The zines we have are created by artists in our arts programs for adults with developmental disabilities. They have created guide zines about the places they live such as "The MAP Guide to California" and "San Diego". There are zines of favorite things, stories and one that is a window into one's personal growth ("Bull Markers").
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Akari Komura (b. 1996) is a Japanese text/visual/sound artist. Her zines integrate mixed-media collage, text, and visuals from the everyday. Each page zooms into a distinct moment from daily life. I am interested in inviting the readers to imagine and dream through the vignettes of text-visual composition.
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Princess Bizares aka Ambitious Fish makes zines featuring original poetry and comics discussing growth, cultural identity, love, travel, and nature!
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Andrew Oh is the writer and illustrator of "Day and Age" an ongoing autobio comic series about both routine and random occurrences, from online dating and apartment hunting, to drunken escapades and medical emergencies.
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Art of Nothing Press is an unconventional California publication for art, writing, and visuals. The publication coordinates events, curates issues, and fosters a safe space for artists. The issues are different creations of themes on a biannual basis celebrating authenticity within all arts.
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I make personal zines and zines about my experience with media as a queer Latinx. I am especially invested in zines about queer readings of books, movies, and music. I also have a few zines about food.
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Autohaus Zines publishes compilation zines featuring about 20 artists per issue based on a chosen theme. We focus on giving less established artists a chance to share their work in our zines and cover various themes from love to failure to gender. Autohaus is run by Syd Christopher and is based in Los Angeles, CA.
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I am a Los Angeles based bookbinder, letterpress printer and illustrator who has been self-publishing under the moniker Aviatrix Press since 2018. My zines feature my horror-fantasy illustrations as well as found ephemera and photographs. When I’m not making zines, I work as a studio technician at Otis College of Art & Design’s Laboratory Press.
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My zines are definitely a mix, a very cute mix!!! I make zines about food, music, the personal, diy and even coloring zines cuz I love interactive art ♡
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Banana Cat is an artist with an eye for vivid colors, crisp textures, and lighthearted storytelling.
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Illustrator with a focus on mascot and character design. His work primarily centers around made up characters in a fictional world. Often inspired by toys, books, and cartoons from his childhood.
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Artist from Anaheim, California inspired by everything! :)
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Created in 2020 in the midst of the global uprisings after the police murder of George Floyd, Black OC Archive is a project that works to highlight the experiences, issues, and radical traditions of Black and other oppressed communities in so-called Orange County, California and beyond.
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Bombus Vomito is a perzine that focuses on social justice, understanding, and accountability through poetry, graphic design, short stories, and poetry.
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Building Press Co. is a collaborative art project executed through printed matter such as zines, stickers, fine art prints and apparel. Our zines feature artwork and introspection on the practice, artist features, photography, prefigurative politics, and visual development.
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illustrator and art school survivor currently working in animation. lover of kitschy signs, liminal spaces, shades of purple, and the pink flavor of brisk. union organizer, amateur sourdough bread baker, professional vibesmith.
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Calise Mendoza is a freelance illustrator, art educator, and Zine artist from Southern California. Her mission as an artist and educator is to encourage people to indulge in their creative endeavors without fear. Outside of drawing, Calise loves to watch stand-up comedy, read comics, and dress up her cat.
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Flor Hernandez Zarate (she/her) is a Zapotec writer, organizer, and creative living on unceded Kumeyaay lands. Growing up away from her ancestral land, she is interested in preserving the stories and traditions of her family and community through writing. Her art seeks to address Indigenous resistance, feminism, and futurity.
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An intergalactic market run by two sisters selling items from earth and beyond! Shop opening coming soon ;)
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Magical Realism, Fairytales, Mythology as a framework for life experiences incorporating poetry, drawing, painting, photography, and more. Meet a Primal Priestess, Changing Woman, a frustrated Fish Woman, and more.
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My work is about observing the world and sharing an internal dialogue combining illustrations and poetic writing about architecture, housing, family, and life in a transborder region.
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Cracking the stories of tomorrow, today, The Daily Egg is a zine distro where rising artists push the boundaries of imagination. Our stories cover a range of subjects from gonzo journalism (“HUEVO NUEVO”) to nightmare realities (“BELITA: DREAM STATE”) to conceptual game books (“HOUSE OF YOLK”) and beyond.
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Comics ranging from silly to existential.
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I'm Dave, a zinester / creator of the comic Crosshatch / badboy DJ with a residency on London-based radio station Subtle Radio. My favorite thing is immersing myself in art communities, whether it’s going to bass music nights in LA or getting lost on the internet reading webcomics or digging through the rich tapestry of the UK hardcore continuum.
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It is personal work, but one that expresses something that has a universal appeal. It is there to define our vulnerable condition, without describing fully, sometimes confusing things on purpose and never giving an answer.
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Dove A. is an artist/musician from Los Angeles, CA. Topics of social awareness and identity, along with an acute use of poetic observations can be found throughout her literary work. Her work has been featured at LA ArtCore, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Hammer Museum, and The Broad. She performs in post-garage band, HAUSA.
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Eileen Lee is an artist and designer from Orange County, CA who creates comics and prints about love, sentimentality, nostalgia, and sometimes, existentialism. She is the creator of Cone Dog. In her free time, she likes to decorate cakes and host picnic parties.
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Artist. Illustrator. Librarian. Zinester. Eori Tokunaga is an artist and writer based in LA County whose work is inspired by her childhood climbing trees, making fairy houses, and reading picture books in Japanese and English about food. When she isn’t making pressed flowers or creating zines, Eori works on her manuscript/picture book dummies that she hopes to have published one day.
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We are artists who love to draw what we love: nature, video games, manga, and more! We create zines based around our passions, and we love to create for the sake of creating. From zines filled with fun sketches to goofy jokes, we hope you enjoy what we have to offer.
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Eurydice makes queer art and zines exploring the trans experience. Her zines include When Mother Bites You, a trans horror story told through memes, and A Six Letter Word for Slime: Lemuria as Gender Identity, a zine of cut-up Wikipedia articles inventing a new gender.
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An eye roll leaves room for interpretation, depending on its tone. Eyeroll's tone is all about leaning into and growing from experiences that make your eyes roll. We hope to create a community where we can talk and think about the wonders of life – from the beauty we all possess to the deeper, less celebrated parts of ourselves.
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Andrea is an illustrator, animator, and zinester. She loves to add extra elements to her work, such as pull tabs, pop-ups, and interactive sections.
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Whether dispelling myths about snails, passing on unsolicited advice from plants, or highlighting community stories about city trees, Filter Feeder Press publishes zines that document local nature in delightful ways.
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Claire G. has been making black and white copier perzines and fanzines as Graceful Party since 2014.
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A duo of artists and craftspeople celebrating The Locked Tomb book series and the joy of crafting through zines.
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My zines are inspired by my lived experiences as an undocumented artist and scholar living in Anaheim, Orange County.
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Hello Barkada is an arts and culture organization for the people who follow the DIY-for-the-culture tradition to uplift, serve, and advocate for artists and writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, and intersectional. It provides free or low-cost online and traditional programming, community events, and works.
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zine distro and creative hive growing on occupied Chumash lands in Santa Barbara, CA. we work with first-time zinesters and the miscellaneously creative to make and share their works through the radical medium of zines.
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This project is an experiment of producing a relation between visual and text in a zine/book form. The zines/books are alive and mutate.
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Janet Rodriguez is a Mexican-American illustrator and character designer living in Orange County and working in Los Angeles. She studied at California State University, Fullerton and has since worked as a character designer. Her personal work breaks away from the animation world and involves whimsical art, color, work and mischievous characters.
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My name is Jean and I make zines -- and comics, and illustrations, and anything else I feel like creating!
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Jess (they/she) is a 90s kid turned English Graduate, "recoviering academic," and an advocate/accomplice in favor of human rights that shouldn't be labeled "radical".
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Jillian Sandell is an artist, writer, and educator living and working in Joshua Tree in southern California. She makes zines about the politics of everyday life, including the aftermath of cancer treatment, living in the desert, environmental and food justice, grief, and love, and community engagement and collaboration.
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Andy Martinez (jinji) is an Orange County based artist who makes abstract line using ink and other found materials to demonstrate self-expressions/self-liberation. They mainly focus on creating hand-drawn prints, trading cards, collage zines, and bookmarks.
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16 pages of a Frog's exploits with anxiety, depression, gender non-conformity, and more! You know, regular froggy goodness. Art by Julie Fiveash (Diné, they/them).
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CRISIS! is my comics zine series that follows the lives of characters Mayra and Dania, two friends and roommates, as they deal with real crises while discussing slice of life dramas from the perspective of queer first-gen Central American women.
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LA based disabled bipoc queer artist! Attempting to find the good in life by making zines to make people smile while educating~
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risograph zines related to crushing love, astronomy, poetry, and animals.
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Underground/ alternative comix creator. I am part of the Toilet Comix and Xomik Buk collectives, and have contributed comics to many Scarfff issues.
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Anikazoe is a multidisciplinary artist living in Venice. Her primary zines are her diary entries illustrated.
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LibroMobile is a literary arts co-op & bookstore established in Santa Ana, CA—at the Bristol Swap Mall Plaza.
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Lily and Jill are zinesters based in Burbank. They make comics and sillies about their latest hyperfixations.
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LODO Zine is a doodle zine for you to look at and to enjoy and maybe to give to your friends and maybe to set on fire. There's all sorts of mini comics and doodle zines in the LODO brand.
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Lola Olvera (she/they) is a zinester whose work explores themes related to anti-capitalism, childhood emotional neglect and experiences of a first-generation Latine grappling with adulthood in white America.
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Cartoon Distortion is Luis Blackaller and friends —Art, Film, Photography, Cartoons and Comics, Speculation, Dreams, etc. Luis Blackaller (he/him) is a Mexican artist with an interest in comics, the conservation of ephemeral printed media, public space, and good old fashioned cinema.
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maddy peters is a cartoonist in Los Angeles making comics about silly creatures and unreasonable people. she loves to draw jokes, her girlfriend, her deepest secrets, and weird body stuff.
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dreamy and surreal comics exploring how ideals shape our actions and what gets left out of the stories we tell ourselves about how the world works.
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Marie Harlan, self-proclaimed poet of sad girl-esque poetry, is a Los Angeles native. She’s a zinester by night and Librarian by day. When asked what she writes about she will jokingly say she is the Taylor Swift of Zinesters. She is constantly inspired by music, mythology, and the niche hyper fixations she had as a teenager.
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Mars is a writer and marketing professional. These two zines are passion projects. She likes being able to work with fellow creatives to come up with tangible works of art.
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Matt MacFarland is a cartoonist and art teacher whose mini-comics tackle subjects as diverse as reconciling conflicted feelings toward a former artistic influence (My Troubles with Crumb), Online Dating (OKCryptid), and coming to terms with a challenging parental relationship. (More Seasons of Gary).
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We are a group of best friends creating art together for our mental health. Our zines consist of illustrations, poetry, and storytelling.
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Miquela Davis is a multi-media artist whose comic and illustrated zines focus on music, anthropomorphic animals, Cool Dog, and autobiographical stories.
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Chillona librarian who likes stickers and reading and yapping about my family.
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@MLOUtheArtist (they/them) is a disabled, QT, & non-binary pilipino artist residing on occupied tongva land. their work ranges from cute bunnies to repetitive patterns, and twitter ramblings turned ramblings turned into zines. topics of their zines include (but are not limited to): history, mental health, lgbtq+ topics, mutual aid, and their personal experiences.
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Narc(m)an® is a contemporary hero who needs only one thing in his utility belt for the times we live in -- Narcan®. A zine to raise awareness about the opioid crisis and the opportunity everyone has to be a hero.
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My art is crazy, sexy, cool and very cute. My art is bright and colorful photography. I shoot portraits, landscapes, still life, pet claustrophobic! Some of my favorite zines are my plant portrait zine which consists of fine art nudes and my Filipino zine on Filipino Americans embracing their culture wearing traditional Filipino clothing!
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We create zines in collaboration and for our unhoused friends and neighbors in Orange County, CA. A bulk of our content involves political education, weekly weather reports, local news, and submitted art and zines by our members and unhoused friends.
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Peter is a Los Angeles-based artist, poet, and double Scorpio. His work is inspired by a Manila upbringing and his identity as a trans man.
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An artist who captures small moments and small whims.
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By night, Jasmine transforms into her artistic alter ego, Pixel and Papier, channeling retro art into her creations. Initially a traditional artist, Jasmine aimed to bring her visions to life as tangible, functional 3D art. She masterfully crafts 3D print designs while continuing to draw, each piece evoking the charm of a bygone era.
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Art, Comics, Zines about lesbians and their activities.
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I created the imagery in my zines through intuitive drawing - not having a plan and allowing creative energy to guide me. I hope these zines spark interesting conversations and connect you with your inner truth!
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Rosie and Nick are writers and zinesters from San Pedro, CA. They make original comics, fanzines about niche pop culture obsessions, collections of essays, short fiction, and lots more. When they're not printing a new zine, they're watching b-movies and playing cozy video games.
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Saint Nobody is a Mexican American cartoonist that loves to make comics and zines. Their work usually revolves around the topics of mental health, heartbreak and existentialism.
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Poetry, essays, and short stories made in an attempt to capture the elusive sweet spot between "homosexually weird" and "weirdly homosexual." Queerness and socialism in a surreal, obsessive-compulsive coat.
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Savannah is a cartoonist based in Los Angeles and is an old-timey fella always looking for an opportunity to get all dressed up! Inspired by vintage aesthetics (not their values), she enjoys creating comics and illustrations depicting dandy characters full of antique whimsy.
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SDSU Zine Club is San Diego State University's (un)official zine club. We love getting together to talk about zines, learn about zines, and make zines. Zine Club loves you :)
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Re-interpretation and materialization of personal archives and art projects.
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Skye enjoys everything about film, pop culture, and crocheting! Zines are the medium that she uses to share her interests with others and start discussions about feminism in film, problematic topics in pop culture, and just plain silly topics (like Stephen King's obsession with boobs). She is also a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan!
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Sophie Wang is an artist, researcher, and educator currently based in Minneapolis and raised in LA. She makes zines, comics, and art that bring a critical power lens to science, technology, epistemology, and forms of knowledge-making, and an experiential lens to her second generation Chinese American experience and other parts of her life.
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Spirit School Press is a small-scale design, publishing, and distribution platform that focuses primarily on zines, art books, and creative formatting as a way to story-share works of individual journeys toward flourishing, liberation, and Becoming.
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I am a storyboard artist based in Southern California that loves to draw comics! All my comics are about overcoming mental health issues and learning some tough life lessons! (:
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Weekly diary comic zine.
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Tiffany 'Tiffoolery' Lac is a Los Angeles cartoonist who loves love and over-shares her discoveries with diary comics and pocket guides. From the spicy sexy stuff to the pangs of jealousy, her zines are made with plenty of humor and heart <3
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Trần Châu Hà (she/her) is an LA-county based zine-maker. Her illustrations have shifted the narrative on criminality in support of organizations like Asian Prisoner Support Committee and Survived and Punished. She also writes and makes comics about stan culture, queerness, and film and tv. Find her work at tranchauha.tumblr.com

Step into a whimsical world where lush foliage intertwines with blooming flowers, dancing alongside adorable plant creatures. Explore the pages of my zines, filled with vibrant illustrations capturing the beauty of nature, the joy of people, and the heartwarming adventures of my beloved dog Coco.
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VLASINDA publishes zines that feature work from dozens of creators from all over the world.
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Victor Briseno (Wildhairacross) is an artist from Orange Country who makes illustrations full of color with a focus on whimsy and feelings of nostalgia. These are mainly illustrations with pieces of writing taken from fragments of songs.
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Leslie (she/they) is a genderqueer artist who practices nature-based art and mental health awareness with love and care. When vending and participating at local events, she strives to provide an inclusive space that celebrates our diversity and promotes our holistic well-being as a community.
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I’m a SoCal based artist specializing in narrative zines and illustrations. My main sources of inspiration are bugs, cats, death, and my day-to-day experiences.
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