Spring For Zines! @ Vermillion Art Gallery & Bar 3/22
I’ll be tabling here with some new and old work along with some other lovely zine folk
Sunday March 22nd 12-6pm
A pop-up zine fair featuring some of the PNW’s zine and comic community. Drink drinks, read zines. Good times for all.
★ The first 10 attendees receive a free gift bag of zines.
VENDORS TBA AS THEY ARE CONFIRMED.
★ Ashley Ferguson likes bright colors almost as much as she loves monsters. A mixed media artist who when not working on her own comics puts together zines spotlighting other local creators. https://www.instagram.com/ashleyillustrating/
★ Birch Rosen (they/them) is an agender writer, poet, zinester, and performer who uses personal writing to create space for more nuanced trans and disabled narratives. Their writing has been featured in X Marks the Spot: An Anthology of Nonbinary Experiences. www.birchrosen.com
★ Carrie Redway is a writer, mixed media artist and death doula in Seattle. Her work is inspired by myth, folklore and ritual. She is the author of two chapbooks, "Queen Skulls" and "Vulpecula", and is currently working on a death topic zines series. As a death doula, her work focuses on creating spaces for death and grief exploration through writing and art. www.thedna-arts.com. Instagram @carrie_redway and @thedna.arts.
★ Chris Blakeley uses Lego minifigs and other toys to tell stories. What started with Shakespeare, nerd culture and the occasional dad joke has evolved into social issues, sexuality and, most surprising of all, even more dad jokes. https://www.brickbuiltgreetings.com/comics
★ The Corners of Their Mouth Press https://thecornersoftheirmouthpress.com/ is an indie press run by a queer couple in Seattle. We write and edit zines on the intersections of gender, queerness, food, and nature. Robin Elan (they/them) is a nonbinary bisexual artist specializing in comix and botanical illustration; L.M. (they/them) is a nonbinary bisexual writer specializing in food, gender, and culture. Our zines include The Corners of Their Mouth: A Queer Food Zine, The Queer Language of Flowers, Flora and Fauna: Anxious Human Field Notes, and Drag Suit: A Nonbinary Swim Zine.
★ Cory Wilcox is a fat, nonbinary queer making zines about their experiences and snakes. http://enbywerewolf.itch.io
★ Elijah Janka is the creator of Q20, Queers Playing D&D at the End of the World, and other queer trans nerd trash. Instagram.com/elijahjanka
★ Erin Dailey has created zines, comics, and prints for the last six years in both Gainesville, Florida and Seattle, Washington. Her most recent work focuses on mental health and loss. Her 2020 resolution is to keep her two air plants alive (nurturing is tough!)
★ Kalen Knowles is a cartoonist living in Seattle, WA, who has been self-publishing genre fiction comics and zines for the past five years. Built on a foundation of narrative and world building, his work contains themes of friendship, slice-of-life-livin’, and non-gendered bioforms. He has been featured in Seattle Weekly, Extruder, The Comics Journal, and Sun Creature Studios’ “Tales of Alethrion” webseries. https://www.instagram.com/octalpublishing/
★ Laura got into zines when she realized she had a lot of random poems written about teeth! She made her first teeth zine, and has since branched out to zine-ing about working in the service industry, crafting, and feeling occasionally inadequete. https://www.instagram.com/laurakirol/
★ Lauren Maxwell is a comix maker and media artist in Seattle, Washington. Lauren has work in various outlets, including but not limited to digital illustration, drawing, video, apparel, and paintings. They have written and illustrated several self-published comics. http://www.mlauren.info/
★ M. Sabine Rear is a cartoonist, educator, zine-maker, and the cute blind lady you gave your seat to on the bus. She makes comics about disability and public space. She is a founding member of soft skills comics, an instructor at the IPRC, an organizer of the Portland Zine Symposium and a pillar of the karaoke community.
http://www.michaelsabine.com


