🔹CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!🔹 Our Anthology Submissions are open! Closes: September 8th, 2023 (9/8) at end of day (Mountain Time)

📘📙📓 🔹The theme is: Celebrate! 🎉 This is our fifth year operating the Pikes Peak Zine Fest, and we'd love to see your submissions on dance parties, confetti, and hip-hip-hoorays of all sorts. 🔸Feel free to submit up to 2 pages of work; written works (poetry or prose), illustrations, comics, collage; sky's the limit! 🔹The anthology be available for free at our Zine Fest on Oct 7th, and contributors will be mailed a copy after the event. 📘📙📓

Anthology Submission Guidelines: 🔸PG-13 (some nudity ok) 🔹2 pages max 🔸Black + White 🔹Dimensions: 8.5" W x 11" H 🔸0.25" Bleed 🔹300+ dpi 🔸File will need to be uploaded to form (which requires a google account) or added via link. 🔹Please email us if you need another way to submit.

🔶Zinesters Wanted!🔶

Exhibitor applications are open until August 31st! Come sell your zines in person or apply for our Community Table to be a mail-in exhibitor (send us your zines, we sell them at PPZF 2023, you'll get any extra zines & profits back). 📘📙📓

IMPORTANT DATES 🔸Application Open: August 1, 2023 🔹Application Closes: August 31, 2023 (Any applications sent in after end of day on this date will be waitlisted) 🔸Confirmation Emails: around September 8, 2023 🔹Table Payment Due: September 22, 2023 🔸Event: October 7, 2023 (1-5 p) @ The Hall in Colorado Springs

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TABLES + APPLICATION 🔸Must have at least 1 zine at your table 🔹Default spaces will be a Half Table 🔸A very limited number of Full Tables may be requested

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PRICING 🔹Mail-In Community Table (<5 titles + 2 types of merch) - $5 🔸Half Table (3 x 2.5 ft table + 1 chair) - $10 🔹Full Table (6 x 2.5 ft table + 2 chairs) - $20

✴️ PPZF 2023 is back this October! ✴️

This year PPZF looks like:⁠ 🔸In-Person Zine Fest on Oct 7th!🔸 ⁠ Held at The Hall (Formerly KCH) in Colorado Springs, CO. We'll also have a Community Table again that zinesters can mail their work to for those who can't make it person.⁠

When: Saturday, October 7, 2023 (1-5 pm)

Where: PPLD’s The Hall (Formerly Knights of Columbus Hall Building) 20 W. Pikes Peak Ave. Colorado Springs, CO

🔹Free Anthology!🔹 ⁠ The theme is: Celebration!🎉⁠ You can submit work to until September 22, and will be available for free at our Zine Fest. Contributors will be mailed a copy after the event.⁠

🔸Mailing Zine Swap!🔸 ⁠ Our sign up form will open in October, but we'll be running the zine swap in Spring 2024.⁠

🔹Virtual or In-Person Programming🔹 ⁠ TBD, but we hope to do another Read Zine Rainbow🌈. We're taking suggestions or ideas in our email! (📧: [email protected])⁠

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A belated thank you to @peakradar for featuring me as Artist of the Day (10/16) this #artsoctober!! 🧑🏻‍🎨✏️🎨 If you’re in the Springs, be sure to check out the @peakradar event calendar for the last weekend of Arts Month October (artsoctober.com)! So grateful that this town has a whole month dedicated to celebrating creators of all kinds. #artsoctober has also been a sponsor for @pikespeakzinefest the last few years and we are so glad to have their support. 🙏💙🧡🖤 * * * #kelschoo #kookookchoo #peakradar #coloradosprings #coloradospringsartist #artistoftheday #artistsoninstagram #thankyou #artsmonth (at Colorado Springs, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQ4Uy9rMCu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond #artbound ep is now available to watch online from @kcet (link in bio)! @giantrobot was the first art magazine that I ever read when I left HI for art school, the first magazine I ever got a subscription for on my own, and the first original art piece I ever bought was from their gallery online (by @dethpsun)! It was so reassuring & inspiring as a student to see artists who looked like me making work I loved with similar influences as my own (especially when I was surrounded by what felt like a very “traditional” & “Western”-minded environment). I didn’t know at the time that my own art career would turn out to have such a focus in self-publishing and printed media, as well. A few HI artists got asked to make a print of Big Boss Robot to promote the documentary for HI folx, so this is my version: Beach Bum Big Boss Musubi! 🤙🌈☀️🌊 I feel so incredibly lucky to share work alongside such amazing artists! Thank you for inviting me to join, @umitoyshawaii! * * * #giantrobot #asianamericanartist #asianpopcultureandbeyond #hawaiiartist #musubi #kelschoo #kookookchoo https://www.instagram.com/p/CkP6dwyu8Po/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Some HP related (fan)art made for @leakycon! ✨🦉🔮✨ Having been an HP fan for ages since I grew up with the books, I haven’t actually made much fan art of it since getting older. It was nostalgic drawing the creatures I spent all my time doodling in middle school again. 🦄✨ ⚡️🪶🌙 Disclaimer again that even though I love this piece of fiction, I do not share the hurtful & problematic views of the author 😑👎. * * * #kelschoo #kookookchoo #kelseychoo #fanart #harrypotterart #magicalcreatures #unicorn #leakycon #denverleakycon https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjvr-ZmO_KT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

✨Denver LeakyCon is here!✨⁠ I’m tabling in the Artist Alley at table 102 near the LeakyCon merch booth~⁠ 🦉🔮⚡️⁠ @pikespeakzinefest is also running a zine workshop today! If you’re at the con, stop by the Durango Room at 5:00 pm for The Marauders Made a Zine…and You Can Too! We’ll have free zines, a zine library for inspiration (with some HP themed zines), and supplies to make your own.⁠ 🌟📜🪶⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #kelschoo #kookookchoo #kelseychoo #leakycon #denverleakycon #denverleakycon2022 #zines #ppzf #pikespeakzinefest #harrypotterfan #harrypotterfanart #comics #workshop (at Crowne Plaza Denver Airport Convention Ctr) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjtJlPJumKq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Check out @pikespeakzinefest to sign up for the 2022 mail-in zine swap! 💌📚💌 Our last two swaps have been a blast with zinesters sending in work from all over the US (and the globe??). Some of our exhibitors usually participate too so it’s a great way to trade remotely! The quality of zines has always been top notch imo 😍 💌📚💌 Also, PPZF 2022 is coming up NEXT SAT!!! 😱 (Oct 1) Come out to KCH in downtown Colorado Springs for an awesome zine market with 40+ local and national artists! 💌📚💌 * * * #ppzf2022 #pikespeakzinefest #ppzf #pikespeakzinefest2022 #zineswap #zinetrade #mailingzines #mailday #goodmailday #zinemail #callforzines #zinester #zines #zinestagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci3F5zpun0Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Thank you for an amazing first @spxcomics!!! 😭💖 💙💖💛 My heart feels so full from the weekend: getting to catch up with friends, find wonderful new artists, chat with readers, and just be surrounded by so many people who LOVE comics~~ 💙💖💛 HUGE thank you to my husband, Matt, who helped me out at my table so I was actually able to go to panels and shop a bit. 🥰🛍📚 💙💖💛 Events are simultaneously exhausting, but insanely invigorating for me. The sheer amount of interaction can be a *lot*, but getting to see new work, hear about new ideas, and get feedback from readers reminds me that I’m still connected to a community (even tho I’m alone most of the time), and why I love making comics. I heard it a lot in the panels I attended, and I’m sure other artists feel it too: comics are connection. ✨🤝✨ 💙💖💛 #spx2022 #printisnotdead (at Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiqrL1wryIW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@autopticfestival is in full swing! Hope you’ll stop by table 58 and say hi 👋! 💖💖💖 * * * #autopticfestival #autoptic #smallpress #zines #comics #prints #midwest #minneapolis #independentartist #printisnotdead (at Coffman Memorial Union) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChOKzL7rWwF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

✴️Autoptic is next weekend!✴️⁠ I'm finally traveling out of CO for events again and I'll be in Minneapolis for @autopticfestival! This is one of the shows I didn't get to make it to in 2020, so can't wait to check it out 🤩~⁠ ☀️☀️☀️⁠ WHERE: The Coffman Memorial Union on University of Minnesota campus - 300 Washington Ave. S.E.⁠ Minneapolis, MN 55455⁠ ☀️☀️☀️⁠ WHEN: Saturday, August 13, 2022 (1:00p - 6:00p)⁠ There's also more programming on Sunday (@ The Minneapolis College of Art and Design)⁠ ☀️☀️☀️⁠ Masks will be required, and free admission! Stop by and say hi at table 58A 👋.⁠ ☀️☀️☀️⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #autoptic2022 #smallpress #independentartist #zines #comics #nextweekend #minneapolisevent #freeevent #minneapolis #minnesota #printmaking #print #printisnotdead⁠ (at Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7dg4FuQ0v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🐞🌻June Bug🌻🐛⁠ Get these buggy friends as a mini print or matching buggy stickers for the month of June on my Patreon! (Link in Bio)⁠ 🐞🌻🐛⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #kelschoo #kookookchoo #patreon #patreoncreator #junebug #bugs #artprint #buggies #artistsoninstagram #digitalart https://www.instagram.com/p/CfPNT-AOFz2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Next weekend is @fanexpodenver and I'll be tabling in Artist Valley at table 71A!⁠ 💜👾💜⁠ I'll have all my comics, prints, stickers, pins, some new fan art (which I don't usually have), and @pikespeakzinefest merch! If you'll be at the con, hope you stop by! 🤗⁠ 💜👾💜⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #fanexpo #fanexpoexhibitor #fanexpoartistvalley #artistvalley #fanexpodenver #comics #merch (at FAN EXPO Denver) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfNRpy4LSnT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🟣 TeePublic Update! 🟣⁠ 🎀👚🎀⁠ Just a heads up, there's more styles up on my @TeePublic (Link in Bio)! Here's a few of the new designs and items that are available now.⁠ 🎀👚🎀⁠ I'll be working on uploading a bunch of my older artwork as designs this next month, and whenever a new one is posted, it's on sale for the first 2 days, so hope you check it out!⁠ 🎀👚🎀⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #kelschoo #kookookchoo #teepublic #tshirts #notebooks #phonecase #mugs #art #independentartist #apparel #merch #artistsoninstagram #shirts #shirtdesigns #artistshop #teepublicshirts #teepublicartist https://www.instagram.com/p/Cej3KO2OXwB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

✳️ EVENT ON SAT! ✳️⁠ Check out KC Zine Con #7 this Saturday, 6/11 (11a - 5p), where I'll be participating as a Virtual Tabler! (Link in Bio)⁠ 📓🦝📓⁠ @kczinecon will also be hosting their in-person event at Plexpod Westport Commons, so if you're in the Midwest, hope you can make it over to support some cool local zinesters! Free admission, and masks are required.⁠ 📓🦝📓⁠ Awesome poster art by @ani.mal.tattoo!⁠ 📓🦝📓⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #kczinecon2022 #kczinecon #kczinecon7 #raccoon #zines #zinefest #comics #virtualzinefest #midwestzines #midwestzinefest #kansascity #selfpublishing #diy #printisnotdead ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CejpgchOzMo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ever wanted a shirt with some of my art on it? I just opened a @teepublic shop where you can get some! (Link in bio)⁠ 🎀👚🎀⁠ There's various colors/styles you can choose from for apparel (including kids clothes), along with notebooks, phone cases, mugs, and more!⁠ Everything's also on sale just for the next couple days, so hope you check it out. 🤗⁠ 🎀👚🎀⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ #kelschoo #kookookchoo #teepublic #shirts #shirtdesigns #merch #apparel #notebooks #phonecase #pillow #mugs #laptopcase #artistshirts #artistsoninstagram #teepublicartist #teepublicshirts https://www.instagram.com/p/CeY7LyjLYXJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Thanks to @sfzinefest, you can get my Coven of Wellington Woods comic @silversprocket!! 10 copies are available with the new shimmer cover~ ✨ 💫🔮🌙 Thank you #sfzinefest2021!! Be sure to check out all the participating San Francisco bookshops and get some #sfzinefest merch to support their awesome fest! 💫🔮🌙 * * * #cyberfestrebooted #sfzine #silversprocketcomics #witchythings #friendship #indiecomics #kookookchoo #kelschoo #kelseychoo #printisnotdead (at Silver Sprocket) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUIhR--rq-w/?utm_medium=tumblr