 1. Where are you currently based? Springfield! I live near Downtown Springfield and have a studio space where I work and teach art, in a great shared space above Sprout! Food hub. 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I call myself an illustrator, even when most of what I am working on is large scale painting or other personal work... I am always spurred to create by stories, or archetypes from stories... or even just the feelings left over from stories... so feel like my process is more similar to illustration work than anything else. I’m working on a series of fairytale illustrations at the moment that I’m really into right now. I am always chipping away at my long-term graphic novel project, The Micanopy Murders, of which the first issue is published and books two and three are deep in the works.  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying 4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals? Seeing other artists and their work! Scrolling through work of artists I love from the comfort of my studio can only go so far, there’s nothing like seeing work in person and being surrounded by likeminded creators. 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? A platform to show my work, to see and be seen.   6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in?
I’ll have a show up at Lincoln Gallery in December- it’s always fun and inspiring to have a venue to get my work out to. Elizabeth Blue Illustrations www.elizabethblueillustrations.com Instagram @feather.death.crown Facebook @elizabethbluec Twitter @elizabethblue_
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 1. Where are you currently based? I live and work in Seattle, specifically the Ballard neighborhood where my wife and I also co-operate a gallery and retail space for underground art. It’s called Push/Pull. 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I’m personally an illustrator who does a lot of pen and ink work with some watercolor. I really enjoy doing historical comics, the research and development is incredibly time consuming but I think it opens up a lot of new and interesting information for people who might not otherwise have the inclination to do academic research or read dry history books. and I’m also a tattoo artist learning the craft and trying to make a name for myself.  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? I’ve been re-reading some of Los Bros. Hernandez Love and Rockets, and on a more indie level, I’ve recently enjoyed my comrade David Lasky’s Manifesto Items series. Kate Lacour of New Orleans, and Fred Noland from Oakland are several favorite currently active underground comic artists of mine. 4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals? I like meeting new people and seeing what they are doing, building a network and getting inspired by their work. With our retail space I like that I’m able to offer the folks I meet a space where their work can possibly be seen by more people.  5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest?
I have a new book of illustrations I’ve been working on for the last 8 months, some of them have also been turned into multi-colored risograph art prints. 6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in? I’m planning to get back into a series that I started in 2016 and have been working on off and on over the past year. It’s called Strange Sound and is a serial strip that re-surfaces possibly forgotten episodes in the history of the Puget Sound area. It’s a mix of non-traditional (radical) politics and true crime, but all taken from factual history.  1. Where are you currently based? Corvallis OR. 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? Dingbat! is a punk cartoon zine with comics, stories, and activities. 3. What is the last comic or zine you read? Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors collections by Bongo.  4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals?
So many cool artists with unique takes on zines. You always leave more inspired than when you arrived. 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? Dingbat! #4, the newest issue, will debut this week at EUZINE fest! 6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in? Dingbat #5!  1. Where are you currently based? Portland, OR 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I make comics that are kind of sad and kind of poetic and recently I’ve been really into ceramics and applying my comics to that medium. Most of my ideas come to me when I’m falling asleep or already there. The phrases that stick in my head for several days are the ones that make it to the page. I also take a lot of inspiration from the children I teach.  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? Drifter by Anna Haifisch, which is so big and weird and beautiful 4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals? Being able to communicate with strangers without relying on small talk. All the things we care about are right there on display, and those who connect with it are already connecting by the time they say hi, and those who don’t get it just keep walking. 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? Tiny comics drawings on tiny ceramic pieces  6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in? I have an idea that I might want to make an animated short in the near future, and I’m wrestling with the memory of my last animation project, which destroyed me emotionally. EUZINE will be my last event for a while, so I’ll be taking a lot of time to think about my next big project and decide how I will make it happen.   1. Where are you currently based? I’m a lifelong Oregonian currently based in Portland. 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I write and draw comics and illustrated zines rooted in my perspective as a cute blind lady engaging with public space and culture. My work addresses the intersections of disability and public culture. My comic Reverse Flaneur was nominated for a 2017 Ignatz award. I also spend a lot of time drawing professional wrestlers. After finishing the publishing certificate program at the IPRC I began working collaboratively with my graduating cohort as Soft Skills Comics Collective, some of whom will be in attendance at EUZINE!  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? At Short Run I picked up "How 2B King," the new collaborative comic by Alexandria Vickery and Taylor Dow - it is incredibly beautiful and engaging! 4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals? Zine fests are an opportunity for me to celebrate my hustle and the hustles of those around me and I am always overjoyed to have a reason to do so!  5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? I made my first risograph-printed project a few weeks ago and I am very excited to share it - it's a little two color zine about holiday snake wine! 6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in? Soft Skills comics collective will be hosting a Holiday Comics Spectacular at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, OR on Thursday December 14th! Comics from a wide variety of creators will be read and projected onto the movie theater screen!  7. Please draw a personification of your Muse or Familiar. My muse is the exceedingly positive and kind Japanese pro wrestler Hitoshi Tanahashi. Feel the best!  1. Where are you currently based? Portland, Oregon 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I'm a cartoonist, I like to make the donuts. 3. What is the last comic or zine you read? "Eighty Six" by Jason T. Miles  4. What d you like about zine/comics festivals? I love being a part of a community of people who like to make stuff! 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? I'm most excited about a comic I drew and one of my all time favorite cartoonists, Josh Simmons, wrote. It's called "Twilight of the Bat." Here's a synopsis: "Bats and Joke Man wander through a post-apocalyptic G—– City. Who is leaving them morning cupcakes?? /// story: Josh Simmons, art: Patrick Keck, pin ups by Tara Booth and Anders Nilsen /// published by Cold Cube Press" 6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in? This is it for now, I'm excited for EUZINE Fest! 7. Please draw a personification of your Muse or Familiar.   1. Where are you currently based? I'm currently an art student at the University of Oregon and I spend my summers here, so I guess i'm based in Eugene. 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I'm currently wearing a lot of hats. I think one of the more rewarding things that I do is organize communities within the University. I love working with people and collaborating on projects; I feel like that kind of energy really feeds my creativity. For EUZINE, I guess I can say i'm an illustrator- and I draw inspiration from my everyday experiences and abstracting those moments. I use illustration as a means to keep myself constantly making things, and so the primary body of my work are drawings.  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? I wish I had more time to read comics/zines! But the last one I read was called "Oneirism" by Katsuya Terada and Junggi Kim, both my favorite and most inspirational illustrators. 4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals? I really like how accessible zines are. I love that anyone can go out and self-publish a zine and know there's a community waiting to welcome them. Zine festivals are important because they're reassuring. We have the benefit of online meeting spaces, but there's nothing quite like being physically surrounded by fellow makers and creatives.  5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest?
This'll be the first time i've tabled so i'm just happy for the opportunity! I'll have zines, prints, shirts, and other fun stuff in tow! 6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in? Despite never having tabled, I've actually organized and hosted a zine festival on the UO campus. UO zinefest will be returning in the Spring and we'll have more information on my table. https://www.instagram.com/boat.sai/  1. Where are you currently based? Currently based in the ever encroaching, yet ever empty condo-ridden NE quadrant of Portland Oregon. 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I make art because its always been the most enjoyable thing in my life. 3. What is the last comic or zine you read? Thee Psychick Bible, by Genesis P Orridge. (technically its a collection of writings, probably many were originally released in zine-format)  4. What d you like about zine/comics festivals? I like that the vendors and patrons are generally sweeter and less intense than a lot of other events that draw crowds of people. 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? I've compiled what is essentially a best-of my dream journal. Each entry will have a few tiny illustrations and a really pretty risographed cover and insert that I'm proud of. I cant wait to unveil it!  6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in?
I'll be vending at Black Sunday in Portland OR, the day after EUZINE. Future project: integrating more color and a bit of humor into my art.  Irene / Asterisk Press 1. Where are you currently based? I'm from Oakland, CA! 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I'm currently self-publishing my zines and comics. I'm an artist and graphic designer and I try to constantly envelop myself in art and media that I like, so a lot of different things are always inspiring me. Lately, many of my ideas have been coming out of my travels, but I'm also really interested in cartoons, children's media, video games, and books.  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? I usually read everything I get right after a zine fest, so the last ones I've looked through are: Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger, Landscapes by Wesley Powell, Scumburbia by Sam Grinberg, and How to Tame a Lion by Laurie Piña. Highly recommend all of them! 4. What do you like about zine/comics festivals? There's a great sense of community at every zine fest, and they're all about DIY, accessible and affordable art, which is super important. 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? I just finished up a minicomic about traveling/staying in Nagasaki, Japan, so that will be debuting at EUZINE. I'm also planning to get new prints of illustrations! I'll be bringing lots of old prints, which I don't usually do because I'm limited by how much I can carry on my person. I'm also going to try to build a wood display shelf for my zines, because I've always wanted one and I'm running out of table space, but those things are surprisingly hard to find. So I'm most excited about that, honestly.  6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in?
I've been working on a dream log comic for a while now, which will be done by December in time for Comic Arts Los Angeles. It's going to be my first time making a perfect bound book, so I'm both really excited and scared, which is exactly how I feel about CALA as well.  1. Where are you currently based? Currently based in Eugene, Oregon 2. How would you describe what you do? If you're an artist/collective, where do you get your ideas? If you are a distro/publisher, how do you find your artists? I’m an artist and writer. It all kind of blends together for me. I often do art about what I’ve been writing about, or I base poetry off my art, etc.  3. What is the last comic or zine you read? Supporting Survivors zine from from Philly’s Pissed 4. What d you like about zine/comics festivals? They can deliver a lot of really awesome information in a very short/accessible form. If I want to get info to someone it’s usually a lot easier for them to read a zine about it then a whole book! 5. What are you most excited about that you'll have at EUZINE Fest? I’m excited to get feedback on some of my writing, and I’ve also started printing my art on greeting cards and stickers which I think is super fun!  6. Do you have any upcoming projects or other events you'll be partaking in?
I have some other art shows coming up, in December I’ll have a piece of two at Oakshire, and in January I’ll have a show at Wandering Goat. I’ll also be tabling Thanksgiving weekend at holiday market, so come say hi! |