Welcome to the KC Zine Con Virtual Table page — our online exhibitor's hall!
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I sell stickers, pins, three art zines/books of various sizes with original work, handmade earrings and will have the first issue of my first comic at my table :^) I know this is a little premature but if possible I would love to sit next to Nia Rutledge please! I am also open to sitting at a half table rather than a full table.
My zines are a variety of diary and fictional original characters stories. They cover a range of topics including anti-fat bias, queerness, challenging mental health stigma, and cute fun times!
I will have illustration prints, a zine showcasing sketches, a zine showing my Chinese Takeout senior thesis project from KCAI, stickers, and possibly ceramics and fiber work!
My zines are autobiographical, humorous and hand drawn, catering to a middle grade audience. My work revolves around food, animals, and growing pains.
Coloring books and mini comics! I love turning my art into zines. Come check me out for a weird combo of skulls, vending machines and anime fan art.
My zines are kid friendly and oriented in simple to read fashion! I also create comics about identity and mental health. My mini-zines are simple and fun- like alligators and frogs being friends and dragons+ knights! Fandom zines will also be made for Pokemon and other interests. I also implement bookbinding techniques to my zines sometimes. My content ranges from kids books to graphic novel comics for teens. Examples can be seen on my website.
+ Zine about 12 sacred trees and their importance to different cultures of the world.
+ Zine on the monkey mind with ink and color graphic
+ Zine about some personal artworks related to flow process
+ Zine about plants
+ Zine about inner negative emotions and how zen can help
+ Graphic Novel about how kids are naturally embracing all people and nature despite of social conditioning
+ Graphic Novel about dragon, priestess and subconscious
+ Ukraine sunflower print for donations to Global Giving
I enjoy mature themes that involve Gothic and Fantasy tropes. I will have a comic titled, "Hot Girl Battle Royale", it is about a group of succubi gladiators fighting to the death in a hellish colosseum. I will also have a sapphic paranormal romance comic by the name of, "Delilah Rose", and a vampiric heavy metal comic named, "Shred" available. I currently have two illustrated poetry zines, "Letters from your Vampire Mistress" and "Angel of Decomposition and Rot" and more!(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
I’m queer, trans, Latino illustrator and I love to write zines and mini comics about a variety of topics. I love making cute, colorful pieces and my work often features sci-fi and fantasy themes, pop culture, video games, and small glimpses into my mental health journey.
I’m a solo illustrator and writer that makes comics and zines about my life, various identities and passions through the lens of supernatural stories. So like, a story about being trans but if it involved space parasites. Or a comic about the importance of safety regulations, and witches.
My zines will highlight mainly the Asian-American experience but especially what it's like to be Vietnamese (my ethnicity). I will do this by interviewing the people around me, and I will include other various how-tos I will also feature a photography zine sharing photos from my trip to Vietnam in the summer of 2022 and my experience of visiting again after ten years. I plan of selling various art and photography prints as well! The proceeds here will go into funding my upcoming short film.
Kruttika Susarla is an illustrator and cartoonist from Andhra Pradesh, India. She makes fiction and non-fiction comics on social, political, and literary themes.
As a zinester, I like to delve into different zine subjects ranging from art, comics, perzines, instructional, and personal poetry. And with my distro Rebel PYNK, I'd like to showcase zines with a wide variety of subjects and themes.
Erika Sakata's zines center around themes of sexuality, gender identity, and bipoc narratives. Their zines typically showcase stylistic mixed media and controlled color palettes. While largely intertwining poetry with watercolor and ink illustrations, they strive to portray their view as a mixed-raced, queer individual in the midwest to their readers.
Simple and silly zines that are colorful and playful. Joy doesn’t have to be complex, it can be simple and that’s what I put into my art - visible or not!
Eat Yoli Zines share recipes along with political history that impacted Mexican food, along with reflections and poetry.
Mabini Mart is an artist collective - a household of makers and creators. We make a wide range of art, but our zines focus on recipe collections and fun comics about midwest life. The zine is born out of our food blog, and will have a few different recipe collections. Our series, Too Ope for the Coast, features comics about what it’s like to live in the midwest, and the strange things we do here that make us who we are. We will also have a coffee guide zine for beginner brewers.
My zines are about the journey to find home: somewhere warm and safe and comfortable. Whether home is a physical location or an internal realization, my zines find that portrayal. These themes are explored through art sketches, challenges I've done through the year, and in comic form.
I started making autobio zines in 2018, exploring mental health, the impermanence of time and memory, existential ennui, and the meaning of home. I continue to explore these subjects in my fiction comics and am currently focused on my graphic novel, making zines about living with chronic migraine and occipital neuralgia, and exploring understanding life as a disabled person through the lens of genres like horror.
Zines made at the public library
Self reflection, cute, hand drawn comics :))
my zines are about black lesbian subjectivity, environmental materialism, and shadow work.
gorgeous gorgeous garlic (history of, how to grow, consume, experiment)
how to grow soil (on compost, food security, dust bowl)
plastic as folk (animacies, deconstruct pollution purity, exploring transtemporality+entropy)
FITS: a biomythography (poetry, images)
feral mother (queer/reproductive justice, healing inner child, internet kid)
the faces (on asemic writing, somatic processing, meaning beyond lang)
I am a Black queer artist selling my homemade zines with themes surrounding my sexuality, my experiences with being neurodivergent, and personal stories from my life. I also have zines of my own original prose and poetry. I'm excited to share my zines, some brand new for this con, with everyone!
Sunrise Movement Kansas City is a climate justice organization which, as a part of our political work, distributes a variety of zines, including - explainers on our org. and the work we do; political education (on the climate crisis, mutual aid); mutual aid/climate crisis/community resilience guides; and MORE! In addition to zines, we also distribute artwork and flyers. Our zine catalog is always growing and changing, so make sure to keep in touch and follow us on the socials!
messy queer zines for messy queer times
BCH Comix specializes in slice of life autobio tales pulled from the life of its lead creator, BluRaven C. Houvener.
From the coming of age exploits of 'It's Just another day', to the erratic adventures in 'The Year of Reflection', the trials and tribulations of Jake and his crew are sure to deliver relatable life stories with a comedic edge!
My zines are various, a fair share of my original work and fanarts! There's a lot of queer representation in my art and most of my fanwork is based off of BL series and KPOP! I also do a lot of still-life studies and my favorite subjects to study are fruit, so lots of color!
My comics and zines focus on mental health and the vulnerabilities that come with trying to honestly share those struggles. My hope is to help normalize talking about mental health whether it is through my personal narratives or the fictional worlds and characters I create.
My main comic is Skyvein, a webcomic about a band of magical misfits fighting back against an authoritarian regime to reclaim their magic and salvage what’s left of their broken world. I also have some zines featuring the bookins, Oneironauts: in a dying world, Oneirnauts: in love!, and Oneironauts: in & out of gender, which are all shorter comic zines full of mini comics.
SAUCE (All Ages ICT) is a grassroots magazine dedicated to promoting local music and artists in a way free of paid advertising, online objectifizing, or SEO commercializing, It's a homage to the authentic world outside the like-economy. It's Free. It's Tangible. It's Offline. Get a copy, and if you like it, make a copy and share it.
I will have a variety of zines ranging from different themes and ideas. A majority of my zines will focus on a group of Sunflower characters that I enjoy to draw. The zines will explore their life’s, unique habitats, hobbies and lifestyles. One of the sunflowers is named Sunnie and he enjoys sunbathing and tending to his plants. Another portion of my zines will be a collage of sketches and doodles from sketchbooks that I’ve been carrying around for the past couple of years.
I created a photography fashion zine that features me and my friends called "Well Dressed Wednesday." The main focus of the table will be selling those, but I will most likely also create some Well Dressed Wednesday themed posters to sell at the table as well.
Through my artwork, I explore themes of queerness, the latinx diaspora, and celebration of identity. My table will include zines and prints made my me that explore listed themes! For the most part, I want to make connections with other zine-makers and art-makers with my art!
astringent press (ASTR) is a low-to-no cost, independent press based in kansas city, missouri.
ASTR celebrates historically minoritized narratives through the creation of books, zines, and other printed ephemera accessible to all.
Cheeks Studio will be representing zines made by its individual fellows as well as those made collaboratively. The subject matter of our zines ranges form madcap to instructional, from ethereal to slice-of-life. The materials we work with include photo collage, gouache, ink, graphite, colored pencil, marker, and water color.
Hello! My zines are collections of comics, drawings, and small writings that I've made. I'll also have prints and originals for sale!
My zines could be defined in three categories- mental health, fantasy, and fiction.
As an artist and flatworm biologist, I make zines mainly about art and biology! I love to make things and share info with people. My fun and colorful zines include art, sketchbook pages, coloring pages, photography, biology, and more!
My zines are very artsy and represent a slice of life from my own experiences as a Mexican-American woman. A lot of my work revolves around food and the culture I grew up with in the KC metro area. You can expect to see a lot of recipes, art, social commentary and my perspective on how I view every day life.
No-Comply:illustrated mini-zine showing the sequence of a skate trick
Mushroom Cap Morphology-illustrated zine teaches you how 2 identify mushrooms based on their cap
Getting My Fill:Tijuana Bible abt masturbation & sex
Not Trans Queer Brown Enough:perzine abt identity & not belonging
10+ Years In Film:photozine featuring film photos taken over the course of 10+ years
I Made You A Mix CD Because I Have A Crush On You:perzine abt crushes, exes, hookups, & relationships; comes w/ 20 song mix CD
Kelsey Choo is a Hawai‘i-raised artist self-publishing comics, zines, & other art in Colorado. A 2013 grad of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she previously lived in Chicago for 8 years. Working in a variety of mediums, their work is inspired by the environment they grew up around in Hawai‘i, their mixed East Asian background, but mostly monsters & magic. They co-organize Pikes Peak Zine Fest in Colorado Springs, & strives to foster inclusive creative communities.
JAEXIN is an epicene zinester from the Midwest. They could have been an influencer but decided to devote their life to cocktails, emo bands, pixel art, comix, cassette tapes, and Pete Wentz. Critically acclaimed as ‘not bad’ and ‘an artist’, they make books about all the above.
I am an independent creator who graduated from KCAI. I make colorful comics about my animal and anthro characters. Midwest Zine Fest was my intro to zines, i fell in love and am so excited hoping to table this year! I'm making 2 new zines for the con.
-36-page BW original zine: Razor Rabbit, my "pilot" issue for a longer comic!
-12-spread color Splatoon zine: Headache
-16-spread original zine Wizards Hate Princesses, a cute story about siblings
-8-spread color original zine MYRAH
Focus on intersectional feminism, GRRRL power, and equality. We’re attempting to make the KC punk scene a safer space for young fems by talking about the issues we face within the scene and how we can combat those issues.
Moos-a-dee: Zines about technology, queerness, art, and learning. Rose's clay things: Slice-of-life, hobby, and habit zines, and selling claythings.
I make zines of fun silly animals like birds, tigers, dogs and even plants and nature. I like to create fun zines that even unfold into a little poster for an extra surprise!
I am an independent, queer, diy zinester. My work covers a wide range of topics, from socio-political advocacy to environmental sustainability to step-by-step how-to's. I use eco-friendly/cost effective printing methods combined with recycled, repurposed, and second-hand materials, keeping my zines as affordable as possible. I hope to bring new, unique perspectives to the table and prompt conversation within the community about ways to better support one another.
My work is a combination of zines & prints that examine my relationship to nature and the idea of nature as both sanctuary and armor. I use landscape theory, ecofeminist themes, Deep Ecology, & modes of disruption such as the glitch to share personal narratives as a bisexual woman while calling attention to the importance of preserving local nature. Each piece holds a taste of my experiences told in a non-linear fashion and wanders through the strain of narrative, humor, & the ephemeral.
I am a Canadian visual storyteller illustrating the nuances of life through humor, pop culture references, and sly observations via zines, prints, and stickers.
Non-Human Neighbors is a quarterly zine, which honors beings living amongst us that are often overlooked. Each zine features art of three individuals printed in two-color by risograph in a fun 4.25 x 2.75" format. I hope this zine heightens an awareness of all of our neighbors and our interactions with them. Thanks for your support on this tiny bit of anti-speciesism! - Ren
My zines depict wholesome short story narratives centered around nature, queer romance, and fantasy. Whether it be a cowgirl looking for her girlfriends necklace throughout the Wild West or a frog trying to relax in an overstimulating environment, these works strive to tell relatable stories and create a safe space to escape the trying realities of day to day life.
I am a poet and artist who produces visual poetry, collages, educational zines, and mini chapbooks.
I'm Max, a queer NB webcomic artist, and want to sell some of my books and zines and things! I have plenty of copies of a self-published comic anthology I made last year, and a few copies of collaborative zines I've been in that I want to sell. I've got an Etsy shop full of inventory I plan to bring- www.etsy.com/shop/FiddlinWeasel. I'm also working on new things for this year like block printed stuff. Cool!
The first kind of zine that I illustrate are educational and information-packed in order to teach people about anthropological and mental health concepts such as human evolution, who our ancestors are, and what Harm OCD is. I also like to create more fun and light-hearted zines filled with some of my illustrations, like my cupid girl series!
I've mostly tabled at art fairs (so my attached picture doesn't have any zines), but I would table with zines about fatness/bodies, queerness, and the discography of indie folk singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. I would also have some lino-cut prints available as both patches and and cards, which you can see some examples of in the photo.
The Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation programs helps facilitate early-stage startups from the concept phase to a sustainable launch in a safe environment of learning, experimenting and mentoring. We offer formal entrepreneurship education to enrolled UMKC students and we provide educational opportunities for members of the community who are looking for guidance and support as they prepare to launch new ventures.
I like to make colorful fantasy art and zines about girls and mythology
Sketchbook zines; riso comics and prints featuring original characters and fandom
The UMKC Department of Media, Art and Design (M.A.D.) is excited to be participating in the eighth annual KC Zine Con at the Gluestick Sponsor level. Our table will feature zines, prints of various methods, tees, postcards, buttons and more designed and produced by students of UMKC M.A.D.
I make queer zines that combine digital collage with poetry, essays, and fiction. Sometimes these are purely personal, and sometimes they connect to larger issues like medical care or industrialized labor. My 2023 project is making a zine every month.
My work is about the human body, individuals relationships with others and themselves. Love, fear, shame, joy, contentment. Trying.
I also bind blank books for artists and journaling.
The type of zines I will distribute will be focused around more obscure music, other short fiction and other informational topics including my original characters and my fictional worlds. I will also be selling copies of my comic’s first and second chapters.
TACK is an independent publisher/distributor that is dedicated to hosting artists who have an interest in delving into sequential work. Open to all artistic approaches, we encourage experimentation otherwise not commonly represented in a typical comic. Overall, TACK Comics is a space for unique voices and a lack of regulations! Right now we have six released issues hosting over 30 artists in/around the Kansas City area in our collaborative series "TACK".
My name is Chloe Henderson and I am an Edinburgh-based interdisciplinary artist. I make art inspired by the natural world, mythological creatures, faerytales, nerd culture, and the radical idea that humans should be kind to every living thing. I am one half of Coin-Operated Press, and when we are not running workshops and hosting zine fairs, I make zines inspired by my experiences with anxiety, love, feminism, geocaching, and cats! In my spare time I tame unicorns and swim with mermaids.
The zines I have made previously have all been illustrative with a small story line, but no text. I'd like to make some zines (also for this con) that has some text in them, like descriptions of objects for a knick knack zine for example. Aside from little stories I'm also drawn to zines that are collections of things such as outfits, objects like rocks, sketchbook pages ect. I'm also interested in life story type zines as well.
I make zines about coffee, small books of poetry, and niche subjects I find interesting!
I have a scifi comic I'm starting to serialize, so that is my main content. I also would potentially bring some copies of my other books (published by indie presses), but the main thing would be my comic and potentially some other swag (stickers etc) that I might create if I'm accepted by the con. Maybe also some print some photos, as I also do photography.
I have a few art zines that are very mycelium inspired, meaning comic like illustrations of natural history decay. I will also have a field guide to common fossils of the kc metro area.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi zines, prints, stickers and comics!
Adventures of Buttman and his friends, colorful, detail-packed zines and comics
Noose & Lemmy is a comic series about two buddies fighting their way through a post apocalyptic wasteland.
The Triangle Head Universe is a lifestyle brand for the interdimensional traveler (that’s you!) Using advanced portal technology, they offer a vibrant selection of colorful collectibles such as stickers, zines, handmade accessories, and curated vintage apparel. Allegedly created by Sales Ambassador, Evan Maddox, she discreetly serves as the chosen liaison for creative partnerships and customer relations between the New Atlantean realm and our known dimension.
Zines featuring art, short stories/flash fiction, collage work, haiku, movie reviews, FAKE movie reviews, printmaking, sketchbooks, and more.
im an illustrator that loves cute and colorful with an edge. my art and zines are influenced by comics and cartoons/anime. i'm hoping to have a short comic finished by zinecon! i also make and sell stickers. please check out my itch.io or my other social media for examples of my zines/work :-) p.s. i would love to be considered for a full table since 3ft of space has been leaving my spread a little squished lately. but i'll settle for a half if its all that will be available. thanks!
The zines I create range from per zines, instructional zines, comics and art books. I like to bring my fine arts practice into my zine making through the media of art books. Art books are one of a kind and each zine is unique. They feature hand painted or drawn pages. This is in contrast to the rest of my zines which are all copies of the original. Thematically my zines range from art making, slice of life, mental health and queerness.
I will be bringing my first three comic issues along with a few other zines. I also plan on bringing notebooks, stickers, and prints.
As a student and graphic designer; Hayley's zines range from stories from life in college to design related topics to being born and raised in the midwest/KC. Her zines often explore various forms of printing and binding, made with love!
My zines will be a compilation of vintage collage art and other designs – a mini art look book and a short story. I also plan to sell collage art prints/postcards.
I make zines about all sorts of stuff! I have comics, and art zines, auto-bio zines, and fantasy comic zines. I also have art prints, patches, and stickers.
"Encounters with Nameless Spirits" is a puzzle zine exploring themes or death, loss, and identity. Each volume contains three spirits represented by an illustration, a poem, and a hangman-style puzzles to determine the name they had in life.
My black-and-white zines feature a combination of my poetry or prose alongside traditional art. They are personal, exploring themes such as neurodivergence, gender, and recovery from unhealthy relationships. As examples, one zine, "Primordial Evil" is an exploration of gender dysphoria, sensory difficulties, and moral relativism. Another zine, "I Have Considered the Lilies" pairs visuals with the lyrics of a Connie Converse song as a tribute to the artist.
My zines are zines are a mixture of educational/DIY information, paired with personal essays and hand drawn illustrations. Topics covered include: scientific and spiritual explorations of plants and mushrooms, mind/body wellness, a pocket guide to mending and more.
Oracle Natural Science publishes zines on a wide range of topics that encourage a connection to the natural world including taxidermy and insect pinning instructional zines to informational zines on animals, crystals, and various magic practices. “Science is magic!”
Moth and Candle publishes zines on Tarot, Candle Magic, and other divination practices.
I make autobio zines to help my mental health and show other people that they aren't alone in their experiences.
I'm a non-binary transgender zine maker and award-winning author based in Australia. I write zines, poems, books, and games. I've written over 20 zines, often about the things I love (like Animal Crossing and plants), and often drawing on my experiences as a queer and transgender person. I hope you enjoy reading my work :)
Eucalyptus Season (M) is a queer, nonbinary, multidisciplanary artist. Their work explores queerness, disability, and the feeling of not-being-at-home in their own body. They view their work largely as an experiment exploring the languages of poetry, drawing, and comics. At KC zine con they will have original zines and free stickers!
We're a brand new mobile bookshop made up of all the things created at (or published by entities based at) the Ruby Teeth Homestead farm. That includes work from Eternia Press, Hello America Stereo Cassette, Three One G, Adam Gnade, and Bread & Roses Press.
I have a variety of zines, from short comics to art compilations of my past illustrations. Most of my work is humorous in nature, like word play, or some silly lil' doodles.
I have a variety of zines from memorials for pets to horror characters in comedic situations and more!
I write cute things about anxious people! I'm kind of fat, very anxious, and a little queer. Most of my characters are, too.
LaBudde Special Collections is an archives located at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. LaBudde has been working with KC Zine Con since the first Con in 2015, collecting zines from creators and adding them to the archives. Since 2015, our Zine Collection has grown to include over 2,600 zines from dozens of genres, heavily representative of Kansas City and the larger Midwest region. We're accepting donations from creators for eternal preservation and research. Come chat about the archives!
Comic zines featuring my slice-of-life comics, with at least one zine focusing on the loss of my parents. Alongside these comics and illustrations I’ll also be sharing a zine of my written work.
Would like to table with Max Dlabick.
Two queer creative critters (plus collaborators) making zines about translation, sci-fi, trans/queer experience, and film.
Zines and comic stories inspired by video games, wizard shenanigans and cats... Lots of cats.
macabre with a candy coating - original characters, strange stories - contrasting dark themes with bright color palettes in an illustrative style
Neither/nor Zine Distro is a zine destination and resource in KC run by KC Zine Con co-founder/organizer Jaydream. In addition to an online shop they also curate a selection of zines for various brick and mortar shops in KC. Neither/nor predominantly carries local (KC), personal, DIY, self-care, self-help, radical/political, identity politics (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.), fanzines and feminist zines.
Thoughts Of You, a digital charity fanzine about Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. All profits go to a homelessness charity. 2 issues ft unofficial t-shirts & unusual merch, Dennis as the true surfer of the Beach Boys, archive interviews, coverage of virtual zinefests (inc KC Zine Con 6 & 7), odd vinyl cover art, thoughts on what Dennis’ & some of his songs mean to me & fans, cartoons, & Dennis’ support & connection with homeless people. CW: contains brief mentions of abuse & mental illness.
i make silly illustrative and comic zines!!!
My zines are closely related to the artwork I make. Small explorations of ideas that take hold when my mind wanders. A zine of illustrations exploring shape and form. A zine of storyboards from a short animation. Really just reasons to share visual pieces of beauty with the world.
Mostly pinup art and adult comics, inspired heavily by vintage novelties and the retro low-brow scene. I am primarily an illustrator and painter, but have recently started drawing comics of adult situations and making zines out of compilations of my sketches.
I liked to combine art and writing, and most of my zines are exploration of things fantastical in nature with characters or creations that tell a story. Some are compilations of things I've made for my Dungeons and Dragons games. Others showcase characters with designs and features based on fantasy in general. My character based zines can be slightly suggestive but none are explicit.
I am the author of three 64-page 'zines. These 'zines will be on sale at my table. The titles are:
White Riot/Black Massacre: A Brief History of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Final Girl: How Horror Movies Made Me a Better Feminist
Mentally Unbalanced and Violent: The Hagsploitation Film
Casper Warren is an illustrator, comics maker, poet, writer, and punk crafter with an ardor for nature. They are rampantly mixed media, but are in a long term relationship with colored pencils. Their work focuses on queer liberation, science communication, and the poetry of growing things.
My zines are compilations of artwork and comics created by me, usually featuring a recurring cast of characters. The tone is lighthearted, uplifting and wholesome, but topics often include mental health struggles as well as very mild adult content/language.
Mostly witchy zines, but also some perzines and poetry.
I’m a Kansas City based zinester who works in old school pen on paper. Things I tend to draw are robots & strange creatures. Come check out my latest zines and mini-comics.
An illustrated celebration of fat femme bodies.
Hi, I'm Emory! I make zines about queer love, mental illness, art, and whatever else I feel like.
John F. Malta is a visual artist and zine maker based in the West Bottoms neighborhood of Kansas City. He is the creator of the punk comic odyssey Haunted Francis and editor of the long-running art zine anthology Universal Slime.
Short stories, art zines, fun facts zines, coloring zine
I'm a creator of silly, goofy zines for silly, goofy guys! I like making zines of the simpler things in life, i.e. worms, sketches, and the similarities between a princess diaries fan and a lord of the rings fan...
