Liz Yerby grew up in Baton Rouge, LA, and moved to Portland, OR in 2010 to study Russian. Despite drawing and journalling her whole life she didn’t figure out what a zine was until she went to the 2012 Portland Zine Symposium. Since then she’s been making zines, mostly about Russia, since that’s mostly what […]
Gina Altamura resides in Portland, Oregon with her cat Žižek. She manages the pop-R&B group Shy Girls and curates interdisciplinary arts programming at Portland nightclub Holocene. A pop culture fanatic and impassioned aesthete, she is compelled by the philosophical implications of emergent musical trends and in drawing philosophical parallels across genres, eras, and disciplines. Friend […]
Poet Ross Robbins, a native Montanan, lives and loves in Portland, Oregon, with his cat, Ramona. He is a volunteer at the IPRC and is slowly but surely working his way through school. His poems have appeared in small journals such as BlazeVOX, HOUSEFIRE, Sound Literary Magazine, Vinyl Poetry, Alembic and Alchemy. He is […]
Looking a back at 2013, our ZINE of the MONTH program has proudly featured an impressive array of themes and visual techniques. From the pop culture collages of Fred Thomas to the ghostly ink washes of Aaron Brassea, the breadth of approaches to illustration and production speak not only to the vibrant zine culture here […]
Basic Paper Airplane started in 2005 and has explored everything from the future of print media to the history of the human family. It has been reviewed in Broken Pencil, Zine World, and been referenced as an inspiration for the movie adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. Issues #4-7 are in print and available through Antiquated Future (www.antiquatedfuture.com). […]
Fred Thomas is an artist and musician living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Defects Mirror is his annually published zine focusing on understated humor, horror and a brightly positive kind of nonsense through devilish collages and free-flowing prose, profound in it’s absurdity and vice-versa. Though he’s lived in Michigan the majority of his life, Thomas is […]
Aron Nels Steinke began drawing comics in 2006 with the help of a grant from the Xeric Foundation. Since then, Steinke has published 5 issues of the autobiographical comics series, Big Plans, and has frequently participated in numerous anthologies including the Portland-based Papercutter anthology. Steinke’s all-ages graphic novel, Neptune, first published in 2009 by Sparkplug Comic Books and Tugboat Press, […]
Sarah LaPonte is a photographer currently splitting time between Portland and Seattle. Like waiting for the 4 with a wedgie and some box wine, “I thought it was a bad idea I just wanted to make sure” is a collection of images and scans; a testament to the process of elimination. Sarah also runs Tri-County […]
Lia C. is a science hype girl living in Portland, OR. Long involved in education in Oregon, she teaches middle school as well as freelancing as a curriculum writer. For the last five years she has written and self-published the zine, The People I Love Best, which is a mix of memoir and scientific writing […]
Aaron Brassea is the creator of several comic series, most notably My Life in Scribbles, The Ballad of YFB, and Chainsaw Guy and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Chainsaw Comics, which he co-founded in 2002. He graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2001 with a BA in Art and his work can be seen in […]
