Saturday, May 8, to Saturday, May 15, check out hundreds of zine and comic exhibitors online at CANZINE.CA as part of TCAF 2021! Vendors will be divided into four sections: Chop City, Glue Grotto, Tape Town, and Sharpen Street. Check out their profiles below! (Whew, what a long list! We’re so excited to see you all there!)
Abs’ Art |
“Professional sticker designer, technically,” Cartoonist on Unceded Lekwungen territory (“victoria BC”) DM me about pet commisions or to chat about space gays <3
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Adroit Automotive Empowerment
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Adroit Automotive Empowerment wants you to learn more about your car! We create comics, zines, flip books, and other fun driving stuff. By learning a few simple things about how to take care of your vehicle, you’ll feel much more capable of taking on any challenge!
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Alice Mulder |
Alice Mulder is an illustrator from The Netherlands. In her work, she takes you to distant places, such as a motel in California or the mountains in Canada. Her illustrations have a minimal colour palette and a special atmosphere because of the risoprint technique. Her zines are about travelling in Canada and Lithuania, or the small details she encounters in everyday life.
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Allison Morris Lesch |
I am an artist and art educator living in Saint Louis, Missouri. My work explores hand-drawn, hand-painted illustration with a focus on color, pattern, and design. In addition to my illustration work, I am a certified art educator and currently teach private lessons from my home studio.
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Alyssa Pisciotto |
Alyssa is a queer artist from LaSalle, Ontario and now resides in Toronto. She graduated from OCAD University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Drawing and Painting and minoring in Printmaking. Painting and printmaking are her primary practice. Her current work revolves around themes of colour, line and shape, and how they interact with one another.
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Andi Schwartz |
Andi Schwartz is a writer, editor, acafemmeic, and zine maker. She created the Soft Femme zine series and the On Softness zine with Margeaux Feldman. You can find her more of her writing on her website www.andischwartzwrites.com. Andi is from the country but now lives in Toronto, Canada with her fur babies, Franny and Zooey.
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Andre Molnar |
After 20+ years as a software developer and creative leader, Andre has moved towards creative storytelling through illustration, motion graphics, and 3D. There is no escaping technology, but Andre is more interested in applying it to creative pursuits rather than exclusively solving technical challenges related to product and service development.
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Angela Poon |
Angela is a freelance illustrator and comic artist based in Mississauga, Ontario. She enjoys crafting and making dioramas every now and then. Contrary to popular belief, she loves dogs just as much as rabbits.
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Anisa Rawhani |
Anisa makes zines about mental health and sifting through trash. Proceeds from her zines are donated, with past charities including the Black Visions Collective, Covenant House Toronto, the Period Purse and Lebanon Red Cross. To assist with the COVID-19 crisis in India, proceeds from Spring Canzine will be donated to Mazdoor Kitchen, a citizen-run voluntary initiative, working to provide meals and subsistence to daily wage workers in North Delhi. Find her on Instagram @rawhanisa
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Anita Fow |
Hello!! I’m Anita, a multimedia illustrator making art, comics, and zines in Toronto. I enjoy creating works centering around identity and self-discovery that take place in dreamy worlds with humanoid and animal creatures. Thank you for taking the time to browse through my art!
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Anita Ho |
Anita Ho is a visual development artist, freelance illustrator, and art consultant based in Vancouver, BC. Her art is fun and full of color and she uses plants and animals as inspiration for her work. She also likes creating fantasy characters and fictional worlds in her drawings. Other than drawing, she enjoys basking in nature, spending her time playing dungeons & dragons with friends and tabling at local art festivals. You can find prints and stickers at my etsy shop! www.etsy.com/ca/shop/anitartlet
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Arielle Jennings |
Arielle Jennings is a 2014 RISD graduate, art educator, freelance illustrator, and native of Brooklyn, NY. She was a former staff illustrator at Ramona Magazine for Girls. Her work focuses around intersectional feminism, strong female characters, politics, and vibrant, quirky designs. Contact info: E-mail: [email protected] Instagram: Arimjenn
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Ashley Hasfal |
As a graduate of the Sheridan Bachelor of Applied Arts Animation program, Ashley has trained to hone her craft in 2D animation as well as 2D design and illustration. In 2016 her artwork was accepted into the Vixen Varsity Afrofuturism Anthology, and she tabled at Vancouver Comic Arts Festival in 2017 and 2019. She currently works as a Layout Supervisor in the TV animation industry. As a Black woman of Jamaican and Guyanese descent, it is very important to her to create artwork that reflects racialized people, most specifically Black women and girls positively, in all forms of visual arts. Her work seeks to normalize the presence of Black women and girls as the complex and interesting characters she would have liked to see as a child/teen.
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AVB |
Avb attended the International School of Comics, specializing in French comics and graphic novels. She has been working as a storyboard artist for some independent movies and has been collaborating as a cover artist for various publishers. Organizes digital painting and comics workshops and she’s actually a professor at the Pencil ART school, based in Rome. Is part of Cabin Boy Studio, and here at Festival you could find personal and collective projects! 🙂
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Beaniesprout |
Hello! I’m an artist that likes to focus on the concept of growth and awareness when it comes to mental health. I write about my personal experiences with mental health and the dangers of toxic relationships. I also really love bulbasaur!!
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Beth Wagner of Moongate Studios |
Beth Wagner is a self-published comic creator residing in Burnaby, BC Canada. Her comics include but are not limited to sci-fi, such as Space Trucking, slice of life comics such as Isaac & Lee, and fantasy noir detective, Sam Hawke. Her artistic influences range from Bil Keane and Charles Schultz to Jack Kirby and John Romita Sr.
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Blaise Moritz |
East Toronto creator of comics and illuminated books.
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Bread Comics |
I’m Bread! I’m a non-binary cartoonist based in Philadelphia. The content of my work varies pretty drastically, from a graphic novel loosely parodying Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics to small zines about monsters destroying cities to longform collaborative comics about skateboarding demi-god cats. If you have any questions feel free to contact me on Instagram @bread_comix or via email at [email protected]
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Carmen Pizarro |
Carmen Pizarro is an Illustrator based in New York. Their work encompasses vibrant palettes, tough babes, and bold designs along with cult movie references and fashion they’re currently into. They also draw inspiration from the West Coast desert where they grew up from and their Latine background.
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Carolina Baumgarten |
Hi! My name is Carolina Baumgarten and I’m an illustrator and comic book artist from Brazil. I’m better known as the author of Coffee, a little webcomic hosted at Tapas.io. I’m currently working on a lengthy graphic novel that I one day hope to publish, but for now here’s my Love Is Weird Zine!
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Charlie Sackett |
Comic artist, metal vocalist, demonologist. I make surreal zines with a sense of humor. Some are children’s stories. Some are the occult. Some of them are informative. All of them are weird.
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Charlit Floriano |
Humble seller of goods, amateur comic artist and professional fangirl
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Christina Hajjar |
Christina Hajjar is a queer femme first-generation Lebanese-Canadian artist, writer, and cultural worker based on Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of the Métis Nation in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work grapples with queer diaspora, body archives, and cultural iconography.
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Clara Christopher |
Hi, my name is Clara. I like zines and miniatures. You can find some of my knickknacks at The Printed Word bookstore in Dundas or at The Beguiling bookstore in Toronto.
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cryocannon |
illustrator and poet from suburbinomicon. i love jrpgs and all manner of incomprehensible things.
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Dank Zine |
Ann Kornuta is an artist, writer, and streamer who lives in Milton, Ontario. She created Dank Zine in 2018 and has been self-publishing monthly’s since. Dank Zine features artwork, articles and creative content created from the retro gaming community.
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Deep Madder |
Deep Madder is the umbrella name for a series of zines collecting all manner of confessional ramblings from the same two introspectively-inclined, socially-irrelevant editors. Founded in 2009 with the romantically alienated Deep Madder Monthly zine, the Deep Madder catalog has grown to encompass a series of literary, poetry, and comic zines with a variety of sub-themes but all of similar intent: articulating social incongruence and existential dread while providing comfort through vulnerability.
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droqen |
I’m droqen: an independent creator of low-res, high-design computer games. You can get most of them here: https://droqen.itch.io/ But this is Canzine! What’s a videogame designer doing here??? Around mid-2019 I realized I’d been keeping notes on creativity and game design for years, so I started this zine – Droqen Was Here – as a way to reflect upon and share some of my unfinished thoughts. Each issue captures what I was thinking about in a given month, and therefore, in a small way, who I was. Normally these zines are exclusively printed and mailed out to my patrons and a few friends, but I thought for Canzine I’d finally share a few of my favourite back issues. I hope you’ll check them out! If you’re interested in getting future issues of DWH, they are currently only available through my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/droqen
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Foxrock Zines |
Hi, I’m Foxrock! I’m brand new to the zine community, and I’m hoping to make it my new hobby/passion! Thank you for paying me a visit, and I hope you have a great time at Canzine!
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Free Radicals |
Free Radicals is an activist collective dedicated to creating a more socially just, equitable, and accountable science. We create zines for political education on the intersection of science, technology, and social justice, including topics like radical speculative fiction, scientific objectivity, labor and tech, and abolition and algorithms. |
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Gay 4 Pay Press
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Gay 4 Pay Press has been the world’s favourite (by default), queer men’s zine distro/press since 2014. We are almost entirely offline. We publish and carry zines about harm reduction, sex work, pleasure, consent, partying, sexual wellbeing, queer activism, and cruising. |
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Maamoul Press |
Maamoul Press is a multi-disciplinary small press and collective for the creation, curation and dissemination of art at the intersection of comics, printmaking, and book arts. We seek to uplift work from a diverse range of creators from marginalized backgrounds, fostering the arts in those communities through publishing, workshops, exhibitions, and distribution.
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Marie-Claude Abel |
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Mister Kitty |
Mister Kitty is Shaindle Minuk and David Merrill, who got married and then immediately started a print and digital small press to share their comics with the world. Since 2004 their website misterkitty.org has been the online home for original comics as varied as the brutalist adventure Zero Fighter, the dreamlike Behind the Blue Door, the romance thriller Element Of Surprise, and the appropriative clip-art minimalism of Jesus Christ Conquers the Martians. Misterkitty.org is also the home of their popular “Stupid Comics” feature which pokes fun at seventy years’ worth of bad comics.
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Pinch (graphic gastronomy) |
I found myself in a comic at the age of 6, my father had to go out for bread one night and I tagged along, in the car. He came out of the cafe and dropped three ‘ little Audrey’ comics on my lap and said, ‘there you go… see… ‘Audrey, its your name!’ A decade later, I was gifted an unique comic that opened my eyes to the magic of sequential art. I saw graphic-novels as an emotively powerful fine art medium. At University, I finishing my honours year with a walk-in graphic novel and an academic paper, questioning how simple lines and dots become an interpersonal experience. As a contemporary artist graphic-novels has inspire my art, for many years. I have exhibited all around the world in galleries and art fairs. Recently I was awarded a life changing residency to do comic art together with like minded artist from all over the world at Arteles, Finland. To this day, l enjoy well drawn stories and living in the present by drawing it.
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Pomegrantaire |
Hey I’m Alphonse! (Al for short). They/Them. I’m a 27 year old white trans artist based in Toronto, and I dabble in a range of mediums and love to experiment. My work mostly involves queer/trans themes, whether it’s personal or projected onto fictional characters. I love making zines, comics, & fanart and am thrilled to join Canzine this year for the first time! Best way to contact me is through my email: [email protected], but feel free to DM me on my other socials. B)
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Sequential: Canadian Independent Comic Book Magazine |
Sequential is a magazine dedicated to promoting the amazing independent work of Canadian comic book creators. We release a quarterly digital and print magazine filled with interviews, reviews, and articles to inform you about the best in Canadian comics. We cover Canadian creators who self publish, or do creator owned work and hope to help readers discover great Canadian indie comics. Getting to know local creators helps to build a stronger comic book community in Canada, so we connect you with the stories of creators you wouldn’t otherwise hear. Just in time for TCAF we’ve released an extra large issue 8 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first comic book published in Canada with articles covering the history of Canadian comics. Digital copies of our magazine available to download on our gumroad store, print copies are being sold here.
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Soft Chaos |
We are a collective of critically-engaged, award-winning game designers and collaborating guest artists who create intimate, vulnerable, and unique interactive works. Many of those works take the form of zines : )
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Spectacular Bear |
A bear who lives in a cave somewhere in so-called British Columbia. They like mushrooms, raspberries, and salmon sashimi. In their cave, they like to DIY their own clothing and furniture, write in their journal, and make minicomics and perzines. They started making zines in 2015.
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VISIO Magazine – Online & Print Literary & Arts Mag |
VISIO Magazine is an online & print literary & arts magazine published bi-monthly. Ever since we started in March 2020, VISIO has been dedicated to showcasing the weirdest, coolest, most outlandish, soft, loud and contentious literature & art of all kinds. VISIO as a crucible, where creatives come together to forge their visions, and create something bigger than the sum of our parts. VISIO allows us to transcend our daily monotony through unity, art, literature, and camaraderie. VISIO is a magazine, but a magazine may as well be VISIO. No true separation, as we are never separate from that which we forge in the flames of our imagination. Just last month we launched the AudioVisio podcast, a cerebral experience where we expose and explain the visions of creative individuals. In our first episode (available on Spotify), we talk to Manny Garavito, a Miami based comedian, about building a community and personal branding.
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WAT + ZAV |
WAT + ZAV makes stationery and multiples exploring personal and societal conflicts, nature, and folklore. Through self publishing we aspire to relate to others through observational commentary, storytelling, and drawing.
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Aarrow Ra |
This human uses a copier to create hybrids of drawing, collage, and poetry. Smooshing these practices together creates fun and spooky detritus that helps him cope with the existential dread.
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Arcane Bullshit |
Arcane Bullshit is a mysterious vendor of inane occult goods. Starting as a f*cked-up oracle deck, Arcane Bullshit rose to surreal prominence on social media and evolved into a general purveyor of ridiculous cosmic designs. Memes, stickers, pins, apparel, stories, sinister holes in the earth—Arcane Bullshit has you covered for all your transterrestrial nonsense needs. Also it’s currently just one person named Evan. Hi!
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Authentic Creations Artistic Apothecary |
kuwa jasiri Indomela the one + theirs + ellx + beauty pronouns Seed + Medicine + Birth Keeper kuwa jasiri (first name) engages in international writing and speaking opportunities that affirm People Of Heritage (Of Colour). As a genderqueer, Ghanaian, Cuban, Spanish, Zulu, Creole descendant the one is immersed in recultivating their Ancestral traditions and is passionate about Seed stewardship and native Seed dispersal to offer wellness and rest to the Land, Watershed and the Original Seedkeepers. We honour the Indigenous Peoples as the original inhabitants and traditional stewards of the land. Through the cultivation and distribution of cultural Seeds we affirm the societal greatness of genderqueer People Of Heritage. We work to reestablish sovereign governance, advocate for healthy food, land access, reparations, accessibility, abolition and accountability. We prioritize collective care, spiritual wellness and ancestral wisdom. 100% of sales goes towards our work.
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B&D Press |
B&D Press is a queer micro press from Montreal that specializes in non-fiction zines. It’s a project by Eloisa Aquino and Jenny Lin.
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Ban/She |
Ban/She is the artistic partnership of Niko Dalcin and Emma Hambly. One foul and foggy night in 2018, we heard a singular peal of thunder, looked up from our bubbling cauldron, and decided to make art together. We are dedicated to making the unfamiliar more familiar and finding the beating heart in all things monstrous. We make comics, zines, illustrations, collages, and a lot of screeching noises.
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Cosmic Coupe |
I’m Katie, a data strategist and maximalist based out of Boston, MA. After discovering that there was nothing out there combining indie publishing, utopian science fiction, print design, historic Art Deco glamour, and illustration, I decided to create Cosmic Coupe as a quarantine project! My goal is to imagine what the world might look like if humanity chose scientific progress and equality over power and destruction, and to encourage people to celebrate the unusual together; virtually, or in small communities.
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EA Douglas |
EA Douglas is an artist & writer currently living in Vancouver, BC. She publishes the perzine Strange and Mysterious Creatures and is currently growing out her hair.
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Emily Fay Fin |
Emily Fay Fin is a Toronto based illustrator, printmaker, writer, and book maker. She enjoys personifying animals, science fiction, and making things with yarn. Emily graduated from OCAD University with a bachelor of design in illustration and 2 minors in printmaking and creative writing.
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Emma Lucille Percy |
I’m an eco-artist, zine-maker, gardener, folk herbalist, and farm worker, and my pronouns are they/them. I am currently living in the Champlain Valley of Vermont, part of Ndakinna, the traditional lands of the Abenaki & Wabanaki people. I grew up in Western New York (Haudenosaunee Confederacy lands) and attended Alfred University from 2013 – 2017. My work seeks to deepen and strengthen the relationships between people and the more-than-human world, particularly with the plants that we share the earth with. I publish a monthly zine called Stravaig (a Scots Gaelic word for wandering without regard for outcome or destination).
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Faisal Kubba |
Hi! I’m Faisal and I make comics and illustrations. Thank you for stopping by and considering supporting my little corner of the internet!!
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Feels |
Feels is a publication about feelings. It is a place to explore, to share, and to be honest. Having an open dialogue about what’s going on inside of us can foster meaningful connection and make us feel less alone, especially in the social-media era that asks us to curate and polish our lives and feelings before sharing them — if we share them at all. Feels believes there are no good or bad feelings — the value comes from how we relate to them, how we experience them, and what we learn from them. Feels also believes in inclusion and recognizes that certain voices have been given the lion’s share of the spotlight throughout history. We are a feminist, sex-positive, 2SLGBTQ*, anti-racist, anti-colonial publication.
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FEYXUAN |
Xuan Nguyen || FEYXUAN is a disabled fey orchestral music composer, writer-poet, and illustrator-designer. Their recent projects have involved the solo development of aesthetic interactive fiction games exploring the nuances not exclusive to the following: power, trauma, madness, nonbinariness, divinity, and monstrosity. Their 2021 game project is OCHITSUBAKI (demo on Steam now). Their chapbooks include LUNG, CROWN, AND STAR (Dec 2020, Lazy Adventurer) and the libretto, THE FAIRIES SING EACH TO EACH (Feb 2021, Flower Press), and their upcoming novella is LIAR, LIONNESS (April 2021, Flower Press). Someday, they’d like to create something that makes them feel like Revolutionary Girl Utena does. They are the Art Director of Lazy Adventurer Publishing, do Graphic Design as part of the Grimalkin Records Collective, and currently work as a Graphic Design Intern at Sundress Academy for the Arts.
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Fyscuit |
Hello! I’m Fy, a brazilian artist that lives in Toronto and works in games as a 2D Animator. I have way too many hobbies and I’m always juggling all the cool things my brain wants to do! I love drawing cute things, doing cute merchandise and drawing funny comics. I also watch way too much anime.
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geegeecomics |
I draw autobio comics. These days most take place in my apartment or in my head. #StayHome Mental Health Advocate (she/her)
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Gerard Dalbon |
Gerard is a multidisciplinary, freelance artist and practicing illustrator, comic artist, printmaker, bookbinder, framemaker. Originally from Romania, Gerard graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and works as a freelancer for several prominent NYC artists. Gerard also thinks capitalism is a pyramid scheme.
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GUTROT |
Gutrot is a lowbrow artist currently slogging through the frozen forests of New England. With a focus on self-publishing, his work ranges from zines to prints, stickers, patches, textiles and commercial illustration. DIY or die!
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Haley Boros |
Haley Boros is an award winning graphic designer, illustrator, and published cartoonist. Outside of her career in the label printing and flexible packaging industry, her creative practice focuses on a lot of a whimsy and fantastical creatures – think dogs doing fantasy jobs. She has contributed to several comic and art anthologies including CORPUS, Everything is Going Wrong, Faerie Fire, Local Haunts, Welcome to Mina’s, and Fantastic Frights. She is often found not far from the park with her two dogs, Rusty and Ginger, heading out on a brand new adventure.
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Helen Geiger |
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I Forgot Why I Thought This Would Be Fun |
I Forgot Why I Thought This Would Be Fun (or IFWIT for short) spins out personal, art, and personal art zines with themes of slice-of-life comics, sketch books, collaborative issues, minis, and some stand-alone themes. My name is Fawndolyn (or Fawn), and I have 3 new zines premiering for TCAF/Canzine!
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Isabella Cesari |
Isabella Cesari is a student, writer, and illustrator born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She loves writing speculative fiction, particularly the kind that makes her scared to turn the light off at night, and is also a published poet and award-winning playwright. Isabella feels extremely lucky to be part of events that help keep the arts thriving even when we cannot gather in person!
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JefferyDraws |
Hello! My name is Jeffery, but I prefer my middle name Jessie. I’m Nonbinary and go by They/Them/Their and Xe/Xem/Xeir pronouns. Art is my passion. Art has always been a passion of mine since a young age. It has been a way for me to express myself when words cannot. It has allowed me to feel free, and the characters I create keep me company. I want to share my passion with others, and inspire them to follow their dreams. I make zines about mental health and recovery. Website: https://www.jefferydraws.ca/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/jefferydraws Carrd: https://jefferydraws.carrd.co/ Twitter: jefferydraws Insta: jeffery.draws
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Jennifer Lee Copping |
Jennifer Lee Copping is an Illustration graduate and Expressive Arts Therapist in training. She makes zines, patches, prints, one of a kind embroidery and sculpture, pins, stickers, clothing and more. Her work typically centres around bisexual femininity and queer love, and life as a disabled person particularly on the schizo-spectrum. She also loves horror, bright colours, glitter and her Italian Greyhound Audra.
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Jessica Hannigan |
Hi! I’m Jess, and I’m a freelance illustrator living and working out of Hamilton, Ontario. I like drawing flat, loud, and bright, with lots of silly characters. I can be reached at [email protected] for any questions! Thanks!
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Julia Louise Pereira |
Julia Louise Pereira is an illustrator who focuses on telling compelling stories using a mix of dark folkloric imagery that inspires a sense of mystery and intrigue, and ethereal plant and wildlife that brings a longing for the wilderness. She grew up in the GTA reading fairy tales and fantasy, which still influences her work to this day. Julia is a graduate of OCAD University in Illustration and is a co-founder of the emerging feminist art collective, Carpos Collective. Payment Method: Etransfer/Paypal: [email protected]
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kelly k |
Kelly K is an illustrator and cartoonist who spends half her time in Toronto and the other half on the net. She enjoys journaling, drawing OCs, and never finishing any games.
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Kelly Smith |
My name is Kelly and this is some stuff I made.
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KJ Martinet |
KJ Martinet is an all around arts person living in Brooklyn, NY. They are part of the comics crew Collective Stench and one half of the game studio Sisyphus.Rocks.
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MA|DE (Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace) |
MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collective gesture, a unity of two voices fused into a poetic third. It is the name given to the joint authorship of Canadian creators Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace, artists whose active solo practices differ quite radically from one another. MA|DE’s collaborative writing formalizes a process that began as an extended conversation between two people newly discovering one another: over a number of months, the pair messaged, texted, emailed, telephoned, conversed in person, left links on social media for the other to find, and mailed letters; their long, exploratory conversations opened up a language-space all their own … Featured items include collaborative and solo books, chapbooks and postcards from members of the MA|DE collective.
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MAKE! SHIFT! LOVE! |
Hi, my name is Keet. I’ve been making zines since 2007 but am a keener about self-publishing since I found out about copiers as a kid. MAKE! SHIFT! LOVE! is the umbrella of all my creative endeavours, centering MAKING, SHIFTING and LOVING as the core proponents of my practice. I make zines about and through my experiences as a queer fat non-binary immigrant person of colour. I enjoy waxing on about the past, solitude, places and spaces, the everyday, and the undulations of interpersonal relationships.
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Mehoi |
Mehoi is my indie artist label. I currently have a small shop and studio in Toronto where most of the magic happens (despite lockdown)..! Stickers, decals, cards, notebooks and pin sets featuring my original character illustrations have been curated for you here. Find more of my work at https://www.mehoi.com and please follow @mehoi on instagram and facebook. I’m a little social media shy but I’m trying to get over myself ( – _ – )…
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Moniker Press |
Moniker Press is a risograph print and publishing studio in Vancouver, BC that works collaboratively with artists and writers to produce small editions of books, zines and print ephemera.
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Morbid Comics |
Scottish independent comics artist and illustrator
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Nell de Jager |
Nell de Jager is a curious creature who makes their home in wilderness of BC, Canada. If you are lucky enough to spot Nell in the wild they will often be surrounded by books and stitching patches for their ever changing coat of memes. They are accompanied by their cat familiar at all times, and can be identified by their distinct queer markers and affinity for skulls and mushrooms. All zines are printed and assembled at home. Digital pdf copies are available at ko-fi.com/nellerific Many of the items available during TCAF/Canzine are last call and will not be available again once they sell out.
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PersephoneKnits |
PersephoneKnits is the small joy project created by Julie Reeser. An offering of art and stories in eclectic forms. Mini media recollects a world full of wonder, even when it feels like we’re trapped in the dark.
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SelkiePub Zines |
I’ve been writing my whole life, but in early 2020, I decided I was tired of trying to break into mainstream publishing. I just wanted to write and put it out there and I didn’t see why I shouldn’t be able to–thus, I turned to zines and I’m so glad that I did. The medium delights me in so many ways. I originally thought that I would be focusing on stories from other Mainers, but so far that isn’t how things have gone. Currently, I am publishing three zines on a quarterly basis: A Consuming Passion: A zine about ethical consumption Everyday Epic: What if the world of fairy tales is our world? What We Do: Invisible Workdays in the gig economy I also make single issue zines as I feel inclined to. Thanks for stopping by! Please e-mail for submissions information–we’ll see what we can work out! Digital versions of my zines–including printables–are available at a variety of price points in the SelkiePub Zines Ko-Fi and Etsy shops.
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Teh People Studio |
Teh People is an interdisciplinary production studio interested in brewing creative conversations and collaborations in quiet and evocative ways. It is home to San Press, a micropress that centers BIPOC storytellers who want to work in interdisciplinary formats. This includes print, digital, audio-visual, live performance, and installation formats. We love alternative, speculative configurations of literature and literary experiences, and are interested in bending and breaking convention, form and language in meaningful and creative ways.
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The Walking Mushroom |
The Walking Mushroom creates playful and original illustrations that are introspective, often expressing truths about what it means to be human–to think and to feel. Joyce Shin, the human behind the mushroom, is an illustrator, graphic designer, and printmaker based in Toronto, Canada.
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Transparent Views |
Transparent, as in a trans person who is a parent. Transparent as in the stories I write and draw are often more revealing than I actual intended. Based in Toronto, j wallace skelton is a queer and trans person (yes, both, I’m lucky) a parent of three, and someone who has spent a lot of time in the last year in my small urban space with up to five family members, a dog and three chicken. I hate noise. I love my people. I draw academic things because I want them to be accessible. I draw queer and trans things because I love and believe in our us and our stories. I draw the things that move me, the things that make me angry and the things that keep me up at night.
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Zine Fiends |
Zine Fiends is a zine club based in London, Ontario. We meet once a month to discuss zines. It is also occasionally I pseudonym which I – Jill C., creator of Zine Fiends – use for my zines. I do this knowing it is confusing for people who are being introduced to this project, but also because it helps to keep things nice and loose. At least, that’s what I tell myself. Zine Fiends is the co-creator of Zineography, London, Ontario’s zine fest. I also co-own Community Radio Distro with the wonderful Jenna Rose Sands. When we are able to meet in person, Zine Fiends hosts workshops and creates anthologies.
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AIWS |
AIWS is an art project created by Lex Kartanė. Lex is a trans, autistic, disabled vegan artist, illustrator, and zine maker. Most of their zines talk about disability, autism and neurodiversity. They also recently started creating more work for students and is part of initiative to bring more inclusive sex education to schools.
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Aviatrix Press |
I’m Madeline (she/her) a Los Angeles based bookbinder, illustrator, and print-adjacent-person. Back in college, I got into bookbinding and printing when I was studying art conservation. Now I do small editions of artist books and zines that feature my art and writing under the moniker of Aviatrix Press. History, ephemera, and feminist narratives are the themes at the core of my work. My process incorporates vintage and historic craft, such as hand bookbinding, risograph printing, and letterpress. When I’m not making art, I work at the International Printing Museum where I get to mess with antique printing presses and nerd out about history. My work has been featured in a number of collaborative zines in addition to my own publications. I am also happy to chat about commissions for illustrations or bindings.
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BrokeDown Artist – Oshi |
27 year old London ON artist – an immigrant from Sri Lanka. New to art, starting my journey at age 23. Introduced to zines by a very good friend, found a sense of relief through the medium and the freedom it allowed. Building my skills – self taught and constantly exploring new horizons. Simply want to share the constant ruminations of my mind with the world, hoping to help those out there and possibly add to the beauty around me. Still discovering what zines and art can do for me, and what I can do for the community!
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Carnemia |
Mia C. is an illustrator and designer located in Toronto, Canada. With her work, she is interested in motifs from folktales, Mediterranean antiquities, nature, and various mythologies. She strives to write, illustrate, and create artwork with strong narrative, fantastical patterns and occasionally bright colour palettes. In her spare time, you can find Mia working on her graphic novel, VEYOLAN, searching through various collected ephemera for reference, or making homemade pasta.
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Cartoon Distortion |
Luis Blackaller, a.k.a. Cartoon Distortion (he/him), is an artist from Mexico City with an interest in public space, issues of representation and diversity in popular culture, the life-cycles of narrative colonialism, and good old fashioned cinema. In a past life, he’s worked in films like Amores Perros, and attended grad school at the MIT Media Lab. Luis lives in Los Angeles, where he began self-publishing his personal work under the Cartoon Distortion label, a platform with a simple mission: to find and bring to light his personal vision of Latin American media and life in Mexico City.
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Goblyn |
My name is Lynn, and I’m a Montreal-based artist and fresh zinester, born and raised in Beirut. I’m a graduate student at Concordia completing a Master’s degree in Educational Studies. When I’m not making art or drowning in academic jargon, I’m looking for inspiration in anime, music and media. My art attempts to reconcile my inner realities as an immigrant woman faced with alienation, voluntary exile and trauma with my quest for renewal, reclamation and rebirth of self and culture. My upcoming art projects are based in resisting commodification, rejecting the fetishization of immigrant trauma and navigating womanhood. For now, enjoy the fresh zines and art that I made while healing. Look at me I’m fresh <3
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Grrrl Zine Fair |
Grrrl Zine Fair platforms women, transgender, and non-binary artists and makers and is comprised of a self-publishing fair, panel talks, performances, live music, exhibitions, and workshops curated by artist Lu Williams. The Grrrl Zine Library currently tours the world and when she’s at home, lives at The Old Waterworks in Southend-on-sea, UK.
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hope & hunger handbound books |
Hope & Hunger Handbound Books is a series of hand-bound artist books featuring poetry and prose. The works are inspired by feminism, diaspora and community and written by poet, curator and cultural critic, leaf jerlefia.
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Illuminated Press |
Illuminated Press is an independent publisher that crafts books to provide readers with new information, give voice to a wide range of perspectives, and explore the complexities of our social/political/economic fabric. To bring light amid darkness and uncertainty. Our books feature new and emerging writers and artists in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and text-image. Books are bound by hand with sustainable materials including handmade papers from rags and scrap fabric. Illuminated Press was founded by Laura Rowley in 2014.
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Laura Salgarolo |
Laura Salgarolo is a Hudson Valley-based illustrator, bookmaker, printmaker, and storyteller. Much of her work draws from fairytales, mythology, and fantasy, and the transformations of those stories across time and culture. She collects elements of familiar tales to rework and retell through a balance of words and images.
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Laurence Dea Dionne |
Laurence Dea Dionne shares their time between three loves: drawing, stories, and family. In their life, and through their works (among others: Nuances, Zen & the Ephemeral, and the Homeward series written by author Francis McNamee), this artist promotes bilingualism, a testament to their Montreal origin, in addition to wellness; most notably mental health and gender identity. Equipped with a bachelor’s degree in art education from Concordia University, Laurence teaches comics in the public system and in the community; sharing the magic of art and speaking to the importance of wellness throughout the world.
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Lennon Sweets |
My name is Lennon and I am a nonbinary transmasc comic artist from Toronto. (He/They)
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Long Arm Stapler |
My name is Maira (they/them) and I make zines and a podcast about zines under the name Long Arm Stapler. I’m based in the Bay Area in California. My work centers around the intersections of gender and mental health. I make perzines and fanzines (karaoke, King of the Hill, Bravo’s Top Chef), as well as two dog coloring zines. Currently soliciting submissions for Karaoke Zine #3! If you’re interested in talking to me about zines on my podcast, please fill out the form on the Contact page on my website.
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Matthew Springer |
Matthew Springer is a multidisciplinary artist based in Calgary Alberta, and recent 2020 photography graduate from AUArts. Matthew Works with various mediums such as traditional drawing and painting, photography, digital art, sound and music to explore the strangest corners of the subconscious mind and of worlds never seen before.
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Mazie Lovie |
Mazie Lovie is a cartoonist from rural Ontario, Canada. She loves comics, raccoons and stories about witches.
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Miapear |
Hello zine lovers, I am Mia Dang, a Vietnamese illustrator based in Toronto, an OCADU alumni. My works are a combination of fun, sweet, bright and interceptive illustrations. I take pride in introducing Vietnamese culture to my audiences as well as promoting positivity in life. As an optimistic, I look at life with my inner child. I create works inspired by everything I see. On my days off, you can find me riding bike along Bloor enjoying the sun and sketching. If you have any questions, you can send me a message on Instagram @miapear
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Monique Chiam Illustration |
Monique is an illustrator from Cambridge, Ontario. Her work combines analogue techniques with digital, and focuses on narrative storytelling that is inspired by her interests in music, textile arts, gastronomy, and children’s TV shows. In her spare time, she can often be found visiting local destinations to sketch and paint on site with members of the Waterloo Region Urban Sketchers group. Connect with Monique on Instagram @moniquechiam or at www.moniquechiam.com
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Moon Toboggan |
Michael McGlennon’s art feels like something you might discover posthumously in your friend’s garage as you dig through a trunk packed with rotting encyclopedias, star maps, a disassembled mechanical model of our solar system, and foraging guides for mushrooms in Canada. Wondering at this strangely assembled collection you begin sorting through all of his sketchbooks, stacks of poetry, confessionals, short stories and cassette recordings, finding a carefully documented expanse of folklore. You begin to look through and listen to these creations all at once, curiously poking your head through windows into another world. A kaleidoscope of things reflected: beautiful, tragic, and sickly hilarious, like a dream you can’t forget – awake to the porous membrane between our experiential universe and its limitless parallels.
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Morgan Sea |
Morgan Sea is a trans cartoonist living in Toronto. Her performance, video, and storytelling practice often blends fantasy and queer theory to create trans feminist mythologies. She just finished a Master’s Degree at OCAD University before the world ended. She thought she would have more to sell, but its been a very depressing year. You know how it is.
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Natasha Brennan |
Hi! My name is Natasha Brennan and I am an illustrator and printmaker based in Providence, Rhode Island. My work is about childhood, comfort, and everyday life- whatever that means. The point of it is tenderness and connection, something anyone would be able to relate to. I hope you like looking 🙂
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Neartown Zine |
Neartown is a somewhere–nearby (likely) but sometimes it feels farther. We’re not really sure if you can even be in Neartown, or if you know it’s there before you stumble into it. The Neartown zine is a collection of short sci-fi and speculative stories, interspersed with other artwork, exploring non-carceral justice practices (healing, transformative, restorative, and whatever our co-creators dream up). Through this process, we hope to experience what others imagine it means to get to Neartown, what challenges we might have there, and what solutions we can call into existence through Neartown. Neartown is us imagining, all at the same time, through the co-creation of the Neartown zine.
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Nicky Thew |
Freelance Illustrator, 2D Digital artist and huge freak in Toronto, Canada!
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Nicole Rodrigues |
Nicole Rodrigues is an artist and educator who lives and works in Philadelphia. Their work includes making illustrations, comics, prints, screen printed shirts and sometimes animations. Nicole’s work can provide visual insights on how people inhabit our world differently in their physical and mental states, shedding light on the connections we have to nature and our interpersonal relationships.
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Olivia Thomson |
Artist and Zine Maker from New Brunswick Insta: @oliviamthomson DM me if you want to swap <3
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Oscar Dennis |
Oscar Dennis (b. 1998) draws comics. He likes old timey things but doesn’t care much for circuses.
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quinn milton |
hi! i’m quinn, a trans multidisciplinary artist and zinester. i make works about queer culture, monsters, dis/utopias, horror, sickness, and dreams. all writing, poetry and art is by myself, except for some creative commons images. thanks for checking out my work! feel free to message me any questions or tell me about your favorite horror movie. [they/ze pronouns]
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Quinn Thibault |
quinn is a genderqueer bean who makes films, clothes, jewelry, ephemeral sculptures, writes, creates digital artefacts, talks about themselves in the third person, and cuddles animals that absolutely would rather be left alone things that influence their creations include their messy DIY approach, radical politics, cute creepy vibes, shadow work aka excavating the crass within, sobriety, angels, and shiny things they currently live in Tiohtià:ke/Mtl, Canada on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation
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Rabeea Syed |
I’m Rabeea Syed, a Pakistani Canadian graphic designer, zinester, and arts educator. I love self publishing zines and facilitating Zine Making workshops. I make zines and sequential art about my personal experiences as a visible Muslim WOC living in Canada. My instagram is @rabeeasyed
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Rachel Lau |
Rachel Lau is an artist, writer, and radio producer based in what’s colonially known as “Vancouver”. They have lots of feelings and they make things. Rachel is also a gay librarian for Queer Reads Library, a mobile library of books and zines centred around queer narratives based in Hong Kong and Vancouver.
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Radio Chio |
Radio Chio is the name for the collaborative works of Bugbyte and Delade, a husband and wife team of creative individuals based in Buffalo, New York. We are best known for our sci-fi webcomics, Messenger and Follower, which are set in the same universe!
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Reflective Zines |
My name is Mary and I am the creator of Reflective Zines! I create mental health zines in hopes of providing support, insight, solidarity, and hope to others. I also make poetry zines; some of my writing topics include attachment, dreaming, identity, and self-love. Thank you so much for checking out my work!
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Rita Fei |
An illustrator based in Vancouver, BC, and graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. I love creating characters and worlds for the wonderfully broad spectrum of speculative fiction!
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Ryookyung Kim |
Ryookyung Kim [they/them] is a Tkaronto-based, interdisciplinary artist with a focus in visual storytelling through zines, tattoos, and ceramics. Through a queer, diasporic lens, their ever-evolving work tends to realms of grief, spirituality, and radical love. Rooting into freedom through stillness and play, they invite flow into their creative practice that honours their human experience of feeling and dreaming—alongside tension and discomfort that comes hand-in-hand with expansion and growth.
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Sabrina Rawlins |
Sabrina is an illustrator and comic creator in Vancouver, BC. They are making an ongoing webcomic, InFallible, about growing up as a queer femme person in the Mormon church. When they want to make something fun, they create fantasy illustrations and comics about becoming the best gay fae monster you can be. And skulls!
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Self_Saboteur |
Self_Saboteur is a South Asian chronically-ill artist, who creates zines about disability and social issues. Through comics, poetry and illustrations drawn in bright and vibrant colors, she hopes to share honesty and vulnerability in her work.
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Starly Art Studio |
Starly Art Studio is a zine, art and print business run by Sabrina Sims! Sabrina is a badass Black Afro Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx, New York. She’s also an interdisciplinary artist that makes art and zines inspired by sparkly anime magic, friendships, her feelings about feelings, and what it’s like being a cute chronically ill femme. Some of her other interests include creative tech, archiving her personal past and learning how to make music. She even makes zines about zines and being an artist (how meta!)
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StopGap Foundation |
StopGap Foundation is a registered Canadian charity with a core purpose of bringing people together to take practical steps and make spaces more accessible.
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Stray Books |
Since our founding in 2018, Stray Books has always believed that thought-provoking, interesting, and worthwhile storytelling lives in the written word. Since then, we’ve worked with writers and artists from all over Western Canada, bringing to life weird, funny, and touching original stories.
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WAT + ZAV |
WAT + ZAV makes stationery and multiples exploring personal and societal conflicts, nature, and folklore. Through self publishing we aspire to relate to others through observational commentary, storytelling, and drawing.
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We Are Friends |
Eunice Lai and Nabila Roshd are two friends who love zines as much as they love each other.
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Bit of Bitter Butter |
I draw a lot of bears doing things and pulling weird expressions. Also comics, not necessarily of bears, but more mundane things like taking a walk through suburbia or people turning into geese. I love fantasy, and eerie faerie tales, and macabre things of that ilk…but I also can’t help making dumb jokes.
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Diode Editions |
Diode Editions is an independent press based in Doha, Qatar and Richmond, Virginia. Editor-in-Chief Patty Paine founded the press in 2012 as an offshoot of Diode Poetry Journal. To date, the press has published 37 titles of poetry, chapbooks and poetry-related nonfiction works and hosts yearly book and chapbook contests.
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Divide Magazine |
Divide Magazine is a global centric, bimonthly contemporary art publication focused on showcasing works from emerging visual artists and interviewing established creators. Divide Magazine is one of the only publications committed to representing all disciplines in visual arts including Mixed Media, Illustration, Photography, and Street Art. We strive to constantly push and provoke the boundaries of art. Divide Magazine and our team does not judge artists by their education, race, preferences, or backgrounds, simply the artist’s talent.
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Extra Pulp |
Two friends, making stuff. One with words, one with a camera.
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Fly Projects |
Fly Projects brings artists together to create independent art publications and projects. This collective is an extension of the former art space, Fly Gallery. Fly Gallery was a storefront window gallery located in the Queen West neighbourhood of Toronto, co-curated by artists Tanya Read and Scott Carruthers from 1999 – 2011. The mandate of the gallery was to keep art accessible, provide a free space for artists to exhibit and to contribute to the cultural life of the street.
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Friendship to the Max Collective |
We are a Toronto arts collective run by cute friend babes who love arts and crafts!
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Old Growth Press |
Old Growth Press is a small press with a focus on minoritized voices and sustainability. Co-founded in 2018 by Terrence Abrahams and Cleopatria Peterson, we are committed to publishing the work of BIPOC and/or LGBTQ2S+ Canadian artists. Old Growth Press aims to further an environmentally conscious practice and mindset by bringing our books into physicality using acid-free paper and recycled binding materials.
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Paper Innards Distro |
Paper Innards makes playful autoethnographic and collaborative work, offering up soft personal data to bait the curious and invite connection.
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Partizanka Press |
Partizanka Press is a micropress and distro of zines, artist’s books and multiples, based in Hamilton, Ontario. We are a shop that carries a curated collection of printed matter with a focus on Southwestern Ontario, and beyond. We are particularly interested in punk, art, politics, local history and vernacular knowledge, and publications that reflect some the most pressing issues of our time. We are also interested in working with artists to develop and print new projects. We review projects on an ongoing basis.
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Sammy Makes Things |
Hi! I’m Sammy, and I like to make things, including zines, comics, and most recently, a chapbook of bad ice cream poetry. I like to make things that incorporate an absurd sense of humour and often lots of colour, and I love to experiment with collage.
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Samuel W. Grant (ViewMasterPress) |
My name is Samuel W. Grant, I’m an artist/illustrator from the US. I currently live in Spain. Since 2016 I’ve been self-publish small A6 sized mini comic zines on subject matters that range from portrait drawings, to introspective illustrations, to cheeky, off-beat comic humor, and more.
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Saul Freedman-Lawson |
Saul Freedman-Lawson is a student and illustrator living and working in Toronto, Ontario. They write and draw about queerness, transness, Judaism, and childhood/childcare. Their comic, “Naturally” is forthcoming from Old Growth Press in May 2021. They are the illustrator of S. Bear Bergman’s “Special Topics in Being a Human,” forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press in fall of 2021.
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Sebastien Sunstrum |
Comics author from British Columbia, making thoughtful science-fiction comics.
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Servally Stellan |
Hey Canzine, this is my first time here 😀 I’m just a nerd who draws critters (read: lots of cats), comics, and original characters. Thanks for perusing my wares!
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Shantel Bell |
I am a newbie comic creator, tea drinker, and Starbucks fan. 🙂
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Shira Anisman |
Oh hi, I’m Shira! I’m an illustrator, living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka vancouver). My favourite thing in this world is to tell a story and see people react. I usually do narrative illustration, and I use digital mediums, watercolour, and ink. However, I’m also super interested in more hands on stuff like fabric dyeing and knitting and dancing! If you like my art, please consider telling me you like it. That would make me really happy!
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Shizuka Yoshimura |
I’m a Japanese runner and artist, currently living in Vancouver. My focus now is taking nature photography around my neighborhood in Strathcona. After the pandemic, I have been experimenting with alternative photo prints such as Cyanotype. I love mountain running, taking a nap, singing, gardening, and observing nature. I traveled to many places from 2014 to 2019, and I made zines though this experience and what I saw in the world. I’m a writer, photographer and gardener as well! So my art can be many different forms, sometimes zines, photographs, articles or vegetables!
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smallfoxdraws |
Unicorn is non-binary eleven year old with access to a huge number of art supplies. They like to draw anime, tiny things, and things they find cute. Their zines are tiny books, folded out of a single sheet of paper. Unicorn cares about family, social justice, and making peace. When they are not drawing zines, they are playing piano or cello, or reading. Unicorn loves math, puzzles, drawing maps, making up games and recently learned to code. They love to collect all manner of small things and have a fantastically curated display of them. Unicorn hopes that you enjoy their zines, that they make you smile and that they inspire you to see child art in your world.
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Sonya Katashonova |
I specialize in using my four years of studying and training in Illustration at OCAD to really capture the weirdness of bird feet, the roundness of chickens and various other highly specific animal traits. I also like rendering tiny details in paintings and drawing unamused people in unrealistic situations. Absolutely scatterbrained in life and art, I enjoy working in most mediums I try, including pen and ink, oil paints, acrylic gouache and tattooing. Please check out my pinned instagram stories to see flip throughs of the printed zines; check out my instagram and website to see other work I’ve done!
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Sophie Reingold |
I am a Seattle based comic artist, art teacher, and bagel enthusiast. I make art that is whimsical, funky, and transforms the seemingly unimportant or everyday into something to be cherished. I strive to produce artwork that educates and uplifts while being accessible, meaningful, and humorous.
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Sophie Wang // wangshuf zines |
Hi, I’m Sophie or Shuf (“shoof”)! I make zines ‘n stuff with a critical lens on science & tech and a personal lens on my 2nd gen Chinese American experience. I use comic zines as an easily reproducible, shareable, and engaging medium to communicate how science and society interact with one another, in service of making academic literature more accessible and creating a more equitable science and society. They’ve been used in classrooms from middle school to high school to undergrad to grad to adult professional development! Always happy to chat science, social justice, and zines – DM or email me 🙂
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Squishy Freak Frolic Monster Society |
The Squishy Freak Frolic Monster Society was created in hopes to build a supportive community for monsters and monster-enthusiasts through art and education. We love reading books and watching films about monsters, and drawing and writing about them! One of our first projects was creating a newsletter that would be free to be picked-up at local Toronto stores. Our plan was when the next newsletter is created, the old one is retired and only available at a back issue cost. Supplement zines would be produced and sold containing materials not fitting in the initial free newsletter (These supplemental zines are the Winter Monsterland Scrapbook and the Botanical Bestiary Artbook). The SFFMS consists of one imaginary monster (Mr. Fuzzypants) and one human lackey (squishy sheik-preney). Squishy Sheik-Preney, diagnosed with Too-Much-Imagination at an early age, has learned to embrace this “handicap” and to funnel this creativity into artwork and zines. 😉 [email protected]
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Stephanie Kenzie |
Stephanie Kenzie is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Toronto. She has been making zines since 2011, and has done many zine shows in Toronto and elsewhere. She works with screen printing and risography, and she graduated from OCADU with a degree in Illustration and Printmaking. Her work is handmade and imperfect, and draws upon her own adventures with Mental Health. It centers silliness and joy, because it is important, and hopes that it will also brighten your own day, dear reader. She also just really likes drawing chubby cats in exercise gear.
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Sven Comics & Art |
Sven (he/him) is a cartoonist and illustrator, living and working in Toronto. His comics work, which can be found at svencomics.ca, includes Starbound (2018), Dark Magic (2020, with Rachel Evangeline Chiong), and the forthcoming Words Plural #1 (expected 2021). He’s taller in person.
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Talbert Johnson |
Toronto-based cartoonist specializing in cute critters and quirky historical ephemera.
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The Art Bog |
The art bog is a creative endeavor by a few bog lovin’ friends who want to swamp around get wild and whimsical with big bog ideas. Zines, books, pins, trading cards, doodles, sketches, ephemera.
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Tim Ballard (the House of Yinlod) |
timballardcreations.com Visual storyteller, working in animation, illustration and video editing with special interest in the natural world, history, ethno-botany and works of the imagination. Tim can usually be found rummaging around for edible wild plants, drawing animals, working on animations or writing and illustrating comics such as his most recent work, Icy Pete. Tim grew up mostly around the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, but since then has lived in various places – the California desert, Spain, South Korea and Brooklyn. Currently he’s located in a mossy, hollowed-out cedar with a robust internet connection somewhere in the greater Vancouver area.
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Tori Holder |
Tori Holder is a comix zinester from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the beautiful mundanities of everyday life.
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Tuyetnhi Pham |
Tuyetnhi Pham is a Vietnamese American illustrator and educator from Grand Rapids, MI (USA). She thought about becoming an artist since middle school and now here she is, making her own stuff. Nowadays she’s working on her webcomic Only In Your Dreams! while being immersed in a variety of zine projects. Her narratives weave the mundaneness of daily life with the fantastical, often with somber overtones, sometimes with sparkles, but always with the complexity of humanity and those who mimic it. Expect her mulling these lifelong questions over astrological readings on her free days.
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Victor Martins |
Hi! My name is Victor. I’m a transmasc Brazilian cartoonist living and working in Toronto who makes funny comics and sad comics (and sad AND funny comics). My work has been nominated for multiple awards, including the PRISM Queer Comics Award and the Doug Wright Spotlight Award. I’m also a part of Hello Boyfriend Comics Collective. You can find digital copies of all of our work here – https://helloboyfriend.itch.io/
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Vincy Lim |
Vincy Lim is a Chinese-Canadian non-binary sapphic illustrator and cartoonist whose work revolves around the themes of self-love, queerness, disability, and abuse. Through graphic memoirs and fictional stories grounded in the realities of today’s marginalized groups, Vincy produces works that emphasize on loving yourself, healing, and the recovery process. As a recent escapee of abuse and attempted murder, Vincy wishes to highlight the ability to move onwards and feel content with one’s life despite their past or current situations. Vincy strives to create comics that speak on behalf of those who cannot, that tell the stories of those who live in hiding and in fear, and let them know that there is hope and happiness at the end of it all.
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VirusVisal |
I’m Virus Visal a comic artist from Puebla, México. I have being part of a couple comic anthologies such as “Dirty Diamond #7 Imagination” and “Built on Strange Ground (and a couple mexican ones you probably haven’t heard about). I make journal, fantasy and fanarty comics. I also love baking and D&D. (English is not my first language but I translated these comics to the best of my abilities)
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Vivi Doodles Press |
Vivi Doodles… Isn’t actually my real name. I know, shocking! My real name is Vivi Partridge, I live in Toronto, I have 2 pet rats, and I’m an illustrator! I like making work that makes others smile, whether it be stickers, buttons, prints or zines. Nobody has seen me and the rat king in a room together so I’m not saying I’m the rat king but…
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Whimsy Machine Media |
Whimsy Machine is the creative outlet of me, Taylor Curreysmith (he/him). I write tabletop roleplaying games that I think you’ll enjoy. I’ve included a handful of my zine games here, spanning a range of genres from sci-fi to sleep aid, body horror to brotherhood. Also available is the physical book for Spell: The RPG, a game which uses letter tiles to represent a magic universal language–what you spell is what you cast.
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Work Press & Publication |
Work Press & Publication is an independent print and publishing house founded in 2013 by Will Arnold and Tate Foley. Work Press started because of a mutual interest in small-press, short-run, desktop publishing and Risograph printing. We are interested in creative projects that situate themselves in a mezzanine between fine artist’s books and efficiently produced zines. While a lot of Work Press’s books and prints contain various printing and production processes, Risograph printing is at the heart of our shop.
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Xiaoxiao Li |
Xiaoxiao – Hi I make stuff, also study at OCAD and work in the animation machine. A lot of autobio stuff. My books have won a Doug Wright Award and Broken Pencil Zine Award. My insta @xiao_xli Books here are all physical copies. Digital versions are on my Gumroad for free or PWYW. Everything bought (including Mason’s stuff) comes with a surprise zine. bye! Mason – I’m an illustrator living in downtown Toronto. I enjoy biking and making comics. When there isn’t a pandemic happening, I spend a lot of time with my friends. Check out my instagram @mxsonjxr for more comics and my website www.masonart.ca for cool paintings.
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Yina Wang |
Trained as an illustrator, YiNa Wang lives in the beautiful city of Vancouver. Her practice is illustration-based, but she also works in design and traditional acrylic paint. In September 2020, her work “Nippon” was awarded as Runner Up in Creative Quarterly 61 Professional Illustration Competition. In her work, YiNa explores Japanese Culture, food, and abstract art. She is currently the founder of YiEON, a brand that she has started that sells T shirts, Tote Bags and Accesories.
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