Meet the Twin Cities Zine Fest 2020 exhibitors!
- All
- New zinester
- New to zine/comics fests
- BIPOC zinester
- LGBTQIA zinester
- Young zinester
- Minnesota zinester
- Non-U.S. zinester
- Perzines
- Political zines
- Literary zines
- Music zines
- Art zines
- Mental health & disability zines
- Comics
- Kid friendly zines
- Zines under $5 available
- Free zines available
hclou art
heather c. lou, m.ed. (she/her/hers) is an angry gemini earth dragon, multiracial, asian, queer, cisgender, disabled, depressed, and anxious womxn of color artist based in st. paul, minnesota.
OCD Throws Bows
Dirk mostly writes perzines about mental health. He also sells a Max Max x Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fanfic zine.
The Who Knows Store
Being a genderfluid asexual, Lauren writes about queerness, transness, politics and looking back while maintaining their typical dry humor. Their favorite thing to say: “I don’t give a f*ck except when I actually do.”
Skyway Dreams
Adrean Clark is an ASL Deaf artist who shares her studio with a Deaf cat to stay warm. Send tuna.
Zines by Neva
Neva is a 9 year old girl from Minneapolis who makes fun zines featuring animals.
itserikaart
Erika Bloomdahl is a non-binary multi-disciplinary artist and storyteller who lives and works in the Minneapolis area. Some of her fields include illustration, comic art, zine creation, playwriting, storytelling, theatre production, graphic design, craft arts, and costume.
Entropy Editions
Entropy Editions is a Minneapolis-based comics micro-publisher started in 2018. Focusing on a mixture of narrative & experimental comics produced with a unifying design theme, our goal is to provide readers an affordable option to discover work by artists in both the domestic & international small-press comics community.
Little Brain Comics
B. Erin Cole draws comics about brains, mental health and museums. An exiled Coloradan, they live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mystery Spot Books
Mystery Spot Books produces small-run artist books, zines, and other publications that trace the contours of place-based experience in the human-altered landscape.
Sophie Warrick
Sophie Warrick finds her home in the Twin Cities Metro, the First City on the Mississippi, and the strangers she hasn’t met yet. Her world is dedicated to asking questions and loving deeply.
Tokyo photo zine
Ejen Chuang is a photographer from Texas and loves making photo zines of interesting things like cosplay and foreign cities.
Cedar Thomas
Cedar Thomas (they/them) is a queer visual artist from Minneapolis, MN. They work from their own experiences to make colorful comics that explore the healing process.
Destiny A. Davison
Destiny is a writer and illustrator from Minneapolis. She writes about the real, the unreal and the in-between. She illustrates the mess.
Vlasinda Productions
Vlasinda Productions has been creating for 10 years now in various mediums. In recent years we have focused more efforts on coordinating programs and events that help promote fellow artists, and contribute to building a more connected creative community.
Lawrence Lindell
Lawrence Lindell is a cartoonist, musician zinester and educator from California who’s work focuses on Mental Health, blackness, queerness and healing.
heysoupface
heysoupface makes tiny comic zines just for you! And like you, these zines can best be described as silly, surreal, and sad. :->
L. Kling
YOLOW Zines is fermenting food and making zines with care and magic on occupied Dakota and Anishinaabe land (Minneapolis). They specialize in collaborative zines with diverse perspectives.
Dustooned!
Dus T’ is a Latinx cartoonist and educator from Downey, CA. His affinity for philosophy, history, and the surreal intersect to weave tales that capture the human spirit and all of its grandiose imperfections, and absurdity.
Sean Dempsey
Sean’s a self publishing illustrator and comic artist from Chicago, IL. His independent comics focus on curiosity and adventure through traveling or misfit characters. Whether in a comic, illustration, or intricate mini-comics, Sean’s stories embrace a balance of innocent and cynical protagonists. He hopes to create diverse, relatable characters that the audience can witness their inner growth, discovery, and individuality. Learn more at smdempseycomics.com.
Friends Print Collective
An informal print conspiracy located in so-called minnesota.
Amanda Schroeder
Amanda Schroeder is an Illustrator and Comic Artist currently studying at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Originally from Colorado she creates comics and zines with inspiration the stems from her love of fantasy stories and the outdoors.
FanMinnetastic
FanMinnetastic is a group collaborative project of the Twin Cities Zine Meetup.
Girls, on Film
We are two gals (and some guest writers) from Washington, DC who are hopelessly devoted to 80’s movies. All issues are available, for free, at our website girlsonfilmzine.com.
Sarah Mai Illustration
Sarah Mai is an illustrator and writer that lives in Minneapolis, MN with her art supplies and a ton of houseplants. When she’s not illustrating graphic novels, she makes zines about her feelings and lots of other things.
Ashley Masog
Artist, illustrator, likely made from espresso.
Ashley Caswell
Ashley Caswell is an illustrator, book designer, and comic artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Their comic and illustration work features rich detail and color, and their stories often explore love, anxiety and growth with a unique sense of humor.
Shaina Saeed
Maldivian illustrator Shaina Saeed works with a socially-engaged approach for documentary illustration and comics.
Xupeishan
Xupeishan is a UK based artist who explore their own brain and collects the leakage from their brain into zines.
Jeni Larson
Jeni Larson lives in St Paul, Minnesota. Her zine “Zero Stars” is a finalist for the 2020 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. She is a reluctant cyclist and avid cat person.
Paranoid Tree
Each month, Paranoid Tree (created by Alyssa Bluhm & Jessica Eckerstorfer) publishes a one-page, custom-illustrated zine containing a single micro story. Keep the zine on your bookshelf or frame it on your wall—either way, the story literally unfolds with the page.
The Phoenix Comic
Bri de Danann is an Comic Artist and Illustrator from Minneapolis who writes sentimental zines about foundational experiences in her life. She is also the author of The Phoenix, a science fiction comic about found family, identity, and humanities place in the cosmos.
Chibi Press
Monica Howell is a Minneapolis-based librarian, archivist, and book artist. Their book/zine work is provocative, playful, personal, and political.
Aaron King
Aaron lives in Minneapolis and makes zines about roleplaying games and other things.
allison anne
allison anne lives in minneapolis, minnesota with two cats and lots of paper ephemera. they are an active mail artist, collagist and graphic designer as well as a member of twin cities collage collective.
LM Pederson
LM Pederson is a midwest digital and 3D artist. Common themes in their work are divination and fortune, tabletop, travel, and pop culture.
Oblivion Spin Occasionally
When not busy doting on his pet snail, Met Tinsley writes tongue in cheek zines about existence in general.
Archie Bongiovanni
Archie Bongiovanni is a queer cartoonist and zine-maker living in Minneapolis. They’re the co-creator behind A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns and the comic Grease Bats.
Elam Bonebright
Elam Bonebright is a Twin Cities artist with one dog and approximately 50 houseplants. She creates zines about emotions and goes extra heavy on the ink.
Brianna Quintero
Brianna Quintero is a Minnesota based comic artist and illustrator who enjoys musicals and drawing about love, yearning, and discovery.
Josh “Meatbag” Mead
Josh “Meatbag” Mead is a Minneapolis cartoonist, who with Sam Locke Ward produce the comic “Voyage into Misery” & the Pulverized Pulps group of zines. Irreverent takes on genre comics are their hallmark.
Sarajea Martin
Sarajea lives in Minneapolis, where she collects rocks, draws comics, and aggressively paints silver linings on every cloud she sees. Her zines highlight joy and the absurd in everyday life.
sunshine gao
sunshine gao studied ecology and moral philosophy, cooked noodles, and sold produce. Now, they draw stories about home—in all its forms, with all its complications.
Brett Von Schlosser
Brett Von Schlosser is a cartoonist and silk screen printer from Minneapolis.
Reflective Zines
Reflective Zines creates zines about mental health, trauma, poetry, queer love, nonmonogamy, and more. Mary creates zines to help others and meet other people like her!
Phillip Maira
Phillip Maira is a comic book writer from Chicago. My stories are a mix of slice of life, drama, & magical realism.
Jes Reyes
Jes Reyes is a multidisciplinary artist practicing in drawing, painting, mixed media art, poetry, book arts, and video. A very curious person, her work is rooted in play, vulnerability, experimentation, collaboration, DIY approaches, and the blending of art forms.
BCH Comix
BluRaven C. Houvener is a comic & Zine creator from the Michigan area, specializing in slice of life tales pulled from his own adventures growing up. When not creating comics & zines, he likes to watch bad movies and share a laugh with friends. If he can snag a’ fancy cup of coffee too that’d be awesome!
Dio Cramer
Dio is a Twin Cities based graphic designer, aspiring comic artist, and avid drinker of earl grey tea.
Sean Knickerbocker
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.
Aevyn’s Zines
AevynN is a mini human inspiring to be a full fledged Zinester one day!
Creatures of Love
Leslie Perrine is an illustrator and comic maker who recently moved to the Twin Cities. She loves creatures, nature and ice cream.
Young Peoples Action Coalition
YPAC is a Minneapolis social justice youth organization. Zines are made collaboratively by current students and recent graduates of MPLS schools to share their experiences about organizing in their schools and communities.
Loss Leader
The punk zine comes to life in this multi-media lyric video. “True North” is a punk anthem focused on social, financial and racial injustices in modern american society. Touching on wealth inequality and the massive and growing chasm between haves and have nots. With pointed words for those who can’t seem to pinpoint the rights and wrongs of it all and stressing the responsibility of those who have to “stand up” and “speak out” for those who have not.
Katrina Ann Kubeczko
Katrina lives in Minneapolis and loves to appreciate small details, craft and create, and learn new things everyday.