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FediZineFest is brought to you by the work of each year's team:

2024 team | 2025 team | 2026-2027 team

...as well as our wonderful artists and backers.

This website is built with Eleventy v3.1.5 and hosted by heckin' technology. It's been hand-coded from the ground up without the use of generative AI.

The font is Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, specifically designed for low-vision readers to improve character recognition.

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FediZineFest

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FediZineFest ran in 2025 and 2024. We're now looking at FediZineFest 2026-2027.

What

A zine sharing and distribution project for the fediverse.

Who

Artists provide physical and/or digital zines; receive payment and physical and/or digital zines.
Backers Provide payment; receive physical and/or digital zines.

See "Who" on the 2026-2027 guidelines page for more about participation caps and the waitlist.

When

2026-2027 dates yet to be determined. See "When" on the 2026-2027 guidelines page for deadline structure.

Where

Anywhere that can ship to/from the US.

Why

To bring folks together and share art.

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2025

Light

#f0f0f0

#640054

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FediZineFest 2024 Guidelines

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Participants

artist: someone who contributes one or more zines to the Fest
backer: someone who contributes money to the Fest

All participants (both artists and backers) will receive:

a package in the mail containing one copy of each physical zine submitted
a link to a Dropbox or Google Drive (or similar) folder containing all digital zines submitted

Participant caps

Total participants will be capped at 50. Artists will be capped at 30. Physical zine submissions will be capped at 20. This is for the sake of my and the artists’ sanity(s).

For artists

Zine submissions

Zines do not have to be newly created for this event. You may absolutely share zines you have previously created. However, please do not share zines that are already freely available in the same format - we want the backers to get a good deal.

While you may submit more than one zine, I ask that you limit physical zine submissions to one zine. This is to ensure that shipping doesn’t become too unreasonable (for you OR me).

For the submission of a physical zine, you agree that:

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- For folks in the US: 8.5"x5.5" (a standard sheet of 8.5"x11" paper, folded once)
- For folks internationally: 21.0cm x 14.9cm (a standard sheet of A4 paper, folded once)
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The number of recipients will be confirmed by Jan 26th, 2024
You will get these copies into the mail by Mar 29th, 2024

For the submission of a digital zine, you agree that:

You will provide a print-friendly file (this may be either your only file, or one of two - a digital-only and a print-friendly variant) - print-friendly here means printable on the average home printer, so please no requirements for legal paper or other unusual sizes!
You will provide your zine file(s) by Mar 29th, 2024 via Google Drive or Dropbox or similar

Payment

Please keep in mind that this is mostly an opportunity to share and receive zines. While you will receive payment, it won’t be in significant amounts.

All transactions will use PayPal unless otherwise organized - reach out to me if PayPal is inaccessible to you. If you cannot use PayPal, you must speak to me about it before signing up so as to ensure there is a way to pay you.

For backers

Payment

As a backer, you agree that you will pay:

A base payment of $50 - this will be split among all artists
A shipping fee based on your location +
- US: $15
- International: $30
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Timeline and deadlines

Deadline 0: 12 Jan 2024

For artist list formation

Deadline 1: 26 Jan 2024

(Deadline 0 + 2 weeks)
For backer list formation
For communication to be sent out to all artists detailing the number of recipients

Deadline 2: 29 Mar 2024

(Deadline 1 + 8 weeks)
For art submissions

Deadline 3: 19 Apr 2024

(Deadline 2 + 3 weeks)
For physical zines to arrive at distributor

Deadline 4: 10 May 2024

(Deadline 3 + 3 weeks)
For physical zines to be packaged for shipment
For digital zines to be organized and uploaded to shared drive

Deadline 5: 31 May 2024

(Deadline 4 + 3 weeks)
For physical zines to arrive at recipients
For email to be sent out to all recipients regarding where digital zines are located

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FediZineFest 2024

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A number of zines of various sizes and designs and colors laid out on a very colorful bedspread.

Overview

Read the FediZineFest 2024 guidelines.

See the FediZineFest 2024 zines.

Statistics

FediZineFest 2024 completed with 25 artists and 20 backers. Artists contributed 16 physical and 18 digital zines. Artist payouts were roughly USD35. 5 artists were unable to complete work or dropped out.

Things we learned

Build in opt-outs for physical zines for artists and backers
Build in opt-outs for payment for artists
Read the fine print of services such as Jotform
Include workarounds for Paypal
Get general publicity information from artists - not just fedi handles
Delegate! Delegate! Delegate!
Block out more time between deadlines

Team

Primary point of contact: Lee
Help with zine creation: Sanae
Help with digital formatting: Aaron Rafik El Sabrout

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FediZineFest 2024 Zines

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25 artists. 16 physical zines. 18 digital zines.

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Thinking About...It
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When I Get a Boy Chest
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and the original blurb was...
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one of: a hentai coloring book, mini zines about adventure time, v for vendetta, foraging, some poetry and fiction stuff too.
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+ + Artcollisions + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Adventures of CC
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and the original blurb was...
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a little zine on CC, the textile critter I created earlier this year.
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+ + Blue Grey + +
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made digital zines called...
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AAAAAAH
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Just Be A Poet
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Today Is Another Day
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and the original blurb was...
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Zine #3: A crippunk, queer-romantic short story between a fox and a bunny.
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+ + Dizzi Bloom + +
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made a digital zine called...
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Autopsy of the Mall God
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and the original blurb was...
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A one-shot comic about a lesbian assassin trying to escape a shadow dimension to be reunited with her wife.
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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You Can Fix It, They Said
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and the original blurb was...
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creative non-fiction with illustrations on the subject of recovery (as a male) from childhood sexual abuse
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+ + felix sunflower + +
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made a physical zine called...
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Lil Stinker's lil coloring book
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and the original blurb was...
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clown coloring book!
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+ + Fieryzard + +
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made a digital zine called...
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The Thread of Caona Sketches
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and the original blurb was...
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A compilation of exploratory sketches from my webcomic The Thread of Caona (tentative: and some illustrations?).
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+ + Handmade Ghost + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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UN/CERTAINTY
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and the original blurb was...
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a nonfiction zine about birding, ticker-tape synaesthesia, Huginn & Muninn (the Norse ravens of thought and memory), and poetry.
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+ + Haruka Kanata + +
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made a physical zine called...
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5 Ballads, 5 Scenes
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5 Ballads, 5 Scenes - A small artbook featuring 5 watercolor fantasy-comic style paintings, inspired by 5 old ballads, which were famously collected by Francis. J. Child, and have been performed by various modern artists. Pearl-coated paper cover, bound with thread by pamphlet stitch, 12p. H8.5in x W5.5in.
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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IndigenousGulf.Online zine #1
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and the original blurb was...
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A review of current Indigenous projects going on in the Gulf South, with a focus point of Louisiana, but extending from TX to AL/FL panhandle.
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+ + Jack + +
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made a digital zine called...
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The One Night Stand
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and the original blurb was...
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queer love zine with mix of poetry and cute/funny prose pieces
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+ + Jeff Blackman + +
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made physical zines called...
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Places I will go before I die
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OH
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WUMPF
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GAH!
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WHAAP!!
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and the original blurb was...
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Triptyc is a collage based comic strip cut from the funny pages.
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+ + lee + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Gender as a Proxy Variable
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and the original blurb was...
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information on handling gender in data and forms
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+ + Maece + +
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made a digital zine called...
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I'm so tired
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and the original blurb was...
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A collection of poetry exploring Autistic Burnout
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+ + Nobones + +
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made a physical zine called...
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How to Change a Tire
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and the original blurb was...
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a small illustrated zine providing details on how to fix a flat tire on a bicycle. The zine will cover the basic process of replacing an inner tube, and some thoughts about troubleshooting
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made a physical zine called...
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The Ghost in the Mirror is Me
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THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR IS ME is a calm, horrifying, and starkly beautiful reminiscing of an atrocity that is only as true as you believe. It is a pure black and white work of sequential art at about 30 pages. I wrote it on the anniversary this year on the winter solstice.
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made a digital zine called...
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Perhaps You Might Try The Soup Issue 01
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and the original blurb was...
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Working on a little 12 page zine called 'Perhaps you might try the soup' In design style it's kind of photo collage, (from original material) and abstract or surreal comics. The content is an odd mish mash of hopepunk, poetry, graphical music and experimental prose. There is strictly no ai generated text or imagery and no use of LLM or diffusion models. Everything is self made by a human.
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Critters
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I make ink drawings of various critters, and just realized that some of them make for really nice coloring pages. So now I am suddenly using my own xeroxed drawings as a coloring book, as well as working on making them available as such to others :)
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Get Off My Nuts
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i've made lots of zines and am always looking for reasons for more! the ones i'm most proud of include: travelogue about biking around lake superior as a queer/trans chick -- 'public bathrooms of twin cities cemeteries' (you can look this up on archive.org) -- and various political projects especially related to minneapolis, the george floyd uprising and anarchism/abolitionism. … things i have in the works include a historical fiction alternate history of the george floyd uprising, and a piece about queerness, rebellion and covid
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Bench Politics
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and the original blurb was...
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something about transportation and/or public space
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made a physical zine called...
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Chicken Zine
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and the original blurb was...
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It will be chicken themed. A brief history of the chicken. One panel chicken comics. Chickens as famous literary characters. Something along those lines.
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+ + Sophie + +
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made a physical zine called...
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Congratulations! You're the Queerest-Looking Person in This Room
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and the original blurb was...
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Congratulations! You're the Queerest-Looking Person in This Room
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+ + Syd + +
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made digital zines called...
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Queer Birds 2022
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FFVII Blazed Illustration
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and the original blurb was...
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I create zines about animals, final fantasy 7 and comics that are queer and furry adjacent.
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+ + voidfuck poetry collective + +
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made a digital zine called...
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voidfuck 1
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Poetry zine about the body under capitalism and yearning for anarchy. Topics include madness, disability, love, climate anxiety, body dysphoria, queerness, anarchy, poverty, etc. Poetry is written. Might include a few photos or artwork.
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made a digital zine called...
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CONTRACT / CONSENT LAIR W fZF | 001
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I particularly like photography zines geared towards texture, both black and white, and color. I deliver finals as print-ready DRM-Free PDF, and it's cool to distribute them as such. I also do zines of written word and art.
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FediZineFest 2025 Guidelines

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What

A zine sharing and distribution project for the fediverse.

Who

Artists (cap of 20)

Provide physical and/or digital zines; receive payment and physical and/or digital zines.

This year, we are testing an artist waitlist. Additional artists will be added to the pool as funds allow and to cover for drop-outs.

Backers (cap of 20 for physical zines; no cap for digital)

Provide payment; receive physical and/or digital zines.

When

Early-mid 2025. Exact dates proposed below.

Deadline 0: 17 January 2025

Artist sign-up closes.

Deadline 1: 31 January 2025

(deadline 0 + 2 weeks)

Backer sign-up closes. Artists are informed of the # of physical zines needed.

Deadline 2: 11 April 2025

(deadline 1 + 10 weeks)

Art submission deadline. Digital zines are submitted to digital drive; physical zines are in the mail.

Deadline 3: 9 May 2025

(deadline 2 + 4 weeks)

Physical zines arrive at distributor (Lee).

Deadline 4: 6 June 2025

(deadline 3 + 4 weeks)

Physical zines packaged and ready for shipment. Digital zines are organized and ready to share.

Deadline 5: 4 July 2025

(deadline 4 + 4 weeks)

Physical zines arrive at recipients. Digital zines shared.

Where

Anywhere that can ship to/from the US.

Why

To bring folks together and share art.

Art guidelines

Please feel free to continue to share or sell your zine outside of FediZineFest.

While you may submit more than one zine, I ask that you limit physical zine submissions to one zine. This is to ensure that shipping doesn’t become too unreasonable (for you OR me).

No AI-generated content, please.

Physical zine restrictions

No larger than one of:

21x14.9cm (a sheet of A4 paper, folded once)
8.5"x5.5" (a sheet of 8.5"x11" paper, folded once)

Payment

This is not a get-rich-quick scheme for anyone involved. In 2024, the artist payout was about $35 USD per artist.

This year, I'll be adjusting the payment scheme to more appropriately compensate physical zine artists for the costs of printing and shipping. Exact payouts won't be determined until zines are collected to account for any artist drop outs.

Payment will be done over PayPal and Venmo.

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FediZineFest 2025

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a logo in dark purple and golden yellow. it looks sorta like a folded map, or like a single piece of printer paper that's been folded and cut into the format needed for an 8-page zine. the 8 panels read FEDI ZINE. next to this, a blue and green folded 8-page zine reads 'fest 2025'

Overview

Read the FediZineFest 2025 guidelines.

See the FediZineFest 2025 zines.

Statistics

19 artists contributed 13 physical and 16 digital zines. 23 backers contributed over USD1500.

This year, our payouts vary slightly according to two factors:

whether the artist contributed physical zines
whether the artist received physical zines

This was to help offset cost of printing. Final payouts will be calculated on June 6 (deadline 4), but at current, artists will receive anywhere from USD95 to USD135 (if this math sounds wrong: there are artists who opted out of being paid).

5 artists were unable to complete work or dropped out.

Things we learned

Using Airtable. Make sure all coordinators are using the same information platform. In 2025, I allowed coordinators to opt out of learning a new platform. Next year, I'll put extra effort into making the platform accessible.
Shared email. A shared email account for coordinators would make responding to artist questions easier and more seamless for artists.
Fedi handles. This year, I aimed to get artist's websites for general publicity, rather than fedi handles. Collect both - fedi handles are useful for publicity as well as communication.
Digital cleanliness. It would be nice to have uploaded digital zines follow a clear format like Author_Title or similar.
Deadlines. The 4 week delays between some of the later steps? Those have already been necessary. One set of zines didn't arrive until 21 May despite being posted on time.

Team

Physical Zine Coordinator: Lee Cattarin — leecat.art
Digital Zine Coordinator: Oona Leganovic — @playinprogress on fedi
Timeline Coordinator: Jack — @sodamnqueer on fedi
Website/Database Management: Lee Cattarin — leecat.art

Extra thanks

Lisa (color palette)

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FediZineFest 2025 Zines

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19 artists. 13 physical zines. 16 digital zines.

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made physical/digital zines called...
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Read Me to Filth/I'm Dying of Thirst
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I Have a Weird Relationship to Clothes...
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I Love Myself
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Leave Them Bee
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and the original blurb was...
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new collection of poetry on nature, leftist politics, and transness!
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+ + Acin Fals + +
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made a digital zine called...
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The Rose Woman and the Bear
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and the original blurb was...
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romantic m/m flash fiction with a theme of transitions, seasons, and/or memories
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Adventures of DD, Fifi, and Pepe
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and the original blurb was...
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Further cozy adventures of CC and friends, textile art characters
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made a physical zine called...
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Tales from Rockery Loop
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and the original blurb was...
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I am leaning towards making a miniature field guide of the birds, mammals, and plants that live on my favorite trail. Back and forth on whether I want to include some personal narrative but pen & pencil drawings of critters for sure
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+ + bouncinglime + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Postcards
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four postcards printed on cardstock (physical) or for printing on cardstock (digital) in black-and-white that can be colored and otherwise decorated and sent out!
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Mortsafe
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and the original blurb was...
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Mortsafe is a little biro zine about fungal zombies, non-human or gestalt minds, and life continuing differently after death :)
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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So You Want To Be A Pen Pal
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and the original blurb was...
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So You Want To Be A Pen Pal minizine. About being a pen pal for incarcerated folks! And beginner advocacy work!
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+ + Evel + +
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made a digital zine called...
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Let Your Disabilities Hold You Back!!!
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and the original blurb was...
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About severe disability with a bit extra on being a caregiver
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+ + goblin jane + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Doorways are Portals
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and the original blurb was...
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tiny tales of wandering thru interdimensional portals, meeting new friends big and small, and making stone soup.
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+ + gup + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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(untitled)
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and the original blurb was...
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fortune teller/ cootie catcher foldable. prefolded for physical, print and fold yourself for digital. decorated with hand carved stamps. black and white. i need to buy nice paper.
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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Grand Jaloprix
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and the original blurb was...
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I made a small comic this summer and i'd like to print it in zine form with bonus illustrations and prep sketches. It's about a bunch of kids living in a dieselpunk junkyard racing wacky vehicles. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends, lots of vroom vroom. preview
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made a physical zine called...
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KESTREL
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and the original blurb was...
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2 color hand-printed zine with pictures of my dog
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+ + Limnetic Villains + +
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made a digital zine called...
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Auditory Ossicles Issue 1
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A fake 1970s punk zine, including interviews, photos, reviews, fake adverts for products and bands that don't exist, in the style of the time.
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made a physical zine called...
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Text Message Moods
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“Text Message Moods” is an 8-page mini zine that illustrates what text message conversations look like, depending on people’s moods. Hand-drawn, printed in color on white paper.
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made a digital zine called...
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Swimming Through Treacle Issue 00
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abstract, absurd, surreal, experimental?... Perhaps comics-adjacent or sciFi-adjacent?... some manner of weird zine, mainly images with some text like experimental prose or poetry, even?... Around 20 pages in A5. No 'AI' or image/text generation, just human made digital art.
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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A Murder of Crows
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and the original blurb was...
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a fold-out formal experiment combining letter shapes and ink drawings
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+ + riotmuffin + +
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made a physical/digital zine called...
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You Gotta Leave: Rebel Stories
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and the original blurb was...
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I’m gonna try to do that George Floyd uprising alternate history I was thinking about last time, but I might also do something else. In any case, it’ll be SHORTER than last years honker lol
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made a digital zine called...
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Rivet/Drainage Lair W fZF | 002
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The Vac is a contract/consent ethicist with forays into art, music, literature, and whatever else strikes its fancy. This usually means being somewhere under a cat.
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made a digital zine called...
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Shut up & eat your dirt!
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and the original blurb was...
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a perzine about my experience in a conservative catholic high school, called “shut up & eat your dirt”
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FediZineFest 2026-2027 Guidelines

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What

A zine sharing and distribution project for the fediverse.

Who

Artists (cap of 25)

Provide physical and/or digital zines; receive payment and physical and/or digital zines.

We are again testing an artist waitlist. Additional artists will be added to the pool as funds allow and to cover for drop-outs.

Backers (cap of 25 for physical zines; no cap for digital)

Provide payment; receive physical and/or digital zines.

When

2026/2027 dates yet to be determined. Deadline structure as follows:

Deadline 0

Artist sign-up closes.

Deadline 1 (deadline 0 + 2 weeks)

Backer sign-up closes. Artists are informed of the number of physical zines needed.

Deadline 2 (deadline 1 + 10 weeks)

Art submission deadline. Digital zines are submitted to digital drive; physical zines are in the mail.

Deadline 3 (deadline 2 + 4 weeks)

Physical zines arrive at distributor (Lee).

Deadline 4 (deadline 3 + 4 weeks)

Physical zines packaged and ready for shipment. Digital zines are organized and ready to share.

Deadline 5 (deadline 4 + 4 weeks)

Physical zines arrive at recipients. Digital zines shared.

Where

Anywhere that can ship to/from the US.

Why

To bring folks together and share art.

Artist information

Please feel free to share or sell your zine outside of FediZineFest after the event ends.

While you may submit more than one zine, I ask that you limit physical zine submissions to only the number of zines requested (this may all be one zine, half one/half another, or some other combination). This is to ensure that shipping doesn’t become too unreasonable (for you or me).

No generative AI content is allowed.

Physical zine restrictions

No larger than one of:

21x14.9cm (a sheet of A4 paper, folded once)
8.5"x5.5" (a sheet of 8.5"x11" paper, folded once)

Payment

This is not a get-rich-quick scheme for anyone involved. In 2025, the artist payout was between USD95 and USD135 per artist.

Last year, I adjusted the payment scheme to more appropriately compensate physical zine artists for the costs of printing and shipping. I'll do this again this year. Exact payouts won't be determined until zines are collected to account for any artist drop outs.

Payment will be done over PayPal and Venmo. If you cannot use either of these services, you must talk to Lee before signing up as an artist.

Backer information

Buying physical/digital or digital-only zine bundles will be done via Lee's Ko-fi shop. If you've filled out the interest form, you'll get an email when bundle purchasing goes live. Otherwise, monitor the #fediZineFest and/or #fediZineFest2026 hashtags on the fediverse.

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FediZineFest 2026-2027

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Overview

The interest form for 2026-2027 is open on the signup page.

Read the FediZineFest 2025 guidelines.

Team

Physical Zine Coordination: Lee Cattarin — leecat.art
Website/Database Management: Lee Cattarin — leecat.art

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made physical/digital zines called...
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Read Me to Filth/I'm Dying of Thirst
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I Have a Weird Relationship to Clothes...
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I Love Myself
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Leave Them Bee
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and the original blurb was...
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new collection of poetry on nature, leftist politics, and transness!
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Aaron Rafik El Sabrout + +
+ + +
made physical/digital zines called...
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Thinking About...It
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When I Get a Boy Chest
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and the original blurb was...
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one of: a hentai coloring book, mini zines about adventure time, v for vendetta, foraging, some poetry and fiction stuff too.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Acin Fals + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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The Rose Woman and the Bear
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and the original blurb was...
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romantic m/m flash fiction with a theme of transitions, seasons, and/or memories
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Artcollisions + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Adventures of DD, Fifi, and Pepe
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and the original blurb was...
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Further cozy adventures of CC and friends, textile art characters
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Artcollisions + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Adventures of CC
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and the original blurb was...
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a little zine on CC, the textile critter I created earlier this year.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Ashley McQuaid + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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Tales from Rockery Loop
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and the original blurb was...
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I am leaning towards making a miniature field guide of the birds, mammals, and plants that live on my favorite trail. Back and forth on whether I want to include some personal narrative but pen & pencil drawings of critters for sure
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In 2024,
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+ + Blue Grey + +
+ + +
made digital zines called...
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AAAAAAH
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Just Be A Poet
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Today Is Another Day
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and the original blurb was...
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Zine #3: A crippunk, queer-romantic short story between a fox and a bunny.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + bouncinglime + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Postcards
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and the original blurb was...
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four postcards printed on cardstock (physical) or for printing on cardstock (digital) in black-and-white that can be colored and otherwise decorated and sent out!
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In 2025,
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+ + Cammie + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Mortsafe
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and the original blurb was...
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Mortsafe is a little biro zine about fungal zombies, non-human or gestalt minds, and life continuing differently after death :)
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Dizzi Bloom + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Autopsy of the Mall God
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and the original blurb was...
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A one-shot comic about a lesbian assassin trying to escape a shadow dimension to be reunited with her wife.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Em/mett + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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So You Want To Be A Pen Pal
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and the original blurb was...
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So You Want To Be A Pen Pal minizine. About being a pen pal for incarcerated folks! And beginner advocacy work!
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Eric Jennings + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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You Can Fix It, They Said
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and the original blurb was...
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creative non-fiction with illustrations on the subject of recovery (as a male) from childhood sexual abuse
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Evel + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Let Your Disabilities Hold You Back!!!
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and the original blurb was...
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About severe disability with a bit extra on being a caregiver
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In 2024,
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+ + felix sunflower + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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Lil Stinker's lil coloring book
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and the original blurb was...
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clown coloring book!
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Fieryzard + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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The Thread of Caona Sketches
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and the original blurb was...
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A compilation of exploratory sketches from my webcomic The Thread of Caona (tentative: and some illustrations?).
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + goblin jane + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Doorways are Portals
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and the original blurb was...
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tiny tales of wandering thru interdimensional portals, meeting new friends big and small, and making stone soup.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + gup + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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(untitled)
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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fortune teller/ cootie catcher foldable. prefolded for physical, print and fold yourself for digital. decorated with hand carved stamps. black and white. i need to buy nice paper.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Handmade Ghost + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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UN/CERTAINTY
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and the original blurb was...
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a nonfiction zine about birding, ticker-tape synaesthesia, Huginn & Muninn (the Norse ravens of thought and memory), and poetry.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Haruka Kanata + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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5 Ballads, 5 Scenes
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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5 Ballads, 5 Scenes - A small artbook featuring 5 watercolor fantasy-comic style paintings, inspired by 5 old ballads, which were famously collected by Francis. J. Child, and have been performed by various modern artists. Pearl-coated paper cover, bound with thread by pamphlet stitch, 12p. H8.5in x W5.5in.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + I. Aronson + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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IndigenousGulf.Online zine #1
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and the original blurb was...
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A review of current Indigenous projects going on in the Gulf South, with a focus point of Louisiana, but extending from TX to AL/FL panhandle.
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+ +
In 2024,
+ +
+ + Jack + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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The One Night Stand
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and the original blurb was...
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queer love zine with mix of poetry and cute/funny prose pieces
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+ +
In 2024,
+ +
+ + Jeff Blackman + +
+ + +
made physical zines called...
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Places I will go before I die
+ +
OH
+ +
WUMPF
+ +
GAH!
+ +
WHAAP!!
+ + + +
and the original blurb was...
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Triptyc is a collage based comic strip cut from the funny pages.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Léa V.T. + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Grand Jaloprix
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and the original blurb was...
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I made a small comic this summer and i'd like to print it in zine form with bonus illustrations and prep sketches. It's about a bunch of kids living in a dieselpunk junkyard racing wacky vehicles. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends, lots of vroom vroom. preview
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + lee + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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KESTREL
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and the original blurb was...
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2 color hand-printed zine with pictures of my dog
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + lee + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Gender as a Proxy Variable
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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information on handling gender in data and forms
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Limnetic Villains + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Auditory Ossicles Issue 1
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and the original blurb was...
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A fake 1970s punk zine, including interviews, photos, reviews, fake adverts for products and bands that don't exist, in the style of the time.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Maece + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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I'm so tired
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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A collection of poetry exploring Autistic Burnout
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Mythical Type + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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Text Message Moods
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and the original blurb was...
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“Text Message Moods” is an 8-page mini zine that illustrates what text message conversations look like, depending on people’s moods. Hand-drawn, printed in color on white paper.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Nobones + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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How to Change a Tire
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and the original blurb was...
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a small illustrated zine providing details on how to fix a flat tire on a bicycle. The zine will cover the basic process of replacing an inner tube, and some thoughts about troubleshooting
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Omi + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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The Ghost in the Mirror is Me
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and the original blurb was...
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THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR IS ME is a calm, horrifying, and starkly beautiful reminiscing of an atrocity that is only as true as you believe. It is a pure black and white work of sequential art at about 30 pages. I wrote it on the anniversary this year on the winter solstice.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Pesto Jaguar + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Swimming Through Treacle Issue 00
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and the original blurb was...
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abstract, absurd, surreal, experimental?... Perhaps comics-adjacent or sciFi-adjacent?... some manner of weird zine, mainly images with some text like experimental prose or poetry, even?... Around 20 pages in A5. No 'AI' or image/text generation, just human made digital art.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Pesto Jaguar + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Perhaps You Might Try The Soup Issue 01
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and the original blurb was...
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Working on a little 12 page zine called 'Perhaps you might try the soup' In design style it's kind of photo collage, (from original material) and abstract or surreal comics. The content is an odd mish mash of hopepunk, poetry, graphical music and experimental prose. There is strictly no ai generated text or imagery and no use of LLM or diffusion models. Everything is self made by a human.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + play in progress + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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A Murder of Crows
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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a fold-out formal experiment combining letter shapes and ink drawings
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + play in progress + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Critters
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and the original blurb was...
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I make ink drawings of various critters, and just realized that some of them make for really nice coloring pages. So now I am suddenly using my own xeroxed drawings as a coloring book, as well as working on making them available as such to others :)
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + riotmuffin + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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You Gotta Leave: Rebel Stories
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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I’m gonna try to do that George Floyd uprising alternate history I was thinking about last time, but I might also do something else. In any case, it’ll be SHORTER than last years honker lol
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+ +
In 2024,
+ +
+ + riotmuffin + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Get Off My Nuts
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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i've made lots of zines and am always looking for reasons for more! the ones i'm most proud of include: travelogue about biking around lake superior as a queer/trans chick -- 'public bathrooms of twin cities cemeteries' (you can look this up on archive.org) -- and various political projects especially related to minneapolis, the george floyd uprising and anarchism/abolitionism. … things i have in the works include a historical fiction alternate history of the george floyd uprising, and a piece about queerness, rebellion and covid
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Sanae + +
+ + +
made a physical/digital zine called...
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Bench Politics
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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something about transportation and/or public space
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Sarah Sammis + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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Chicken Zine
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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It will be chicken themed. A brief history of the chicken. One panel chicken comics. Chickens as famous literary characters. Something along those lines.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Sophie + +
+ + +
made a physical zine called...
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Congratulations! You're the Queerest-Looking Person in This Room
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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Congratulations! You're the Queerest-Looking Person in This Room
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+ +
In 2024,
+ +
+ + Syd + +
+ + +
made digital zines called...
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Queer Birds 2022
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FFVII Blazed Illustration
+ + + +
and the original blurb was...
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I create zines about animals, final fantasy 7 and comics that are queer and furry adjacent.
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+ +
In 2024,
+ +
+ + voidfuck poetry collective + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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voidfuck 1
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and the original blurb was...
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Poetry zine about the body under capitalism and yearning for anarchy. Topics include madness, disability, love, climate anxiety, body dysphoria, queerness, anarchy, poverty, etc. Poetry is written. Might include a few photos or artwork.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + Wetdryvac + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Rivet/Drainage Lair W fZF | 002
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and the original blurb was...
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The Vac is a contract/consent ethicist with forays into art, music, literature, and whatever else strikes its fancy. This usually means being somewhere under a cat.
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In 2024,
+ +
+ + Wetdryvac + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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CONTRACT / CONSENT LAIR W fZF | 001
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and the original blurb was...
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I particularly like photography zines geared towards texture, both black and white, and color. I deliver finals as print-ready DRM-Free PDF, and it's cool to distribute them as such. I also do zines of written word and art.
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In 2025,
+ +
+ + xyzzy + +
+ + +
made a digital zine called...
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Shut up & eat your dirt!
+ + +
and the original blurb was...
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a perzine about my experience in a conservative catholic high school, called “shut up & eat your dirt”
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FediZineFest 2024 Zines

+ + Aaron Rafik El Sabrout + +

Thinking About...It

When I Get a Boy Chest

+ + Artcollisions + +

Adventures of CC

+ + Blue Grey + +

AAAAAAH

Just Be A Poet

Today Is Another Day

+ + Dizzi Bloom + +

Autopsy of the Mall God

+ + Eric Jennings + +

You Can Fix It, They Said

+ + felix sunflower + +

Lil Stinker's lil coloring book

+ + Fieryzard + +

The Thread of Caona Sketches

+ + Handmade Ghost + +

UN/CERTAINTY

+ + Haruka Kanata + +

5 Ballads, 5 Scenes

+ + I. Aronson + +

IndigenousGulf.Online zine #1

+ + Jack + +

The One Night Stand

+ + Jeff Blackman + +

Places I will go before I die

OH

WUMPF

GAH!

WHAAP!!

+ + lee + +

Gender as a Proxy Variable

+ + Maece + +

I'm so tired

+ + Nobones + +

How to Change a Tire

+ + Omi + +

The Ghost in the Mirror is Me

+ + Pesto Jaguar + +

Perhaps You Might Try The Soup Issue 01