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Abalone Mountain Press features zines from Indigenous zinesters, poets and artists. As a press we publish Native voices.
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"I'm a comic creator living in Phoenix, AZ. Originally from Iowa, I create comics which are informed by my own experiences growing up queer and working class in the midwest, wrestling with mental health, learning to trust my own guts, and other normal human stuff"
Derk Harron is from Arizona. He graduated from Phoenix College with an ASA degree in Comics and Sequential Art. He’s done political cartoons through his years in college. He loves doing commissioned artwork in the art mediums of watercolor paints, colored pencils, acrylic paints, ink, and pencil. He continues working on comics in his spare time and painting pictures of his dogs, Hazel and Rose.
DIY Museum is a queer arts collective based in the Bay Area. Born out of a dream for a collective arts space, DIY Museum fosters community and belonging through creative programming. Our zines vary widely among our members from music to love, perzines to fanzines.
"I am an artist from Santa Fe, NM, now based in AZ. I've been participating in zine fests in the Southwest/Westcoast now for about 7 years. I make zines as part of my art practice and am passionate about self publishing."
Middle-aged punk kid still reveling in the excitement of self-publishing comix and underground media.
"My newest zine, Desert Pookas, is filled with adapted Irish fairy tales and linocut illustrations, and explores themes of grief, childhood, and longing, set against a desert night. My other zines delve into food justice, climate change, and collaborating on creative projects."
"My name is Dree and I love creating zines and art prints, and stickers. My zines focus on telling stories about character interactions. All of my zines are short stories aboout characters interactions, I try to keep them short and sweet and fun for everyone."
Dead Relatives Magazine ( @deadrelativesmag ) was created by Héctor Zaldívar. This Indígena-owned and operated non-profit magazine has been around online since 2020 with printed media in circulation since 2023. Héctor has been dedicated to empowering young activists over the years.
"I have perzines that are made from pieces of my journals and highlight different seasons of life and relationships that are meaningful to me."
"My zines deal with themes of nostalgia, and loss. I express these themes through a mixture of illustration and written word."
"Mostly I write poetry, but the zine world has pushed me more and more past my creative boundaries, so I've found creative ways to make more forms of art, like the covers for my fancier zines, as well as sewing and embroidery, and making my own patches!"
Khameleon (Kamille) is a black/neurodivergent/disabled/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 in a world that feels like it’s working against her.
Tiffany Lac (aka Tiffoolery) is a good girl til' she draws...she's a cartoonist that tells stories with plenty of humor and heart <3
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 is currently enrolled in the Comics Portfolio program at the I.P.R.C. and frequently participates in pop up markets across the west coast, selling handmade art prints, zines, buttons, stickers, sketch portraits and more.
"I see my zines as fun, scary stories to entertain people with and provide them a temporary escape from the real world (and its much more terrifying horrors). My first and largest goal as a writer is to be able to make a living writing comics and graphic novels. I’ve loved the medium since I was a kid, and I love the collaborative nature of the art form. I see zines as the ultimate creative playground, where we have complete freedom to make whatever we want without worrying about appeasing executives or shareholders or any other corporate, capitalist entity."
Sola Habibi is an emerging writer, organizer, and intersectional feminist learning about healing through community and personal experience. Born in Ecuador. Raised in Marin County. A Palestinian- Ecuadorian-Italian sweetheart; Sola Habibi is a non-binary queer living a community-centered life in the Bay Area, CA.
Tough Cookies is a quarterly publication for movie lovers/cynics/feminists/artists and standard variety normal human dirtbags who like pop culture (and also maybe like dogs).
"I am a Flagstaff resident and political science student. I also work full time at the public library!"
 "I would like to represented as a zinester that creates mostly perzines and fanzines. Creating a collection of journal entries, collages, and drawings that are unified through a theme/topic."
"I am new to zine making but I have been making collages for a while. I make collages about mental illness, fatness/fatphobia/fat liberation, catholic school trauma, and more!"
"What started off as a cape stone project when I was attending university, has now become a very meaningful on going project for me. While working and perfecting (to the best of my ability) the last few years on my zine - that focuses on what it means to be a Chicano/a (a person of Mexican descent born and raised in the United States) it was enlightening to learn about the ways in which Chicano culture embodies the in-between nature of culture hybridity."
Rat House is a collab project by friends, Jessie and Miles. Together we create zines in our unique styles, overlapping to share our stories. Our zines are a reflection of our varied experiences and experiments with different mediums.
"I’m a queer, trans/nonbinary book artist, writer, editor, and teacher with a background in fiction, poetry, film, object studies, climate change, and sex education."
Josephine Jaye is a game designer, collage artist, and journalist. Josephine publishes tabletop roleplaying game zines as Illunis Press. She loves the agency that roleplaying games provide players in letting them create their own stories. Her game "The Magic Earth" is about characters who create and harness magic powers in a modern world, all while pushing back against the shadowy and oppresive forces who want to control that power.
Together with printmaker Timothea Haider (Little Patch of Hell), she produced the podcast Zine It Together, a show made to encourage people to start making zines and stop being perfectionists. |
