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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.
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51 Personae
51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of "realism" in art as expressive actions.
See their work here.
Aaron Comicman
Comic writer/artist with mini comics and prints usually associated with cryptids and monsters.
See his work here.
Auntie Beeswax
Bridgett Spicer is a cartoonist-artist person who enjoys the silly. She creates the humor comic, "Auntie Beeswax", which appears in the Willamette Week. She also enjoy making zines and whimsical art.
Barry Deutsch
Barry co-create the Prism award winning SuperButch, a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic, with Becky Hawkins. He is a longtime political cartoonist, created the Hereville graphic novels, and is part of the creative team for the best-selling Wings of Fire graphic novels.
Becky Hawkins
Becky co-creates the Prism award winning SuperButch, a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic, with Barry Deutsch. Becky has also spent years chronicling her life in hundreds of postcard-sized watercolor comics.
See her work here.
camcaff
Cam McCafferty (he/they) is a qenderqueer, lesbian, half-Chinese adoptee artist. When Cam isn't making everyone look at them making their little lesbian OCs kiss like Barbie dolls, they like to make journal-like zines sorting out their life experiences.
See his work here.
Canonwrite Productions
Rainer Kannenstine is an oregon based cartoonist of the weird and wonderful and co-runs the Canonwrite productions comics anthology series.
Crucial Comix
A cartoonist-run small press that publishes narrative nonfiction comics and offers compelling classes on comics-making and practice
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.
Derek Lamson
Derek’s 2022 graphic novel Mark V: The Opera follows an unemployed teacher through a long day's journey into night...and morning again. The story grapples with his own family's settler history, and is his own love letter to Eugene.
See his 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.
Effin' Adorable
Aranea Push is an illustrator and comic artist in the PNW. She is the author of "Coffee & Wine" a quiet graphic novel about friendship and vulnerability.
elodiethefirst
I make zines and comics about friendship, everyday magic, trans people, silly creatures, weird situations, and little flashes of sincerity. My body of work heavily features one page zines, since they are my favorite to make, but I have plenty of larger projects in my catalogue as well!
See his work here.
Emilie Kelly
Emilie is a writer, illustrator, and sensible brunette selling zines, prints, & comics to pique your interest. Stop by to check out Things Are Afoot!, a mystery/horror graphic novel about the most isolated town in America!
See her work here.
Emma Charlotte Art
Emma Charlotte is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Portland with an undying love for folklore and the whimsically macabre.
ERICK-INK
Erick Wonderly Varela is a locally based illustrator, muralist, and teaching artist. They create using bright colors and a whimsical blend of naturalistic illustration and Central American Folk art. They sell their work in the form of comic zines, paintings, prints, greeting cards, and stickers!
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
Finlay/Leif is a trans & autistic historical fencer and reptile enthusiast--those things tend to appear in their art. Aside from pencil & digital drawing; they also crochet, needle-felt, and create paper-cut illustrations.
See their work here.
Jake Standley
Grown up Monster Kid drawing robots and spookies.
See his work here.
Joseph Fanoele
Portland indie sci-fi cartoonist, recently released Thirteen & Other Stories with Exploding Moon Press.
See his work here.
kieran skade
kieran skade is a trans, nonbinary comic artist who loves making work that involves bugs, garfield, horror, & being queer.
See more of their work here.
Layla H Art
Author and illustrator of a self published ongoing comic series about a robot becoming a hero called Jace.
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 more of their work here.
Lindsey Bross
Lindsey Bross is an illustrator based in Portland, OR who creates comics and zines inspired by everyday life.
See more of her work here.
Lindzenator Draws
Lindsey is a two spirit artist and advocate who loves creating comic zines, art prints, and doing live sketch portraits!
See more of their work here.
Maddi Bacon
Maddie lives their life with one foot in the conservation world and one foot in the art world, though to me they feel one and the same; two legs on the same body. Their practice moves fluidly between painting, writing, animation, and possibly most passionately with making comics.
Mahma Jaguar
Maham Jaguar is a Pop Lorist from Borinken based in the Willamette Valley and only takes cash and Venmo. She draws lesbians, robots, "monsters" and trees.
See more of her work here
Matthew Bogart
Matt is the cartoonist of the comic series "Incredible Doom" named one of the best of the year by Vanity Fair. It's about teens in the 90s getting their lives turned upside down by the early internet. He makes slice of life comics that will make you laugh and break your heart.
See more of his work here.
Megnolia Illustrations
Meg Tosi is a Portland based illustrator/author whose work generally is spooky, cute, and maybe a little supernatural.
See more of her work here.
Mike Lawrence
I write and illustrate middle grade graphic novels, creator of the Star Scouts series and most recently Science Comics: Deep Sea Creatures.
See more of his work here.
Neoglyphic Media
Neoglyphic Media is a visual media publisher dedicated to the work of idiosyncratic and visionary artists on the fringes of contemporary culture. With one foot in the rubbish bins of history and the other outstretched into the unknown of the future.
The Oregon Cartoon Project
The Oregon Cartoon Project promotes comic-making, cartooning and the related disciplines of film and animation in our state and beyond. Through live and virtual platforms, OCP aims to build a diverse community of artists and connect them with educators, youth and the general public for creative exchange and transformative community.
Learn more about their work here.
Peyton Syrnyk
Peyton's zines range from educational to introspective, often blending humor, vulnerability, and hand-drawn illustration to create accessible and engaging content. She aims to spark conversation, offer comfort, and build community through sharing zines.
See more of their work here.
pocketwyrm
Wyrm has a BA in neuro-science and he’s here to prove it. Enter their comic work, an exploration of all his interests in science, art, fantasy, and (mostly) silly gay times!
See more of his work here.
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!
Learn more about their work here.
Rachel Cherry
Rachel likes making comics about emotional magic users, spooky monsters, and fantasy adventures. She also likes jokes!
Learn more about her work here.
RasArt
Ras is a queer Southern Oregon based art creature who's work dabbles in every thing from cute and magical to cosmic horror for teens and older. Their work often features lgbta+ characters and colorful visuals, even within the horror genre.
SunMoss Art
PNW comic artist and maker of little friends. Doin' their darndest to find magic in all of her musings.
See more of their art here.
Suspicious Behavior Productions
Publishers of Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia.
The Deaf Zinester
just a deaf zinester screaming into the void [plot twist - nobody’s actually screaming].
See more of their work here.
Watery Day
Watery Day makes queer fantasy comics about being a trans man.
See more of his work here.
Zeno Pirone
Fast paced, queer-led and lightly surrealist, Zeno tells the tales of THE ZAT, the world’s weirdest super-criminal!
See more of their work here.
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