Change in Climate is Taking Place Very Sensibly: Deconstructing Mythic American Histories” and “Ecocidal Capitalism”) and a sci-fi graphic novel style series “Enduring Change in Dead Systems” are on-going.
scaredlittlebug
Denver, CO
Aspen is a bug enthusiast and artist of many mediums. They generally focus on hand-drawn art and beaded jewelry, but have branched out to button-making, rug-making, and block printing. Their art follows their passions, which usually means lots of creepy-crawly animals, sci-fi, general queerness, and fun with gender. They’ve fallen in love with the zine community and the concept of actually finishing artwork. With the release of Bug Crush 2, they can officially claim to have an ongoing series!
Sean Leftwich
Longmont, CO
Sean Leftwich (b. 1996, Arlington, VA) is an interdisciplinary artist working in Longmont, CO. Through repeated, automatic marks, and forms oscillating between familiar and opaque, he charts and transmutes everyday imagery, working out the Paleolithic urge to interpret one’s environment and the modern urge to change it. Sean has also made zines, art games, video work, and curated a group exhibition at the World’s Largest Laundromat.
Sean graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio, and has exhibited his work nationally and internationally in Chicago, Denver, and Europe.
Slimbo
Greeley, CO
Slimbo is an artist currently locked in a basement with no means of escape available until he has made a gesamtkunstwerk of his own. In the meantime he enjoys making comics about modern alienation, isolation, communication, and getting killed by bugs. Slimbos only respite from his basement dungeon is his golden retriever puppy Denji.
sloth.chan
Denver, CO
A forever sleepy science nerd who creates educational zines and illustrations.
SlutWalk Denver’s Slutidarity Zine
Denver, CO
SlutWalk Denver is a shame-free space for and by sluts/survivors/SWers to be in community, celebrate pleasure activism and body liberation, and fight for consent-culture and autonomy for all bodies. SlutWalks exist all around the world and the first march was in 2011 in Toronto, and our local SlutWalk has been in existence since the same year. SlutWalk Denver started making our annual Slutidarity zine in 2020, a collaborative effort where we invite anyone who identifies as a slut or with our message to send in artwork, poems, and photos to be featured in slutidarity <3 Sometimes we do bonus editions, like our mini D17 zine, which celebrated submissions exclusively by sex workers in honor of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. This summer we release our pro-choice theme zine! The Slutidarity zine is bold, unique, beautiful, raw, heartfelt, and of course, slutty as hell! <3
Soft Star Magazine
Salt Lake City, UT
Soft Star Magazine features stories of science fiction, futurism, and speculative fiction with a healthy dose of optimism. No dystopias here; Soft Star stands for curiosity, openness, and the inherent magic of the unknown.
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South Broadway Press
Denver, CO
South Broadway Press is a Denver publisher of poetry. Their online poetry journal, South Broadway Ghost Society, has featured over 500 poets over the last six years. They also host a monthly open mic, Snap Crackle Poetry, at Mutiny Info Café.
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Specimen Zine
Denver, CO
Specimen Zine is a series about the transformative power of attention, whether that be towards a flower you never noticed before, an unknown insect, a new city, or an old friend. Specimen is created by Erin Greenhalgh, a writer, collage artist, and photographer from Denver. Erin is also a poetry editor with New American Press and has work of her own published in Sweet Lit and Psaltery & Lyre. But after all is said and done, Erin’s just trying to get off her computer and get outside.
stupidzines
Denver, CO
stupidzines are an expression of the silly, the whimsical, the trivial, the stupid, the absurd. They are an exercise in imperfection and are primarily investigations into things on my mind or lived experiences. But more importantly, they explore the possibility for alternative knowledge production and a format for creating community connections. Zines are a way I continue to heal my inner child—wielding crayons, glue sticks, and construction paper to make something that evokes delight, and I hope others find delight in them too!
Sweet Malarkey
Fort Collins, CO
Sweet Malarkey is a Risograph print studio located in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Our mission is to encourage and support the power of creative storytelling, design, and shared information through physical printed matter. We believe in the dynamic potential of creative visions to change lives and contribute to the overall health of communities.
Founded in 2022 by Colorado based artist Chris Jones, Sweet Malarkey was conceived through a love of printmaking, illustration, comics, and tangible printed material.
We specialize in creating artist prints, posters, zines, comics, and other printed matter with a focus on small-run, independent, and creative processes using the digital duplicator printing process.
Thane Benson
Denver, CO
Thane Benson is a Denver based comic book writer and artist. He is best known as the creator of the adventure comic book series Quick The Clockwork Knight and the infernal mystery graphic novel BURNT. He is also the writer of the ongoing superhero satire series The Mistakes for Maze Comics. Thane has worked as an artist for McFarlane Toys, created web comics for DC, and has an original graphic novel coming out from Scout Comics and Simon and Schuster in 2023. Known for his hyper-detailed art, humor, and creative storytelling, Thane is passionate about making comics as fun as possible. His most recent work is an ongoing series of over-sized fold-out newspaper comics featuring Quick The Clockwork Knight that push the comics medium in new, exciting directions.
The House of Hauntology
Tucson, AZ
The House of Hauntology, fronted by author and illustrator R.K McCool, produces original short-story zines, each of which unfold into their own unique hand-carved and printed posters. Come inside and explore the house, you’ll find themes of gothic romance, queer identity, and sense of home. We sincerely hope you enjoy your stay.
The Talbot-Heindl Experience
Denver, CO
Chris (they/them) is a queer, trans nonbinary, triracial artist, educomics creator, and owner of The Talbot-Heindl Experience working through the complexity of identity through art. They are the editor of The B’K, All My Relations, and Community-Centric Fundraising’s Content Hub. They are also the creator of the Chrissplains Nonbinary Advocacy to Cisgender People educomic and The Story of Them serial graphic novel. Their art and their nonprofit work really just seeks to build spaces ready to celebrate them and people like them when they show up authentically.
tinto press
Denver, CO
Tinto Press is a small press publisher of independent comics. Publishing great artists like legendary cartoonist, Denis Kitchen, local cartoon heroes Karl Christian Krumpholz and Noah Van sciver, Leda Zawacki, Josh Bayer and many others, Tinto has been winning awards and publishing since 2012.
Tiny Spoon Lit Mag
Boulder, CO
Tiny Spoon is a bite-size experimental lit mag based in CO! We seek work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring, experimental, innovative, quirky, thoughtful, vulnerable, electric, eccentric. In other words, your inner workings expanded and exposed, raw and immediate; your fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Your voice is beautiful, edgy, infinite, and unique, and we want to raise it. Find out more at: https://tinyspoon.org/
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Tony Grat
Englewood, CO
Tony Grat is a multidisciplinary artist and writer exploring personal experiences, hoping to connect with other flawed humans trying to be free expressionists.
Vegetables Are People Too
Kankakee, IL
I am a former vegetable farmer who once communicated to a large group of customers via vegetable cartoons. Customers wanted to know more about the weird ones, the kohlrabis and purple carrots, so I gave them full back stories alongside storing/cooking tips. Although I no longer farm, I still stay connected to all the vegetables I grew to know so well. They all have personalities and faults, proud moments and ugly moments. I like to draw them all. Especially interesting to me is the decay aspect of food and the lesser known ways we can use plants. I enjoy vegetables as characters because they are diverse, forgiving and often make me laugh. If you were a vegetable, which one would you be? Come to my booth and I will draw a vegetable caricature of you OR a caricature of you with your favorite vegetable as a hat. My muse never disappoints. Vegetables are always on my plate and in or on my head.
VivificaArts
Denver, CO
Karyn really like bugs and wants to share that love with the world. She loves learning, drawing, walking, and eating. You can find her looking under rocks and in flowers around Denver.
Wanderweird
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Esoteric comic books and video game mandalas
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Wig Shop
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Wig Shop is a Denver-based publisher and curated webstore specializing in zines, artist’s books, original art and rare books.
Will Betke-Brunswick
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Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist making quirky and fun zines about grief, love, trans health, and flightless birds. Will’s debut graphic memoir, A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings is out now!
Yaplaws
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I make comics that look to mental health and moods as the heart of my comic storytelling
