Exhibitors
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101A |
Black Indie Comix Club |
The Black Indie Comix Club (BICC) is a space for Black community, culture, and comfort in the world of indie comic making. We offer support and connection for Black creators regardless of where they may be in their career and seek to grow Black inclusion and access to resources in independent comics. We focus on the individuals within our collective and their growth in the many talents we share. blackindiecomixclub.carrd.co |
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101B |
Tony DiPasquale is a cartoonist from downstate Illinois. He primarily draws comics about a little yellow creature named Nugget who seems to constantly find himself in horrible situations beyond his control. |
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102A |
Darya is a Chicago-based cartoonist whose first book, My Eyes, Your Gaze, was published by Bridge Books in August. Her comics range from autofiction to horror to academic zines that incorporate philosophy and political theory. She loves rabbits. |
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102B |
Lily (Basil) MacLachlan is turning 24 on the first day of CAKE! They are a up-and-coming comics artist based in Chicago, IL. Their work deals with the absurd and strange, themes of queerness and transness, late stage capitalism, death, esotericism and more. |
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103A |
Aaliyah Lachel'e (Peanutbuddarart) is a black queer artist from the the south suburbs of Chicago. With a focus on magical realism, Aaliyah aims to bring a little bit of fantasy to reader's everyday life. Her work covers the general experience of growing up as an internet obsessed, loser-ish, nerdy kid-of-color, with a little dash of science fiction mixed in. She hopes you can see yourself in the work, because representation matters. |
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103B |
Starwyrm Press |
Starwyrm Press is a small press that produces risograph zines and prints that center around queerness, interpersonal relationships, and magical realism. The stranger the better. |
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104A |
Alex Mitchell is a fathom in height, sculpted from the loamy earth of the American Midwest. He makes comics, ttrpg zines, and other mistakes. |
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104B |
Amy Martin is an Oakland-based cartoonist, former librarian, cemetery lover, and annoying late-Gen X-er with lots of feelings. She’s been self publishing comics since the early 2000s. |
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105A |
Emily Kardamis (she/her) is a Chicago-based artist and merry prankster, originally hailing from Cleveland, Ohio. Her primary works, "Steamed Veggies" and "About", are autobiographical comics that frequently discuss the nuances of life and mental health. She recently collaborated with Kevin Sciretta on a comic series for the podcast Hello From the Magic Tavern, "The Lost Adventures of Dripfang," available on the Magic Tavern Patreon and has created art for folks like Jackbox Games, Hey Riddle Riddle, and The McElroy Family, as well as published work in Cleveland Scene magazine. |
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105B |
Erin Roseberry is a comic artist and risograph printer based in NYC. Her comics work has previously appeared in Iron Circus Comics anthologies, ShortBox Comics Fair, and in a plethora of self-published riso minicomics. |
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106A |
Lee Reeves is a trans guy from Chicago who makes queasy comics about his life. Their latest book, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, is an unflinching, unflattering collection of comics about early transition. |
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106B |
Lonnie Garcia is a full time trans illustrator and cartoonist, hailing from the coast and hills of Northern California and currently residing in Portland, OR. He has done work for various indie presses, such as Evil Hat, Fortuna Media, and Wigglebird Mailing Club, and specializes in vibrant, charmingly cluttered, (and sometimes lurid) artwork. When not drawing, he is watching camp movies and taking care of his pet bugs. Find more of his work at lonniegarcia.com. |
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107B |
Chris Mattei is a cartoonist and comic artist from Michigan. His work is inspired by a love of old cartoons, scifi and dead-pan humor. When not working on art, he spends time reading comics, collecting wares and playing with his cats. |
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107B |
Tyrell is a comic book artist living and working in Chicago, IL. He is known for his comics ERIS (w/Logan Cannon), BEEF BROS (w/Aubrey Sitterson), and THE SCHLUB (w/Ryan Stegman & Kenny Porter). Tyrell strives to create comics that are energetic, well-crafted, diverse in subject matter, and push the comics medium forward. |
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108A |
Eddie Campbell has been drawing comics for forty years. He is best known as the artist on Alan Moore's From Hell. His best work is in his autobiographical books. |
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108B |
Landis Blair is an author and illustrator of a variety of books including, "Vers le Sud," "The Night Tent," and "The Envious Siblings," as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller "From Here to Eternity," and the graphic novel "The Hunting Accident." |
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109A |
Audrey Hamilton is a Chicago based cartoonist who likes to draw herself being crushed by giant women. She's fun at parties. |
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109B |
Nikki Menig - aka AKOIMORI - is an illustrator/animator based in Chicago, IL. Her art strives to question life's purpose, human existence, and highlight the importance of relationships within an ever growing distant society. She also really likes to make art about whatever the hell she wants. / Lexie Menig - aka Mutt - is a freelance horror artist based in Chicago, IL. From creepy cuties to hideous monsters, Lexie can't help but put weird guys on paper. Her work centers around the exploration of made-up worlds and their endless possibilities. Demonstrating work in concept sketches to full rendered pieces. As long as her audience is asking "why?", we're good. |
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110A |
Asia is a cartoonist from the hills of the blue ridge mountains. They like telling stories about people, places, and the changes they both go through. They currently reside in LA. |
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110B |
Zoë Gray is a Queer Mexican American cartoonist and story artist who loves stories about strange girls. |
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111A |
Vreni was banned from an Avatar the Last Airbender fan forum for drawing Prince Zuko too sexy when she was 15 years old. 20 years later nothing has changed. |
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111B |
Alternative comics give me a space where honesty isn’t just accepted—it’s necessary. Through my work, I hope to invite people into conversation about abuse, personal faults, and maybe help them feel a little more seen. |
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201A |
poofydustcloud is the fuckin’ painstaking creation of new orleans-based visual artist noelle richard. they self-publish comics, zines, and artist books with graphic, minimal illustrations and an industrial + sci-fi twist. craftsmanship is key to their work, and their books are primarily a combination of screen and block printing, risograph, cyanotypes, and hand-colored details! |
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201B |
Maggie Umber paints, prints, and programs graphic novels and zines. She's published four graphic novels — Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Sound of Snow Falling, Time Capsule, 270° — and her work has been widely anthologized. |
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202A |
Ashley Robin Franklin is a queer cartoonist and illustrator. They're based in Austin, Texas, where they lives with their partner and their goofy tiny dogs. Ashley Robin makes sweet and spooky comics with horror and fantasy elements. Their debut YA graphic novel, The Hills of Estrella Roja, was published by Clarion Books/Harper Collins in August of 2023. In 2024, they released their adult horror comics collection, The Skin You're In, with Silver Sprocket. Ashley Robin is originally from the Rio Grande Valley (that's SOUTH south Texas), where they grew up and attended college, studying English lit. Outside of comics, their favorite things are painting, reading, finding cool tiny things outside (a cool rock? Hello! A beautiful bug? Hello I love you!), spending time with friends and watching spooky movies. |
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202B |
Ben Mehlos is a trans comic artist, writer and independent publisher from Wisconsin, who’s returned from splashy genre comics to raw queer erotica, zines and riso art objects in midlife. He believes sexual expression is human, and queer sexual expression is sociopolitically more crucial than ever. |
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203A |
Jimmy Giegerich is an illustrator living and working in Baltimore, MD. He’s the creator of the Executioner and Friend cartoon and comics, as well as the Fight Frogs and Death Knightcomic series’. He runs on heavy metal, horror movies, and slime. |
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203B |
Liam is a writer, cartoonist and educator. |
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204A |
Maddy is an nyc-based independent cartoonist. She has a series called 'Jackson Nightmar'" and an ongoing strip 'Charlie & Bingo.' She is also co-editor of the comic collective (cult) Xomik Bük, where she works alongside a group of talented artists to create anthologies and magazines. |
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204B |
Mary Moore Dalton |
Mary Moore Dalton (b 1994) is a writer and cartoonist from North Carolina. |
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205A |
Neve M.A. |
Neve MA is a queer cartoonist living in Pittsburgh, PA with their amazing housing co-op cohabitants and two stinky cats. They make risograph zines with content ranging from campy, to sexy, to philosophical... from murderous werewolves, to sad stoner kids at parties. You can find their work at zine fairs around the states, several indie comic stores, and most recently in Discord Comics' anthology, Greed. |
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205B |
Muchen Wang’s art is driven by an abiding love for the world around her. Her work remains rooted in empathy and passion, offering a universal appeal that bridges cultural and emotional divides. |
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206 |
Eunsoo Jeong is a Los Angeles-based artist and the creator of Koreangry, a comic/zine series based on her daily struggles as a Korean-American. The Koreangry zine series illustrates the artist's life journey through an asian gumby look alike character and is told with a hint of sarcasm, humor, and empathy in a hand-made world. |
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207A |
Oren Wry is a mostly self published zine artist, comics author and illustrator from Toronto, his work focuses on dystopian science fiction, hauntological horror, and occasionally smut. |
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207B |
Phelix is a tattoo and comic artist from Denver Colorado. |
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208A |
Julia Gfrörer is an acclaimed creator of unflinchingly dark horror/romance comics, and a fierce self-publishing advocate. Her new book, "World Within the World," is a career-spanning collection of her minicomix and short works. |
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208B |
Sophie Wang (or Shuf) is a researcher, educator, and artist based in Minneapolis. She makes comics/zines/art that bring a critical power lens to science, technology, epistemology, and forms of knowledge-making, as well as other themes like unions, immigration, and mixing up flower names in Chinese. |
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209A |
Jen Chavez is a chicana illustrator born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. Her zines focus on various mental illnesses, troubles with catholicism, and the occasional natural disaster. |
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209B |
Hannah Jill Johnston is a cartoonist and fiber artist from New Jersey. She received her MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hannah has a passion for creating new adult stories about friendship, identity, and belonging. She currently lives in Chicago where she is watercoloring her debut graphic novel, Swan Song. |
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301 |
We're Iron Circus Comics! We were born in 2007, and we're the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest—a small-mid house built from the ground up by our founder, C. Spike Trotman! Our mission? To showcase the Strange and Amazing in comics! |
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302A |
Mili St. John is a cartoonist, tattoo artist and animator from Maine. Mili is the author of the ongoing comic series Pocket Space, an emotive slice of life adventure set in a sleepy town at the Edge of the Universe and is currently working on her first graphic novel 'The Edge of Autumn'. |
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302B |
Pidge is an artist and educator who is the creator, illustrator, and letterer of her Ignatz Award nominated comic, Infinite Wheatpaste. When she isn’t drawing or teaching middle schoolers, she can be found knitting and snowboarding. |
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303A |
Babs New is a cartoonist and art model from Washington DC. They love drawing and being drawn. |
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303B |
I am a self-published comics creator from Minnesota who enjoys drawing weird creatures and magical things. Outside of making comics, I enjoy looking at pictures of horses on my phone and walking around town with my friends. |
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304A |
Sarah Becan has been drawing comics since she was very small. Her food-based autobiographical webcomic "I Think You're Sauceome" sparked a love of food and culinary illustration, and her work has since appeared in various publications, including Saveur Magazine, Eater.com, and the Chicago Reader. She is the coauthor and illustrator of Let’s Make Ramen!, published July 2019, and Let’s Make Dumplings!, published June 2021, and "Let's Make Bread!", published May 2024. She lives in Chicago with her partner Niles and their cat Toki, and she would be very happy to do nothing but draw food all day. |
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304B |
Baltimore-based writer and artist. Author of Good Girl Laika, Solace County, and lots of weird little zines. |
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305A |
Andrea Bell is an illustrator and comic artist who grew up playing in the northern woods of Wisconsin. It's these memories of adventure, nurturing nature, and adolescent independence that are reflected throughout her colorful work. |
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305B |
Bianca Xunise is an illustrator, writer, and educator based out of Chicago, Illinois. With two Ignatz Awards under their belt, Bianca enjoys being a voice for those who march to the beat of their own drum. In 2020, Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist (and the second black woman) when they joined the comic strip Six Chix. Xunise has also collaborated with Vogue, The Washington Post, The Nib, and Believer Magazine. When Bianca isn’t doodling away, they are usually at an underground DIY punk show dancing with friends by the Chicago riverside. |
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306A |
connor is a cartoonist from somewhere in ohio who lives somewhere in los angeles. they live with three cats. |
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306B |
Eloise is a comic and book artist from the Chicago area. Her work focuses on human stories in any genre, especially fantasy and children's comics. You can probably find her reading a book, drawing, or a combination of both: making comics! |
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307A |
Harry Hillman is a Chicagoland cartoonist, illustrator and library worker. Ask him about the |
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307B |
Marnie Galloway is an award-winning cartoonist best known for her Xeric Award winning graphic novel "In the Sounds and Seas," as well as "Burrow," "Particle/Wave," "Slightly Plural," and "Abortion Pill Zine," coauthored with Isabella Rotman and Sage Coffey. Recent comics "Really In It" and "Cuarenta" explore questions of identity and motherhood. Marnie works at SAIC as comics faculty, where she is proud to mentor and support the next generation of comics superstars. |
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401A |
Hardscrabble Cafe is a hobby risograph printing press and publishing team started in 2021 by hannah larson and Alex Nall. Their most recent publication is ‘Town & County No. 5’. |
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401B |
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402A |
Rosalarian is an Eisner-nominated writer and illustrator. Their work is brightly colored, queer, and funny. They also illustrated a tarot deck. |
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402B |
Teddie Bernard (they/he) is a queer cartoonist, writer, and printmaker. His work explores queer identity, history, and connection. They spend their time refurbishing obsolete printers and researching obscure lesbians. He currently draws his comics in Chicago, where he wishes for colder weather. |
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403 |
Strange Deer Press is a Midwestern comic & zine collective. Started in Northeast Ohio, SDP creates works that are real, accessible, wonderful, and wild - ranging from queer autobiographical comics to speculative fiction to anthologies. |
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404A |
Cold Boy Press is run by Bridget Bilbo, a local queer organizer in Chicago. They focus on diary comics and the fantastical, publishing their first anthology zine 'Cloudy' in 2024. |
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404B |
Hailing from the suburbs of Chicago, Elias writes and draws decently enough to be a self-proclaimed “pretty okay” cartoonist. He makes "funny" comics for "mature" readers. |
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405 |
Beth Hetland is a critically acclaimed cartoonist and award winning educator. She teaches comics and comics related courses at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her most recent book TENDER (Fantagraphics) is a psychological thriller and body horror. Kyle O'Connell may be at CAKE. www.kyle-oconnell.com |
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406A |
Jeffrey Brown is a Chicago cartoonist and author of dozens of comics and graphic novels. Although he is best known for his Star Wars books, he began his career drawing autobio comics and is trying to return to his minicomics roots. |
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406B |
Elliana Miller is a queer artist from the Chicagoland area. Their drawings relate to identity and emotions; exploring how different aspects of life affect them through self analysis and character work. Elliana tries to incorporate the whimsical nature of television cartoons and comic books into their artwork. |
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407A |
DnA Artists is a collaboration between Dana Amundsen and Alex O’Keefe, midwest-based zinesters and comic creators. Dana creates fantasy comics rendered in black and white with screentones. Alex creates whimsical comics told through drawings of a high contrast and graphic style. They’ve been drawing together since 2010 no matter how far apart they find themselves. |
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407B |
Eve is a naturalist at heart with a passion for conservation and scientific education through zines! Many topics focus on nature-based zines featuring cool facts and animals! |
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408A |
Toady Town is a collection of personal projects by Seattle Illustrator & Designer Kodi Sershon. You’ve maybe seen his work on boxes of Pokemon cards, beer labels, and in malls across America at Zumiez stores. Swing by for some sorta strange & kinda goofy art prints and zines! |
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408B |
Myleigh Modun is a cartoonist from Montpelier, VT and a recent graduate from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Myleigh is currently interested in drawing cute day to day moments or jokes between friends, often times with a surrealist overlay. |
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501A |
Carmen Johns is a human cartoonist, zine mommy, and clay wizard in San Francisco! |
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501B |
Eddy Atoms is an artist & comic creator published by Silver Sprocket & himself. He is best known for his 2018 debut Pinky & Pepper Forever, with a Special Edition reprint out now in 2025. Equally informed by zine and furry subcultures, Eddy Atoms creates unapologetic art with animal expression and a DIY ethos. |
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502A |
Robin Carnilius is an illustrator and multimedia storyteller who creates and focuses on LGBTQ and BIPoC representation and nerd pop culture. As a creator who is both black and trans, they aim to entertain, educate, and engage people through their projects. |
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502B |
Liz Sux is a comic maker from Providence, Rhode Island. Her work is about navigating familial grief and joy in your 30s. |
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503A |
Maddie is an animator, comic artist, and teacher from Rhode Island. She loves stories that are half true and rocks that have little faces on them. |
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503B |
Arianna: Arianna Unabia Aquino is a queer Filipina-American printmaker and illustrator from Chicago. Their work is a window into their mind, whether it's processing life with social anxiety, daydreaming about romantic scenarios, hyperfixating over obscure-ish media, or appreciating cute animals. Rea: I am a Chicago based artist from Alabama. Much of my work is focused on the queer experience, but I also love general character illustration. |
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504A |
Lee Onysko is a storyboard and comic artist from Ohio, transplanted to Chicago. They love making funny and heartfelt stories with their friends. |
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504B |
Frances Cordelia Beaver is a Cartoonist and artist from the Philadelphia area. She is the author of On a Cute One, 2021, Spirits, Hungover at Work, 2023, and the forthcoming graphic novel, Give My Best to Your Kind! |
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505A |
Crucial Comix is the home for essential nonfiction comics and zines. Founded in 2024, we are a cartoonist-run press that publishes narrative nonfiction comics and offers compelling classes on comics-making and practice. |
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505B |
Caroline Hu is a cartoonist, science communicator, and biology professor based in Boston. |
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506 |
Peow2 is the sequel to the award winning publisher Peow. |
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507A |
Pretty Good Co. is the letterpress print and design studio of Annie and Brandon Alvarado, based in Waterloo, Iowa. They create and publish their own comics, art prints, and zines. |
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507B |
Cori Walters is a lesbian cartoonist from Florida, who now resides in Oklahoma with their partner, their cat Bobby, and their dog Princess. When not drawing girls yelling at each other they enjoy playing video games from the mid-00s and complaining about things. |
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508A |
Linda (buppletea) creates comics, zines, and illustrations in Washington, DC. She is also an emerging bookbinder and hosts regular workshops at Fantom Comics in DC. As a graduate student in Social Work, Linda also collaborates with local organizations to lead creative healing spaces. |
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508B |
Marie Enger is a cartoonist who moved from St. Louis to Chicago so they could keep working on DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS, CASKET LAND, and SUPER SECRET MYSTERY COMIC without having to worry about the Eyes Above the Arch watching their every move. If you give them $15 and ask real nice, they will tell you how you’ll die. |
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601A |
Aquatic Panda Distro is a small press comic and art zine distributor. Started by Chicago cartoonist Andrea Pearson in 2023, Aquatic Panda’s mission is to highlight artists of color and those who do not work in art full time. Our other focus is bringing artists of all kinds together through comic and art anthologies. |
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601B |
C. A. P. Ward is a queer black cartoonist and illustrator working on heartfelt genre stories. They like vibrant colors, unusual paneling, and overburdening their characters. When they aren’t drawing they can be found longboarding around the illustrious east coast potholes. |
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602 |
Angie Hewitt’s work is inspired by mystery, memory and the otherworldly. Focusing on the many odd things in daily life, she hopes to bring attention to some often overlooked moments with her art, and zines. |
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603 |
Lucky Pocket Press is an indie risograph press, artist collective, and indie comics micro publisher ran by Sara Hagstrom and Tip Bulante with the goal of publishing comics from artists that inspire us. LPP is a platform for artists we love to tell unique, meaningful, and playful stories through narrative and sequential art, in the form of zines, comics, and artist books. Our main goal is to provide intentional, well-loved production for artists’ passion projects. Ultimately, we hope to play, have snacks, make art, and have a good time. |
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604A |
Emma Jayne is the Ignatz and Prism Award-winning cartoonist behind LSBN, The Other Jay & Eve, Trans Girls Hit the Town, and more! |
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604B |
Jona is a queer Chinese-Canadian comics artist based in so-called Toronto. They like to fall on their skateboard in their free time. |
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605A |
Max Morris is a Chicago-based artist and comics-maker. Studied Fine Art, Illustration, and Art History at Columbia College. He was an organizer for Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) for 5 years, and Zine Not Dead Fest last year. Has contributed regularly to Lumpen Magazine, and a variety of comics and fine art anthologies over the past decade. |
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6065B |
Underground comix press based in Philadelphia. |
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606A |
Poety Unlimited publishes perverted feminist hallucinations translated through comics, print, sculpture, performance, and installation. Head hunter for P.U. is Mally Wood Lundgren AKA Mortimer Shoppybag AKA Molly Colleen O’Connell. |
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606B |
Conor Stechschulte |
Conor Stechschulte is the author of the graphic novel Ultrasound (Fantagraphics) along with dozens of self-published comics including the most recent, “Crepusucline #1.”. He adapted Ultrasound into the screenplay for a feature film directed by Rob Schroeder and released by Magnolia Films in 2022. He has exhibited his work internationally and teaches classes in comics, printmaking and self-publishing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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607A |
Bred Press is an artist books, comics, and zine publishing house located in Chicago. Started by Brad Rohloff in 2014, it provides a platform by which to support contemporary artists working within the medium of printed and published matter |
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607B |
George Porteus is an artist and writer active in the Chicago zinesphere since 2015. Reared along the Massachusetts coast, he attended art school in Baltimore before resettling in the Midwest, where he began producing comics, zines, prints and pamphlets, with titles including ”Mountains, Lies”, ”Extremetitcs” and ”What Shape is Ideas?“. |
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701A |
Whitney Wasson (they/them) is a Chicago-based cartoonist originally from Arkansas. They draw Sober Rabbit, a comic series about recovery, disability and not losing your marbles. |
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701B |
Mike Freiheit is a cartoonist and teacher living in Chicago. He's made three graphic novels and is working on a few others. His cat's name is Zoe and she's very cute. |
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702A |
SLOP is a trio of Chicago based dykes focused on independently publishing comics, zines and periodicals by and for their community. |
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702B |
Tim is a visual storyteller based in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. Tim’s unique approach to visual storytelling merges a deep reverence for nature with immersion in the imaginary. Meticulously researched concepts drawn from natural and human history, botany, literature, and other inspirations mingle with fantasy in his work. Currently, Tim is working on a graphic novel project that features a small dog as a spirit guide through a multi-layered dreamworld. |
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703 |
The Sequential Artists Workshop is a grassroots, non-profit comics school and creative community. We teach people how to tell stories and make comics in Gainesville, Florida, USA, and around the world via our online courses and resources. |
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704A |
Ruby Carter is the maker of BOGUE: the world's first fashion magazine for bugs, as well as "bird comic." |
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704B |
Mike Rossi is a cartoonist, illustrator and lover of cheese. Most of his comics work is memoir and slice-of-life. He is currently seeking a home for his first graphic memoir, Branches. He resides in SF with his partner, and their formerly pregnant cat. (His second book will be about that.) |
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705A |
Steve Steiner is a prolific creator of humorous comics and weird zines. Being plagued by a creative mind, he writes and illustrates - or paints, or glues, or sets ablaze - all of this art so he can get it out of his head. |
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705B |
Stephen Pellnat is an artist from Upstate New York, best known for the adult literary fiction series UPSTATE. He currently lives with his wife and three cats in Oregon. He may or may not have a stupid mustache at this convention. |
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706A |
Leo Covault is a transgender comic artist and zinester from Cleveland, Ohio. He makes comics with paper dolls, and zines with paper cutting and risograph printers. His work explores gender through a lens of folklore and history. |
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706B |
Kyle Fewell is an illustrator and comic creator based in Brooklyn, NY. He loves to Risogrpah and make fun fantasy comics. |
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707A |
TDious Café -- sequential brews of zines written by TD: 'Narc(m)an®,' 'My President is a Bed-Bug', 'Gumball Man', and 'Eggshell and the Square-Heads' -- come seek out the latest installment of Narc(m)an® this year at CAKE! |
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707B |
Iona Fox is a Chicago cartoonist. Her weekly comic strip Almanac ran in Seven Days alt-weekly newspaper from 2016-2019, and her most recent piece, Tough Shit, appeared in Newcity magazine. |
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708 |
Malachi Ward makes comics like Black Hammer, Ancestor, and Expansion. He draws covers for Star Trek, illustrations for The New Yorker, Wired, and Craft Records, and draws backgrounds for Green Street, Netflix, and Titmouse. |
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709A |
A. T. Pratt is a cartoonist from NYC who writes, draws, and self-publishes comics, zines, art books and paper crafts of all shapes and sizes, often including handmade special features like pop-ups, fold-outs and a variety of binding techniques. The publications range in genre from autobio to horror and everything in between. He teaches comics at Montclair State University and School of Visual Arts. |
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709B |
Xinyue Chen is a book artist and illustrator based in New York. Their works explore emotions, memories, identities and people’s connection with the environment in a poetic way. |
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710A |
Lily Rushing |
Lily Rushing is a print-maker and cartoonist based in Sacramento, California, whose work captures the experience of being a slow-moving girl in a fast-paced world. Her work has appeared in publications like D.R.Y. Volume I, Yogurt Culture Zine, and Silver Sprocket’s Mini-Riso Show Catalog. Through intimate, introspective storytelling with a playful touch, she explores complex relationships in comics and prints exhibited at venues like SF Zine Fest, Short Run Seattle, and Red Museum. |
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710B |
Crispy Press is a Chicago-based art collaboration between Chris Quion and Wanda Felsenhardt. In addition to prints and the occasional game jam, we publish zines and comics on a quarterly basis. |
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801 |
John Porcellino has been publishing his zine King-Cat Comix since 1989, and running the Spit and a Half Comix Distro since 1992. |
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802 |
Minneapolis-based Uncivilized Books is an independent publisher and think tank specializing in comic books and rogue theories. For over a decade, it has championed intelligent comics, graphic novels, and criticism and released works by some of the best cartoonists on the planet: Gabrielle Bell, Matt Madden, Joann Sfar, David B., Alan Moore, Noah Van Sciver, Jenna Cha, Lonnie Nadler and many more. Uncivilized is run by cartoonist Tom Kaczynski. |
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803A |
Uncivilized Books |
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Crablegs Comics |
Crablegs Comics is a small zine and comic artist from Michigan. They love the outdoors, running errands, vintage clothes, biking, and their friends. |
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804A |
I am a cartoonist, painter, and arts educator out of St. Paul Minnesota. My work is primarily funneled through my self-published NUT Comics. A surreal world in which the vital makeup of everyone and everything has been violently chewed up and spit back out into new and bizarre forms. |
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804B |
Coming from Washington state, Finnegan Walker hunches over his drawing desk to make comic after comic. Dry humor, biting satire, and enough action and spectacle to keep the reader engaged, his comics have it all. All wrapped up in a neatly drawn package that makes the tragic comedy more bearable. |
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805A |
Plasticgrapes is the collaborative comics efforts of Lily Thu & Generoso. Inspired by Lily’s background as a computational cognitive scientist, the duo’s experimental comics explore how science and technology interact with individual experiences and human perception. Their 2023 comic, Inversion, the second book in their scientist/subject triptych, was nominated for an Ignatz Award in the Outstanding Story category, and their latest book, Absolute Simultaneity, was selected as the #2 comic of 2024 by Colin Blanchette for The Comics Journal. |
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805B |
Zee Yorke (he/they) is a queer Chinese American animator, comics artist, and educator from Los Angeles. Creating under the name Doozical since 2016, his comics explore imaginative childhood experiences and queer interpersonal relationships. He can't wait to meet everyone and talk about comics! |
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806A |
Kitsch Harris |
Kitsch Harris is a cartoonist and an illustrator living off dollar pizza in NYC. His work focuses on nostalgia, technology, heartbreak, and the never-ending desire to travel through other worlds. |
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806B |
Mosiah Ballard lives in Arnold, Maryland. He spends a lot of his time thinking... and some of his time making comics. Through storytelling, he seeks to foster connection. |
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807A |
My name is Lilly-- I'm a fiber and comics artist, ho hopes to bring out the connection of humanity and craft to my work. I'm inspired by Scandinavian folklore and folk art, Victorian mourning practices, and early 20th century illustration. |
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807B |
Diskette Press is an award-winning publisher and press based out of Detroit, Michigan. We seek to publish small or first run print work from upcoming trans and queer authors. |
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808A |
Elk Paauw is a scholar, sailor, comics fartist, and queer trans dude. He makes existentialist autobio comics and goofy travelogues, studies theory and criticism as a PhD student, and teaches film in Ontario. |
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808B |
Cam Collins is the Chicago-based creator of a world called "The Canvas". In this world, many situations both dangerous and positively life-changing are dictated by the principles of the art world. These scenarios can be found within the comics and other mediums of Collins' work. |
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809A |
Eileen Chavez is an alternative comics artist based out of Chicago, IL. They write surreal non-linear stories about celestial creatures, plants and everything inbetween. |
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809B |
Sam Szabo is a beautiful cartoonist from the North Shore of Boston, now based in Chicago. Her debut graphic novel, "Enlightened Transsexual Comix," was published by Silver Sprocket in 2023. She has seen Phish live twenty-two times. |
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810A |
Jessi Zabarsky is a Chicago cartoonist, making comics about small journeys and big feelings, with queer themes and folksy environments. Her first two graphic novels are 'Witchlight' and 'Coming Back', and she self publishes smaller comics. She also works for the Chicago Parks District, ask her about native plants! |
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810B |
Cathy G. Johnson is a cartoonist, printmaker and educator. Her colorful screenprints and comic stories delve into the complicated worlds of young people with themes of the monstrous and rebellious. Cathy is an award-winning author/illustrator, including published graphic novels and her newest project, a webcomic titled CHARGER COUNTY. |
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901A |
Nadia (AKA Oneeeyesuperkid) is responsible for The Shadow Banshee: A thoughtful interdimensional creature, manifesting in zines, comics and stickers throughout Chicago and NWI. The Shadow Banshee Periodical is her newest project, serving as a platform for The Shadow Banshee and it's advice column, the Superkid, and more of her other comics! |
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Artist and Animator from a border town in west Texas. Making weird, cute and inanely colorful comics. |
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902 |
Geneva Bowers is a Hugo Award–winning illustrator. Her work focuses on atmosphere and magic realism, giving a sense of calm and nostalgia. It is inspired by growing up in Appalachia, caught between glorious nature and geeky interests. She aims to make people smile while showing a piece of how beautiful life can be. |
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Kaitlin is a Chicago-based artist who self-publishes mini comics about the relationships between the mind, body, and nature. |
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Birdbub / Lucas Barreto-Cisneros is an existential transsexual cartoonist whose art centers around the simple and complex beauties of being human with a lens on the queer experience. |
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Milo Miller is a Chicago based punk comics artist and writer working in dark fantasy, contemporary mythmaking, and speculative fiction. He creates relevant fictions on Power, fascism, absurdism, and resistance while using the language of folklore, and myth. |
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904A |
I'm a queer comic artist based in Minneapolis. My days are spent listening to music, drinking coffee, playing Dark Souls, and working on my debut graphic novel: Attis, a Trans Folk Horror. |
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904B |
An artist in the videogame industry with a multitude of credits from a life’s pursuit of art and games. |
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905A |
James Dillenbeck |
I am an illustrator from NY whose work centers plus size men. My work is inspired by a mix of film watching, 70's/80's French sci-fi comics, pulpy action comics of all sub genres, album covers and toys. My heroes are all heroes of action, centering fat men as the lead not as a flawed or sidekick-ed character of limited action. |
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Jasjyot Singh Hans is a Chicago based artist unendingly inspired by an explosive neon mix of fashion, music and pop culture. He has a constant regard for things past and a voracity for all that is current. His work chronicles around themes of body image, sexuality and self love. |
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Issue Press is a tiny publisher and Risograph print shop based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since 2011, it has worked with an elastic mandate to publish captivating works by artists of all mediums that trade in humor, history, and exploration of place. |
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Max Huffman is a cartoonist and doorstop in Chicago. His debut graphic novel Dogtangle will be published by Fantagraphics Books in Fall 2025. |
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Perfectly Acceptable Press is a Risograph print studio and publishing house in Chicago. Perfectly Acceptable Press publishes short-run narrative artist books with an emphasis on synergy between content, craft, and form. Our aim is to create an object that pushes the boundaries of a zine without sacrificing accessibility. |