🔹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.

✴️ 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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📰We're in the news again!📰 Thank you so much to The Gazette & Jennifer Mulson for interviewing Organizers Jennifer & Kels about Pikes Peak Zine Fest! 🧡💙🖤⁠ See you TOMORROW! Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2023 Sat, October 7 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠ PPLD's The Hall (Formerly known as KCH)⁠ 20 W. Pikes Peak Ave.⁠ Colorado Springs, CO⁠ bit.ly/PPZF2023FB 🆓 Free to attend! 😷⁠ Masks required & we will have some free ones available at the door! bit.ly/PPZF2023FB 🧡💙🖤⁠

🔸🔷 ➡️ How to get here: ⬅️🔷🔸 Here's some photos of the venue to help you find Pikes Peak Zine Fest! We'll be in the same building as before in downtown Colorado Springs, but it's just got a new name - The Hall. 📘📙📓 You can find The Hall down W. Pikes Peak Ave. behind the Penrose Library off of Cascade Ave. Turn into the Antlers' Garage Penrose Public Library Parking, and the entrance to The Hall will be at the back of the lot. Once inside, you can follow the signage in the building via elevator or stairs (it's a bit of a maze, but just keep going) to get to the zine market on the 3rd floor. See you soon!!! 👋 📘📙📓⁠ Sat, October 7, 2023 (1 - 5 pm MT)⁠ ⁠ PPLD's The Hall (Formerly known as KCH)⁠ 20 W. Pikes Peak Ave.⁠ Colorado Springs, CO⁠ 🆓 Free to attend! 😷⁠ Masks required & we wil have some free ones available at the door! 🚙 There is metered parking (now with a pay kiosk that enables you to use card vs coins) at the entrance to The Hall, street parking, and also a parking garage across the street. 📘📙📓

✴️TOMORROW IS PPZF!!!✴️⁠ See you soon to celebrate our 5th year running!!! 🤩⁠ bit.ly/PPZF2023FB 🧡💙🖤⁠ WHEN:⁠ Sat, October 7, 20223 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠ 🧡💙🖤⁠ WHERE: ⁠ PPLD's The Hall (Formerly known as KCH)⁠ 20 W. Pikes Peak Ave.⁠ Colorado Springs, CO⁠ 🆓 Free to attend! 😷⁠ Masks required & we will have some free ones available at the door! 🧡💙🖤⁠

✴️IS PRESS✴️ ispress.co instagram.com/is.press 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: is PRESS publishes art books and zines on the nexus of art and everyday life that deploy accessible narratives with a sophisticated DIY aesthetic and letterpress covers. 📘📙📓 ✴️JEFF WASHENBERGER ART✴️ tumblr.com/jeffdraws instagram.com/ferret250 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: I work in the library by day, and make art by night (and by day). I hope I can use my powers to spread peace and happiness. 📘📙📓 ✴️JOHN DISHWASHER✴️ johndishwasher.org instagram.com/johndishwasher 🔹Los Angeles, CA 🔸Bio: Author of "The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground." I made my first zine in 2017. 📘📙📓 ✴️KELS CHOO✴️ kelschoo.com instagram.com/kookookchoo 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Kelsey Choo (she/they) is a Hawai‘i-raised artist self-publishing comics, zines, & other art in Colorado. Working in a variety of mediums, their comics & illustrative works are inspired by nature, nostalgia, whimsy, but mainly monsters & magic. 📘📙📓 ✴️KILAH STORM✴️ kilahstorm.com instagram.com/kilahstorm 🔹Colorado Springs, CO. 🔸Bio: Kilah Storm is an author, illustrator and professional puppeteer. She has published a zine collection titled The Canine Bible and has hundreds of fans who follow her fan fiction: Avatar Strife and Harmony. All of her zines centers around animals. 📘📙📓 ✴️LIZ BROWN✴️ instagram.com/lilibet_wenge 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Liz Brown (she/her) is a librarian with a love for all things risograph. Originally hailing from Baltimore, MD, she occasionally writes dispatches from library conferences in a zine series called Notes from a Sub-Sub. She is the slow hiker who likes to pick up rocks to check for critters. She is also passionate about comics, creative reuse, games, Halloween, puppetry, and snail mail. 📘📙📓 ✴️MARA GERVAIS✴️ maragervais.bigcartel.com instagram.com/_maralane 🔹Davis, CA 🔸Bio: Mara Gervais is queer, gender-fluid non-binary, and from the Central Valley in California. They love zines, risograph printing, skateboarding, and eating spaghetti! 📘📙📓 ✴️MISS CBENAV✴️ cbenav.com/links instagram.com/miss_cbenav 🔹Midwest 🔸Bio: Cristina 'Miss Cbenav' is a recent graduate who utilizes art and writing to make illustrated stories, letting the crafty world of zines to explore her creativity. 📘📙📓 ✴️NASH'S COMIC✴️ 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: My name is Nash. I'm 11 years old. I came up with characters and make comics with my dad. He writes scripts and I do the art. I've sold my comics at Pike's Peak Zine Fest. People like them, and it was so fun. My new issue #4 has a new character. 📘📙📓 ✴️NIKO WILKINSON✴️ Nicois.gay instagram.com/nicothepoet tumblr.com/nicothepoet cohost.org/nicosuave 🔹Colorado Springs, CO. 🔸Bio: Nico Wilkinson is a poet/zinester/printmaker based in Colorado Springs, CO. They're the organizer of Keep Colorado Springs Queer, an open mic founded in 2016. They enjoy letterpress and relief printmaking. 📘📙📓

✴️DWEEB DRAWS✴️ linktr.ee/dweebdraws_ instagram.com/dweebdraws_ 🔹Longmont, CO 🔸Bio: Ceilidh started drawing worms in 2014 as a means of mindfulness to cope with anxiety and nearly ten years later she's still at it. She uses art to express my mental health journey and is using zines to destigmatize the discussion around such topics. 📘📙📓 ✴️EVAN HICKS CARTOONIST✴️ ficklebean.substack.com instagram.com/evanhickscartoonist 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Evan Hicks is self-published cartoonist behind Fickle Bean Comics, an ongoing series comic short stories. 📘📙📓 ✴️FAITH LYONS✴️ instagram.com/faithlyonsmadethis 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Faith Lyons is a Denver-based zine artist and crafter. They work in digital drawing, colored pencil, paint, crochet, polymer clay, and the occasional found object. They love sudoku, talking about zines, and their cat Greg. 📘📙📓 ✴️FANGIRL ZINES✴️ instagram.com/incitecolorado instagram.com/viewshedstudio 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: FANGIRL is one of Colorado’s niftiest fan-zines about Colorado's raddest musicians! Each issue features one band, with a wealth info, reviews, a unique multi-part interview, and flexi-disc single with music by the band. How cool is all of that?! 📘📙📓 ✴️FINA PACA✴️ finapaca.com instagram.com/finapaca 🔹Tempe, AZ 🔸Bio: “fina paca” means “fancy as fuck” in portuguese. Laura is a brazilian biologist with too many hobbies based in Tempe, AZ, USA. Her latest obsessions include (but are not limited to) Gocco printing, Tombow markers, and typewriters. 📘📙📓 ✴️FURTHER OTHER BOOK WORKS✴️ furtherotherbookworks.com instagram.com/further_other_book_works 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: I teach writing and publishing at UCCS & run Further Other Book Works. Some poetry books and chapbooks came out from NewLights Press, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, Compline, Delete Press, and supersuperette (now defunct but they were totally dope). 📘📙📓 ✴️G. PIKE✴️ artofgpike.com twapa.tumblr.com @gpike.bsky.com 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: G is a seasoned cartoonist who has been creating comics for 20+ years, including their long-running comic series "Title Unrelated", a queer fantasy-adventure story. 📘📙📓 ✴️HEMLOCKVALE✴️ instagram.com/hemlockvale 🔹Colorado Springs,CO 🔸Bio: Fantasy & Nature artwork, with a lot of tabletop RPG influences mixed in. I also write lil D&D oneshots, supplements, and monsters. 📘📙📓 ✴️HI-FI ANXIETY ZINE✴️ www.getonboardman.com instagram.com/hifianxietyzine instagram.com/getonboardman 🔹Pueblo, CO 🔸Bio: Hi-Fi Anxiety Zine is a music zine that focuses on collecting and nerd culture. 📘📙📓 ✴️HOITY TOITY GOODS & CURTIS MADE✴️ hoitytoitygoods.com curtismadethis.square.site instagram.com/hoitytoitygoods instagram.com/curtismadethis 🔹Westminster, CO 🔸Bio: Emilie and Curtis Tucker have been making cool art for cool people in Denver, CO for over 10+ years. From zines to embroidery, they’ve done it all. Together, they create artwork that makes people think and makes people happy. 📘📙📓

🔶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

Time to introduce ourselves (the organizers) again! There's historically only been 2 of us running PPZF, & we’re excited to have some extra hands on deck this year! 📘📙📓 Jennifer Eltringham (she/her) is one of the Founders & Organizers of Pikes Peak Zine Fest. Jennifer uses zines in her work as a librarian, where she gets to talk to students about information, print culture, and why it all matters. She also takes every opportunity she can get to yell about the moon and possums, North America’s only native marsupial. She makes mostly perzines as @princess_soopers - she anticipates that her magnum opus will be a zine ode to chicken nuggets. 📘📙📓 Kels Choo @kookookchoo (she/they) is one of the Founders & Organizers for Pikes Peak Zine Fest. Originally from Hawai‘i (not Hawaiian tho), Kels started making zines in college in Chicago, and has been a full-time independent artist in Colorado Springs since 2017. Kels works as a self-publisher of comics/illustration, and has been exhibiting at small press events for the past 10 years. Beyond comics, they enjoy eating good food, tending to their plants, and the company of animal friends. Their favorite zines are about creatures; real or mythical. 📘📙📓 Liz Brown (she/her) joined the Pikes Peak Zine Fest Organizer this year. She is a librarian with a love for all things risograph. Originally hailing from Baltimore, MD, she occasionally writes dispatches from library conferences in a zine series called Notes from a Sub-Sub. She is the slow hiker who likes to pick up rocks to check for critters. She is also passionate about comics, creative reuse, games, Halloween, puppetry, and snail mail. @lilibet_wenge (Instagram) 📘📙📓

📖🔸🔷So What is a Zine Anyway?🔷🔸📖 This is for all the newbies out there who heard about us and have been wondering this very question. Welcome to the wonderful world of zines! 🤗 ✨📕📙📒📗📘📓✨ 📘📙📓 Zines (short for magazine) are self-published books! They can be made in a variety of formats that my not look like a typical book, can contain images or text or any combination of the two, & may hold any variety of content from history or activism to something as simple as a zine about your pet (which both organizers Jennifer & Kels have done). Folx use collage, comics, illustration, photography, design, articles, poetry, prose, & more to fill the pages of their zines. Usually they have a small print run of less than 1000 copies (probably due to being made by hand) & the use of the photocopier has strong ties to the process of zine making. 📘📙📓 Zines have technically been around since the time of leaflets & the invention of printing, but the term was popularized more recently with the rise of fandoms (particularly sci-fi). Before the internet, zines were an analog way for niche & underground communities to share news, art, & events. Plus, they're a fun creative way to express yourself! 📘📙📓 Come on out to Pikes Peak Zine Fest on Saturday, Oct 7 (1-5p) @ PPLD's The Hall (20. W. Pikes Peak Ave) where you can see for yourself what a zine can be from our many participating zinesters! Read thru & pick up a free copy of our Zines 101 zine at the info table. The inside of Zines 101 can be unfolded to show instructions on how to fold your own mini-zine. ✂️📓⁠ 📘📙📓

Thanks so much to Nick Raven & CS Indy for chatting with us about Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2023!

✴️WIG SHOP✴️ www.wigshopwebshop.com instagram.com/wigshopwebshop 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Wig Shop is an online-only webstore that specializes in indie and self-published comics, art books, and more, such as limited editions, risoprinted zines, and European imports. 📘📙📓 ✴️WILL SCHREITZ✴️ www.willschreitz.com instagram.com/willschreitz 🔹Santa Fe, NM 🔸Bio: Will Schreitz is a human cartoonist in the American desert. Creator of Casper and Fauntleroy, Fred Frog, and Weak Magic. His work is dadaist, follows its own logic, and concerns itself with the magic hidden in the corners of our reality. 📘📙📓 ✴️ZEROFOREST✴️ desolinafletcher.com instagram.com/zerof0rest twitter.com/zer0forest bluesky @ zeroforest tumblr.com/zeroforest 🔹East Coast USA 🔸Bio: Desolina Fletcher is an illustrator and cartoonist telling stories about fear, love, and the murky depths of human relationships. You can find her in the trees. 📘📙📓 ✴️ZINES BY JASMINE✴️ JasmineDillavou.com instagram.com/JasmineRunsWithScissors facebook @Art by Jasmine Dillavou 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Jasmine Dillavou is a Boricua poet, curator, artist and performer based out of Colorado Springs. She is passionate about telling vulnerable stories through her art in hopes of inspiring others to do so too. 📘📙📓

✴️SCAREDLITTLEBUG✴️ Scaredlittlebug.itch.io instagram.com/scaredlittlebugzines tumblr.com/scaredlittlebug twitter.com/scaredlittlebug 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Aspen is a nonbinary bug-enthusiast and zinester. Its art follows its passions, with lots of creepy-crawly animals, sci-fi, horror, and queerness. With the release of Bug Crush 2, it can officially claim to have an ongoing series! 📘📙📓 ✴️SEAN LEFTWICH✴️ seanleftwich.com instagram.com/sleftovers 🔹Longmont, CO 🔸Bio: Sean Leftwich is an interdisciplinary artist working in Longmont, CO. Sean primarily works through drawing, but has also made zines, art games, and video work. He has also curated a group exhibition at the World’s Largest Laundromat. 📘📙📓 ✴️SKATE OR DIY COLLECTIVE✴️ johndishwasher.org instagram.com/skateordiycollective 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Skate or Diy is a community-based collective with a focus on creating safer skate spaces for shared learning and fun, and sharing/making art in community. So far, it is made up of 3 folks-all passionate artists and skaters. 📘📙📓 ✴️SONGMELLO✴️ songmello.com instagram.com/songmello_ twitter.com/songmello_ 🔹Southwest USA 🔸Bio: As an avid photo-taker, Song likes to portray the magic of simplicity found around her. She explores paths of motion in her work to enhance various themes, along with a dust bunny or two that sneak into her illustrations. 📘📙📓 ✴️SPECIMEN ZINE✴️ www.specimenzine.com instagram.com/specimenzine 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Specimen Zine explores the transformative power of attention, whether that be towards an unknown insect, a new city, or an old friend. Specimen is created by Erin Greenhalgh, a writer, collage artist, and photographer from Denver. 📘📙📓 ✴️STUPID ZINES✴️ instagram.com/stupidzines @stupidzines on tiktok and threads 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: stupidzines are an expression of the silly, whimsical, and absurd. They are an exercise in imperfection, exploring alternative knowledge and creating community. Zines heal my inner child—wielding crayons, glue, and paper to evoke delight! 📘📙📓 ✴️TONY GRAT✴️ instagram.com/TONYMETALDEATH 🔹Englewood, CO 🔸Bio: Tony Grat is a multidisciplinary artist and writer exploring personal experiences, hoping to connect with other flawed humans trying to be free expressionists. 📘📙📓 ✴️TORI HOLDER✴️ toriholder.com instagram.com/thattorih 🔹Los Angeles, CA 🔸Bio: Tori Holder is a comix zinester of Los Angeles, CA. 📘📙📓 ✴️VETERAN WRITERS NETWORK✴️ www.veteranwritersnetwork.com 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: The Veteran Writers Network is a place where student-veterans at UCCS can discuss writing and experiment with writing as a form of self-expression. While publication is not guaranteed, we work with students toward that goal if they so choose. 📘📙📓 ✴️VIVIFICA ARTS✴️ microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/artist/karyn-light-gibson instagram.com/vivificaarts 🔹Denver CO 🔸Bio: Karyn is lover of many thing but particularly of bugs. I love the accessibility of zines and try to use them as creative means of scientific communication. Come talk to me about all things nature! 📘📙📓

✴️NINA JUDSON✴️ one-plus-one.org/products/zines instagram.com/nina_judson 🔹Fort Collins, CO 🔸Bio: I am an urban sketcher and a published illustrator. I have been sketching my way around family, kids and work for almost 5 years. I came across zines in the summer of 2022 and have been enchanted with them since.

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✴️NINE OF ALL TRADES✴️ Ninamoldawsky.com/nineofalltrades instagram.com/nineofalltrades 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Nine of All Trades sells quaint crafts and cute cats. It it is run by Nina Moldawsky, who wishes to use her many trades to tell many stories. 📘📙📓 ✴️PATTI SMITHSONIAN✴️ pattismithsonian.com instagram.com/pattismithsonian 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Patti Smithsonian is known for her imaginative puppet theater performances that have toured worldwide. 📘📙📓 ✴️PAUL K. TUNIS✴️ paulktunis.com instagram.com/paulktunis twitter.com/paulktunis 🔹Alamosa, CO 🔸Bio: Paul K. Tunis is a comics poet from the desert. His work explores the real world in a dream world way. 📘📙📓 ✴️PEAKE ART✴️ www.coroflot.com/PeakeGraffix www.instagram.com/JantzenPeake 🔹Colorado Springs , CO 🔸Bio: I am a Multi Media artist based out of Colorado Springs. I specialize in Murals, Art Curations, Art Instructing to list a few of my specialities. I integrate classic cartoons and pop culture into my work with a dark yet fun vibrancy of colors. 📘📙📓 ✴️PINK PITCHER✴️ RootandBranchComic.com patreon.com/PinkPitcher twitter.com/pinkmakescomics instagram.com/pinkilicious7 Mastodon - @PinkMakesComics @comics.town tumblr.com/rootandbranchcomic 🔹Westcliffe, CO 🔸Bio: Hello! Iʼm Pink, the author and artist of Root & Branch, an epic fantasy adventure comic! I work in watercolors and ink, and in addition to making comics I love drawing RPG characters and beefcake. 📘📙📓 ✴️PRINCESS SOOPERS ZINES✴️ instagram.com/princess_soopers 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Jennifer Eltringham (she/her) uses zines in her work as a librarian, where she gets to talk to students about information, print culture, and why it all matters. She also takes every opportunity she can get to yell about the moon and possums, North America’s only native marsupial. She makes mostly perzines - she anticipates that her magnum opus will be a zine ode to chicken nuggets. 📘📙📓 ✴️PURE STAIN///AJ✴️ instagram.com/pure_piss 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Aj is a multidisciplinary artist. Their zines range from analogue film to illustration, utilizing different paper making and printing techniques. Their works are inspired by documentary photography, nature, anime and y2k tattoo aesthetics. 📘📙📓 ✴️RACHEL BARD✴️ www.rachelbard.com instagram.com/rachel_bard 🔹Chicago, IL 🔸Bio: I create unusual zines in a variety of formats and styles. I print and assemble all of them by hand. I like to experiment with unconventional book formats and materials and my zines are short, all-ages, and can usually fit in the palm of your hand. 📘📙📓 ✴️RORRIED✴️ art-by-rory.neocities.org instagram.com/rorried 🔹Loveland, CO 🔸Bio: Rory Pedersen, known as Rorried on the internet, is a queer and trans art student who works in a wide variety of mediums. He grew up in Austin, Texas. Outside of making art, Rory enjoys playing video games and reading with his cat. 📘📙📓 ✴️S.A.P. PRESSING✴️ sappressing.wordpress.com 🔹Denver, CO. 🔸Bio: S.A.P. Pressing publishes zines on interrelated topics of sci-fi/fantasy, science/magic, colonization/racism, futurism/history. "Battle of Antarctica," the newest zine in Enduring Change in Dead Systems series, is being released in August 2023. 📘📙📓

🔸🔷Check out PPZF 2023's Exhibitors!🔷

We've got 54 stellar zinesters participating in-person & via our Community Table this year!!! 🤩🎉

📘📙📓 ✴️AJ URBINA✴️ instagram.com/ajurbina 🔹Broomfield, CO 🔸Bio: AJ Urbina is a Colorado based comic artist who focuses on original illustration and stories. Kendama, Disc Golf, Roller Skating, and Hiking enthusiast. Fabulous, he/him. 📘📙📓 ✴️ARI BACH✴️ deviantart.com/aribach instagram.com/aribach01 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: A surrealist artist and author, with a new graphic novel, a sci-fi trilogy, and an art book. 📘📙📓 ✴️ART OF AVES✴️ www.aofaves.com instagram.com/a_of_aves 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Aves is a freelance artist based in Colorado Springs, they’ve contributed to comics, covers, and kickstarters and are always looking to bring a bit more magic into people’s day! 📘📙📓 ✴️BENSCHOP BOOKS✴️ benschopbooks.com instagram.com/benschopbooks 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: Benschop Books publishes photography books and zines that are design and handmade by Vera Benschop. Her books showcase both her own work, as well as collaborations with other photographers. 📘📙📓 ✴️BESTU FRIENDO CO.✴️ instagram.com/bestufriendoco instagram.com/Macho_My_Dude instagram.com/notraul.art 🔹Dallas, TX 🔸Bio: Bestu Friendo Co. is an innovative art project initiated by the collaborative efforts of two talented artists, Raul Rodriguez and Christopher Machorro. By embracing collaboration, BF Co. brings forth an extraordinary collection of designs. 📘📙📓 ✴️BETELGUESE✴️ betelgeusethemusicman.it 🔹Piantedo, Lombardy, Italy 🔸Bio: Betelgeuse is a zine artist and writer from from alpine Italy. He loves music and art and that reflects on his zines, mixing his interests with his local culture, language, and folklore. 📘📙📓 ✴️BLAKE A. CHAMNESS✴️ bachamness.com 🔹Westminster, CO 🔸Bio: Blake is a cartoonist, painter, and teacher living in Westminster, CO. His current comics series are "Sentience," a robot adventure story, and "Distortion," a solo anthology that includes autobio, strips, fiction, illustration, and poetry. 📘📙📓 ✴️CASUAL DRY CLEANING✴️ www.casualdrycleaning.com instagram.com/casualdrycleaning 🔹Castle Rock, CO 🔸Bio: Michael is a graphic artist living in Castle Rock, CO with his brilliant wife, two exuberant sons, and a crotchety terrier. He has a BFA in illustration from Ringling College of Art & Design and has cut back to 22 cups of coffee a day. 📘📙📓 ✴️CHEECH/CRAFTERS CLIQUE✴️ craftclique.mn.co facebook.com/groups/craftclique instagram.com/crafters.clique 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: The Crafters Clique is a regional network of artists, makers and creatives. We set aside time to connect and craft in community via free weekly meetups and dedicated online network. Cheech hosts and organizes events, and loves paper crafting. 📘📙📓 ✴️CREATED BY CLYDE✴️ createdbyClyde.substack.com instagram.com/createdbyClyde 🔹Fort Collins, CO 🔸Bio: The cartoonist behind the webcomic series Processing – a dark comedy exploring the question, “what if every afterlife exists?” navigating a bureaucratic agency established to give non-believers another chance at finding eternal bliss. 📘📙📓 ✴️DANTE LUMSDEN✴️ stuparisprincess.wixsite.com/glitterandgrunge instagram.com/glitterandgrunge 🔹Cheyenne, WY 🔸Bio: Dante Lumsden is a horror and mystery artist from the Middle of Nowhere. They enjoy writing narratives on the unnatural and the paranormal, discussing topics of gender and race in our modern day, and love using as many bright colors as possible. 📘📙📓