July 10, 2010 : 11am-5pm

exhibitors in 2010

Want to exhibit at Zinefest?  We are placing all future applicants on a wait list.  Email Sarah Morean for more information, or to join the wait list: zines@zinefest.org.

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2d cloud website

2D Cloud is a micro-press comix publisher and maker of crocheted creatures.  Some of our titles and creations include: Yearbooks, Geirdoz, Good Minnesotan, Manny+Bigfoot, RDCDFist, Beard Growing Contest.  Check us out at 2dcloud.com

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monica anderson website

Embarrassing stories and really poorly drawn comics.

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tuesday bassen website

The Velvet Cave zines with delightfully disgusting drawings and anonymous Camel Kid comics, as well as a bevy of handmade tees.

fritz bogott website

Fritz Bogott writes terrifying tales of monsters, motorhomes, scungilli and chagrin.

anna bongiovanni website

Anna Bongiovanni was born and raised in Alaska but now resides in Minneapolis. A graduate from MCAD, she has participated in Zinefest for the past two years. Anna’s comics tends to either be very bizarre or cute, but rarely land anywhere in the middle.

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catnose comics website

Catnose Comics is VAS Littlecrow’s Comic Art Division. Exploiting inner demons for fun and profit since 1998. Both were born out of the ashes of Zitro No Loca Arts (ZNLArts.)

ZNLArts’ founder, Vanesa Littlecrow W, began creating zines, prints and mini-comics by sneaking into the principal’s office copier and piecing her booklets together with needle and thread, back in 1989.

Eventually this non-corporate publishing firm grew to create free regional entertainment zines like The Electric Walleye and Synergy. Both publication boasted a maximum circulation of 15,000 units each, and were distributed in four different states and Puerto Rico.

ZNLArts eventually dissolved in 1997. Out of its ashes VAS Littlecrow and Catnose Comics were born. VAS Littlecrow is a multidisciplinary arts firm that creates fearless visual arts. Catnose Comics publishes a variety of edgy and thought provoking webcomics, zines and mini-comics. Catnose Comics is a woman, queer and minority owned publishing enterprise that is proud to remain non-corporate.

athena currier website

My webcomic, Action Athena, is two years old, and has been updating three days a week throughout that time. It’s pretty much a journal comic, with accompanying blog posts about things I find interesting.

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dim media website

Ever wish you had better material for your coffee table? Those newspapers full of brainless content and ads just not doing it for you? How about a quick dose of Dim to spice up that morning cup of coffee?  Give Dim Media’s “Coffee Crumbs” Zine a read.  It’s packed full of Comic, art and illustrated fiction guaranteed to boost up that java and tickle a funny bone.

will dinski website

Comics, screen prints, handmade books & illustrations.

ryan dow website

Ryan Dow makes minicomics and posts comics on the web at introspectivecomics.com.

doublecross press website
Teeny letterpress books of poems and more, specializing in the work of emerging experimental writers.
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jason ermer

A wide ranging short fiction collective’s anthology of horror, sci-fi and general oddities.

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grrrl germs distro website

a zine distro for womyn and transgendered zinesters. i want to support womyn in the zine scene and spread grrrl zine love like cooties!

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lacey prpic hedtke website

Zines about gangsters, etiquette, likes and dislikes, Britney Spears and poems.

sam hoolihan

Photo-based artists books, zines, and assorted printed ephemera.

hark! press website

Friends making zines and comics together. Good Old xerox glory since 2002! Featuring the works of Gordon Byrd, Taylor Motari and Jillian Schroeder.

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king mini website

Big Bold adventures in the tradition of Captain America and the X-Men.

kitten punch website

Kitten Punch is the Official News Source for Dandyland, a respite created by Christopher, a child star sissy who used his royalties from his former woodland adventures to build and market a sleepy town inhabited by effeminate men with the penchant for fashion. Follow along as these boys muttle through a world that doesn’t quite know what to do with them, while they learn to use style and grace to become powerful and important.

danno klonowski website
Danno Klonowski makes Mini-comics! Mini-comics! Mini-comics!
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Sean Lynch website
Indy Comics and Zines
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mp johnson website

Punk and monsters!

microcosm publishing website

books, zeeeens, patches

minnesota center for book arts website
As the largest and most comprehensive center of its kind in the nation, Minnesota Center for Book Arts celebrates the book as a vibrant contemporary art form that takes many shapes. From the traditional crafts of papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding to non-traditional artmaking and self-publishing techniques, MCBA supports the limitless creative evolution of book arts. To learn more, visit our website at www.mnbookarts.org.
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new carriage press website

Mark Ehling and New Carriage Press bring you all the best in: cryptic monologues, fake advertisements, transcriptions of random phone calls, and pseudo-narratives for the discerning modern reader.

miss nico website

Desensitized Zine
Good Sex/Bad Sex Zine
Nymphette Zine

synthia nicole

Synthia Nicole publishes the zine damaged mentality.

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dan olson website
Daniel Olson is a mustachioed laden indie comics creator based in Minneapolis, MN. Along with his wife/collaborator AJ Niehaus, he creates the series Super Maxi-Pad Girl. Additional work can be found in False Witness: The Michele Bachmann Story, Super Fantastica Comix, and Big Funny. Currently, he is working on his first graphic novel, Shenanigans.
one percent press website
Comics, music, and more.
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chris pernula

Music, art, and humor zines.

aimée pijpers

Illustrations & comics & zines. Fun for all.

aaron poliwoda

Low Blow comics.

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queer zine archive project website

The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish a “living history” archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture, we value a collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that fall under the heading “queer.”

The primary function of QZAP is to provide a free on-line searchable database of the collection with links allowing users to download electronic copies of zines. By providing access to the historical canon of queer zines we hope to make them more accessible to diverse communities and reach wider audiences.

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dana raidt website

A selection of zines, buttons and other handmade delights.

Zines include: She Must Be Having a Bad Day: The Cult of the Female Food Service Worker, No Rest for the Wicked and Start Seeing Sorry.

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britt sabo website

“Francis Sharp in the Grip of the Uncanny!” – Ghost Jars

tim sievert website

Comics.

sproink

We’re a low [no] budget cut-and-paste ‘zine dedicated to offering no bullshit anti-corporate working class skateboarding content – from lo-fi photographs of dirtballs defacing public property via wallrides and lipslides to skateboard industry muk-raking articles and anarchic exposes, we try to keep it as pure and to the point as possible. no logos, no money, no one telling you how/where/when/why to skate. we dont sell advertising space to the army, navy, pepsico, or fuckin hair gel companies. its all local, its all handmade, its skateboarding as you know it.

eric schuster website

A variety of wet and dry media

max “bunny” sparber website

La Vida Naughtybilly: The official publication of Courtney McClean & The Dirty Curls, with everything you need to know about living the naughtybilly lifestyle, including essays about lunatic country music, bawdy songs, dangerous cocktails, and southern exploitation films.

smile you’re not dead website
Smile You’re Not Dead Zine is filled with wonderful art & literature from around the world.
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mike toft website

Satire, semi-political, humor, commentary, zombie porn, talking rabbit, disgruntled white guy, semi-gruntled black guy, gold-digging gals, The Man, economic meltdown, collapse of the empire, advanced dumpster diving.

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uncivilized books website

Uncivilized Books is a publisher of pamphlets of various sizes. The contents of said pamphlets are filled with many stories of different lengths. The artists represented between the covers (Gabrielle Bell and Tom Kaczynski) are uniformly tall. New books and new dimensions will be debuting at the Twin Cities ZineFest.

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Ella von Holtum
personal zines: haiku & prose, stamps & drawing. & & &.
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john wawrzaszek

The Muse, the News, and the Noose. This is a short story zine. Each issue is different, but the main content is usually about relationships. MNN is based out of Chicago and has printed 5 issues since 2006.

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