Grid Zine Festival 2022
Grid is back for our 4th year, returning to the Salt Lake Arts Academy (844 S. 200 E.) for an outdoor festival on June 11th from 11am-5pm.
Want help getting ready? Join us June 10th from 7-9pm for an ice cream social and zine folding party!
Tablers
| NAME | CITY | BIO | WEBSITE | SOCIAL MEDIA |
| Alondra | Salt Lake City, UT | I’m
an illustrator based in Salt Lake City, UT. I create fun and colorful
illustrations that mix American and Japanese styles. Creating unique
characters for a variety of stories. | Alondralcomics.com | https://www.instagram.com/alondraw_comics/?hl=en |
| Angie Sandberg | South Jordan, UT | Angie Sandberg is an illustrator that lives and creates in Utah. She has a great love of spooky, silly and cute things. She posts comics online under the name “Merkley Deep” and has written comics about Halloween, cats and other important parts of life. | https://www.instagram.com/merkleydeep/ | https://merkleydeep.tumblr.com/ |
| Arantza Pena Popo | Los Angeles, CA | Arantza
Peña Popo is an angsty Afro-Latinx comic artist, zinester, and animator based
in Los Angeles, CA. She enjoys making comics and zines surrounding queerness,
coming-of-age narratives, and mental illness. When she’s not scribbling she’s
rollerskating to Angel Olsen and walking her chunky dog, Shakira. | https://www.arantzapopo.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/_ara_pena_/ |
| Athena Naylor | Washington, DC | Athena Naylor is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Washington, DC, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She self-publishes autobiographical zines, and her comics have appeared in The Lily/Washington Post and Nat. Brut. In addition, her arts writing has been featured in the online newspaper The DC Line and the online magazine DIRT. | athenanaylor.com | instagram.com/athena.naylor |
| Bri Gawkoski | Salt Lake City, UT | I’m a collage artist from Colorado. I use zines and collage to tell different stories surrounding topics of mental health, heartbreak, and being part of a big family. | Brigawkoski.format.com | https://www.instagram.com/brigawkoski/ |
| Broken Brain Club & Greg Caldwell | Salt Lake City, UT | The Broken Brain club is a mishmash of what is important to a variety of local neurodivergent folx in the city, from true crime to bragging about having already cried. From encouraging yourself to quit to investigating BPD. Greg Caldwell is a local artist who has taken the city by storm and had a show at the UMOCA. | https://www.instagram.com/gregcaldwellart/?hl=en | https://www.instagram.com/well_i_liked_it/ |
| Claire Taylor | Salt Lake City UT | Hemming and hawing about existence. | www.clairetaylor.art | www.instagram.com/clairetaylor.art |
| Clever Octopus | 2250 S. West Temple, South Sal | Clever Octopus Inc ™ is a waste-based nonprofit that inspires creativity and environmental consciousness through the resale of high-quality, affordable thrifted art and craft materials and by offering educational art and science programming for all ages and communities. | cleveroctopus.org | www.instagram.com/cleveroctopus |
| Country Sister, City Sister | Bear River City, UT | Sisters who love making zines, and roping each other into wild projects! | ||
| Curious Origins | Tooele, UT | I am a poet and an artist. I create watercolor illustrations of the strange and hilariously ludicrous for the enjoyment of myself and others. It’s all in good fun. As someone with a poor sense of humor, the illustrations tend towards the macabre and ridiculous. I’m new to zine making. | http://CuriousOrigins.wixsite.com/mbosen/social-media | https://www.instagram.com/curiousoh/ |
| D. Bradford Gambles | Taylorsville, UT | I make comics and zines about weird kids for weird kids. | foodhatesyou.biz | Instagram: @heartlesscorp twitter: @heartlesscorpo |
| Diego Torres | Salt Lake City, UT | I am an undergrad at the University of Utah for fine art. I’m obsessed with cacti and like to stay active. My zines are a comedic take on the annoying realities of my life, between being a produce boy to the trials of painting. I’m not really a comedic person, but I just try and have fun. When in doubt, make it extra. | https://www.instagram.com/not_so_swiss/ | |
| Donna Ramone | Salt Lake City, UT | Donna Ramone is a writer, graphic designer, and community activist. Active in the Los Angeles/Inland Empire and Salt Lake City alternative music scenes since 1999, the write about topics ranging from antiracism, to data privacy, to health disparities. She often discusses her experiences as an Arab Muslim woman born in the United States to immigrant parents. | razorcake.org | www.instagram.com/razorcakezine |
| Dungeon Maven Games | Huntsville, AL | Sam has been playing many different versions of D&D for 13 years and writing zines about her (mis)adventures in roleplaying since 2018. She loves talking to new people about their love of the hobby! Her Lady DM Mag zine gives her perspective as a woman in a traditionally male hobby, and she hopes to inspire new players to join a table. | www.dungeonmavengames.com | https://www.instagram.com/dungeon_maven |
| Eliza McKinney | Salt Lake City, UT | Zines and stickers about feelings, history, and jokes. | ||
| Emma Houtz | Holladay, UT | Emma Houtz finds inspiration in the strange and unusual. Currently pursuing a degree in Graphic Design, her art and zines are influenced by her favorite artist David Byrne as they share a love for all things weird and cool. Emma’s day job is a library circulation specialist, where she is able to combine her interests of design and technology. In her spare time she can be found experimenting with hair colors, playing tabletop games, and collecting obscure VHS tapes. | https://emmamullerdesign.myportfolio.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/burningdownthehoutz/ |
| Emma Lyon with Honeysuckle Zine | Austin, TX | I’m a Utah native living in Austin, TX! My love for zines started in high school when my art teacher introduced them to me! I started making them again when the pandemic started, and haven’t stopped since. I make zines about whatever makes me happy, or whatever I’m interested in at the time; I like making them visually pleasing along the way! | emmalyonart.com | https://www.instagram.com/honeysuckle_zine |
| Erin Doyle | Erin Doyle (he/they) is an artist and illustrator. Most of Erin’s work highlights personal narrative surrounding being gay, trans, and disabled- as well as the complications that rise within these intersectional identities. You can find Erin’s work on Instagram @rainwoodcreations | https://www.instagram.com/rainwoodcreations/ | ||
| GAR! | Salt Lake City, UT | Comic book artist inspired by 80s cartoons, horror, and metal. | Instagram.com/garcomics | |
| grease (◕‿◕✿) | Seattle, WA | I’m a comics and computer artist. By combining underground aesthetics with low level computing, I hope to create a nostalgia for a time when computers were magical instead of intrusive. | https://xoxo-grease.itch.io/ | https://www.instagram.com/xoxo_grease/?hl=en |
| Greg Caldwell | Provo, UT | Greg Caldwell is an artist who makes paintings and drawings of people, cars, and houses. | gregcaldwellart.com | https://www.instagram.com/gregcaldwellart/ |
| imp | Salt Lake City, UT | imp makes strange comics | https://impstore.storenvy.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimp/ |
| Ivy Rose Zines | San Francisco, CA | Ivy Rose has been self producing zines and comic content for over 5 years. Based in the Bay Area, these zines fall under a wide variety of genres. These genres include queer romance, conflict, adventure, and illustration. Each zine gives the reader a feeling of being transported into an incredibly personal internal world. | etsy.com/shop/ivyrosezines | instagram.com/ivyrosezines |
| Jam Farr | Orem, UT | I’m just a guy trying to make artwork to slow down the pace of life. In love with being in love with my partner and music. I used to think I couldn’t do art anymore and had no supplies. I couldn’t slow myself down because I have ADD. At least not for more than a few minutes. Turns out in 29 minutes you can get a lot done! | www.instagram.com/bigjeru.13 | |
| Laura Gee | Salt Lake City, UT | Laura Gee lives in Salt Lake City. She evades the oppressiveness of politics, news, techno-optimism, and household chores by going for walks, cooking, writing poetry and zines, and reading to her young children. | https://www.instagram.com/geezines/ | |
| Liberty | Ogden, UT | Make a zine a week along with an intersection with printmaking | www.instagram.com/Liberty.remy | |
| Mara Gervais | Davis, CA | My name’s Mara Gervais, I’m Blackfeet/Filipino, queer, non-binary, and from the Central Valley in California. I make perzines, fanzines, photozines, comics/illustrated zines, mini zines, prints, and stickers. I love to skateboard even though I’m no good at it (yet)! | https://maragervais.bigcartel.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/_maralane/ |
| Marriott Library Zine Collection | Salt Lake City, UT | Located at the University of Utah in the J. Willard Marriott Library our collection strives to amplify BIPOC, women, LGBTQ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and other underrepresented voices in the library collections. Providing unique publications on diverse lived experiences in Special Collections and the circulating collection. | lib.utah.edu | |
| Matt Crank | Salt Lake City in The Grove | I am a lover of animals, art, food, and bikes! | Etsy.com/houseofcattitude | www.instagram.com/mattcrank |
| Maurya & Lynaea Brand | Midvale, UT & Deweyville, UT | We are a mother and daughter writing/artist duo! We are both new to the world of zines, but we love the zine medium for it’s funky combination of words and imagery and it’s handmade-ness. We are into sharing stories and ideas that promote love, empathy, and hope! | www.feathersinmypocket.com | |
| Mitch Parker | Lehi, UT | Doodler, sketcher, cartoonist, Mitch loves to draw on scrap paper. | https://www.instagram.com/fakemitch | |
| Noelle | Salt Lake City, UT | Noelle is an art student who uses both digital and traditional mediums in their process of creating their zines, stickers, and pins.Their art centers around themes important to their own life, including queerness, diversity, and body positivity. | Www.Etsy.com/shop/noespace | https://Instagram.com/noe.space |
| Noodle Palace | Salt Lake City, UT | Beep boop bop 🙂 | Ripstickfacts.com | https://www.instagram.com/noodled00d/ |
| Nopalera Artist Collective | Creatively
building spaces by and for artists of color in the Salt Lake Valley. Est in 2017 by Jorge Arellano and Mariella Mendoza. | https://www.instagram.com/colectivanopalera/ | ||
| Plot Bunny Studios | Kearns, UT | Hi my name’s Eilonwy Kimball. I run Plot Bunny Studios. I make a lot of cute, fairy tale like zines and comics in a very anime inspired style. I often work in watercolors, ink, and pencils. | https://plotbunnystudios.carrd.co/ | https://www.instagram.com/enuwey/ |
| Pozolegirl | Orem, UT | Pozolegirl- aka Caroline- is a 25 year old writer and artist. She loves all things colorful and whimsical and she spends most of her time working on her webtoon, The Botanist. | https://pozolegirl.squarespace.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/pozolegirl/ |
| Riso Geist | Rose Park, UT | Riso Geist is Salt Lake City’s only open risograph studio, printing art and zines since 2017. | risogeist.com | http://Instagram.com/risogeist |
| Salt Lake City Public Library | Salt Lake City, UT | The Salt Lake City Public Library’s Alternative Press Collection is the continuation of what began in the mid 90s as the Zine Collection. Beginning with one zine, SLCPL’s Main Library now houses one of the largest zine collections in a public library with over 2,500 unique titles. | slcpl.org | www.instagram.com/slcpl |
| Sarah Müller | Utah | An avid zine lover and collector, this is Sarah’s first time vending at Grid Zine Fest. They draw inspiration from being part of the LGBTQ2IA+ community, their love of books, and mental health topics. When not working on their Masters in Library and Information Science you can find them reading, making jewelry and zines, or watching horror movies. | https://www.etsy.com/shop/theglittermayhem | https://www.instagram.com/fruityandspooky |
| Sarahmour Ink | Midvale, UT | I create nonfiction and autobiographical zines. They’re mostly comix, but I’ve been branching out into text and photos. During the day I’m a writer and mom of two small kiddos. | www.instagram.com/sarahmourink | |
| Sari Neith / Hoax Zine | New York City, NY | Sari Neith is the editor and co-creator of Hoax Zine, a long-running queer feminist compilation zine started in 2009. Their most recent zine efforts are cultural critiques of surveillance culture and policing (“Current or Future Criminals: How Survivorship, Activism, and a Rural Upbringing Led Me to Believing in Prison Abolition”) and US punk communities (“Thou Shalt Not Talk about the White Boys’ Club: Challenging the Unwritten Rules of Punk.”) | etsy.com/shop/hoaxzine | instagram.com/hoaxzine |
| Silence Maestas | Salt Lake City, UT | Zine-maker with a background in print making, book arts, fiber antics, and nonsense. | https://www.etsy.com/shop/coffeeatmidnight | |
| Spencer Holt | Salt Lake City, UT | Comic zines are my favorite! | dungeoncrawlerscomic.com | www.instagram.com/spenturion |
| Sunny and Windy Day | Salt Lake City, UT | My zines are mostly silly and kid friendly. I make stickers too! | https://sunnywindy.storenvy.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/saekosart/ |
| Taliesin Logue | Salt Lake City, UT | Taliesin is a queer teen from SLC who’s been making and falling more and more in love w zines for about 6 years! | https://instagram.com/gothic.vampyre?utm_medium=co | |
| Thomas De Groff | Provo, UT | The cartoonist and zinester behind the weekly comic strip “Mr. Sunday” and the monthly zine “Mr. Sunday Monthly” | gumroad.com/space_patrolman | twitter.com/sundaycartoon, https://www.instagram.com/ |
| Tilda | Salt Lake City, UT | I’m an SLC native and I make comics and zines about history! | tildawilson.com | www.instagram.com/tildawilsno |
| Torpor House | Salt Lake City, UT | Torpor House organizes, designs, and publishes collaborative zines as well as personal work, mostly focused on nature and Utah’s hidden gems. Torpor House also distributes work made by other artists and writers. | torporhouse.com | https://www.instagram.com/torporhouse/ |
| Trishelle Jeffery | Daybreak, UT | Trishelle Jeffery is a printmaker, comics artist, and educator. She makes autobiographical comics and prints. | trishellejeffery.com | https://www.instagram.com/trishellejeffery/ |
| Wasteoidfreak | Salt Lake City, UT | Photo and drawing zines. Prints,paintings,stickers,grip and more!! | www.instagram.com/Wasteoidfreak | |
| Whatever! | Orem, UT | I am an illustrator that creates cute zines to document my personal stories, memories, thoughts and feelings! | peachykeenpress.com | www.instagram.com/peachykeenpress |
| Wild Existential Trash | Salt Lake City, UT | Wild Existential Trash is a collaborative paper based performance art troupe comprised of Adam Bryant, Sara Luz Jensen, and Amy Childress. | www.instagram.com/wild.existential.trash | |
| Wild the Child | Park City, UT | My name is Erin Brown and I am a long time resident of Utah. My entire life is centered around the outdoors and when I became pregnant with my daughter I was beyond excited to share my love of all things mountains and desert with her from the moment she was born. My parenting ethos is entirely wrapped up in raising her to be as connected to nature as possible, and it would be my absolute pleasure if I could pass on any of that information, both objective and subjective, to other families or soon-to-be parents. This is the intention behind Wild the Child Zine. Plus my daughter Kula wanted to add participate in the fun too, and so she founded her own Zine: Coyote Press. We are sure excited to share our art with all of you! | wildthechild.com | www.instagram.com/erinitout365 and www.instagram.c |
Thank you!
Special thanks to the Center for Cartoon Studies and AAMP for their support!
