FEATURED EXHIBITORS

Adrianne Huang (hngyrn) is a painter and illustrator working in traditional media on paper. Stranger than life but more familiar than fantasy, dreamlike images of nature and animals alongside humans serve as wish fulfillment, dream diary, self-critique, and catalog of curiosity. Her hand-bound zines include sketchbook compilations and collections of drawings that explore the peculiarities of objects and chase down runaway trains of thought.

Andrew Harrell is from Raleigh and makes comics and zines about interiority, food, climate, movies, and funny little faces. See more of Andrew’s work at andrewmanningharrell.com.

Andrew Neal was a comic retailer for 20 years. Now he writes, draws, and publishes his comic series, Meeting Comics, which is an ongoing comedy soap opera comic book for grownups.

The Anthill Museum is a small collective of two dear friends, creating printed matter, textiles, and zines. Their creative interests range widely, from sharing poetry in English and Spanish, engaging with inequities in the natural sciences, exploring collection/curation at all stages of life, and more. Find more of their work at anthillmuseum.wordpress.com and access their free zine archive here.

The Chestnut Zine Collective aims to represent and promote the work of Asian American artists and zine-makers based across North Carolina. The collective's artists produce zines that are about a wide range of topics, including short personal essays, reflections on Asian American/queer identity and heritage, AAPI history, and simply random stuff that they find fun.

Frequently described as "prolific," queer cartoonist Christopher Williams (he/they) has spent decades under the radar, creating narratives through poster work and sequential art. Since 2020, Christopher has created thousands of pages that focus on love, loss, and the hope to find a place in the world. Always at work on something new, Christopher resides in Durham, North Carolina, usually in their office chair, hunched over an iPad. See more of Christopher’s work at plasticflame.com.

Cyber Nostalgia Studios is a multimedia creative studio founded by Aalyiah V. The projects they create are inspired by the media they grew up on, all rooted in a love for physical formats like Zines, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, Vinyl, and Cassettes. Their biannual comp-zine, Cyber Nostalgia, is a love letter to the past,featuring nostalgic deep dives, art, poetry, fashion, and photography inspired by their favorite eras. They also support small shops, artists, and creators who help keep that nostalgic feeling alive while building a community around shared memories and creativity. Additional work they create outside of zines includes stickers and earrings that are similar in theme to their other pieces.

Emily Wigglesworth is an artist and illustrator who loves monsters, mythology, and cheesecake. She has an ongoing comic strip titled Midnight Diner which follows Frederick, a Victorian empire who is also the best night shift cook at the local pancake castle. She takes inspiration primarily from shoujo manga and anything that happens to have piqued her interest.

Andréa/fattieyuca (she/her/ela) is a hobby artist and comic maker located in Durham, North Carolina. When she's not working on her long-time comic project "Call Me Maddie", she mostly draws autobiographical zines about sex/body positivity, her experience growing up Brazilian-American, or anti-fascist art. She lives with her wife, lizards and cat named Cowboy.

figofswords is a comic artist, illustrator, and art teacher based out of Cary, NC. You may have seen her tabling at anime conventions, but her first love will always be indie comic expos and zinefests. Stop by for indie comics, original short fiction, and lots of drawings of her little black cat, Midna. See more of her work at figofswords.artstation.com.

glittermeat is an illustrator, zinemaker and cartoonist capturing both the cute and the spooky of their world. With pieces about unique roadside attractions, materials reuse, cute graphic design, and the poignancy of being alive, glittermeat's work spans a variety of genres and zine forms. Their newest works are a collection of comics housed in a "cigarette" box that recalls classic American graphic design, as well as a zine recounting 3 days at an alien and fringe beliefs conference in Los Angeles.

Karla is a Wilmington-based cartoonist who has been featured in indie publications in both Wilmington and Charlotte. She is always exploring the possibilities of her work, be it coloring books, theme anthologies or postcards.

Inkpyre Press is a micro-press and passion project consisting of me, myself, and I, putting out an assortment of zines relating to literature, creativity, writing, snail mail, history, and whatever else piques my interest! I'm a queer librarian and zinester that fell in love with zines a few years ago and have been making them ever since, lucky enough to have been able to organize and facilitate a number of zine workshops for teens as part of my job as Teen Services Librarian. I also publish a quarterly zine, the Inkpyre Press Quarterly, of approx 30 pages four times a year. See more work by Inkpyre Press at https://inkpyre-press.my.canva.site/

JB Shear is a cartoonist from Durham, North Carolina whose comics are deeply informed by her experiences of growing up and living in the south. Whether it's the Appalachian folk magic that inspires her folk-fantasy series Inoscularum, her experiences of religious repression detailed in her short memoir Polo Shirt Angels From McMansion Heaven, or the strong but complicated family ties explored in her minicomic series The Sun & Moon Sisters, the beautiful and ugly bits of her home are woven into everything she makes.

Justice is an illustrator and designer based in Raleigh, NC. His art focuses on bright colors, bold imagery, and fun whimsy. He makes all sorts of items including notepads, printed illustrations, book ends, stickers, keychains, and even porcelain lamps!

Julia Gootzeit is a North Carolina-based cartoonist who creates long and short comics. For the past several years, she’s shared experimental diary comics on Instagram as @ohmyghoulia. In 2024, Fieldmouse Press published her debut graphic novel, Golem Pit 224, a queer horror story about a couple’s adventures in a constantly evolving natural environment. Currently she lives in Carrboro, NC with her husband and son.

My name is landri. I am a gay disabled southern queer virgo, lover boy, and non-binary barista. I make zines/prints/pottery full of gay love poems, lil line drawings, photo collages, and absolutely all of my love. Find more of landri’s work at landri.net.

M. Halstead is a zinemaker, printmaker, and sometimes a writer. M feels passionately about sharing and trading accessible art, especially encouraging people from all walks of life to collect unique and exclusive art at all price points.

Mysto (they/them) is a queer Latine comic artist and illustrator whose work focuses on telling queer horror stories. They are the creator of the ongoing horror anthology series Paroxysm, aiming to highlight marginalized voices in independent horror. Mysto’s work centers on themes of nature and transfiguration, the body, identity and sexuality, and mental health.

Nicole Driscoll is a photographer and zine maker who mixes analog film with printmaking to explore memory and stillness. See more of Nicole’s work at nicoledriscollfilms.com.

Niya Friday (she/they) is a mixed media artist from Charlotte, North Carolina. Their work centers Black femmes shaping the world, a focus that grounds both her creative practice and her perspective. They welcome collaboration and experimentation as a way to better understand herself and others. 

The Printed Yam is a collaborative art project consisting of Qufu Lee and Cam Ashford. Together, they produce informational zines, illustrated short stories, hand printed clothing, and art prints. From start to finish, everything is created and assembled by hand in a small home studio.

rzplendent (pronounced "resplendent") is a Carrboro-based artist primarily interested in illustration and block printing! Her work focuses on small things in her everyday life that evoke big feelings.

SamLevi(they/them, aka sunkidcreates) is a multidisciplinary artist, community organizer, and educator. They attended UNC-CH and are going back to school in the fall for social transformation in theology. They make zines and art about disability, queer/trans identity, and the divine. They live in Greensboro, North Carolina, but frequently travel within NC and VA for art festivals. SamLevi runs "Chboro" Zine Fest in Carrboro, NC. Find more of SamLevi’s work on their website samlevi.carrd.co.

shortsplit is a cartoonist who makes short comics and mini zines about everything from identity and sexuality to dinosaurs and deep sea invertebrates. He specializes in t4t queer erotica about people you feel like you might know, and the intersection of the surreal and the mundane.

Triangular Comics & Zines is an online and itinerant shop featuring comics, zines, and other things made by folks in the Triangle. TCZ is run by Patrick Holt a Durham-based designer, artist, and erstwhile librarian; see his work at patrickholtportfolio.com.

Wayward is “an undisciplined space for radical plotting”  -- a leftist arts and politics collective smuggling anti-capitalist & anti-fascist ideas into our community by doing fun shit like showing movies, publishing zines, playing games, and welcomes rad artists and organizers for short residencies. our long term goal is to rematriate the land that wayward is sitting on.

Yumeng Fu makes illustrations and comics inspired by personal experience and cultural contrasts. She loves exploring different genres and visual styles through her work.