from 11am - 6pm
at the
Chicago Athletic Association
(12 S. Michigan Ave.)
Pretty Good Fest is a one-day opportunity to meet over 100 artists & publishers, buy limited-run books & printed artwork, and support the Chicago independent art community.
Pretty Good Fest is free and open to the public. An after-party and small comics reading will follow, also at CAA. This fair is the spiritual successor of Zine Not Dead Fest.
Pretty Good Fest is presented by Perfectly Acceptable Press.
Doors: 8pm & Show: 9pm
Chicago Athletic Association, Stagg Court (4th floor)
Free & open to the public
Our official after-party, hosted by SLOP, follows the vending portion of the festival at the same venue: the Chicago Athletic Association!
Featuring readings by:
Leo Covault, Stephon Doby, Audrey Hamilton,
Aaliyah Lachel'e, and Re Pinter.
We hope to see you there!
2dcloud 51 Personae abracadabra! Alex B. Kostiw Allie Trigoso Andrew Misisco Andy Hood Angel Xoxo Ann Xu Anna Wagner Arianna Unabia Aquino Ash H.G. Atlan Arceo-Witzl / Tenoch Press Audrey Hamilton Ava Walkow BearBear bench press Beth Hetland Bianca Xunise BOVINE press By Danielle Witten Cam Collins Carmen Pizarro CHema Skandal! Chris Day Christopher Goblin Cicada Comics Cold Boy Press Conor Stechschulte Coodos cyunie Daisy Vanderwood Dark Spark Press Darya Foroohar David Alvarado Decoraters Tattoo Club Degenerates Collective DePaul Zinesters DOG EYE PRESS DogKisses & TinyGalaxyKid Eddie Campbell Eileen Chavez Eli Schmitt Elias Gonzalez Entropy Editions Field of Grass Design Fox Graham freaky little guy press Fscare George Porteus Grace Culloton Hardscrabble Cafe Harper Sims Harrison & Nell Heavy Pages Press Hink Howling Pages Iona Fox Issue Press J.E Paeth Jasjyot Singh Hans Jen Chavez Jim Joyce Johnny Sampson Joshua Ray Stephens Kelly Wang Kevin Budnik Kevin Huizenga Kristen Miciotta Landis Blair Lane Milburn Late Night Copies Press Leo Covault Liana Fu Lion's Tooth Living Room Press logan kruidenier LOREUHLOO Lumpen Lya Finston & Julia Schrecengost Maggie Umber Malt Adult Mark Bouchard Marnie Galloway Math-you Land-vote Max Huffman melonfarm Mike Centeno Mike Freiheit Oh Well Press Onsmith & Nudd OOO Press other forms Other World Riso PeanutbuddarArt - Aaliyah Lachel'e Perfectly Acceptable Press Poety Unlimited Project Onward Public Collectors Quimby's Rachel Bard Re Pinter Reilly Branson Illustration Ruby Carter Sage Coffey Sam Szabo Santos Sisters Sean Mac SLOP Steve Schaberg Talya Modlin Taxonomy Press TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO/Short Leash Editions Tony DiPasquale Trash Treasury Uncivilized Uoo Art /Muchen Wang VisualJa Whitney Wasson ZINEmercado
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Chicago, IL • Website • Table 10851 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of "realism" in art as expressive actions.
Shanghai, China • Website • Table 100Aabracadabra! is a quarterly print maga(zine) rooted in the notion that the world can be whatever we intend it to be. Inspired by The Smudge, our pen pals, and personal spiritual practices, our hope is to bless the mailboxes of magicians and wizards of all shapes and sizes with something that reminds them of the mystery and wonder all around us, and of the alchemist within each of us with the power to speak creation into being
Glenview, IL • Website • Table 433AAlex Belardo Kostiw tells brief stories about strange encounters with the everyday, human connections across time and space, and hidden parts and possibilities of the self. Their work deals in poetic elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. It invites intuitive reading - and resists complete unraveling. Alex is an assistant professor of visual communication design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 104BAllie Trigoso is an animator/cartoonist working in Chicago, IL, and currently teaches at DePaul University. Her work features body horror, weird women and babies, and overall silly ugliness.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 422BAndrew's work is populated with magical beasts and courageous heroes drawn forth from the mists of an ancient world. He is known for the illustrated novel 'Codex Mysteria,' a guide to the fae realm of Aclion. Andrew is also in the process of completing a series of short story comics called 'Tales from Tyr' that explore Aclion?s main continent and people who live there.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 119AAndy is a cartoonist from Hoffman Estates IL, where he currently resides. He draws inspiration from nature, Final Fantasy and indie comics. His favorite bird is the Great Blue Heron. Andy’s self-published works include Interzone, Suburban Myths and Young American.
Hoffman Estates, IL • Website • Table 434AAngel has been making zines for over a decade and co-organizes Midwest Perzine Fest and Dear Diary Zine Fest. They love self-publishing zines as a tool to dismantle capitalism.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 106BAnna Wagner is an American/Brazilian artist and educator based in Chicago. A dedicated craftsperson, Anna is invested in working with antiquated techniques to explore how marginalized histories resurface throughout time, ever-present and existing in the contemporary world as informed by the past.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 404BArianna Unabia Aquino is a Filipina-American printmaker and illustrator from Chicago. They mainly utilize risograph printing in their work and derive inspiration from the thoughts that are stuck in their head, allowing intuition and exploration at the forefront of how they create.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 439BAsh H.G. is a painter, illustrator, and comic book artist/writer based in Chicago, IL. From 2007 to 2016, he wrote, drew, serialized, and self-published the comic CHILDREN OF THE BLACK CIRCUS. In 2016, Ash began talking with publisher 2dcloud about reworking the story to create a new graphic novel. The result, EAST DISTRICT, debuted in advance at Short Run Comix Festival in November 2024 and was officially released in January 2025.
Ash holds a BA in Liberal Studies from Thomas Edison State University, an Associate in Visual Arts from Skagit Valley College, and a Certificate in Publishing Arts from Seattle Central College.
Atlan is a mixed-race Chicanx artist, printmaker, and educator based in Chicago, IL (Zhigaagoong/Xicago). His work explores a fusion of ancient and contemporary culture, grounded in the Midwest and a continually evolving radical imagination. He employs his bold, graphic style to reflect on the everyday, signs, symbols, place, identity, belonging, politics and power towards a just and liberated future for all. He is an active member of the Chicago Printers Guild and Instituto Gráfico de Chicago and is a collaborator on Chicago Signs & Symbols. He works in the printshop at Columbia College Chicago in addition to pursuing freelance design and self/collaboratively published print projects as Tenoch Press.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 403BAudrey Hamilton likes to draw herself being crushed by giant women. We hear she's fun at parties.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 117BAva Walkow (melynade) is a chicago-based cartoonist, illustrator, and author. When they’re not writing, they can be found petting their cat, or walking around the city thinking about their cat.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 115BBearBear is a self-publishing Risograph studio illuminated by Diana Chu & Ben Grzenia. We are Hong Kong- and Midwestern-grown individuals navigating life together by combining illustrations and photographs into visual art books and zines. Our print work articulates washed-out memories that explore personal relationships to place and the mystique that surrounds them. BearBear was established in Milwaukee in 2019.
Milwaukee, WI • Website • Table 407bench press is a risograph press based on friendship, play & collaboration. books are remnants of generative conversations & mutual exchange between artist + publisher.
focusing on collaborative projects and interactive guides + workbooks, bench press often partners with artists & friends who are new to the book as form, utilizing the risograph as tool for skill sharing and creating publications as a way to connect directly with the reader while advocating for open access to knowledge & resources.
bench press was founded in 2022 by madeleine aguilar and located in chicago, il. their work lives in the franklin furnace archive in the pratt institute library, the joan flasch artists' book collection at the school of the art institute of chicago, the 8-ball library in ny, new york, the vcu art book library at virginia commonwealth university, and elsewhere.
Beth Hetland is a critically acclaimed cartoonist and award winning professor. Her book TENDER, recipient of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for 2025, is a psychological thriller with body horror elements about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect life. She has a long history of self-publishing and collaborating on graphic novels, mini-comics, and artist books.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 116ABianca Xunise’s work has been regarded as ‘gripping narrative[s], relatable situations, and evocative artwork with an aesthetic that oozes with late-1970s zine flair.’ With two Ignatz and an NAACP Award under their belt, Bianca enjoys being a voice for those who march to the beat of their own drum and hopes that their comics are comforting to those who feel like they don’t fit in. Bianca continues to bring rock n roll to illustrative life, collaborating with legends from Blondie to Bauhaus. When Bianca isn’t doodling away, they are usually at an underground DIY punk show dancing with friends by the Chicago riverside.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 102ABOVINE represents the publishing practice of Raeann Van Zee, a designer, printmaker, and educator in Chicago, Illinois. BOVINE publishes books via the Risograph, and is primarily concerned with publications that investigate value, forms of labor and currency, language, and the activity of self-publishing. Raeann’s work has been exhibited at the LA Printed Matter Art Book Fair, San Francisco Art Book Fair, Detroit Art Book Fair, and more.
Willow Springs, IL • Website • Table 104ADanielle Witten is a Washington, D.C. based artist and runs District Riso, a Risograph studio. Her work blends bold illustrations with the iconic risograph textures to create art prints, zines, cards, and books.
Washington, D.C. • Website • Table 406BCam Collins is an illustrator that draws stories inside of shapes, and these shapes often make up robots, games, and comics. He is based in Chicago and plans to draw and flesh out the world of "The Canvas" until he dies. Currently, Cam is working on new Redman comics and a new "Copper Odyssey" game, a series revolving around the art world.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 431ACarmen Pizarro is a Latine illustrator and comics creator based in New York City. Their work consists of self-published comics and zines along with prints, stickers and shirts. The work she creates focuses on relationships, tough babes, bold color palettes with a splash of cult classic movies and fashion references. When they’re not working on their own projects you can find her at local zine and art festivals.
Brooklyn, NY • Website • Table 419BCHema Skandal! is a graphic artist. An enthusiast of popular graphics and traditional printing techniques, his work reflects parallel universes, includes polysemy and is often inspired by popular culture, cartoons and music as well as social issues.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 402Chris Day is an artist, printer and musician based in Chicago, IL.
Berwyn, IL • Website • Table 123BChristopher Goblin is a small press made by one overly serious cartoonist who is secretly a silly guy and one goofy goober who deep down is very sentimental. Together, we balance each other out and print some earnest, often absurd, and/or tender queer comics.The two of us are MFA students at the SAIC, and Christopher Goblin is our brainchild, a small press where we can not only publish our work, but also the work of other young, primarily queer, cartoonists who create comics that are absurd yet sentimental or tender yet out of the box.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 438BCris Siqueira (pronounced "cicada") is a Brazilian-born cartoonist and co-owner of Lion's Tooth bookstore in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, WI • Website • Table 410BUnder the name Cold Boy Press, Bridget organizes queer collaborative projects and zines alongside their own self published works and prints! They are a cartoonist and union organizer from Chicago, also co-hosting events with the Artistic Alphabet Mafia.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 125AConor Stechschulte is the author of the graphic novel Ultrasound (Fantagraphics) along with dozens of self-published comics including the most recent, "Crepusucline #1." He adapted Ultrasound into the screenplay for a feature film directed by Rob Schroeder and released by Magnolia Films in 2022. He has exhibited his work internationally and teaches classes in comics, printmaking and self-publishing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 124BClay creations all cute colorful and slightly creepy.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 435The images I craft are from the sentimentality of my experience growing up Chinese American, combined with the influence of the East Asian media I consumed in my childhood, to the current day. It's a blend of nostalgia, pride, and a deep appreciation for the lessons learned, the celebrations shared, and the bonds formed within my cultural context, as well as the things that I find beautiful.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 126Daisy Vanderwood is a mixed media artist getting their BFA at SAIC with a focus on print media. Their work explores femininity, mythology and the natural world.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 404ADark Spark Press is an independent press specializing in erotic comics and illustrations, operated cross-country out of New York and Chicago. The press seeks to give a platform for artists to tell sexy and playful stories in a country that increasingly seeks to sterilize the sexuality - particularly queer sexuality - out of art.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 105ADarya is a cartoonist who writes autobio zines, autofiction comics that blend her life with horror and fantasy, and graphic essays that incorporate academic theory to make it more accessible to a larger audience. She also organizes comic events and readings, such as the first inaugural Super Exclusive Expo held on August 15, 2025. Her first book, My Eyes, Your Gaze, was published by Bridge Books in August 2024. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Chicago Danztheatre Body Passages artist residency. Find her on IG @daryafarah.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 400ADavid Alvarado is a designer, illustrator and cartoonist living in Chicago, IL. His work is characterized by big bold colors, intricate details and isometric landscapes. His Zines are collections of drawings, photography and other documentation of his life.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 433BDegenerates Collective is a group that makes pornographic zines centering transexual writers and artists.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 100BDePaul Zinesters is a student organization from DePaul University with a variety of contributors.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 114ADOG EYE PRESS is a publishing project run by artists Colleen Harriss and Hannah Lee Hall out of Minneapolis, MN. We collaborate with visual artists to produce inventive, small-run books. We started the press in 2022 out of a mutual love for the book format and a desire to tangibly promote and celebrate art that we love. In our publications, we are strongly interested in giving form to ideas and works that have been sidelined or otherwise forgotten. With a special interest in artists who operate outside the mainstream publishing and art worlds, we look for wildly original work that we believe is deserving of a wider audience. We take care to design each book to uniquely present the work within and employ a variety of project specific printing and binding methods. Our curatorial eye skews toward the gestural and loose, and we go to great efforts to reproduce the textural qualities of the original mediums. We love creating supplemental materials such as posters, t-shirts, or broadsides to accompany each release and further celebrate and disperse the work.
Minneapolis, MN • Website • Table 120DogKisses is weird queer multimedia artwork made by QTPOC Midwest-based artist. His work includes fun and colorful graphic design illustrations with retro and folk influences focusing on the human body and identity.
TinyGalaxyKid is a very silly artshop with illustrations, stickers, prints, zines, and indie comics about the radical joy of queerness, disability, being a person of color, and kissing women. Their goal is to bring a little fagginess to the masses.
Eddie Campbell has been drawing comics for decades, and self-publishing them too for several years, and is best known for From Hell, his autobiographical Alec: The Years Have Pants, and two volumes collecting Bacchus, about the 4000 year-old god.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 426AEileen Chavez is a comics artist from Oakland and Portland, currently based in Chicago. They draw poetic books about plants, dogs and celestial beings.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 428AEli is a xerox artist from indianapolis indiana who has been making an arts and music fanzine called "Unresolved" for 4 years now.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 122BElias is a cartoonist from the suburbs of Chicago. He makes "funny" comics for "mature" readers.
Arlington Heights, IL • Website • Table 440AEntropy Editions is a Minneapolis-based comics micro-publisher founded in 2018. Focusing on a mixture of narrative & experimental comics produced with a unifying design theme, our goal is to provide readers an accessible means by which to discover work by artists in both the domestic & international small-press comics community.
Minneapolis, MN • Website • Table 109AThe Field of Grass Correspondence is a small press publication operated by the F.O.G. design company. Sending semi-regular correspondences and other objects throught the mail in an effort to deepen our connection with friends and collaborators. We merge extensive r&d materials collected in the commission of our design work with philosophical investigations discussed around the office. We correspond to raise questions, reinforce our intentions, and inspire continued-mutual action. All work is made by Timothy Breen, Ben Chlapek and Kirk Faber with collaborators.
Baroda, MI • Website • Table 432BFox Graham is a Chicago based cartoonist and illustrator making work focusing on exploring interpersonal relationships and belonging between LGBTQ+ characters.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 424Bfreaky little guy is a small risograph press based out of so-called kalamazoo, mi. we publish comics and zines with a handmade bent by transsexuals with shit to say.
Kalamazoo, MI • Website • Table 432AMy name is Cassidy, I'm a NSFW animator/comic artist that focuses on trans/monster erotica.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 424AGeorge Porteus is a Chicago-based artist and writer who has been producing experimental zines, comics, pamphlets and prints for over a decade.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 411BGrace makes prints, cards, and stickers full of color and personality. She lives in Chicago with her wife and elderly cat.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 114BHardscrabble Cafe is a hobby risograph studio started in 2021 by hannah larson & Alex Nall.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 443Harper Sims (she/her) is a storyboard and comics artist based in LA. Check out her work at harpersims.site
Glendale, CA • Website • Table 417BHarrison & Nell are best friends who make special and funny comics in Chicago. They run i know what you did press.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 420Heavy Pages Press is an indie publishing project based in Chicago and ran by the sign painters of Heart & Bone Signs. Heavy Pages is a love letter to the trade of sign painting and focuses on books related to signs and lettering. Started in 2024 after accidentally falling into the world of publishing by rediscovering a treasure trove of hundreds of original sign sketches by the famous Beverly Sign Co. of South Side Chicago. Heavy Pages is equal parts publishing and preservation, drawn from a desire to bring awareness to the inspiring history of sign painting in efforts to ensure that history is not forgotten.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 101BHink is a comic artist, muralist, and printmaker from Chicago. No matter the medium, Hink is fueled by narratives that explore queerness, the 'other', and the absurd.
Their master plan is to encourage others to get familiar with their own respective creature inside.
Chicago's destination for the coolest graphic novels, indie comics, and printed art. Independent Labels, Euro Comics, Manga, Small Press Comics, Alternative Comics, Local Creators, Art and Illustration.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 442Iona Fox is a Chicago cartoonist. Her weekly comic strip Almanac ran in Seven Days alt-weekly newspaper from 2016-2019, and her most recent piece, Tough Shit, recently appeared in Newcity magazine. A new story, New Thing, will be available at Pretty Good Fest.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 430BIssue Press is a tiny publisher and Risograph print shop based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since 2011, it has worked with an elastic mandate to publish captivating works by artists of all mediums that trade in humor, history, and exploration of place.
Grand Rapids, MI • Website • Table 408J.E Paeth is a Chicago-based Illustrator and Cartoonist currently pursuing a Bachelor in Fine Arts and Studio at the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Paeth's work often follows themes of transsexuality queerness and angels.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 110BJasjyot Singh Hans is an illustrator unendingly inspired by an explosive-neon mix of fashion, music and queer pop culture. He has a constant regard for things past and a voracity for all that is current. His work chronicles around themes of body image, sexuality and self love.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 403AJen is a Chicana illustrator and comic artist. Her zines focus on various mental illnesses, troubles with catholicism, and the occasional natural disaster When she?s not drawing she likes to pace around Chicago for as long as possible.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 118BJim is a zinester from Chicago who writes Let It Sink and other titles.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 105BJohnny Sampson is a cartoonist, illustrator, screen printer, zine-maker, musician, and skateboarder based in Glen Ellyn, IL. With Al Jaffee's blessing, he has done the MAD Fold-In since 2020. He teaches comics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a proud member of the National Cartoonists Society, for which he is the Chicago Chapter Chair and the organization's National Representative.
Glen Ellyn, IL • Website • Table 124AVENOMYTHS is Joshua Ray Stephens' ongoing anthology of cartoon future fantasy. Unequal parts sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, poetry, religious revelation and silly ass comics. VENOMYTHS is a mind bending romp through the ravings of an over-active imagination and over-saturated mind
St. Louis, MO • Website • Table 425Kelly Wang is an award-winning alternative cartoonist, printmaker, and musician based in Chicago, USA.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 438AKevin Huizenga lives in Bridgeport and draws a comic book named "Fielder" and a monthly electronic magazine named "F." His last book was "The River at Night," published by Drawn & Quarterly.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 430ADecoraters Tattoo Club is a collective of artists in Chicago with associated collaboraters across the country and around the world, come find us at 3321 W. Armitage Ave.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 107Kristen Miciotta is an artist living in Chicago, IL. Working largely with ballpoint pen she makes dense, collage-like illustrations. She pulls influence and imagery from films, counter-culture magazines, personal photos, and national geographics.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 437BLandis Blair is the author and illustrator of "Vers le Sud," "The Night Tent," and "The Envious Siblings," as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller "From Here to Eternity," and the graphic novel "The Hunting Accident," which won the 2021 Fauve d’Or and the 2020 Quai des Bulles prize. His illustrations have appeared in numerous print and online periodicals including The New Yorker, the New York Times, Chicago magazine, VQR, and Atlas Obscura. He lives in Chicago.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 426BLane Milburn is a cartoonist based in Chicago. He has published two graphic novels with Fantagraphics Books. His work has appeared in Métal-Hurlant, The Believer, and Vice.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 122ALate Night Copies Press is a queer and trans run micro press in Minneapolis, MN publishing zines and artist publications about queer history, informal research based writing, and various how-to guides about laundry, textiles, and the domestic. Our flagship series, Queer Materials shares curated selections of archival materials from across the Midwest. We print using photocopiers and risograph machines.
Minneapolis, MN • Website • Table 414Leo Covault is a printmaker and zinester exploring gender through the lens of historical fashion and folklore. He creates risograph zines, paper doll and three dimensional set comics, and linocut prints. His comic The Harpist, a transgender fairy tale told in paper dolls, debuted in 2024.
Cleveland Heights, OH • Website • Table 119BLiana Fu 傅嘉恩 is a queer writer and zinemaker from Chicago. As a multidisciplinary artist inspired by the Cantonese diasporic archive, she plays with photography, collage, and printmaking to explore intimacy, process, and nostalgia. Her writing is supported by Lambda Literary, Tin House, and the Illinois Arts Council. You can find her work in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Margins, Hyphen Magazine, Glass Poetry, and elsewhere. Read more at lianafu.com and on instagram @lettersbyliana.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 113ALion's Tooth is a Milwaukee bookstore specialized in zines, prints, small press books and comics for kids and adults.
Milwaukee, WI • Website • Table 410ALiving Room Press is a Risograph publisher based in Seattle that focuses on art, nature, and comics from artists in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle, WA • Website • Table 406Ahello! i live a good story & create all sorts of narratives. i am enamored with the xerox zine culture that began alt comics and aim to work without computer editing.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 112BLOREUHLOO is a Chicago based cartoonist and printmaker. Using their queer experience and relationships to form stories using nature as the stage.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 106AOperating a Front for The Left in the Arts since 1991
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 401Lya and Julia are Chicago-based artists who work primarily in relief printmaking.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 441AMaggie Umber paints, prints, and programs graphic novels and zines. She's published four graphic novels — Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Sound of Snow Falling, Time Capsule, 270°. Her work has been widely anthologized, and Chrysanthemum Under the Waves was nominated for a 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 416A"Malt Adult" is a free, curated screening series showcasing animation artists pushing the medium. Founded in 2016 by artist Sarah Schmidt, they have showcased over 250 artists with the goal of bringing contemporary, independent animation to the Midwest.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 421Mark Bouchard (they/them) writes queer horror comics (like IT TOOK LUKE: Overworked & Underpaid), and also SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. They love horror, hardcore punk, their spouse, and seitan chikn parm sandwiches.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 110AMarnie Galloway is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist from Chicago best known for her wordless graphic novel "In the Sounds and Seas," as well as "Abortion Pill Zine," "Really In It," and "Particle/Wave." She teaches comics at SAIC and is working on a big graphic memoir about motherhood, anger, love, and predatory animal attacks called "I Could Just Eat You Up."
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 115AMath-you is a Chicago-based artist who makes zines, comix, prints, clothing, drawings and other ephemera. Their work explores themes of alienation, disgust, humor, erotica, and what it means to be a small part of a subculture amidst the crumbling dystopia of day to day American life.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 411AMax Huffman is a Chicago-based cartoonist whose most recent work is the Ignatz-nominated humor collection Them-Shaped Clouds. His debut graphic novel Dogtangle will be published in November 2025 by Fantagraphics Books.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 427BMelody is based in Chicago and makes comics about natural and unnatural life.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 113BMike (Miguel) Centeno is a Venezuelan cartoonist creating work about identity, alienation and immigrant issues through the lens of sci-fi, absurdism and body-horror. His work has been published in The Nib, The Reader, Southside Weekly, El espectador, among others.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 434BMike Freiheit makes comics, art and music in Chicago.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 436BWe are a Chicago-based collection of art nerds from all over the world. We love to publish works inspired by our hobbies and our cultural backgrounds. We make zines, comix and prints that all feature specific quirks from each of us. Expect works revolving around horror themes, video games, international food and many more.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 102BThe collaborative work of Onsmith & Nudd tightens the cleavage between the seemingly disparate worlds of underground comics and contemporary painting. Onsmith & Nudd reject the notion that these approaches to making things differ in any meaningful way, instead opting for a strategy that focuses on an end product that resembles, above all other things, an artificially-thickened quasi-cultural pureé. Everything they plumb from the depths of the diseased and impacted Western cultural colon-womb, from films of questionable artistic merit to "metaphysical German meatloaf," becomes fodder for their cartoon-heavy narrative and figurative conglomerations. Onsmith the cartoonist, a documentarian of modern isolation and purveyor of grim humor, and Nudd the painter of gunk, pox and plasmic filth, have sculpted out of beef-clay a body of work that autonomously bottles and sells its own pungent nectars. The proof, as well as all of the hairs, toenails, and used band-aids, resides in their many vats of stodgy pudding.
Berwyn, IL • Website • Table 422AOOO Press is a small scale publishing imprint based in Chicago and founded by Junior Pacheco. Rooted in curiosity and material exploration, their work balances tactile experimentation with contemporary design tools to create thoughtful, process-driven visual experiences.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 417AOther Forms is a research and design collective working in intersections of architecture, graphic design, and publishing. Other Forms is Jack Henrie Fisher and Alan Smart along with a fluid community of colleagues and comrades, sympathetic strangers and unexpected allies encountered in the course of work and life. Other Forms develops new aesthetics and content for militant communication experiments. Other Forms Publishing criss-crosses the political economies of print-on-demand, offset lithography, and Risograph printing. In every publication, Other Forms investigates the implicit mutuality and antagonisms of materials, aesthetics, and media, in the production of new forms of political communication.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 416BOther World Riso is a risograph publishing studio based in a shoebox apartment in the East Village, NYC. Other World Riso prints using a SF9450 duplicator with 11 colors: federal blue, raspberry, light lime, fluo orange, fluo pink, orchid, grass, bright red, lake, mint, and black.
New York, NY • Website • Table 125BAaliyah Lachel'e (Peanutbuddarart) is a queer, black artist based in Chicago. Often focusing on girlhood and loser-dom, her work draws upon her experience growing up as an internet obsessed, nerdy, kid-of-color. She uses science-fiction and magical realism to power these worlds and places BIPOC in the middle of them. She wants her work to hit you in the gut, make you remember what it felt like to be 14, and make you feel represented while it happens
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 111Perfectly Acceptable Press is a Risograph press and publishing house.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 409Poety Unlimited is a small press based in Berwyn IL specializing in goods produced by Molly Colleen O’Connell and Mally Wood Lundgren.
Berwyn, IL • Website • Table 123ASince 2004, Project Onward has become a leader in the field of disability arts for its blend of artistic excellence and social engagement. We provide artists with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities the opportunity to create their work in a safe, supportive studio environment, with access to work space, materials, and professional guidance without being encumbered by cost. We hold professional exhibitions, promote our artists' work, and inspire change by using art to promote empathy and overturn the stigma of mental illness and developmental disabilities. Finally, we aim to cultivate new audiences by increasing awareness of artwork created by neurodiverse artists and generating demand for it.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 423Public Collectors is an initiative Marc Fischer formed in 2007. Public Collectors brings the periphery to the foreground and aims to encourage greater access for marginal cultural materials. Public Collectors’ work includes the Library Excavations publication series and web project, Hardcore Architecture—a blog and publication series about where people in punk bands lived, and Quaranzine—which produced 100 single page publications with over 75 collaborators at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to Quaranzine, Public Collectors has produced nearly 100 publications. Fischer is also a member of the group Temporary Services (founded in 1998) and a partner in its publishing imprint Half Letter Press (ongoing since 2008). He is based in Chicago.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 413Quimby's is an independently owned bookstore that offers independently published and small press books, comics, zines, and ephemera.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 412BI 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.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 116BRe Pinter is a cartoonist based in Portland, OR. Their comix play with form and with your mind.
Portland, OR • Website • Table 429BReilly Branson is a Chicago-based illustrator whose interests in fantasy, architecture, and the natural world all influence his broad variety of zines and comics. From tabletop gaming zines and fantasy comics to meticulously rendered ink drawing collections, Reilly's work aims to encourage curiosity and exploration.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 118ARuby is the creator of "bird comic" and the "BOGUE" series. She has some new stickers if you've already read those.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 440BSage Coffey is a trans non-binary cartoonist and abortion activist with a passion for drawing drunk ghosts. They're best know for their debut graphic novel Wine Ghost Goes to Hell as well as their work on the game BUGSNAX, illustrating I AM NOT A WOLF and co-authoring Abortion Pill Zine. 2025 Eisner Award loser (but, like, in a funny way!)
Skokie, IL • Website • Table 116ASam Szabo is a cartoonist and printmaker from the North Shore of Massachusetts, currently based in Chicago. Her first graphic novel, "Enlightened Transsexual Comix," was published by Silver Sprocket in 2023. Her latest comic, "Momix Presents Dadix," was released by Cram Books in 2025. Sam has seen Phish live thirty-two times.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 428BMakers of the Eisner winning comic about two spicy sisters who reluctantly spend some of their time being superheroes in a weird town called Las Brisas.
Rolling Meadows, IL • Website • Table 101ASean Mac is a cartoonist from Chicago who has a love for video games, manga, and other playful things. When he’s not drawing comics he works at a dive bar, ignoring its patrons and drawing faces on the back of coasters.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 431BSLOP is a Chicago based trio of queer cartoonists and printmakers who proudly present Dike Stynk vol. 2, their second edition of their lesbian comics arts and culture magazine. They heard you were hungry for some queer zine goodness and they are here to feed you.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 121Steve is a cartoonist and printmaker living in Chicago.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 427AI'm a freelance illustrator and artist working and living in Chicago, and have been making art for eyes since around 2008. My style, subjects, and tone range from sweet to dark; quaint to grotesque; but often times it settles somewhere in between.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 419ATaxonomy Press is a risograph micropress run by Rachel Hays and a rotating crew of collaborators. We print the quarterly paper "Floral Observer" a seasonal newspaper about interacting with nature.
Detroit, MI • Website • Table 415TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO/Short Leash Editions (Izze Norman and Emma Dwyer) claims to publish books, but can’t agree on what counts as a “book”. Form and narrative are of equal importance. Language has many holes. If you want to know what our books are about, read them.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 103BTony DiPasquale is a cartoonist from the swamps of downstate Illinois. He primarily draws stories about a very unlucky little yellow creature named Nugget.
Lincoln, IL • Website • Table 400BSmall press, handmade comics featuring cartoonists from the Pacific Northwest.
Portland, OR • Website • Table 429AMinneapolis-based Uncivilized Books is an independent publisher and think tank specializing in comic books and rogue theories. For over a decade, it has championed intelligent comics, graphic novels, and criticism and released works by some of the best cartoonists on the planet: Gabrielle Bell, Matt Madden, Joann Sfar, David B., Alan Moore, Noah Van Sciver, Jenna Cha, Lonnie Nadler, and many more. We recently completed serializing Ginseng Roots, a significant new work from Craig Thompson (Blankets). Uncivilized is run by cartoonist Tom Kaczynski.
Minneapolis, MN • Website • Table 418Uoo Art celebrates small moments, originality, cultural identity as well as queerness with art that makes you go “Uoo!”
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 439AJada Shields is a black queer Chicago based artist. Her work derives from personal experience, making auto-fiction. Playing with reality, she develops the people, fashion, and major moments from life into art-work.
Working towards a BFA at The School of the Art Institute Of Chicago, Jada has furthered her knowledge on fibers, comics, illustration, and painting, often combining the 3-D with the 2-D.
Whitney Wasson (they/them) is a freelance cartoonist in Chicago. They draw "Sober Rabbit," an ongoing comic series about addiction, mental health and disability. They've been thrice awarded Best of Chicago honors for comics in the Chicago Reader, which really impresses their parents.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 437AZINEmercado is a roving Chicago-based zine fest presenting art, graff, and photo zines from local and international friends.
Chicago, IL • Website • Table 412AAnn Xu is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist and illustrator. She is the illustrator of graphic novels Shadow Life (First Second), Measuring Up (HarperCollins), and Unhappy Camper (HarperCollins).
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