Who’s tabling at Edinburgh Zine Festival 2024?

Take a look at the incredible zinesters who are tabling at this year’s festival on the 10th and 11th February 2024!

cassidy.zone

Sunday

  • Cassidy Ferrari makes playful, critical zines about sex and anarchism. They’ll have a bunch of info zines around these topics, as well as their regular zine Pretty Huge Decision. This documents their PhD research into zines as anarchist sexual pedagogy, with a mix of academic thoughts, creative experiments, and personal reflections. They also run Zine Club in Belfast at Paperxclips (queer bookshop, barbers and community space) and are bringing collaborative zines from the club, with no fixed themes but plenty of queer joy.

    https://cassidy.zone/

Savannah Storm Illustration

Saturday

  • I'm a freelance illustrator, creating zines and comics inspired by food, nature, mental health & slice of life moments. I love making risograph prints, and drawing in my sketchbooks.

    www.savannah-storm.com

    @savannah.storm (Instagram)

    @savannah.storm.illustration (Facebook)

Aidan James // Shining Arrow Zine Press

Saturday

  • Full-time queer horror and part-time writer of the same, Aidan James and Shining Arrow Zine Press brings spoken-word in print form, passionate analysis of only the campiest of cheap B-movies, and generally a lot of howling at the moon.

    Find him @shiningzines on Instagram, or visit prettiestanarchist.home.blog. for more

Roz Leahy

Saturday

  • I'm a queer editor, map illustrator and game designer making old school style TTRPG zines!

    @allthingstruly (X)

    https://allthingstruly.itch.io

Two A5 zines by Elilenti Art titled A guide to Inglewood Forest and The High Seas

Elilenti Art

Sunday

  • I'm a writer and artist based in Dalkeith. I make zines for tabletop role-playing games and design miniatures to accompany them. Expect small adventure guides and the monsters who populate them.

    @elilenti.art (IG)

    https://l-r-ambrose.itch.io

A brightly coloured A5 zine titled 'A late case of the 'tism'

Soft Body Press

Saturday

  • We are a wife and wife duo who make zines about topics near and dear to our hearts. We centre queerness, fatness and neurodiversity in all that we do.

    @softbodypress (IG)

    www.vickyisabellaart.bigcartel.com

An A5 zine with a black and white illustrated cover of plants, titled 'Eat a Leaf You Find on the Ground'

Toadlett

Saturday

  • I'm a Glasgow-based artist working in comics, illustration, narrative games and traditional printmaking. My work often has strong queer and environmental themes and draws from wildlife, folklore and myth. I've made comics about queer Arthurian knights, criminal fairies, and Scottish devils, as well as books of cursed swords, fictional clowns, and poetry about birds.

    @toadlett (IG)

    https://www.toadlett.com

A zine with a mediavel line illustration and the title Soul Friends

Fear of Making Art Press

Saturday

  • We are Fear of Making Art Press, a small zine press based in Glasgow run by Mel Reeve and Lott Roberts. From queer monks and nuns, bi+ history, to cats, Joan of Arc, and UFOs, our zines explore niche topics that we think will interest and intrigue.

    @fomapress (IG)

    https://www.etsy.com/shop/fomapress

A black and white A5 zine by LeahYeah Illustrations, on an orange background, titled 'Not Likely'

LeahYeah Illustration

Saturday

  • I am a Glasgow-based artist who makes primarily comics and zines. My work tends to focus on mental health, the LGBTQ+ community, environmentalism and anything that makes me smile.

    www.LeahYeah.co.uk

    Instagram: @_leahyeah

two zines side by side on green envelopes - one is titled 'Lucky Bear pocket zine

hesistantdoodle

Saturday

  • I am a trans non-binary creator based just outside of Glasgow who loves to make zines and comics about sports, queer love and lively characters. I love creating digital collages to explore the layers of emotion in my work.

    www.hesitantdoodle.com

    @hesitantdoodle (IG/Twitter/bluesky)

Ghost Bros Photo Co.

Saturday

  • Ghost Bros Photo Co. primarily works with 35mm double exposure film photography, and are based in Leith. They believe in trial & error, dilettantism, and that making art should be for all.

    @ghostbrosphoto

A zine with an ink drawing of a bird (maybe a crow?) on a red ink background. It is called 'the unseen' and has 'an element of time' written on it. A large black '10' overlays doodles of plants in the right bottom corner of the zine.

Pittville Press

Saturday

  • Pittville Press brings together unexpected collaborators to make positive contributions and create new knowledge. We believe developing new work through visual communication will break boundaries that we didn't even know were there.

    We aim to locate, develop, and sustain this scholarship between fields of inquiry, emphasising interdisciplinary innovation and drawing upon new models of collaborative research.

    @pittvillepress

Sally Mairs Illustration

Saturday

  • I am an illustrator and printmaker producing zines and book arts, self publishing and prints. My work mostly features my illustrations, collages, narrative visual stories/comics etc, sometimes in collaboration with other artists and often reflective of my experiences and learning journey of printmaking.

    Instagram: @smairss

a mini zine with a blue cherub on the cover which reads 'demand life feed you grapes instead of lemons: a sort of found poem of advice'

Batterymelt Productions

Saturday

  • Poetry, musings and strange scrappy things make up the work of Batterymelt Productions, a (usually) one-man show by Irish artist Eláir Ní Thuama

    @echolalia.art

a hand holds a zine over a table. The zine has a white backgroun and a manga style couple on the front walking through a field of sunflowwers. The title says 'Piggyhammer presents Beauty and the Pig vol 1'

Piggyhammer

Saturday

  • I am an internationally published manga artist working on creating my own indie publishing company while continue making art that tells stories that inspire people to be themselves.

    @piggyhammer

Ambition’s Graveyard

Saturday

  • A space for art, events and experimental music in Norwich, bringing a range of (mostly very queer) zines created by our members

the centre of a zine with cut out pieces of writing, blackout at points with a sharpie, scattered across the page. Some are highlighted in red.

PixieAuthoress

Saturday

  • PixieAuthoress is a queer blackout poet and zine-maker living in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were heavily involved in fundamentalist Christianity for the first twenty-five years of their life and now make blackout poetry zines out of books they read during that time, turning texts promoting purity culture and homophobia into positive works of art about faith deconstruction and reclamation of sexual and bodily autonomy. In addition to zines, they also make a variety of button badges, prints, stickers and bookmarks.

    @pixieauthoress on Instagram, Bluesky and Etsy

6 quizogyny zines sit in a pile overlapping each other. the top one has pictures of famous women in a black and white collage in the centre of the page. It says 'No.1 Has everyone got a pen?'

Quizogny

Saturday

  • Quizogyny is an intersectional feminist quiz zine. Each issue contains a five round quiz along with interviews and articles about quizzing and feminism.

    @quizogyny

Terrifyingly Wholesome

Saturday

  • Terrifyingly Wholesome are a quirky queer creative duo who make silly/spooky zines, prints and badges about queer joy, the fandoms we love, and our experiences navigating being human (most of the time) in an incredibly odd universe.

    @hailtothezinebaby @soundslikeshevek @mjgroovysproates

Uppu Collective

Saturday

  • Uppu Collective

    Uppu collective is based out of India, working through a blend of science, art and social design towards conservation action. We attempt to delineate spaces through tracing botanic and zoologic genealogies. Our work here is to overwrite these archives by actively decolonizing them. Zines are a form that we use to create and encourage the people we work with to create and address the things they witness on a daily- We use zines to document how 'Seeing', can be a form of resistance.

    usemosquitonet, uppucollective

4 surreal images with graphic text on each in bold colours. The first 'there is no end' on a creature drawn of different body parts amalgamated into one huge monster.

THEre is no END

Saturday

  • I am a Scottish-French visual artist living and working in Edinburgh. I combine one strange drawing + one obscure text to make small printed multiples which I disseminate in everyday spaces, scattering little bits of free art into the world.

    @floregardner

Annie Pocalpyse

Saturday

4 mini zines that are horror themed. With a simple drawing on each of a witch, werewolf, ghost and vampier. Each called 'I am a...' and then the creature specified.

Nytastic

Saturday and Sunday

  • I am a muslim Hijabi artist who specialises in a variety of crafts from zines and comics to fibre arts such as crochet and knitting. My zines consists of themes of humour, happiness and some good and bad times.

    @nytastic (IG)

a pile of tall zines (A4 folded on the long edge) riso printed with a person riding a boxy goose. 'Dont stop belongin'' in red ink.

This is Not Where I Belong*

Saturday and Sunday

  • This Is Not Where I Belong* is a literary zine featuring mainly poetry, short stories, essays and recipes that has been produced in Dublin, Ireland since 2012. In that time we have released 37 issues.

    @sauliedelmoreofficialaccount (IG)

a photocopied zine with many different shells in the background. 'Summer' strung on bunting alone the page and '2022 A retrospective' written in pen underneath.

Will Be Betrayed

Saturday and Sunday

  • I am a fat, disabled, queer zinester living in South Yorkshire. I write zines about my life, mental health, fatness, music, and more,

    cheaprhyme/sullen_hearts

A smiley white person with short hair and glasses sits behind a tabled of their zines and prints. Colours of prints are predemonately purple and pink and feature a lot of classic art.

Chris Printed This

Saturday and Sunday

  • I'm a graphic designer and printmaker currently based in South Yorkshire, going by the handle ‘ChrisPrintedThis’. I make a range of work, including zines, lino prints, risography and silk screen prints, sometimes even etchings. These are on all sorts of subjects but tend to be based around pop culture, queer culture, fine art and art history.

    @chris.printed.this (IG)

Mits, a person with brown skin and long curly brown hair and glasses, smiles and does a V sign with one hand whilst the other holds a hot drink. In front zines and prints in cellophane, colourful on a bright floral tablecloth.

Mits Makes

Saturday and Sunday

  • I am a Malaysian multidisciplinary artist based in Edinburgh, passionate about creating small, quirky and colourful zines and crafts, just like me!

    My zines are a medium of radical expression; they embrace and empower various themes including sexuality, disability, mental health and cultural heritage.

    Instagram @mitsmakes

a table with a selection of zines, prints and stickers. prints are blue and white photographs possible cynotypes in black frames. Zines range from mini zines to larger text based zines.

Parallelo Mag

Saturday and Sunday

  • We are an art collective from Palermo, Sicily.

    Instagram : @parallelo.mag

'Unbutterable' on blue background. A large picture of a cat looking quizzical against a colourful abstract floral background. A smaller picture of two cats in the corner.

Fiona Robertson

Saturday and Sunday

  • Ell Walker is a comic artist and I write zines about disability justice, chronic illness, poetry, cats and workplace accommodations. I'm a disability justice activist and poet.

    @fionaswriting on twitter and tiktok @knitting_quark on instagram

Issy Illustrates

Saturday and Sunday

  • Issey is a queer illustrator based in Glasgow. They create playful narrative illustrations using a mixture of digital, handmade and printmaking processes. Issey has a background in Anthropology and a lot of their work is influenced by the people, places and things around them. Themes of community, collectivity and friendship drive Issey’s work which often takes the form of comics and zines. When not illustrating stuff, Issey enjoys swimming, pickling vegetables and mending holes in jumpers!

The Indie Connection

Saturday and Sunday

  • Originally from Switzerland, Marc A space for a range of local indie games designers to show off their zines! Stall organised by Tanya Floaker.

    https://linktr.ee/theindieconnection

The pen fight logo: a millenial pink circle with Pen fight written as if by thick marker pen in white. A smiley face in white above the 'n'

Pen Fight Distro

Saturday and Sunday

  • Pen Fight is a queer feminist zine distro stocking 200+ zines plus a range of original titles.

    @penfightMCR

A hand holds open a zine onto a page with a large worm-like character wearing a tie and spouting several speech bubbles. Large black letter printed over the page of various covid slogals. Drawn covid molecules fill the page, each with a smiley face.

selkie

Saturday and Sunday

  • My zines are often wee stories in response to events that could be news, photographs or statements, They usually are funny, some have poetry often with stamped text. I also like to contain research in zines and I look forward to doing more research on the Forth and Edinburgh.

    @theartroomplant @hazelterryillustration

Ruadhán Ó Donnaile

Saturday and Sunday

  • Hello, I am a 27yr old trans and queer disabled writer and publisher. I publish, swap, and sell books and zines, but this would be the first time I would be offering my own work for the public in zine form. I write under the name Ruadhán.

    odonnailepress.com

zines and prints on a wooden table. Each zine and print is in pink, white and blue - colours of the trans flag. three prints in the centre show computers. below are two g*ndershit zines.

G*NDERSHIT COLLECTIVE

Saturday and Sunday

  • hi!! we are a queer collective of 4 illustrators. G*NDERSHIT runs workshops, makes prints, tables at art and queer events, with all our profits going towards local trans mutual aid fundraisers.

    @g_ndershit

A black table at a distorted angle shows a selection of zines and prints surrounding a payment machine and a small plastic human skull. Colours are purple, red and black - suggesting a gothic tone.,

Door Ajar Comics

Sunday

  • Door Ajar Comics is an independent, experimental small press based in Edinburgh, creating comics and zines exploring the Queer, the Gothic, and the Uncanny. Run by writer/poet, august (in the wake of) dawn (she/they), and illustrator and poet, Levi J. Richards (he/they), our work explores and interrogates the dark corners of the psyche and what may skitter there, just out of the corner of your eye.

    @doorajarcomics

a table with a display stand in which several 'effigy' zines sit, as well as several photographic prints of witchy scenes, nature and women. On the table a small statue of a crescent moon.

Effigy Zine

Sunday

  • Independent feminist culture zine focused on celebrating the memory of the accused Scottish witches.

    @effigyzine

Rachael House

Sunday

  • I'm an older cis feminist queer artist who has been making zines for a LONG time. My recent zines are riso printed, containing drawings, collage and comics.

    @rachaellhouse

A white person with a ginger beard gives two thumbs up behind a table. The table has many black and white zines and a small black typewriter takes space at the bottom centre.

Matt Clay

Sunday

  • Typewriter Zines. Silly stories with daft drawings of questionable skill.

    @_optional_n

Green Bean Zines

Sunday

  • I'm a 22 year old graduate in Biological Sciences interested in feminism, ecology and community justice. My zines are called 'Nature, Love and Capitalism' and 'Urban Farming' and explore forms of environmental activism and how they can subvert capitalist + patriarchal structures.

    @hannah.corsini

    @greenbeanzines

zines layered upon a table- colourful and bright. sitckers and keyrings of various pride flags sit at the back. Zines are comic style with digitally drawn scenes.

DishSoapAddict

Sunday

  • My name is Simon and I am a polish queer artist currently studying animation in Dundee. My polish and queer identity greatly influences my work and I love to use short form self-published, indie comics to express that! On the side, I also run a small business under the name "DishSoapAddict" and I sell a lot of Pride merch from stickers, pins to keychains and T-shirts :)

    @dishsoapaddict

A selection of mini-zines hand drawn with felt-tip pens. They are mostly called 'Scrappy Bunny' and show brightly coloured simple cartoon characters on bright backgrounds.

Scrappy Bunny

Sunday

  • I like to create art and zines about my life experiences/trauma however I also like to write and create silly cartoons and express myself through my art.

    @scr4ppy_bunny

River MacAskill + friends

Sunday

  • River MacAskill is a writer from Glasgow. They make a per-zine about genderqueer transition, Slow Down, as well as distributing their lesbian road trip novel, Coasting, and their late friend Adrian's stunning Transcend Zines, featuring writing and art by trans and nonbinary contributors.

    @__leomoon and @transcendzine on instagram

emino and François Giro

Sunday

  • emino and François Giro are zine-makers based in Edinburgh. emino is a clumsy person loving the DIY spirit, who makes her zines in search of what exists/happens between languages and images; François uses a brush and ink to process his emotions in his drawn diaries.

    @girofrancois

    https://lettresdesminots.blogspot.com

A zine page on a green backgroun. It says in a large though bubble 'do you know what i do with disappointment?'. The speech bubble comes from a plant in a pot which says 'ART' the plant has pink foliage and is growing off to one side.

The Rabbit Council

Sunday

  • The Rabbit Council is an artistic collective that seeks to capture lightning in a bottle. Organisers seek out surprising and alternative artists, songwriters and poets to attend a show on a bi-monthly basis and produce zines that showcase these new artist's best work alongside each event.

    @therabbitcouncil

8 zines with no text on them sit on a white table. Their covers are one colour each - either white, blue, green or orange. They have scans of various graph paper collaged with geographical features.

Liminal Stone

Sunday

  • Michael and Kyle are artists based in East Lothian working on a project that explores the geology of the Forth coastline as a study of time and place. Our zines are non-traditional walking maps that document our collaborative process and invite closer observation of the landscape around us.

    @michaeljameslewis @ltdmaynerd

The spread of a zine. Riso printed in orange on yellow paper. The first page a take on van gogh's sunflowers with a furby as the vase. The second, Edvard Munch's The Scream but with a furby face.

Georgie Mac

Sunday

  • ​I am a non-binary visual artist based in Glasgow. I make zines and drawings that dive deep into uncanny valley. From hyper-niche mythological fan-art, to the cute and creepy world of Furbys… I work with pen and ink to combine my drawings with original text and story.

    @HelloGeorgieMac

a white person with brown hair and wearing a face mask holds their hands up in a friendly gesture behind a fully stocked zine table. Many mini zines are neatly arranged on the table. Stickers and pins are in boxes. A stand displays prints.

Chloe Henderson

Sunday

  • My name is Chloe Henderson and​ I am an Edinburgh-based interdisciplinary artist. I make art inspired by the natural world, mythological creatures, faerytales, nerd culture, and the radical idea that humans should be kind to every living thing. My work is inspired by my penchant for the fantastical, and I often feature strange creatures - both real and imagined - within my highly patterned portraiture. I developed my drawing process through the metal-etched jewellery I created for my undergraduate degree show collection. The crisp black and white lines have become my signature style. Through my illustration work, I journeyed into the world of zine-making. I make zines inspired by my experiences with anxiety, love, feminism, geocaching, and cats!

    @SeaSlugChloe

Junooo

Saturday

  • I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art last year and am currently based in Edinburgh. I like to play with the design of books and make comics. Some are about myself, some are inspired by music.

    @junooo.art

Ell J Walker

Sunday

  • Ell is a comic artist and illustrator based in Edinburgh, whose work draws inspiration from folklore, fantasy and nature. They really enjoy making small zines that can be folded from one or two A4 pieces of paper.

    @EllJWalker

Axe Marnie

Sunday

  • Axe Marnie is a non-binary, Edinburgh based artist and poet making zines and comics on disability, poverty, PTSD and queer love.

    Instagram @axe.handle

    Twitter @axe.marnie

Abstract_artstudent

Saturday

  • Queer zines on queer art making and queer art history, alongside enamel pins.

    @abstract_artstudent

Steven Fraser

Sunday

  • I create zines and comics that take a unique perspective on life and visual storytelling. I am autistic and identify as queer. My zines are personal, autobiographical, intimate and have a queer and neurodiverse point of view.

    @stevenfraserart

suppergiù magazine

Saturday and Sunday

  • I'm Simon, and in September 2019, I created 'suppergiù magazine.' It's a monographic fanzine, with each issue addressing a different theme in a lighthearted and ironic manner, often changing format and printing technique.

    'sieropositivo' is suppergiù's younger sister: an illustrated fanzine dedicated to negative entertainment.

    @suppergiu_magazine

koolkatwarner

Sunday

  • I’m Alex Warner aka koolkatwarner, a young artist who has been working and living in sunny glasgow for the past 6+ years, Im oringinally from south london and am neurodiverse. I love to make zines!