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Fieldmouse Press @ SPX M2-3A @fieldmouse.press · 14/11/2025

“I feel it behooves me to inform the cynics, the jaded, and just crusty old bastards in general (you know, like me) that Ramirez is not fucking around with this one.” New review of @forever4pm.bsky.social's FLEA on @fourcolorryan.bsky.social's Four Color Apocalypse: www.patreon.com/posts/book-r...

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Sonnenzimmer @sonnenzimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Ideas Beyond Formats is a paid publishing program geared towards supporting and amplifying artists who live/share stories of marginalized communities, who feel outside of traditional power dynamics. For more information, go to, www.sonnenzimmer.com/ideas-beyond...

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Hannah Hallman 🎨 @cottna.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

come to milk on saturday! chicago/mpls cartoonists: our fest is walkable from the amtrak train station

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John Porcellino @johnporcellino.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

MILWAUKEE!!! This Saturday 9/27 from 11am-5pm -- MILK Comics Festival. I'll be a SPECIAL GUEST ?!?!? Come on down and check things out, please! Wow! @milkcomicfest.bsky.social #comics #milwaukee #comix #zines #altcomics

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I wasn’t gonna make an updated business card zine for @milkcomicfest.bsky.social then I did it anyway haha

A photo of a stack of single page zines, folded and unfolded, on a colorful table cloth

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Thomas Campbell @comicsblogger.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY Rust Belt Review vol. 6 by Sean Knickerbocker (Self-Published) Accepted by Andrew Greenstone (I think!)

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Heidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Outstanding Anyhology goes to Rust Belt Review vol. 6 Sean Knickerbocker Self-Published Accepted by a pal whose name I didn’t get. #sox #ignatzawards

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Small Press Expo @smallpressexpo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Congrats to all of tonight’s Ignatz Award recipients: Outstanding Mini Comic: Allodynia by Violet Kitchen Outstanding Collection: World Within The World by Julia Gfrörer Outstanding Graphic Novel: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. Outstanding Anthology: Rust Belt Review Vol 6 by Sean Knickerbocker

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"270°" by Maggie Umber. Owl facts and abstract art, arguably more of a "picture book" than a comic. Umber's use of the fat-tipped sharpie markers has me thinking wistfully about my art school days.

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, one of the great geniuses of cartooning who showed the medium’s literary potential, was born on August 22, 1880.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Generative art tools

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Maggie Umber @maggieumber.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Rust Belt Review vol. 6 was nominated for an Ignatz @smallpressexpo.bsky.social ! My graphic novel is excerpted in there. Get RBRv6 from @rustbeltreview.bsky.social & Chrysanthemum Under the Waves from me at INZF. Insert Name Zine Fest 12-6pm 8/23-24 Squirrel Haus Arts 3450 Snelling Ave Mpls, MN

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Sean Knickerbocker @rustbeltreview.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My anthology is nominated for an Ignatz. Go vote for it.

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Lily and Generoso (plasticgrapes) @plasticgrapes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

CANON #5 is now available for purchase! this issue is loaded with fascinating interviews with: Kayla E, David Slatkin, Maggie Umber (which we conducted ourselves), and Jake Zawlacki! #Altcomics

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Thomas Campbell @comicsblogger.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Details from a few Comics Blogger Books publications: Maggie Umber from Death Spark 2 Drew Lerman from Sketchbook Drawings 2024 Floyd Tangeman from Death Spark 1 Tana Oshima from Before / After

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Zine Club Chicago @zineclubchicago.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Thank you to @chicagoreader.com and reporter Sydney Richardson for a great preview of South Side Zine Fest! You can check it out in the print edition and online here: chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe... #SSZF2025 #zines #DIY #SouthSide #Chicago

An image of a Chicago Reader story featuring a photo of a recent Zine Club Chicago event and this headline: “South Side Zine Fest brings a celebration of self-publishing to Bridgeport; Zine Club Chicago and Chicago Public Library’s Richard J. Daley branch joined forces to plan the event”

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Loading The Canon @loadingthecanon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Canon #5 is here! Available at canonzine.bigcartel.com Interviews with Kayla E, @maggieumber.bsky.social , art dealer David Slatkin, and critic Jake Zawlacki. Articles, reviews, and More! @ftmou69.bsky.social @fourcolorryan.bsky.social @plasticgrapes.bsky.social

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Zine Club Chicago @zineclubchicago.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We’re SO EXCITED to announce our brand-new event: South Side Zine Fest! Our celebration of self-publishing with Zine Camp vibes will be held 11 am-4 pm Saturday, July 26, 2025 at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, #Bridgeport. Free! More info: zineclubchicago.com #zines

A blue and red flyer featuring the South Side Zine Fest and Zine Club Chicago logos and this text: “Join Us for the Inaugural South Side Zine Fest! Presented by Zine Club Chicago; A celebration of self-publishing with Zine Camp vibes!; 11 am-4 pm Saturday, July 26, 2025; Richard J. Daley Branch, Chicago Public Library, Bridgeport; Find more information on zineclubchicago.com”

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Zine Club Chicago @zineclubchicago.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

MEET OUR #SSZF2025 ZINEMAKERS: MAGGIE UMBER! @maggieumber.bsky.social (she/her) paints, prints, and programs graphic novels and #zines. She's published four graphic novels — Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Sound of Snow Falling, Time Capsule, 270°. Her work has been widely anthologized ...

A collage of several images of zines created by the South Side Zine Fest 2025 exhibitor Maggie Umber and this text: “Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest! Welcoming Maggie Umber!; July 26, 2025; Chicago Public Library; Bridgeport”

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Have you seen any #CZF2025 posters out in Chicago?? Thank you to our print sponsors, Perfectly Acceptable Press and PrintNinja, for providing gorgeous posters of Kelly Wang's art! We'll have riso-printed posters for sale on Saturday. #ChicagoZineFest

Three Chicago Zine Fest posters taped up on a wall, covering up old ripped up posters.

Thank you to the CZF 2025 print sponsors, PrintNinja and Perfectly Acceptable Press.

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Thomas Campbell @comicsblogger.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to Touch Grass Read Zine this weekend to support @chicagozinefest.bsky.social ! Will we see you at @chicagozinefest.bsky.social at Harold Washington Library this Saturday? 👀

A photo of a poster for Chicago Zine Fest in pinks and greens. There are buttons featuring an illustration of the Harold Washington Library sitting on top of the larger poster along with a black sticker that says Chicago Zine Fest in white block letters.

A crowd sits in folding chairs facing a presenter in a baseball cap and jeans.

Original art being raffled to raise money for Chicago Zine Fest. The art includes a ceramic creature, framed comics, a hand bound collection of comics, and a hand illustrated tote bag.

A crowd faces a projector screen where comics are being displayed. The artist crouches at the front of the crowd and reads their comic into a microphone.

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This Sunday! It's TOUCH GRASS READ ZINE!! Please join us from 5–7 pm at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social in Avondale for a reading by six fantastic local comics artists, including @gingerrbridge.bsky.social & @maggieumber.bsky.social & @daimondrewthis.bsky.social. Come out to support #CZF2025!!

Flyer for Touch Grass Read Zine. A comics reading fundraiser for Chicago Zine Fest happening Sunday July 13th, 2025 from 5-7 pm at Skunk Cabbage Books in Avondale, 2826 N. Milwaukee Ave. There'll be an art raffle as well.

6 local chicago zine makers:
✲ Daimon Hampton
✲ Hink (Adelle)
✲ Maggie Umber
✲ Bridget Bilbo
✲ Elias Gonzalez
✲ Leigh Hugenberg

Masks required and provided!

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon There’s Dolce & Gabbana on ALL THE PARTS OF YOU THAT WON’T EASILY BURN (from THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINE AND OTHER DISTURBANCES) by @ericlarocca.bsky.social Pub’d by @titanbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 🩸📚 2/?

Red book cover. Eric LaRocca. This Skin Was Once Mine (and Other Disturbances) “Must read horror” The New York Times. An inky black snake-like shape slinks up the red cover, parts falling away into inky tendrils or smoke.

A model wears a Dolce & Gabbana (Spring Summer 2015) long red collarless jacket with thick black embroidery and matching short pants. A black top and gold necklace peek through the loose, unfastened jacket opening. The black shoes are worn without socks.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon What’s your favorite HORROR MOVIE by @paultremblay.bsky.social Pub’d by @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social ‬ & @titanbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 🩸📚 11/?

Red book cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay. The bestselling author of The Cabin At The End of the World. “One of the most terrifying horror writers of his generation” - Joe Hill. A young person wearing trousers and a top holds a knife at their side. Their features are in shadow.

A model with short hair wears a fitted red Alexander McQueen (Fall 2023) trouser suit with an inky black Rorschach print across the chest. They also wear a black shirt, black tie, and shiny black boots.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon Even Versace can’t save you from the incoming storm when you live in a HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN by @gabino.bsky.social Pub’d by Mulholland Books & @titanbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 🩸📚 15/?

Book cover of House of Bone and Rain, a novel by Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home. A small orange-yellow house sits on purple ground and casts a shadow the shape of a skull. Behind the house are a row of blue houses against a neon green sky. Black palm trees are bending in the storm.

A model wears a Versace (Spring 2021) pant suit, which consists of a yellow jacket, green trousers that look like denim, tied with a pink belt. The orange shirt is patterned with blue, pink, orange, and yellow starfish and other sea creatures. The model carries a small red bag. Gabino’s would have a book in it.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon When your gown game involves Marchesa, don’t stay home. COME OUT, COME OUT by @nataliecparker.bsky.social Pub’d by G.P. Putnam’s Sons 💙📚 🩸📚 8/?

Book cover of Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker. Their secret is safe, but they are not. A purple dilapidated American Gothic house floats against a blue background. Where the basement should be, there is a broken skull. Two giant human heads pull out of the left and the right of the house.

A model wears a blue and purple Marchesa (Spring 2025) one-shoulder gown with a full skirt. The fabric fades from a dark purple to a light blue at random.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon Choose the bear and wear this Louis Vuitton suit BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES by @patrickhorvath.bsky.social Pub’d by Penguin Random House 💙📚 🩸📚 5/?

Book cover of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath. Illustration: A birds-eye view of a bear wearing a top and jeans walking between a gap in the trees while carrying a spade in their right hand. In their left hand, they are dragging a large brown bag. Whatever is in it is red and has started to leak, leaving streaks on the ground.

A model wears a Louis Vuitton (Spring Summer 2023) ombre jacket that starts black at the shoulders, then green into white. The green and white areas are decorated with red, yellow, and blue flowers. A green polo neck peeks above the neck of a gown so long it turns into a short train that drags along the floor. Patterned trousers can be glimpsed through a side-slit in the gown.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon A wave of black ink against the sand, this Viktor & Rolf gown reflects CHRYSANTHEMUM UNDER THE WAVES by @maggieumber.bsky.social Pub’d by Maggie Umber LLC 💙📚 🩸📚 3/?

Book cover. Chrysanthemum Under The Waves by Maggie Umber. The name of the author is all but erased by the black waves, blurring the white words or turning them a watery black. The title is in black on sand that is turning to threads of fabric, while the words are blurring as if too much water has been added.

A model walks on a white runway wearing a Viktor & Rolf Spring (Summer 2024) gown. The left side of the gown is black with a layered floor-length ruffled skirt and a sheer black sleeve. The right side of the gown consists of a pale beige corset top and sheer floor-length skirt, as if we’re seeing through the dress to the underwear.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#HauteCover #StokerCon There’s something about this dishevelled, multilayered Haider Ackermann outfit that says I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER by @sgj.bsky.social Pub’d by @sagapressbooks.bsky.social ‬ & @titanbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 🩸📚 4/?

Book cover. I Was A Teenage Slasher. “A palm-sweating slasher that both satisfies and subverts its genre conventions,” Esquire on The Lake Witch trilogy. Stephen Graham Jones. New York Times bestselling author. Against a teal blue background writhes a red leather belt with a shiny buckle that has something red on it.

A model wears a Haider Ackermann outfit (Spring Summer 2014) that consists of shiny deep blue pants cropped above the ankle. Under a shiny red part-zipped jacket with the sleeves rolled up are layers of blue, one is a stripey silk scarf. Another is an untucked blue shirt with white dots.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Haute Couture looks for Horror books! 🧵 Welcome to the blood-red carpet of #HauteCover #StokerCon2025 Edition Featuring author attendees & Stoker Award nominees An ongoing thread: 💙📚 🩸📚 #StokerCon is hosted by @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social

A pale model with bright red lips wears a Christian Dior Fall 2009 ensemble consisting of a white shirt hidden between the vivid red of a fitted but unfastened riding jacket. A dark gray skirt hits below the knee and is gathered at one side. The model also wears a black top hat with a veil, small black gloves, black boots and what looks to be a riding crop. Mary Wyrd would wear this at StokerCon 2025.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you're interested in commentary on genuinely indie and alt comics that play with the language of the form then you can find discussion of these gems, and many others, every week at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I can’t really qualify “completely under the radar,” but: DISORDER by Erika Price (self) WHAT AWAITS THEM by Liam Cobb (Breakdown) BABY by Patrick Kyle (Breakdown) GRAPEFRUIT by Ana Margarida Matos (kuš!) CHRYSANTHEMUM UNDER THE WAVES by Maggie Umber (self) HOT HOUSE by John Hankiewicz (Fieldmouse)

Completely under the radar book of the last two years you think everyone should give a try?

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Chris W. Kim @chriswkim.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

An illustration for this week's Deep State Diaries series for @newyorker.com , written by E Tammy Kim. The piece focuses on Emily Williams, an expert in substance-use disorders and inequities in the delivery of health care. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st... Thank you AD Nick!

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Domino Books @dominocomics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Blogging about comics here: dominobooks.org/blog.html

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There’s no cartoonist quite like Maggie Umber. It’s been fascinating watching this short story collection come together through her Patreon posts; its final result for me is a beautiful, haunting melody that makes me feel deeply uneasy even though I can’t construe the words sung. A compliment.

The comic Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, by Maggie Umber, lying on a grey wood floor (ok, technically vinyl.) the title is melting across a metallic grey/black motif

Two-page spread from short story, “Chrysanthemum,” with black and white panels showing a couple in love (or in death)?

Two-page spread of Maggie Unbwr’s comic adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s “The Tooth.” A woman sleeps on a bus; a hot cup of coffee sits on a counter

Two page spread from Maggie Umber’s comic, “The Witch.” Black and white paintings of a horse drawn carriage approaching a castle. I think.

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J Webster Sharp @jwebstersharp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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