@coolingprongs.bsky.social @coolingprongs.bsky.social 
taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social he/him | author of Hunger's Bite, previously Never Satisfied
repped by Kurestin Armada
https://taylor-robin.com
honestly more active on tumblr as ohcorny
diz @dizmopolis.bsky.social OH NO!
RAMONA SLICK 🍒 @ramonaslick.bsky.social Red hot femme fantasy ❤️🔥 Draglesque artist ❤️🔥 Chicago’s cult classic
Ai the Reluctant Organizer @reluctantorganizer.bsky.social zie/hir ("zee"/"hear"). union member, abolitionist, grad school dropout. trying to be accountable and showing how I'm learning slowly to organize.
Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social Illustrator & Cartoonist | www.kruttika.com
Ari Ganahl 🦑🔞 @arithetonberry.bsky.social Multi-media artist and mollusc enthusiast. Making zines and kinky trans comics 🔞 Open for book work and personal commissions.
💼 Portfolio ariganahl.com
🐌 Zine Club www.patreon.com/c/AriGanahl
🪲 Newsletter buttondown.com/aricecaelia
✉️ ariganahl@gmail.com
Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com 📹 I make tech videos
👩💻 Software engineer for 15 years
Developer Educator @ ngrok
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@AnnieSexton1
🎨 I also make comic books
Founder of Webcomic Studio: https://webcomic.studio/
Read my comic: https://redstonecomic.com/
Babs (Indie Comics Most Famous Butt) @newdmodel.bsky.social DC area cartoonist and art model! Comics, poses, art! Warning: nudies!! They/Them (I’ll always accept compliments on my butt but plz don’t be horny towards me, that’s not why I’m here, ty!) 💜
The Story of Ó @osoart.com Chicago old. Queer stuff, comics, art, music, games. Married to the best guy. I help run CAKE.
Dave Ortega @daveortega.bsky.social Writer/ illustrator/ cartoonist/ educator
Días de Consuelo (graphic novel)/ Hacienda (ongoing comic series)
https://www.daveortegadraws.com/
https://patreon.com/daveortega
Silvio Lorusso @silviolorusso.bsky.social Hi! I'm a designer witouth qualities, an artst without a gallery and a writer without spell cheker.
Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social U.S. historian | author of *Mississippi Law* | reader, eater, friend, southern
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060
MelColemanArt @melcolemanart.bsky.social SOCIALS: @𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐫𝐭
Biz Inquiries: Melcolemanart@gmail.com
Commissions Currently Closed
Peow2 @peow.bsky.social Peow2 is a new open-world immersive AAAAA comic pub from the creators of Peow(1). Working w/ the best artists ever. https://peow.studio
Zine Libraries @zinelibraries.bsky.social Sharing the zine library love. ✂️💖 Find us at the 2027 ALA annual conference in New Orleans on the exhibit floor #ALAAC27
punished "venom" nahr 🔞 @punishednahr.bsky.social he/gay/furry | personal acct to be annoyingggggg lol | 18+, sexo!!!! | containment zone until we get locked/private accounts
Leon 😵💫 @columbovillain.bsky.social Personal Account for moots and loved ones and those in between
Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social Slinging zines in Chicago @wildramppublishing.bsky.social.
Co-host of "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz" podcast
https://linktr.ee/KeidraC
Profile ID: Black woman looking up at picture of mountains
Lenny 🌸 @krogerart.bsky.social Storyboarder / Background Designer and Painter
Previously at Noggin @ Nick Jr, theOdd1sOut, Apartment D Films
rog.katelyn@gmail.com
www.katelyn-rogers.com
Looking for work!
🧶 hali @hkhali.bsky.social 25, chicago, designer
oboids on instagram
cait c. kenny ✨🌌👑 @spacemadchen.bsky.social ☀️ caitlin • 32 • she/they 🌙 "one of these days i will float up off into damn space and no one can stop me not even gravity or nasa"
instagram.com/spacemadchen
Simone Parker @singedfingers.bsky.social Poet. Collage Artist. Informal Tumblr Historian. AKA Simi.
"Simi really sucks" - New York Times Bestselling author Lindsay Ellis
Teddie Bernard @tea-ddie.bsky.social Artist and Cartoonist
www.teddiebernard.net
MARCY BONES! ☠️ @marcybones64.bsky.social HAW HAW HAW!!!
💀 https://bonediggre.com/
📺 https://youtube.com/@bonediggre?si=Ue3LuDrGXe2ue2Tx
💸 https://www.patreon.com/cw/BONEDIGGRE
she/her
Off the Page @otp-chicago.bsky.social queer comix reading showcase in Chicago, IL
hosted by @potatofuzz.bsky.social and @tea-ddie.bsky.social
COMA THEORY @comatheory.bsky.social Two-dyke zine and ephemera operation based in Chicago. horror, erotica, transformative work, & whatever else we feel like. all our work is 🔞
shop here: https://ko-fi.com/comatheory/shop
download PDFs here: https://comatheory.itch.io/
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
Clipping @clppng.bsky.social Diggs /// Hutson /// Snipes
DEAD CHANNEL SKY /// 03-14-2025 on @subpop.bsky.social
Stuffy, Muffins for Breakfast @astuffymuffin.bsky.social Northeast 3s Player
Big fan of Mtg, Aos, and other nerd stuff
Sith Lord of Love
Vinny Vistazo @vistazo.bsky.social Chente, 30s, ENG/ESP, Chicano 🇲🇽 Cartoonist and musician.
🌐 Site: https://vinnyvistazo.com
🖥️ Blog: https://blog.vinnyvistazo.com
📻 Music: https://vinnyvistazo.bandcamp.com/
💬 Webcomic / Game: https://cruceroplaza.com/
Bianca Brandolino @biancabrandolino.bsky.social 🖍️ Abstraction as self exploration, Zines as self expression.
☔ Waiting for rain
🛍️ Next Shows : MKE Zine Fest 4/19
♟️ CHI, IL | MKE, WI 🇵🇸
Jerel Dye @jereldye.bsky.social Illustrator, cartoonist, artist, and teacher based in the Boston area.
Website at: https://jerel-dye.squarespace.com/
Michaela Heidemann @mheidemann.bsky.social Writer//artist in Chicago 🤠👽 Scenario Writing for GUTTER
Oz (he/him) @quietcoy0te.bsky.social wizard on a weekend, willing on a weekday • comics & illustration • 🏳️⚧️
QUINN! @artofquinn.bsky.social Quinn Blackshere
Illustrator~ Cartoonist
MILK Comic Fest Organizer 🐄
💌hello@quinnblackshere.com
🛍️ https://www.martofquinn.com
💭All opinions are my own
Bulgilhan Press @ SPX H1 @bulgilhanpress.com Award-winning indie comics press publishing distinct, self-indulgent comics by cartoonists with voice and vision.
Next event: SPX (9/12-9/13)
https://bulgilhanpress.com
Sage Coffey🌿☕ @sagecoffey.bsky.social Wine Ghost Creator, BUGSNAX Story Editor, NOT A WOLF illustrator & former CAKE organizer!
Repped by Linda Camacho (Gallt and Zacker) and Mary Pender (WME)
🐛They/Them🐛
Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net Radical indie comics publisher
https://store.silversprocket.net
Zach Clemente @clementeworks.com Publisher & Boss, Bulgilhan Press // President, Boston Comic Arts Foundation // IT Professional // he/him
www.clementeworks.com
Jessi Zabarsky @hugbox.bsky.social y’know
https://linktr.ee/hug_box
harp @haaarpb.bsky.social 
Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social Award Winning Cartoonist - Side Quest
/ Heart of the City • SLICE President • Comics Editor • Educator • They/Them • Queer • Black • Rep- Anjali Singh
Gocomics.com/heartofthecity
Oheysteenz.com
slumberfish @slumberfish.bsky.social illustrator | comic book store manager | MILK Comic Fest organizer | 18+ | prev clients: Hunters Entertainment, BOTCH, SLPMS | https://slumberfish.neocities.org | https://milkcomicfest.org/ |
emma @em-a.bsky.social probably concerned, probably in chicago 🥨 27
Abortion Fund of Ohio @abortionfundofohio.bsky.social We're Ohio's statewide abortion fund, providing direct financial & practical support for more than 30 years.
Fund abortion & build power with us: https://linktr.ee/abortionfundofOH
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov Your U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Product safety info, data, and recalls. Standing for safety since 1972. Official account of the USCPSC. HQ: Bethesda, MD.
Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov.
Report unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov
chloe 😇 @wishjacked.bsky.social webcomics girlie and worm composting addict. the birthday on my birth certificate is wrong but i just have to live with it.
https://linktr.ee/wishjacked
Chicago Alternative Comics Expo @cakechicago.bsky.social The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a celebration of independent comics! 🍰
www.cakechicago.com/
Hannah Hallman 🎨 @cottna.bsky.social 1995/ comic artist / she/her / lesbian / milwaukee / milk comic fest organizer /
/ my self-published queer fantasy comic The King’s Companion reprint is HERE / online store opening soon
https://cottna.neocities.org/
Blue Delliquanti @ SPX I14A! @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social Creator of O Human Star, Across a Field of Starlight, and more. Makes comics, teaches comics. they. http://ohumanstar.com
Steph 💖 @noctart.bsky.social Steph Mided 🎀 Comics Person (she/her) ⭐️ Author of “Club Kick Out! Into the Ring” (Harper Alley) 💖 Queer 💫 Huge Dork ✒️ Rep’d by Britt Siess
Johnny O'Mara @johnnyinbriefs.bsky.social Wife, mother, candle enthusiast.
Ryn (they/them) @librariryn.bsky.social 📚 Medical librarian 📍Twin Cities, MN
Curious & collaborative. Here to meet accomplices and make friends? (Not very active on BlueSky though...)
Logan Dean @logandean.games Chicago
1975 Kumite Winner
Disgraced Head of Research
Award-Winning Game Producer
Ldeanwins@gmail.com
https://logandean.games
https://mega-corp.itch.io
Worst Bestsellers @worstbestsellers.bsky.social A podcast where @renatasnacks.bsky.social and @fourteenacross.bsky.social read the worst popular books so you don't have to! New episodes every other Monday. #blessed with 2 S's
@alexmitchell.bsky.social @alexmitchell.bsky.social 
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social A cooperative of North American political artists and printmakers on the left! Founded in 2007. Bleets by @toosphexy.bluesky.social. Visit Justseeds.org
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Reraser @reraser.bsky.social Declan J Garrity (the J is VITAL) || He/him || Webcomic creator
https://hyperdrivencomic.com/
Hyperdriven is a sci-fi comedy about a team of space-bound Freelancers taking on the worst jobs that the far future's gig economy has to offer. Updates Mon & Fri
rachel @juniperascending.bsky.social comics maker and POME co-founder
POMEmag @pomemag.bsky.social Online magazine and indie comics micro-press for sensitive weirdos
(2014-2025)
jojo 🔞🏳️⚧️ @jojoekaki.bsky.social 21+/he/gay/guy, ADULT ARTIST 🔞🔞🔞 D/s, furry, monsters and tboys
📚 https://jojoekaki.itch.io
🖍️ https://patreon.com/jojoekaki
🖌️ https://subscribestar.adult/jojoekaki
----- @paperbeatsscissors.com 
cori walters @ OCAF 24 @acidwashwerewolf.bsky.social cartoonist, illustrator, and printmaker.
🌩 viscous discharge press 🌩
33yo white butch leatherdyke. they/sie. frequently nsfw. read holecomic.rip
linktr.ee/acidwashwerewolf- B Joey @babykangaroo.bsky.social He/they
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com 🐉 Multi-award-shortlisted, Eisner- & Ignatz-nominated indie comics publisher
📍 Edinburgh, run by @evegwood.com
📚 quindriepress.com
✉️ quindriepress@gmail.com
📢 Closing December 2026
Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
Theome @theome.bsky.social Dad raccoon, 41-going-on-65. He/him. Ph.D I-O Psychologist. LARPer. Pipe collector and enthusiast. Dork. Unapologetically queer and Jewish.
LookWhosFhtagn @lookwhosfhtagn.bsky.social Busman by day, villain by moonlight.
#Scummer
Writer of an array of things
I have a podcast! blakeskyepi.com
He/They
http://ko-fi.com/fhtagn
http://twitch.tv/lookwhosfhtagn
GUTTER @thatguttershow.bsky.social https://gutter.show is ur new fav horrorcomedy TTRPG podcast! 💀 are you willing to go sCaRy ModE?
Day!!!! @probablyday.bsky.social Hello I'm here on the webside!! Write comics and games and Whatever Else. they/she, Avatar by jupebox!
mancameron @mancameron.bsky.social i draw things, sometimes. 31, he/him. ur local eggboy
otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social ignatz award winning cartoonist
otavaheikkila.net
he pronouns
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
coast @coasterchild.bsky.social 
Kablamo Flynn @kablamo.bsky.social “I’m T-Pain, you know me” - T-Pain
Writer, improviser, former professional, current amateur.
He/him/his
Abby👁✨CXC103B @ebbigal.bsky.social Story and Comic Artist. Production Artist at Skybound | Prev. Island of Misfits, Wildbrain. | Creator of #feboardary
Scaredy cat who makes horror 🦷
| Contact: abbyleestory@gmail.com
💖 abbyleestory.com
#horrorcomics #comics #storyboard #ootd
R. Mock @rmickmooks.bsky.social Former gifted kid and recovering anime club president. Comic drawer. Eisner winner. Rebeccamock.itch.io for my comics
Bob Hopp @imbobicus.bsky.social Fan of NeoScum, Gutter, and other podcasts. He/Him
My pinned post is the most important thing I have to say/want you to know about me.- M Dan Fister @misterdfister.bsky.social Professor of music and race. Scholar of a cappella and whiteness. 🐈 dad. 🏳️🌈. 🏀 fan. Oregonian.
🐋 haden 🪐 @yavin4.bsky.social 🚀 mynock is your-nock | writer, loser, cat dad | they/he 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
📍 piscataway land
hadencross.com
john the poo smuggler fan account @batinthecorner.bsky.social she/her
kait the grait 👻 @fourteenacross.bsky.social Cottagecore Morticia Addams 👻
Worst Bestsellers co-host 📚 useless lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
Ghostbusters (2016) was an excellent film and I hope Paul Feig is having a good day. 
Drew Mierzejewski @worldstoforge.bsky.social [He/Him] , Actor, Writer, Game Master, Worldforger, GM/Showrunner for Skyjacks: Courier’s Call. Co-Creator of WARDA. “Artifice" of Whimsy and Artifice. Hates fascists.
Koolywizz @koolywizz.bsky.social I make stuff, occasionally
3D Artist🤖
Tucker @thebeverage.bsky.social Cool dog on a skateboard
ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social The innovative digital comics fair debuting all-new comics from independent artists around the world. Annually, October 1-31st.
http://shortboxcomicsfair.com
sbcomicsfair@gmail.com
Beth Hetland @bethhetland.bsky.social Cartoonist and Educator | TENDER (Fantagraphics) | Bram Stoker Nominee 🧛♂️
https://linktr.ee/bethhetland
Strange Deer Press @strangedeer.bsky.social strange deer are grazing quietly, ruminating. strange deer are publishing things.
(indie comic & zine collective)
strangedeer.com
Adira Slattery @adira.bsky.social she/her, game menace 🏳️⚧️ 🪬
award winning ttrpg and larp designer
icon: @angryartist.bsky.social
adira.itch.io
leon 🥩😵💫 @leonthecowboy.bsky.social Leon | 28 | Let’s see what happens
Aly Grauer @dreamstobecome.bsky.social professional Renaissance woman
Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social Podcast editor and sound designer for Gutter, Hey Riddle Riddle, Worlds Beyond Number patreon (Kids Campaign, County Affair), NeoScum, and more! / ☕ http://ko-fi.com/casey / 🎮 twitch.tv/caseyponey /📺 youtube.com/yourfourthcousin / 👋🏼 Leftist (he/him)
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
miranda grace @mirandaggrace.bsky.social whats all this then