A list of the fabulous exhibitors and invited guests scheduled to table at the 2017 Twin Cities Zine Fest. Attendees and table numbers are subject to change!

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Table #	Exhibitor name	Zine or distro title	Bio	Website
27	Aaron C. Snow	Sweaty Palms Zine, Change, Guns For Hire	Aaron makes mini-comics, often they are about anxiety or cowboys.	aaroncsnow.tumblr.com
43	Addison	Good Morning, Queer Mythos, The House of Kanaan Creed, Flavor!	Addison is an agender queer living in St. Paul, and zines are the favorite overlap of their two skills as an illustrator and creative writer.	addisoncreative.com
51	Addison Sharpe	Spark Poetry	Addison Sharpe is a performer, poet and activist who blends literature and performance art by writing poems on demand with a vintage typewriter.	instagram.com/femininitease
30	Alex Nall	Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours	Alex Nall is a cartoonist and teaching artist from Chicago.	alexnall.blogspot.com
89	Alexis Cooke	SUB vol 1-2, Monster, Dinner Ditz	Mother of one cats and avid Fall Out Boy fan, Alexis is a cartoonist based out of Minneapolis. She enjoys making both sad auto bio and silly queer romance comics!	alexiscooke.tumblr.com
83	Amber Huff		Amber is a graphic designer and illustrator from Chicago. She recently received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She likes to draw and stuff.	berhuff.com
24	Amber Padilla	Reel Love, Ladies Night Anthology	Amber is a cartoonist, illustrator, and designer from Oakland CA, who makes comics for kids and teens. She is also a recent graduate from the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts.	amberpadilla.com
50	Ana Hinojosa	Marsupial Match, Now The We're Here	Ana Hinojosa is a comic artist and illustrator from Florida currently living in Minneapolis and writes zines about fruits, possums, and Latinx experiences/growing up.	anahin.com
86	Angela Davis	I AM: NorthMPLS	I AM: NorthMPLS is a Zine created to showcase the talents of Northside residents.
36	Anna Jo Beck	Biff Boff Bam Sock	Anna Jo Beck is an illustrator, designer, and zinester residing in Chicago, IL. She is a layout queen: she works by day as the editorial art director for a few trade magazines, and by night helps organize Chicago Zine Fest. Her own zines are detailed and informative, with ranging topics from personal finance, to city hall weddings, to Spanish grammar, to the possessions you accumulate when you have cancer. Read her zines online at annajobeck.com.	annajobeck.com
88	Archie Bongiovanni	How Can We Be So Fucked Up And So Tender At the Same Time, SWEATGASM: A Queer Truth Or Dare, A Guide To They/Them Pronouns, Uncompromising Petty Girlfriend	Archie Anna Bongiovanni is a cartoonist, zine-kid, and sexual health educator-sometimes all at the same time. They make work about queerness, sex, emotions, and all the ways those things intersect.	annabongiovanni.com
37	Athena Currier	The Marjorie	Athena Currier is a Minneapolis-based illustrator and book designer with a Masters in comics, and a particular love for handmade patterns and maps.	themarjorie.com
79	B. Erin Cole	Fish City Comics	B. Erin Cole draws and writes comics about fish, brains, eggs, cities, and history.	berincole.tumblr.com
63	Backyard Beekeepers	Backyard Beekeepers	We're three queer beekeepers from Minneapolis who create art and zines to educate folks about bees and log our experiences caring for our hives.	backyardbeekeepersmn.com
85	Belli Research Institute	Belli Research Institute	The Belli Research Institute explores difference, contradiction, and fissure in political frameworks as fruitful sites for learning and experimentation. At all moments we seek that which is conflictual and, instead of seeking refuge, we intend to exacerbate the crisis.	belliresearchinstitute.com
07	Ben Nadler	Sonder No. 1, Planet Street, Heretics!	Ben Nadler is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago.	bennadler.ink
53-54	Bohemian Press	Bohemian Press Collective	Bohemian Press is a donut-loving printmaking collective that create zines, comics, books and prints; based in the University of Minnesota Department of Art.	instagram.com/bohemianpress
78	Boy Bison Zines	Boy Bison Zines	Attempting to translate the compressions & swells in my chest.	instagram.com/boybisonzines
77	Brett Von Schlosser	Human Torso	Brett Von Schlosser is scrappy scribbler from minneapolis.	fiendishclutches.com
34	britt c. h.	Punch Therapy, Please Do Your Job	Britt lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a comic artist and printmaker. She mostly deals in monsters, ghosts and cute animals.	brittch.com
22	bryan	black mold	bryan recently relocated to the midwest and they mostly make photozines of their friends' resilient faces.	blackmold.storenvy.com
80	Carolyn Swiszcz	Zebra Cat Zebra	Carolyn Swiszcz makes paintings, zines, and videos. She lives in West St Paul, MN.	carolynswiszcz.com
73	Carter Thurmond	Twin Cities Queer Masculinity	The Twin Cities Queer Masculinity group is selling their zine on queer masculine sexuality. This group welcomes people of all gender and sexual identities located in the Twin Cities who are interested in learning about, exploring, and experiencing queer masculinity.	queermasculinity.com
45	Catherine Florendo	Red, What is Your Name?, Walks Through the Hills	Catherine is an illustrator from the suburbs of Eagan, and loves nature and creates fantasy environments with characters that are only POC.	catherineflorendo.com
02	Chad Rutter	Mystery Spot Books	Mystery Spot Books produces small-run artist books, zines, and other publications that trace the contours and quirks of place-based experience in the human-altered landscape. Named for the tourist trap wonder attractions often encountered on road trips around the United States, Mystery Spot is a project of Minneapolis-based artist Chad Rutter and Austin-based writer Emily Roehl.	mysteryspotbooks.com
69	Chan Chau	We are all Superstitious, Leo	Chan is a Twin Cities based cartoonist and illustrator. Their work has been featured throughout various anthologies and zines. They are commonly found eating noodles and creating stationery.	cargocollective.com/chanc
64	Chase Underwood and Zeam Porter	Transfabulous TRUTH: Trans Youth Zine Workshop	Chase Underwood and Zeam Porter are both queer and trans artists from the Twin Cities area. They regularly host zine and writing workshops for trans youth and have a passion for encouraging self love in the community. Zines that come out of the workshop will be for sale as well as zines Chase and Zeam have made on their own. Their work features trans, black, disabled, and queer representation and tackles tough topics such as pre-surgery anxiety and microagressions.	facebook.com/transyouthzinesters
56	Christi Furnas	Crazy Like a Fox	Christi Furnas lives, breathes, and draws in Minneapolis. Her comic, Crazy Like a Fox approaches the subject of mental health with characters such as Fox, Jellyfish-Boss Lady, and Doctor Sock Puppet.	christifurnas.com
42	Claire Donaghue	Dear Abby, Sink, Inevitable Failure	Claire's a recent transplant to Minneapolis, hailing from the backwoods of northern Maine. She writes comics about comedy, tragedy, fantasy, and both literal and metaphorical demons.	clairecomics.tumblr.com
29	Dennis Madamba and Kyle Harabedian	Campfire Comics and Stories	Campfire Comics and Stories is a collaborative risograph zine produced by and featuring art by Dennis Madamba and Kyle Harabedian as well as twelve other internationally recognized artists from around the world. The theme is "Based on a true story".	campfirecomicsandstories.tumblr.com
26	Dustin Williams	SorrySorrytown	Visual Artist, Printmaker, Kansas City, MO.	dustinwilliams.bigcartel.com
32	ed.	Holy Demon Army Distro	The Holy Demon Army Distro is the only pro-wrestling themed zine distro in the world. ed. is also responsible for the zines Pro Wrestling Feelings, and Black Metal of the Americas.	holydemonarmy.storenvy.com
10	Elam Bonebright		Elam Bonebright is a Twin Cities based illustrator and a bug and bones collector. She likes to make comics and zines about mostly dead things.	elambonebright.com
81	Eric Bartholomew	Junk Drawer	Eric Bartholomew grew up going to garage sales, finding stuff in alleys, and collecting odds and ends of various sorts. He shares his finds through various projects, including a zine called Junk Drawer.	junkdrawer.wixsite.com/junkdrawer
67	Erika Finne	ArtFemme	Erika Finne was born and raised in Minneapolis, she writes comic zines about Pirates, Queer Activism, and her dog.	artfemme.wixsite.com/erikafinne
61	Err Minneapolis	Errata	Err is a Twin cities artist collective hell-bent on championing emerging artists.	errartistcollective.com
28	Garage Music News	Garage Music News	Garage Music News is a youth-run music journalism publication out of Burnsville, serving as a voice for the all-ages music scene.	garagemusicnews.com
26	Grant Kratzer	Cheatin Snakes Magazine	Grant Kratzer lives in Kansas City and is a freelance Illustrator. Grant makes super rad fun zines about biker gangs of rats, skateboarding wizards, vacations, wrestling, and more.	grantkratzer.com
82	Guy Thomas	Spiral King Comics	Guy Thomas is a cartoonist and filmmaker from Milwaukee. He one day plans to steal all of the world's cheeseburgers, but has yet to find a solid plan to do so.	spiralkingcomics.tumblr.com
59	heather c. lou	hclouART	heather c. lou, m.ed. (she/her/hers) is an angry gemini earth dragon, multiracial, asian, queer, cisgender, womxn of color artist based in minneapolis, minnesota. her mixed media pieces include watercolor, acrylic, gold paint pen, oil pastel, radical love, & hope. each piece comments on the intersections of her racial, gender, and sexual identities, as they continue to shift and develop in complexity each day. her art is a form of healing, transformation, and liberation, rooted in womxnism and gender equity through a racialized borderland lens.	hclouart.etsy.com
75	Jack Enza	Crushed	Jack Enza is a Minneapolis based comic artist who likes to merge action-adventure with comedic slice-of-life.	twitter.com/jack_enza
11	James DeWitt	Trans Sex Zines	My name is James DeWitt, I live in Minneapolis MN where I work in sexual health research and also as an educator around sexual health issues, transgender advocacy, and other social justice topics. My zine series "Sex Ed: A Love Story" aims at a holistic approach to sex education for queer and gender non-conforming youth of all ages.	transsexzine.com
84	Jay Ross	tanoreth	Jay makes zines about wizards and spends too much time thinking about D&D.	jayrossart.com/zines
49	Jenna Cha	Jenna Cha Comics	Jenna Cha creates comics that range from horrific to generally upsetting.	jennacha.tumblr.com
38	Jess Clark	unfolding dream	Jess Clark is from Saint Paul and creates quirky personal & poetry/art zines.
05	Jordon Moses & Matshoshi Matsafu	All Black Zine	All Black Zine is a quarterly publication that focuses on the creativity and innovation that is produced by people of color. We highlight music, poetry, written works, as well as thoughts, ideas, organizers, and activists.	allblackzine.com
04	Josh "Meatbag" Mead	Oblivion Operetta, Nice Town, Blackouts & Blueballs, INARTACULAR	Meatbag exists in a state of semi-consciousness btw MPLS & Valahlla.
25	Katie Armentrout	Celebrate the People	From the southern parts of Chicago comes, Katie Armentrout and her collection of absurd comics about anxiety, self love, and obsession. Come for the zines, stay for the chubby babe pride!	katiearmentrout.com
84	Kay Rossbach		Kay Rossbach is a designer and freelance illustrator. Kay is inspired by the art and storytelling of modern cartoons, indie comics, and a multitude of video games.	kayrossbach.com
66	Kayla and Ysa	BUBU Zine (By Us Bout Us Zine)	Kayla and Ysa are two young creatives from Minneapolis specializing in Fine Art, and dabbling in other expressions, this zine a diary of sorts that brings humor and realness, centering and normalizing the lives of young black women/femmes, but specifically about us.
12	Lacey Prpic Hedtke	We Believe in Infinite Intelligence, Likes/Dislikes, Excitement and Adventure	Zinestress, librarian, and arts organizer Lacey Prpic Hedtke runs the project space The Future, loves pitbulls, and is researches all sorts of esoteric topics late into the night.	laceyprpichedtke.com
57-58	Ladydrawers & Cow House Press	Ladydrawers & Cow House Press	Cow House Press focuses on publishing emerging artists of color, women, and LGBTQAx creators in the form of zines, comics and handmade books. The press works alongside the Ladydrawers Comic Collective who are an unofficially affiliated group that researches, performs, and publishes comics and texts about how economics, race, sexuality, and gender impact the comics industry, other media, and our culture at large.	ladydrawers.wordpress.com
74	Leda Zawacki	Cup of Stars Comics	Leda Zawacki is a comics artists. Her comics explore themes of Native American mythologies, fantastical creatures, and empowered women. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife Mari and pup Hugo.	cupofstars.com
90	Lilly Richard	Distant City, Bird Boy, Many, Bra Training	Lilly draws comics that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes true.	truefactscomics.com
15	Liz Tetu	Bros Before Bros, Bits & Peaces, Lipstick"	Liz Tetu likes to write until he's blue in the face. He's a gag comic artist and an essayist, although he does dip into prose occasionally and he does get paid to blog. He's currently earning a four-year undergraduate degree in Creative Sexual Communication at Metropolitan State University. When he finds time to put down the pen, he picks up the controller and slays dragons.	liztetuoneverything.weebly.com or butchlesbiman.tumblr.com
39	Liz Walker	Everybody Likes Liz	Liz Walker is a freelance writer, reluctant comic artist, part-time Morrissey journalist, occasional painter, and professional slacker. She resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives off Cadbury Mini Eggs and falls asleep to Forensic Files.	everybodylikesliz.com
03	Logan Kruidenier	Too Much Fun, Too Much Fun Too, "Excerps," Morning Doodles	Hello, my name is Logan Kruidenier. I currently live in Chicago. I love making zines, comics, prints, drawings, and most recently I have begun staging public art installations, performances and community workshops.	logankruidenier.com
46	Lucy Comer		Lucy is an artist from Minneapolis whose zines follow loose narratives and themes that focus on the illustrations used to tell the story and the mood it helps to establish	lucycomer.com
91-92	MCTC Zine Collection		MCTC Library is committed to developing a substantial collection of alternative press materials to support our college community. As part of that commitment, we maintain a Zine Collection. The MCTC Zine Collection is open to the public for browsing.	library.minneapolis.edu/zines
72	Milo / Chris	QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive Project	QZAP is a 14 year old archive of queer zines. Primarily digital, based in Milwaukee, with over 2000 zines documenting queer self-publishing from the 1970s through now.	qzap.org
21	Minnesota Nice Zine Distro	Minnesota Nice Zine Distro	Minnesota Nice is a zine distro based in the Twin Cities, MN.	mnnicedistro.wordpress.com
08	Monica Howell	Chibi Press	Monica is a librarian, archivist, book artist, and cancer survivor living in Minneapolis.	mnartists.org/monicarhowell
31	Nathan G. O'Brien	HotDogDayz	ZINES//MIXTAPES//TRASH. Soda Killers is punk, rap, and graffiti viewed through an introspective lease, featuring stories, essays, interviews, reviews, photos, and more.	hotdogdayz.com
76	Nicodemus Tibbitts		Nicodemus Tibbitts is a queer, pagan, transman comic artist who is inspired by his own experiences, history, theater, the supernatural, and the divine.	nicodemusart.tumblr.com
71	Norma Krautmeyer	bile & syntax, blush and mumble	Norma resides in St. Paul where she makes zines, comics, and art postcards when permitted by her three cats and excessively busy day job.	blushandmumble.com
23	Of course you can! Distro		Of course you can! Distro create zines of photography and comix, on topics ranging from coffee to consent. They are based out of small town Manitoba.	ofcourseyoucan.etsy.com
60	Perpetual Ambivalence	Perpetual Ambivalence	Quarterly perzine based out of Denver, Colorado.	PerpetualAmbivalence.etsy.com
17-18	Plus Dog Collective	Plus Dog Collective	Plus Dog Collective is a group of Minneapolis-based artists dedicated to the world of comics and illustration. Our belief that life is much more fun when experienced together.	plus-dog.tumblr.com
40	r. logios	logios press	r. logios is an ancient eldritch horrorterror disguised as a mild-mannered thirtysomething from lincoln, nebraska. she writes perzines about identity, existential semi-crises, and saving yourself through the power of words, and has been making zines in varying spurts of productivity since 2002.	logios.weebly.com
41	Rachel Topka	Rachel Topka	Rachel Topka draws ugly things with beautiful dreams: Crawfish monsters, centaurs, sad sea captains and woodland creatures all looking for love.	racheltopka.com
52	Robert Kelsey	TCAOTGFHTRD, Butt Stuff, Hangman Within	Robert Kelsey is a cartoonist out of Chicago, who draws a heck of a lot of monsters. Come talk to him about why monsters deserve love.	robertkelseyillustration.com
55	Rochester Public Library	Zine*O*Cide	Zine*O*Cide is a collective of Rochester, MN teen poets and punks. We publish a variety of zines on teen issues with a focus on LGBTQIA content.	rochesterpubliclibrary.org
19-20	Roosterhouse Collective	Roosterhouse Collective	Roosterhouse Collective of Minneapolis writes and creates zines about the personal experience of small people and outsiderdom. All zines are hand-cut, hand-collated, and printed in-house using an old office printer. We are not a distro.	roosterhouse.org and zineia.com
65	Rosheezyyy		Multi-disciplinary artist, Rosheezyyy, experiments with diverse mediums in their zines to achieve innovative aesthetics and narratives.	cargocollective.com/electricebonyterrorism
44	s. holiday	Skyvein Comic	s. holiday creates the webcomic Skyvein, and sometimes draws shorter comics about gender, relationships, and the environment.	skyveincomic.com
48	Sam Johnson + Kasey Sauser	Turbonerds	Sam and Kasey are just two pretty cool Minnesota students that like to make comics and draw stuff.	spoopysamuel.com
70	Sam Schmitt	GlitterWurst Zines	All in Your Head is a queer/feminist traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors.	GlitterWurst.etsy.com
68	Sarah Rusch	Slop Pile, Bundt Pan, Kitchen Drawings, more tbd	Sarah is an artist living & tending to her house plants in Minneapolis, MN. Her zines illustrate her love of cooking and sharing food with friends.	sarahrusch.com
62	Shift MN		Shift MN is a group of people that advocates for healthier LGBTQ communities in the Twin Cities and surrounding area. We make zines about cultivating sustainable wellness practices as LGBTQ people.	shiftmn.org
downstairs	Sister Black (Bike) Press	Poetry Post	BOOK ARTS//LETTERPRESS PRINTING//MOBILE BIKE PRESS	sisterblackpress.com
33	Stevie Aristizábal	Moxie Vegas	Stevie Aristizábal writes stories about the magic hidden in the ordinary, in between Overwatch matches and watching old Kids' WB cartoons.	moxievegas.com
87	Teddie Bernard		Teddie Bernard is an artist and cartoonist currently in their junior year of high school. When they're not drawing comics, they're probably playing 80s music on the mellophone.	teddiebernard.net
47	Thad Stalmack II	Fear Me, TroopersVsFleshbodies	Thad Stalmack II is a comic creator from Ann Arbor Michigan.	thadstalmack.tumblr.com
09	Tiffany A Paczesny	TAP	TAPaczesny from Milwaukee Wisconsin creates zines based upon day dreams and unbelievable true events of her daily life. In addition TAP also creates zines that bring humor to American politics.	sites.google.com/site/tapaczesny
06	Tony Hoang	mutedtalks	Tony is a bookmaking, zine-loving, basketball shooting, story-loving, skateboarding, bee care-taking, newbie gardener working artist living in Pomona, California with their dog child Toph.	mutedtalks.com/store
13-14	Uncivilized Books	Uncivilized Books	Uncivilized Books is an international publisher of comics, zines and books about comics. We envision a future full of cartoon philosophers, comic-book poets, graphic novelists and doodler scientists. See you there!	uncivilizedbooks.com
91-92	University of Minnesota Libraries		The University of Minnesota Libraries preserves counter culture materials such as the Marshall Weber Culture Wars Zine collection: 1970s-present and documents the politicization of visual culture across the U.S. and the formation of alternative media propagated by activists and artists.	gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com
35	Virgil Casper Franklin	The Pyrate Cove	Virgil Franklin hails from Jersey but resides in Minneapolis to pursue a comic career, highlighting the genres of humor, drama, romance and fantasy in his work.	king.thepyratecove.com
01	Will Arnold	Work Press & Publication	Work Press & Publication is a publisher of artist books, zines, comics, and photo books based in St. Louis, MO and Champaign, IL. The idea of work and work ethic is what drives our company. Our investments are time and energy, and our product is not just a singular object, but a practical example of the doctrine that hard work gives way to good ideas and that those good ideas, in turn, manifest into hard work.	workpandp.com