A F Azar is an Ohio-based illustrator, cartoonist, and zinester. In his free time he walks at local parks, carves linoleum stamps, and experiments with all kinds of crafts. He makes work about loving transmasculinity, queer themes, story arcs driven by trauma, and juicy romance.
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Miles A.M. Collins-Sibley (he/him, they/them) is Black, queer, trans, and sick. He writes poetry to talk to ghosts and to fall in love. Currently, he’s working in abortion care and is working towards becoming a midwife. Miles received his MFA in Poetry from UMass-Amherst’s program for Poets and Writers. You can find his weird queer poems in "We Want it All: An Anthology of Trans Radical Poetics" from Nightboat Books, “Haunted: Anthology” from Porkbelly Press, Black Warrior Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others.
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Jaime Dear grew up in Ohio and floated out to Chicago. They love using ink, watercolor, and sentimentality. Their work includes the softball romance comic Pivot and the synesthesia autobio comic The Shape of All Time. You can also find their work in the anthologies Comrade Himbo (POMEpress) and When I Was Me (Quindrie Press). Their poetry can be found in Prismatica Magazine and Fifth Wheel Press as well as in many little zines. Their dream is to drive a boat.
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Jess Kuczynski (She/He) is a bundle of star dust that coalesced to form a nerdy illustrator from the Midwest. She strives to create cute and colorful artwork that embodies softness and comfort. You may be familiar with her work if you’re a fan of Chicago based actual play podcasts, or indie table-top roleplaying games. (Or you may not! Who knows, I'm not your mom!) In her free time she can be found playing video games, knitting clothes, and watching pro-wrestling.
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Abigail Lee is a comic and story artist and a self-proclaimed scaredy-cat. She has recently taken a liking to creating horror and uses her experiences of being Korean American, the things that scare her, and her itchy skin as inspiration. Abigail likes to experiment with different colors and textures with each minicomic she makes.
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Raised in Ohio, spent four years of undergrad in western Illinois, and now raging against bad snow removal in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Ai Miller is a queer and trans library worker during the day, a PhD candidate in History when it is useful to wield such things, and an abolitionist dreamer of new worlds 24/7. Ai is interested in the democratization of knowledge and knowledge production, and writes and thinks about abolition, labor unions, intellectually rigorous forms of feminism, harm reduction, and new ways of organizing ourselves. When not reading a vast array of books or trying to wiggle hir way into projects with others, zie can be found watching the same 8 movies over and over as background noise and tweeting instead of writing.
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Lee Onysko is a nonbinary comic and storyboard artist based in Ohio. Self proclaimed and friend endorsed robot lover, cat person, and space nerd, they love a good sci-fi/fantasy story but can always be tempted by the mundane and slice-of-life. When not drawing they can be found crocheting, working on custom dolls, or dreaming about building their own hydroponics system. While they work digitally for the most part, they are starting to branch out into working traditionally more with inks and colored pencils.
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Simone Parker is a poet, zine maker, and collage artist. She is Jewish, bisexual, and unapologetically midwestern. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the winnow, Ghost Girls Zine, and The Talking Stick. She has been a featured poet at the Poetry Foundation’s The Open Door reading series in Chicago, and exhibited her collage work at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, her cat, and at least 85 house plants.
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What is a Jojo? Some would say a regional potato wedge. What is an Oekaki? Some would say a defunct type of website where one can make and post drawings. So, logically, Jojo Oekaki is an erotic illustrator from the Midwest. His work ranges from fantastical to realistic, fiction and nonfiction, silly happy lalala to dark and serious BDSM–all revolving around an adoration for transmasculinity and a recurring cast of characters.
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