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This zine's creators, Deveyn and Loralei, are two local Arizonan queer folks who are seeking to create a deeper understanding of what democracy means to our community. After working closely on this project, we are excited to share both our research and art in zine form!
AmyLou Bogen is a comic creator living in Phoenix. Most of Bogen’s stories are personal and reflect their own experiences growing up queer and working class in the Midwest, wrestling with mental health, learning to trust their own guts, and other normal human stuff.
Bogen has made many self-published mini comics, contributed writings and illustrations to publications and anthologies including “On What Matters”- A S.A.W. Anthology 2020-2021, and has been self-publishing Lost Projects Zine since 2016. A lifelong learner, Bogen attended University of Arizona (BA, 2017) and more recently The Sequential Art Workshop (S.A.W.) in Gainesville, FL. I make zines, books, and prints under Shut Eye Press, based here in the Phoenix area on occupied Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh land. While Shut Eye focuses on my own creative projects, I also create letterpress book covers and other commissioned print and binding projects for others. My zines use a lot of different print techniques and book forms, but I have a special love for letterpress—working and caring for the old presses, and making them as accessible as possible for others to play and create with. I prioritize vegan, eco-friendly processes in my shop by avoiding animal products, reducing solvents, chemicals, and waste, and incorporating excess and misprints into new art.
We strive to create books for Native people by Native people. We hope to create a press that supports Native artistry in all forms. We hope to bring quality work to Indigenous literature and create a world for Indigenous voices to thrive as genuinely and true to form. We encourage works such as poetry, fiction, non-fiction and hybrid works.
We are an indigiqueer, trans, non-binary, Black Indigenous, Indigenous feminist friendly press. We do not accept any forms of lateral violence, Homophobia, racism or sexism in our work or in submissions. Erin is a colorful, queer, aspiring zine author. Her zine, "You Ruined Everything," is a collection of multi-media, surrealist art and collage, critiquing life in a patriarchal, religious society from a queer perspective.
A work of post-art, anti-cultural absurdism about mental health, consumption, and the ethical implications of existing! Each issue may contain references to gore and/or physical and mental trauma.
Josephine Jaye is a game designer and audio producer in Phoenix. She’s created two tabletop roleplaying games:
My names Dree, I’m a local zine maker. I love telling all kinds of story’s through zine making and use of color.
Through my Fruit Salad zines, I have been able to share snippets of my life and imagination through the use of illustration. Some of the content includes some light text, but I would rather communicate and express myself through drawing.
I'm a beginner zinemaker from Tucson, AZ. I've been drawing, writing, and independently publishing my own experimental comics with a focus on scifi aesthetics since August of 2021.
I am a film photographer based in Mesa, AZ. My work centers on capturing the ugliness and beauty in everyday life. While the locations of my photography range from areas such as San Francisco to Mexico City, the majority of my work is in the southwest region as that is where my home has been for most of my life. My work has extended to creating Desert Drip as it’s own entity/platform to release zines of my own work as well as zines containing the work of other artists as well as music releases.
I'm an absurdist cartoonist making wild comedies for the amusement and enrichment of the people of planet Earth. Be ready to see strange creatures and impossible situations in my cartoons.
Our zines are a wide array of autobiographical, comics, anthologies, educational, food-related, mental health, and fanzines. We are kindly requesting a full table for space to feature all our zines for the Arizona zine scene.
I am a writer and therapist on the spectrum who writes horror and science fiction that is frequently ruined by my attempts at comedy.
Hello! We are Pepper and Pumpkin, we are two artists based in Tucson, AZ. We both make a living from our online store and freelance work.
We enjoy exploring historical periods of time, nostalgia, cats and handsome anime men in our work. We are a bit of visual polar opposite but that's our intersections. Staceart is a collection of zines, prints, and stickers I create and sell. My goal with my artwork is to provide joy and comfort. Most of my content centers on exploring my fantasy world by drawing mythical creatures - especially my plant sprites and mushroom fae! It's a great way for me to escape into my own head when I need to get away. I also write and draw my autobiography comic about my anxiety and depression called "Strange But Beautiful." It explores the stigma I struggle with by having mental illness and includes how I am seeking help by drawing my anxiety and depression as "monsters" I interact with. The comic originally started as a webcomic, which can be read on Tapas here.
F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS is a phoenix-based, phoenix-focused publishing project that creates collaboratively-designed, hand-made, limited-run books by undersung local authors/artists.
We are committed to exploring how creative approaches to bookmaking [both in print and digitally] can foster cultural cross-pollination, constructive disruption, and community [re]creation. F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS is a home for text vessels: Think blood. Think boats. We want texts to flow, to float. To circulate. Marica Whittemore (she/her) is an artist and dog enthusiast living in Tucson, Arizona. An art educator and multimedia artist, she loves looking at the world with the creative eye (or two!). Her recent works depict snarky yet humorous observations about life, people, and the weird things going on in her brain. When she isn’t making art, you’ll find her biking along the Loop, baking, watching terrible reality TV shows, and woodworking.
Her recent work, “Personal Belongings” is a series of comic illustrations, textile pieces, and paintings that span 2020 to present. They explore the artist’s life experiences with mental illness, aging, and being alive. Inspired by a recent surgery where she received a bag to place her personal belongings, Marica explores the thoughts, traumas, and aspirations we often carry around with us everyday. My zines are composed of poetry and prose found on my Substack, 🅦❂🅡🅚🅘🅝🅖 ∞ 🅣🅘🅣🅛🅔, and on my eternal sites. I keep a low profile, I find the support of a small following of involving folks more personally appealing. I distribute fairs and shows occasionally on my webstore.
Girls Rock! Phoenix is a nonprofit organization that empowers girls and gender nonconforming kids through music education, creation, and performance. We are seeking volunteers to fill roles in many different capacities, regardless of music experience.
I'm a printmaker and bookmaker local to Mesa, AZ. I work in traditional mediums to art that examines and interrogates the idea of tradition from a queer, femme perspective.
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