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Caroline Cash
Caroline Cash is the creator of the Eisner- and Ignatz-Award winning PeePee PooPoo Comics and the graphic novel A Girl In The World. In 2024 she drew a month of guest strips for the newspaper comic strip Nancy. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, MoMA, The Nib, VICE, among other notable publications. She is currently working on an upcoming graphic novel about dyke drama. She is a Capricorn Sun, Virgo Moon, and Leo Rising.
Shay Mirk
Sarah Shay Mirk (they/she) is an award-winning graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. Shay is the author of Guantanamo Voices, an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison. Shay is also a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. Their book on the craft of making nonfiction comics, Creating Nonfiction Comics: A Guide to Graphic Narrative (co-written with Eleri Harris), will debut in November 2025. In 2024, Shay launched the nonfiction comics press Crucial Comix, with collaborator Audra McNamee, where they teach classes editing and memoir comics.
David F. Walker
David (he/him) is an award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. Walker is best known for his work in comics, including Shaft: A Complicated Man, Planet of The Apes, and creator-owned series Bitter Root. He has worked for both Marvel (Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk,Fury, and Deadpool) and DC Comics (Cyborg, Naomi). He has written the award-winning graphic novels The Life of Frederick Douglass, The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History, and Big Jim and the White Boy. He is also an accomplished novelist.
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Acker Draws
Cryptid County comics: follows Dennis and Sylvie and their rag-tag group of misfit 20-somethings friends trying to survive a world overrun with cryptids that stalk the ever-growing dark woods. The Sorcerer: short dark fantasy zine, and original horror-themed stickers and prints
See their work here.
Aimee Flom
Alieha Dryden
Alieha Dryden is a comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, though she currently finds herself in Idaho, fighting off goat heads. Her work pays homage to filigree dense fairytales, mysteries of arcane flavor, queerness in all its forms and especially brave young women. ​
See her work here.
Andrea Rosales
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Aranea Push
Arc Welder Studios
Damon is the founder of Boise, Idaho based indie comics publisher, Arc Welder Studios, and writer of KAIJU LIBRE and "Lumberjack Horror" comic, PELTS.
Barry Deutsch
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Becky Hawkins
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Bridgett Spicer
Bridgett Spicer writes, Auntie Beeswax a comic about a sunny, bright-sighted auntie!
camcaff
Cam McCafferty is a zine and comics creator based in Portland. Cam has been dedicating recent years to lesbian secret agent bunnies. They are the creator of journal zines Prayer Blanket and Scoot: an Adoptee Story, the latter of which is the 2025 Minicomic Awards winner of the Non-Fiction Category.
Captain Tempest Adventure Magazine
A high-flying adventure comic of pulp action, following the escapades of the fearless CAPTAIN TEMPEST, the intrepid reporter PAM PIKE and the stalwart mechanic MACGOYER. Follow them as they soar above the highest peaks, brave the depths of peril, and dare to tread into thin air!
See their work here.
CB McGillivray
CB McGillivray is a poet, painter and cook in Eugene, Oregon. Handsewn, short form, wordless books. Small posters, diptychs and poems. Bookmarks. Each, one of one. However possible, non-volatile media and reclaimed substrates. Subject matter focused on clouds, flowers, and trees. He knows Love is an endless resource. No harm.
Chihiro Howe
Fantasy manga based on fairy tales and legends.
CJ Joughin
Paranormal scifi comics and art with a retro vibe (and cats).
See his work here.
clownlunch
I make zines and comics of all shapes and sizes. My work is full of clowns, monsters, food and fun slice-of-life moments.
See his work here.
CMCameron
​​​​​​Cameron is a Freelance Colorist who’s worked on a variety of projects for the past ten years. Notable projects she's worked on are Eisner and Ringo Award-nominated Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Nexus Point, and Jon Kent: This Internship Is My Kryptonite. She loves animals (especially her pomeranian mix, Riley), hearty foods, and colorful clouds.
See their work here.
DarkChibiShadow
DCS, otherwise known as DarkChibiShadow, is a queer and trans cartoonist and visual novel developer. They have a passion for romance and erotica, and all of their stories are character driven, goofy romps through fantasy worlds.
See their work here.
Diddlymarsh
Diddlymarsh is a Trans Disabled artist and zinester. Her work explores queer love, comfort, and grief through comics and poetry.
See her work here.
double disco dust
Don't Eat Any Bugs Production
Ray Friesen is a Eugene based cartoonist, who does lots of silly animal comics and humorous shenanigans.
See their work here.
Emilie Kelly
Emilie Kelly (she/they) is an indie comics creator based in Portland, OR. Her current project is Things Are Afoot! (2024-present), a mystery/horror graphic novel about the 'Most Isolated Town in America'.
See her work here.
Emma Charlotte Art
Emma Charlotte is a queer illustrator and cartoonist originally hailing from New England, now based in PDX. Inspired by the dreary, rocky and slightly haunted coasts of her hometown, her illustrative work captures deeply folkloric and otherworldly aspects of nature.
Eporita
The Gorgonist
Robin Robinson, "The Gorgonist," is the comic artist and illustrator behind No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest, This Book Is My Best Friend, and Goth Parenting--stories for all ages with lots of monstrously charming characters to meet.
See her work here.
Green Sword Art
Henry Fernau
Using ink pens, vibrant color, and an unsteady yet confident line, Henry Fernau invites adults (young and old) into quiet psychedelic worlds of radical empathy no matter the path.
See his work here.
Jake Standley Illustration and Comics
Full grown Monster kid making art and comics with zines, prints + original commissions! Artist of Wave Collapse with writer William Plavin.
See his work here.
James Asmus
James Asmus writes original and licensed comics (SURVIVAL STREET, RICK AND MORTY, MARVEL and more) and official collaboration cookbooks and journals for everything from WINNIE THE POOH to SUPERNATURAL.
Joli Hamada
Joli Hamada is a Japanese/Okinawan-American comic artist and illustrator from Hawai'i, currently based in Oregon. She graduated with a BFA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and has since worked as a professional colorist while also self-publishing her own comics.
See her work here.
Joseph Fanoele
Joseph Fanoele is a cartoonist from Portland, OR, with a new comic, "Fools Gold," a 20 page riso comic forthcoming from Living Room Press featuring short science-fiction stories.
See his work here.
Kori Bing Art
Kory Bing is an illustrator and comic creator from PDX who draws animals that don't exist and animals that don't exist anymore.
See their work here.
Layla H Art
I self publish a series of comic books called Jace. I make comics, stickers, prints, and more that can be enjoyed by all ages.
Lea Seidman Hernandez
Award-winning creator (DC, Marvel, Image, and Dark Horse) and webcomics pioneer, purveyor of whimsical and affordable original art!
See her work here.
Leylo
Leylo is a queer comic artist, illustrator, graphic, and multimedia artist, instructor and event producer from Portland, OR. Their work seeks to connect people by expressing what they're learning, overcoming and exploring through art.
See their work here.
Lindzenator Draws
LINDSEY PEREZ is a nonbinary two-spirit illustrator who encourages self love, decolonization, and spiritual awakening through the form of their favorite print medium; handmade, self published comic zines. Lindsey graduated from the Comics Portfolio program at the Portland-based I.P.R.C. in 2024.
See their work here.
Living Room Press
Living Room Press is a small Risograph publisher focusing on comics, art, and nature by artists in the Pacific Northwest.
Logan Naugle
Mahma Jaguar
Mannie Murphy Comics
Award-winning indie cartoonist and animator brings books, zines, prints and sticker from Portland to Eugene
Maya Lejia
Maya Leija is a tejana multidisciplinary artist creating silly queer comics and zines.
MazitDynasty
Max Mallory (Mazitdynasty) is a writer and comic artist based out of Portland, OR! He writes queer science-fiction, thriller, and horror comics about trying (and failing) to understand yourself, bad coping mechanisms, existential dread, and many other things.
Meg Tosi Illustrations
Meg Tosi is an author/illustrator based in Portland, OR. They're the creator of the graphic novel series "Dweedy & The Bush Cats". Their work often features spooky themes drawn in a cute, whimsical style.
See her work here.
Milkshroom
A cartoonist who thinks about space and existence.
See their work here.
Neil Cochrane
Art and fiction centering queer characters overcoming obstacles and building families, reflecting on identity, relationship, and community.
See his work here.
Nich the Lich
Nich is a fantasy author and illustrator who delights in making melancholy stories.
Nicholas Orr
Octal Press
Kalen Knowles is an agender cartoonist in Lynnwood, WA who self-publishes science-fantasy comics, zines, prints, and stickers under the name Octal Press. Building expansive worlds around strange non-human characters, their work contains themes of identity, friendship, gender, self-acceptance, superheroes, and biology.
Partly Robot Industries
Pazataque
Pom Machine
Pom Machine is a queer writer and zinester, with work focused in sci-fi, fantasy, poetry, and witchcraft. The goal of Pom's Zine Emporium is to bring out the storyteller that lives in everyone!
See their work here.
PS I Made This
Hi! We’re P.S. I Made This, a zine duo with a love for cats (and birds)! With zines featuring a variety of creatures and contemplations, we also spotlight our illustrations in stickers, sticker sheets, and original paintings - each with a direct connection to one of our publications.
Push/Pull Press
Fiercely independent, charmingly eccentric, comics and zines from Seattle creators.
Rachel Cherry
Short story comics and zines with magic, monsters, and friendship. Also many opossum and silly stickers, ink and watercolor paintings of cats, and prints of illustrations of girls and their animal friends
See her work here.
Ren Rader
Ryn Heller Comics
Sam Henze Art
Comics and illustration exploring everything from dark dungeons to neon future cowboys.
SerenaWhy Creative
Puppets, comics & zines and everything in between! SerenaWHY Creative has comics, zines, prints, stickers, original art and hand made crafts like puppets, earings, hairclips and other trinkets.
s0apy_picklez
Tairabeara
Hello! My name is Taira (they/she) and I am a multimedia artist passionate about illustration, fiber arts, zines, printmaking and stationery. In a world where things are becoming more grey and monotonous, I use these different mediums to create works that are fun, brightly colored, and invoke a sense of nostalgia.
See their work here.
TrashCamellDesigns
Tyler Majo
Tyler Majo is an illustrator who's got a love for cozy colors, fun characters, and making people giggle at her booth. From full complex illustrations and comics to silly stickers, you'll likely find something you enjoy in her work!
Watery Day
Author of Unicorn, Hunted and lover of gay medieval fantasy.
See his work here.
yelloart
Zeno Pirone
Queer-led, genre-heavy super-villain crime comics (and more!)
Zoë Gray
Zine Hug
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