A list of the fabulous exhibitors and invited guests scheduled to table at the 2018 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
09	Aaron C. Snow	Bilgebrush	Aaron is a cartoonist from Maine making minis in Minnesota. Their latest comic is about mystery-solving teens.	aaroncsnow.com
30	Aaron King	Icy City Advent Calendar, The Straying Quarter	Aaron writes supplements and scenarios for roleplaying games and obsesses over maps in comic books.	aaronmfking.com
23	Adroit Automotive Empowerment	Adroit Automotive Empowerment	Adroit Automotive Empowerment is a Toronto based organization seeking to spread automotive knowledge in an accessible way.	redbubble.com/people/adroitauto
17	Airen Belleau	Jimmy's Back! (a portrait of Jimmy Butler) Good Luck Bad Luck (the natural world is full of ups and downs who's predator and who is prey?) The Worst Stuff in The World (a collection of the absolutely worst things in the world, including burnt pizza and extinction) Stop It! (Everybody's fighting, the food chain is all messed up, everybody just stop it!) The Leopard The Jaguar (visions, dreams and misguided conservation efforts)	Earnest, dark, and absolutely no math involved	instagram.com/bestofmathclass
14	Alexis Cooke (Anxious A)	Alexis is a Minnesota-based cartoonist whose work has been published though Sparkler Monthly and multiple anthologies such as Dirty Diamonds and Ladies Night. She likes making auto bio comics, queer romcoms, and spoiling her two cat sons & girlfriend!	Alexis is a Minnesota-based cartoonist whose work has been published though Sparkler Monthly and multiple anthologies such as Dirty Diamonds and Ladies Night. She likes making auto bio comics, queer romcoms, and spoiling her two cat sons & girlfriend!	alexiscooke.com
center	All Black Zine		All Black Zine is a dope and unapologetic zine that highlights folks of color and our stories.	Allblackzine.com
23	Andy Swanson	Home is Where	Andy Swanson has moved around his whole life between Colorado, Idaho, and all around Minnesota. His first zine was a call to artist all across the nation to provide art based a simple theme, defining home. His hopes was to make others feel at home when reading the zine, for better or worse.
06	Ari S Mulch	Fat B*tch Nudes, I Found God in the Mosh Pit, Loan From The Girl Zone, Lucretia's Midlife Crisis, GIRLS, Changeling	Ari is a cartoonist, zinester, and huge lesbian from central Illinois. They live in Minneapolis and make as much trouble as zines.	Arimulch.com
11	B. Erin Cole	Little Brain Comics	Cartoonist B. Erin Cole lives in St. Paul, and draws comics about brain injury, mental illness, hearts, fish, cats, home and happiness.	instagram.com/littlebraincomics
27	Belli Research Institute	Fragrance of Citizenship // The Acridity of Others: Towards Health Skepticism; Against Stigma, Not Sex Work	BRI 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
distros	Blitz Molotov	Warzone Distro	Warzone Distro is a zine creating and publishing project focused on eco-defense and insurrectionary anarchy.	warzonedistro.noblogs.org
center	Boneshaker Books	Boneshaker Books	Boneshaker is a volunteer-run radical bookstore and community space in Minneapolis.	boneshakerbooks.com
28	Britt Burton	Big Babe	Britt Burton is a freelance illustrator/designer whose work focuses on representative imagery and content for fat Black and Brown women/femme folx. She vibes on R&B break up songs and mango slices.	instagram.com/beekeeperbabe
25	bryan may	restless legs photo zine	photo zines and poetry and writing about getting sober	cargocollective.com/bryanbrybry
20	Carly Haack	SKI-MASK JERRY volumes 1&2, We're Not Cowboys,	Carly Haack is a dingbat comic artist and painter from Wisconsin, now residing in Minneapolis.	chaack.com
14	Cookie Bunk	Crymes	C. Bunk is not a city girl. She loves playing Nerf guns and riding her Surly 1X1 where it’s bumpy. One day soon she’ll be bodysurfing like crazy again.	cookiebunk.com
04	Cow House Press	Cow House Press	Cow House Press is a micro publisher based in Chicago, focused on turning works by LGBTQIA folks & PoC into books. We strive to make our books available to youth programs, prisons, and low income schools.	cowhousepress.com
05	Dawn Wing	D. Wing Comics	Dawn is a zinister/cartoonist/librarian who is currently working on a comics project about two Chinese American translators for justice. Originally from New York, she is a recent Saint Paul transplant.	wingart.wixsite.com/wingart
26	Dennis Madamba	Campfire Comics & Stories	Dennis Madamba is a 2nd gen. Filipino-American illustrator from San Francisco, CA, who makes art to reconnect with his culture and find the stories hidden there. He also co-publishes the comics anthology series Campfire Comics & Stories.	dennismadamba.com
activity room	Destiny A. Davison	Droll by Destiny A. Davison	Destiny Davison is a Minneapolis based writer and illustrator. She writes about monsters, the real, the unreal, and the inbetween. She illustrates the mess.	destinydavison.com
10	E. Joy Mehr	Unemployment Journal Diary, Baby's First Zine Fest, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boyz	E. Joy Mehr currently zines about living the life of unemployment in Minneapolis because, well, that's the life she's living right now. Favorite food: the humble sandwich.	emehrblog.blogspot.com
21	ed. blair	Holy Demon Army Distro	ed. is from chicago, and runs the holy demon army distro, a zine distro devoted to zines about professional wrestling. they also write zines about metal, pop music, and cryptids.	holydemonarmy.storenvy.com
01	Eliot Joy	Astroletariat	There is little as valuable to healing + personal growth as creative exploration + the sharing of stories. As a healing artist, Eliot weaves together silly personal comics, astrological cheat sheets, children's stories + more in hopes of offering narratives as entertaining as they are healing.	astroletariat.com
27	Ella Kampelman	Why Are You Yelling At Me, Things I Do Every Day, A Murder, Ravioli, Things I Found on the Side of the Road (and Kept)	Ella is an artist living in Minneapolis, MN. She makes zines about subtle feelings, overlooked moments, and personal lists.	ellakampelman.com
19	Ellis Perez	Please and other Collections	Ellis Perez is a poet and performer based out of Minneapolis, MN. They make zines about love, connection, gender, identity and vulnerability all while eating Pop Tarts and listening to The Cranberries.
04	Emily Roehl, Chad Rutter	Mystery Spot Books	Mystery Spot Books produces small-run artist books, zines, and other publications that trace the contours and quirks of 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 Santa Barbara-based writer Emily Roehl.	mysteryspotbooks.com
31	Emma Alice Johnson	Trans Mess, Freak Tension, Razorcake, One Punk's Guide To...	Emma Alice Johnson has been making zines slowly for more than 20 years.	freaktension.com
07	Eric Bartholomew	Junk Drawer	Eric Bartholomew is inspired by objects: ordinary items, relics rich in history, and oddities that remain a mystery. He began writing a zine called Junk Drawer about the random nature of ephemera: the things we save, and their stories to tell, to discover, and sometimes to simply be imagined.	junkdrawer.wixsite.com/junkdrawer
22	Erika Finne	Grrrl Bomb	Erika Finne uses pirates and her family as lens on social justice issues	artfemme.wixsite.com/erikafinne
13	Fiona Avocado	Red Lipstick Club, Entwined, Goth Heroines, To be titled zine about flowers from my moms garden, What Is Up With Your Fruity Name?, Spinster Forever, The Cosmos, A Letter For You, Dancing In The Dark	Fiona Avocado is an artist, educator, organizer, and DJ living in Minneapolis.	fionavocado.com
25	heather c lou	a love letter: fuck white supremacy		hclouart.com
02	Jay Ross	Dispatches from Other Worlds, Wizards and Friends, How Do I Play D&D?	Jay is a queer artist, graphic designer, and writer. Their long term career plan is "forest wizard".	jayrossart.com
28	Jessica Checkeroski	Abstract Geometry, Tough Titties, Help Me I'm Single, Border Collie Mix Tape(s)	Jessica Checkeroski is an illustrator, graphic designer, story teller, and comedian from Chicago, Illinois. Her work uses a sense of humor to explore the ongoings of daily life as well as take jabs at pop culture. Occasionally her comics feature her terrific dog Oscar, with illustrations that only begin to capture his magnificent beauty.	jessicacheckeroski.com/art
03	Jimmy Cooper	Furious Beautiful & Friends	Jimmy loves zines, libraries, and kittens! He's been publishing zines since he was 12 and hopes to continue forever.	furiousbeautiful.tumblr.com
15	Jonas	Fixer Eraser	Jonas is a zinester from Chicago that writes about stuff and things.
16	Josh “Meatbag” Mead	Fair Enough	Josh Meatbag hails from MPLS. He’s a cartoonist & screen printer who finished his series Oblivion Operetta in 2017, Fair Enough issue 2 with comedian Danny Lobell in 2018 & working on a new as of yet untitled comic for zine fest.	meatbaginc.tumblr.com
distros	Kaitlyn Lafferty, Kerri Mulcare	Perpetual Ambivilance; Community as a form of Resistance	Zines from the Denver Zine Library Zinesters	denverzinelibrary.org
17	Kate McDonough	Considering Limitations, I Don’t Want Kids (and that’s ok), Doormat Reformed	Kate McDonough is an illustrator from Minneapolis, MN, currently living in Iowa. She creates comics about living with anxiety and learning to laugh through the awkward moments life brings.	prettyprettyugly.com
02	Kay Rossbach	Ingress Adventuring Company Chapter 1	Kay is a designer, illustrator, and cartoonist living and working in Minneapolis. In her free time, she writes and illustrates a webcomic about bisexual wizards.	kayrossbach.com
10	Kit Leffler	Kit Rags	Kit Leffler is a Minneapolis based artist who draws zines which consider spatial place, time and subjectivity through portraiture, mapping and urban roaming. Her collage-based pen and ink drawings are editioned using a risograph and/or screenprinting process.	kitleffler.com
30	Kristin Tipping	Knock Knock Issue #7, How To Human, A Book For Sad Pets, and Where There Are Monsters.	I'm an asexual graphic artist and comic creator with a master's degree in illustration from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I make a lot of strangely endearing bittersweet work full of fluffy animals, queer feelings, and existential dread. My recent projects include my award-winning serial comic Evil Witch Allie and my ongoing comic collection Bedtime Stories for Strangers.	kristintippingillustration.com
distros	Lacey Prpic Hedtke	The Future	The Future is a project/residency space and artist market in Minneapolis promoting the work of women, femme and GNC folks.	thefuturempls.com
11	Lea Farho	Lady Crow Press	Lea is a zine maker currently residing in the heart of Iowa who particularly enjoys creating poetic zines with political messages. Her zodiac sign is Cancer, so expect her zines to be very passionate and honest—she puts a lotta love (& occasionally tears) into her work.	ladycrowpress.bigcartel.com
03	Leda Zawacki	Little Gods, My Escape from a Sea Monster, Smoke Signals, The Octopus, Fauna	Leda Zawacki is an independent comic book artist living in Minneapolis. Her comics explore themes of mythologies, fantastical creatures, and empowered women.	cupofstars.com
01	Lee Burnett	Sprouts, Flower Boy	As a cartoonist, Lee explores the worlds of depression, love, and coming of age with vibrant characters and meaningful personal dialogues.	instagram.com/tiny.dinosaurs facebook.com/leecomicks
29	Liz Walker	Everybody Likes Liz	Liz Walker makes autobiographical comics about the best and worst things in her life. She also draws too many ghosts.	everybodylikesliz.com
05	LM Pederson	Counting Curses; Superstitions, Omens, and Signs for the Modern Witch; It's Raining in Paris	Midwest digital artist. Common themes in her work are magical girls, divination and fortune, tabletop, travel, and pop culture.	lmpederson.tumblr.com
06	Magdalen Ng	Inky Fingers	Magdalen Ng is a brand new zinester on the scenester! She enjoys hiking/wild foraging, going to live music shows in the cities, and writing/running table top RPGs.	instagram.com/inkyfingers90
activity room	Mindy Rhiger	Proper Noun Press	Mindy lives in Minneapolis and writes about books, family life, and disability issues.	propernounblog.wordpress.com
activity room	Minneapolis Community & Technical College Zine Collection	MCTC Zine Collection	The Minneapolis Community & Technical College Library is committed to collecting alternative press materials for our college community. As part of that commitment, our library maintains a Zine Collection. The Minneapolis Community & Technical College Zine Collection is open to the public during normal hours of operation. Our library hosts zine events for students, faculty and the greater community. We invite participation and donations.	mctclibraryzines.com
distros	Minnesota Nice Zine Distro	Minnesota Nice Zine Distro	Minnesota Nice is a zine distro based in the Twin Cities, MN.	mnnicedistro.wordpress.com
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21	Nathan G. O'Brien	HotDogDayz	ZINES//MIXTAPES//TRASH. Punk, rap, graffiti, youth culture, general mischief, and more.	hotdogdayz.com
08	Norma Krautmeyer	bile & syntax	queer zinester and purveyor of fine art postcards	blushandmumble.com
activity room	Omaha Zine Fest Distro	Omaha Zine Fest Distro	Omaha Zine Fest Distro sells zines of all sorts from creators and makers from Nebraska.	omahazinefest.org
32	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 goal is to create, as well as showcase, and explore our individual and collective talents.	plus-dog.tumblr.com
12	Queer Antics Press	Independent Queer Publishing House	Carter Lynn Thurmond runs Queer Antics Press and spearheaded the Queer Masculinity and Kinky Queers groups here in the Twin Cities. His queer masculinity anthology zines will be sold along with his own published works touching on anti-capitalist, anarchist, and queer politics as well as constructions of gender and sexuality.	QueerAntics.etsy.com
08	Queer Zine Archive Project	QZAP	The Queer Zine Archive Project is an on-line collection of past and present queer zines in digital format available for free download. The QZAP collective is dedicated to preserving and interpreting queer zines and the cultures that produce them.	qzap.org
31	Regula Russelle	Habits of the Heart / Transition Towns: Smaller Footprint. Stronger Community. / Charting an Artist Practice	Climate Change, the Commons, Social Practice. . . . Poetry and Artist Practice. $0-$10. It’s neat to pack large questions into tiny zines and books.	regularusselle.com
30	Riverhouse Games	Riverhouse Games	Creating tabletop RPGs, podcasts, and zines! Located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Catch us making microgames, talking about queer & LGBT+ tabletop gaming, or curating small games collections.	riverhousegames.com
15	Roosterhouse Publishing Collective	Roosterhouse Publishing Collective	Zines by Minneapolis-based Roosterhouse Collective suffer from rawmotional prose, cracky-winky art, and a misguided sense of what should be commercially viable. Their table will have free TC Zine Fest exclusive Roosterhouse pennies courtesy of the U.S. Mint.	roosterhouse.org
29	Safy	1991	Safy is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor.	studio91.space 1991zine.com
distros	Sam Schmitt	GlitterWurst Zine Distro	Sam is the editor/coordinator-thingy for GlitterWurst Zines. Sam's zines focus on trans and queer issues, mental health, neurodivergence, and disability. GlitterWurst Distro produces its own anthology series, "All in Your Head: Queerness, Neurodiversity, and Disability Zine" which is a collaborative project among LGBTQIA+ neurodivergent and disabled authors and artists from all over the world.	GlitterWurst.etsy.com
26	Sean Ferris	Roomies, Don't Take Your Dog's Medicine, When We Get Back to Erie, Look at Me	Sean Ferris is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, but recently moved to Minneapolis. His work is focused on everyday personal experiences and memories mixed with overheard, embellished, and imagined neighborhood and backyard conversations.	seanandferris.com
09	Sean Knickerbocker	Rust Belt	"SEAN KNICKERBOCKER is a cartoonist, illustrator, and printer. He graduated from the Center For Cartoon Studies in 2012. His comics have appeared in Ecotone, Irene, and The Nib among other publications. He is a native of West Valley, New York and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.	seanknickerbocker.com
center	Shift MN	Shift MN	Shift MN is an organization under JustUS Health and envisions LGBTQ communities where everyone has equitable access to resources that cultivate sustainable wellness practices. We advocate for for healthier LGBTQ communities through outreach, education, social media and policy.	shiftmn.org
downstairs	Sister Black (Bike) Press	Sister Black (Bike) Press	Sister Black (Bike) Press is a mobile printing and publishing studio. It is literally a vintage "clamshell" printing press mounted on the back of a cargo bike.	sisterblackpress.com
20	Slopmotion	Slopmotion	Slopmotion is a fresh-to-death-off-the-press small collective of Twin Cities writers, bookmakers, illustrators and artists. Dealers of experiential experiments in book-making, poetry, hip-hop free-writes, sample based art, illustration, wonky pulpy paper products & zines.	slopmotion.com
activity room	Sunshine Gao	bodega blues, survival food, armchair tourism, jiaozi	Sunshine Gao is an aspiring storyteller from Kentucky who tries to build home with drawings and food.	sunshine-gao.com
18	Synthia Nicole	Damaged Mentality	Synthia Nicole writes the perzine "Damaged Mentality"	facebook.com/Damaged-Mentality-Zine-191380414251281/
16	Teddie Bernard	Bizarre Bandaid	Teddie Bernard is a senior at Hopkins High School who just can't stop drawing comics.	teddiebernard.net
22	Tori Hong	Creating Abundance: a queer Asian American artist's journey to healing	Tori Hong is a queer, Hmong & Korean American visual artist exploring the ways fragmented identities, peoples, and histories can transform into something whole.	torihong.com
activity room	University of Minnesota	The Culture Wars Zine Collection, which resides in the Gorman Rare Art Books Collection at the University of Minnesota, reveals socio-political and cultural history from around the United States, the 1970s to the present and one of the most heavily used collections for studies.		gormanartspeccoll.tumblr.com
19	Violet Austerlitz		Violet Austerlitz is an Iowa City artist/relentless daydreamer. She likes making up new worlds and telling stories about monsters, and identity, and other stuff she doesn't quite understand (gender, culture, robots, etc).	violet-austerlitz.com
13	Von DeWitt	Trans Sex Zine Vol 1, Trans Sex Zine Vol 2, Sex Ed: A Love Story	Trans Sex Zine is a collaborative, ongoing sex ed project by and for trans and gnc folks that tells stories of sex, bodies, & desire. We think trans ppl of every age, identity, attraction, and relationship status are experts of our own experience and have valuable things to share with each other.	transsexzine.com
center	Women's Prison Book Project	Women's Prison Book Project	Since 1994, the Women’s Prison Book Project has provided women and transgender persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education to fiction, politics, history, and health. We are an all-volunteer, grassroots organization; we seek to build connections with those behind the walls, and to educate those of us on the outside about the realities of prison and the justice system.	wpbp.org
07	Yonathan Moya	Border Perspective	Yonathan Moya is an avid photographer who grew up on the U.S. / Mexico border. The last decade of his life has been deeply impacted by his international humanitarian work throughout Latin America. Through his photography and humanitarian work, he wants to challenge others to see the world around them differently and go beyond their current worldview. He's a South Texas native now living with his wife, Megan, and mini-goldendoodle, Fitz, in Bloomington, Minnesota.	yonathanmoya.com/borderperspective
18	Z Akhmetova	Z Akhmetova	Z Akhmetova lives in Saint Paul, MN and makes comics, illustrations, and stuffed animals.	azakhm.com
activity room	Zebra Cat Zebra and The Art Whalery	Monthly Zines	Carolyn Swiszcz (Zebra Cat Zebra) is a painter and printmaker who writes a monthly mail order zine. Her daughter Ramona (The Art Whalery) is in 6th grade. They live in West St. Paul, MN.	carolynswiszcz.com/zebracatzebra