Philistines Zine Co. (Columbus, OH)
>Philistines
Philistines is a collection of stories, art, letters, and social commentary. Send anything that can be scanned and printed to philistines (dot) zine (at) gmail (dot) com
Curated by Stephen David
https://philizine.tumblr.com/
Hannah Williams, HRW (Parma Hts, OH)
>Relative Strangers, Smoking Dreams, Tag Along, and others
Perzines centered on a certain subject-- for example Smoking Dreams is about smoking, Tag Along is about graffiti. Also: vintage photos and ephemera, cut and paste art, and recurring themes of nature and Cleveland.
http://wemakezines.com/members/hrw7005/
Ben Wright-Heuman - Cartoonist Extraordinaire (New Albany, OH)
>The Letters of the Devil, CosPain, The Man in Green, The Light Outside the Window, Trinary
My work is multigenre. I have a mystery graphic novel, a humor comic strip collection, and minicomics covering horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and memoir. I have a little bit of everything for everybody!
www.BWHComics.com
Courtney Hahn (Fort Wayne, IN)
>Drop Out, Enough Space for Everyone Else, Podunk
My work is cute, consistent and versatile. While I tend to explore the same themes, I try to keep the subject matter and styles interesting and fresh.
http://www.courtneyartstuffs.com/
Michael Fehskens (Columbus, OH)
>R-Complex, Tariffs for Tsavo, The Travels of Tabby Timbuck
Michael Fehskens is a midwestern artist and author. Born in Pennsylvania and graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design, where he studied illustration and comic art.
Wrote and illustrated children's books and graphic novels full of animals, lush landscapes, and psychedelic cosmic nonsense.
His unique style is often compared to a combination between Alex Grey & Doctor Seuss.
The Dollhouse & friends (Columbus, OH)
>The Dollhouse/Local Cool Kids
The Dollhouse is a feminist art zine that I publish every month! I will also have a few zine buds bringing their projects too! The Dollhouse is also a venue in Columbus!
https://www.instagram.com/Thedollhousezine/
*Draw Down Books (New England Region, USA)
>World Order, La Joconde et le cadre, Luck, White Bricks
Draw Down Books is a designer-run publishing platform based in New England, producing small and unique books & zines with a focus on graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, and architecture. We also operate an online shop where we distribute zines by graphic design students and professionals, Riso-printed zines, and other publications. In addition to publishing the work of others, Draw Down publishes our own photo, design, and illustration work.
Draw Down feels it is important to highlight and support zine and artist book culture. We contribute regularly to http://stencil.wiki/fairs and highlight different artist book and zine fairs via Twitter. It's important for us to support fairs of different sizes and scales - we think zines are an empowering art form, a site for art production, writing experimentation, and cultural criticism.
*Liz Tetu (Minnesota)
>Lipstick, Spacebian
Lipstick is a smart punk perzine playing with drag, humor, photography, and the construction of comic strips to talk about trans issues. Black & white, 12-pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
Spacebian is a cute funny comic that follows Sam, a Sapphic sun-scrubber, and her butch tech-savvy friend Tyler as they both discover the hidden perils of space. Black, white, & grey, 16-pages, around 4.25 x 5.5 inches.
I'm a white, bi, butch Bear from MN. I print my zines at the local library and hand assemble them with my swinging compatriot, the fanciest hand-operated Swingline stapler you've ever seen. I usually contribute to larger zine projects; look for me in Exposure: Queer Masculine Sexuality, Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism, and Queer-Spirit Charity Zine - Issue 1!
https://busyliz.weebly.com/
*Matthew Scott Gualco (Brooklyn,CA)
>Frank Oceans, Emai Ejaculation,Doom/Doomed/Dooms
Much of my art comes from my own dyslexic misunderstanding of the world and my misadventures therein. I have a mixed-bag of zines, posters, and wearable swag that make light of the highbrow art world and our own lowbrow pop culture. I genuinely want to make people smile when they interact with my art and invite them to contemplate the sacredness of some of our value systems.
http://www.matthewgualco.com
StudMuffinZine (Olmsted Falls, OH)
>StudMuffinZine
Politics, music, art, comics, poetry, stories, and fart jokes. Circa 2002.
http://studmuffinzine.tumblr.com/
*The Panoptic Press (Webster, NY)
>Various works
Comics and limited run print including zines, photo publications, collage, and artists' books.
http://www.thepanopticpress.com/
Zuri - Juste Milieu (Detroit, MI)
>Juste Milieu Lit + Art Zine , Not Too Far from China , Woes of a Well-Lit City
The juste milieu, the happy medium, between reality and art.
JM was created to give independent writers and artists a space to have their works published, in print and online. With at least two issues per season, JM shares the work of poets, storytellers, photographers, and illustrators.
http://www.literaryhomegirl.com/
Meg Has Issues (Atlanta, GA)
>Cat Therapy, Cat Detective, Damn Hipsters, Open In Case of Emergency
My comics mostly consist of cats, terrible humor, self care, and absurdity. I create works on a variety of subjects (mostly my cat) with the goal of making people smile.
*Mattias Gunnarsson (Göteborg, SWEDEN)
>Various works
The publications I make are either collections of drawings out of sketchbooks or they are part of ongoing processes where I collaborate with others. My zines are traces of the work I do.
New Cult + Cheering and Waving Press (Lancaster, OH)
>New Hearts New Bones, Hypernormalisation, Haddonfield, MOLESTED
Our longest running zine (est 2010) New Hearts New Bones focuses on political, social, and theological commentary on recent local and global events. The zine often includes collage work. Our latest zine MOLESTED tells a story of childhood sexual abuse and healing with a focus on prevention and support. We also focus on feminism, economics, global warming, and morality in our zines. Our work is meant to spark conversations and open dialogues about topics that are not normally discussed, especially in public spaces.
This is the second year that Cheering and Waving Press (CWP) has organized Street Cat Zine Fest in Lancaster, OH. This year in partnership with New Cult.
http://newcult.org/
https://cheeringandwaving.tumblr.com/
