Can't Zine:

SHAPESHIFTER ZINE

SHAPESHIFTER is a monthly-ish diy zine/newsletter based in Tkaronto, spotlighting new QTBIPOC music, and some of the scene in the city!

calvin prowse

calvin is a zinester, peer worker, futurist, and recovering academic based in Hamilton. they write zines about peer support, community, futurity, utopia, and dreams, and make stickers & cyanotypes.

David Widgington

Artist, zinester, anti-zionist

Sonali Menezes

Sonali Menezes has been making and distributing zines for over a decade. Her most popular zine is Depression Cooking. She is currently on a zine hiatus while she turns Depression Cooking into a book.

Raven and Ram

Zine creation duo, Parker A.M. Johnston and Novis Musica

Reflex Editions

Reflex Editions is a Toronto-based DIY publishing collective. We make small edition artist books, zines, and ephemera that function as a creative space for experimentation and collaboration.

Jackie Reynolds

Jackie is a non-binary, mixed race comic artist and illustrator. They create found footage horror comics, and zines about dead polar explorers.

Small Sword Press

Fine purveyor of zines, prints & comix.

Maybe Mag

montreal lit mag. online + in print. submissions open til oct 1st: [email protected] dm 4 backcopies, or if ur a playwright, or if u have a big house.

Tales From Behind the Counter

Tales From Behind the Counter (TBC) is an independent creative publication whose goal is to build solidarity and community in the city of Ottawa.

craft or diy

Queer art junk for sensitive punks since 2011. Illustrated zines, buttons, stickers & more made by Elliott Giannini (they/them).

Emmanuelle Chateauneuf

A gender-fluid first-gen Filipino-French prolific cartoonist, Emmanuelle’s work twists the Hero’s Journey, focusing on unglorified social awareness and self-development. Dark, yet wholesome.

bat cities

bat cities is a transmasc hāfu illustrator and zinester who finds joy in energetic linework, found texture, and reportage-informed processes.

Julie Setele

Free downloads of zines about women's soccer, romance novels, Medusa, abortion, Ani DiFranco, library stuff, and feelings.

Colour Code Printing

Colour Code is a small press and artist friendly printing service based in Toronto, ON. We specialize in Risograph and Screen printing to make artist books, prints and zines.

Pom Machine

Pom Machine is a queer writer, zinester, and D&D performer based in Eugene, Oregon. Their work is focused in short fiction, poetry, DIY, and TTRPG.

UNFOLD Zines and Art

Justine Veras is a queer Dominican American zine maker and artist. Her work plays with the boundaries between cute and dark.

Maranda Elizabeth

Telegram, Edith, & Little Acorns zines. Mad, sick, & disabled imaginaries and crip-psychogeography. Queer trans novels. Tarot for misfits. Poverty, friendship, & crip resistance.

cherubimscloud

cherubim is a 28 year old white settler living along the Wolastoq, they spend the majority of their time pursuing random artistic endeavours and hanging out with their cat, Almond

Walang Hiya Zine Distro

WALANG HIYA DISTRO is a distro project that focuses on sharing, promoting and distributing zines, comics and art made by Filipina/o/x creators from the homeland and the diaspora at large.

ZOOT

ZOOT is an 18+ comic artist and illustrator with a focus on queer intimacy and humour.

Potato Brains Distro

Hand drawn and collage zines using found and vintage images about queerness, chronic illness, and the weird world around us.

liurae

rae is a queer illustrator + designer into bright colours and the mundane

Feels

Feels is a zine about feelings. We strive to create a safe space for radical vulnerability and foster an open dialogue about our most sensitive emotions.

Brandon Lim // Black Belt Cinema // Fatal Stasis // Film Fvckers

Brandon Lim is a film programmer (BLACK BELT CINEMA), graphic designer (FATAL STASIS APPAREL), and editor of the zine FILM FVCKERS.

Deann Louise C. Nardo

Steel Transplants

Steel Transplants (they/them) is created by a queer, trans, fat and disabled white settler on unceded Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq territory. They have prints, zines, collage and jewelry on a PWYC scale.

Liminal States Distro

The work of Liminal States Distro hinges on hope and the tenants of a softer future, focusing on unlearning harmful narratives, loving ourselves, and building strong communities in the process.

Bit_form

Printed glitch art, stickers, and Zines about DIY tech maintenance, zines as directions for creative activities, and semi autobiographical. Low tech low life.

Garbutch Vagaybond

Transgenderqueer homelessness survivor, anarchist and art school dropout who makes zines, buttons, and rambles.

oralmenace

comics, illustrations, and zines. 18+

Von Allan

Writer/Artist focusing on comics and graphic novels

Cole Pauls

Tahltan Comic Artist, Illustrator & Printmaker

artbyrachels

Trans (they/them) Cartoonist & Illustrator - silly and important art and zines

Kirstendo

Queer chronically ill clown making zines

Reid Urchison

sid drmay

sid drmay is a nonbinary trans queer zinester who makes zine about growing up online, who loves textiles, cyberpunk and snails. They run KW Zinetopia and the Hamont Zine Machine.

BIPAN Mag

BIPAN Magazine is a series of digital magazines made by and for the queer community. We feature art, zine culture, education, liberation practices, and resources from across Turtle Island.

B&D Press

B&D Press is a queer and micropress and art project based in Tiotià:ke / Montréal.

The Cryptid Fiddle - The Elvish Fiddler, LaraCryptid, ourladyofcoffee

Sci-fi/fantasy illustrator and cult-favourite comics gremlin The Elvish Fiddler, offbeat fantasy/horror artist LaraCryptid, poet/editor/manic pixie shonen protagonist ourladyofcoffee (Elaine Marilyse)

subsomatic

zines // rugs // prints // stickers

bocchi projects

bocchi projects is a Canada-based self-publishing project specialising in small run, custom artist books and printed matter, featuring self-published works by collaborators and independent artists.

Monastiraki / Billy Mavreas

Ephemeral Curiosity Shop Since 1998 / Maker of Obscure Zines Since 1989

Gynoid Distribution

Gynoid Distribution is a micropress run by Helen Chazan dedicated to small press comics, transsexual propaganda, pro-slut arts, and generally esoteric acts of zinemaking.

Partizanka Press

A zine distro and imprint by long-time zinester Tara Bursey focusing on art, punk, politics, and beyond

Valentine Zines

Disabled queer couple in Minneapolis, MN who write perzines, horror fiction, erotica, and more.

Zine Bakery Homemade Zines (Amanda Wyatt Visconti)

Zine Bakery collects, researches, and makes free zines at the intersection of tech, culture, and social justice. Currently homemade zines are focused on making and crafting tutorials.

Crow And Moon Press

Queer+Occult+SciFi+MentalHealth DIY×ZINES×ART Always Forward Never Under Lainh & Rin

Zines by Thursday

Whess Harman

Creates art and zines about being trans and Indigenous in the hellscape, hating cops and sticking together in the face of oppression.

dusk studios

a modern day roadside stall, of sorts. by mags, a part-time poet with a penchant for zines and stickers.

Laughing Radish Zines

Zines for sale to support our 1000sqft garden initiative and food/garden programming in Ottawa

kitschygma

Kris is a queer zinester and fiber artist. Zines are inspired by all things kitschy, frogs, and niche experiences.

Dayna Moth

Dayna Moth (they/she) is a zinester, art-maker, writer, volunteer KC Zine Con organizer, and a facilitator for the Zine Club at neither/nor zine library.

A-S-C (Anti-Subscription Catalogue)

The Anti-Subscription Catalogue unites 109+ non-subscription, free, and 1x fee software in 15 categories on the web & in print. A-S-C Press publishes zines, FAQs, and satire that critiques power.

Payton the Raccoon

Comics about the Outdoors, Activism, and low-brow Magic!

San Press

San Press publishes zines, chapbooks, experimental print objects, and hybrid art forms, working in material and minor configurations of literary and visual art.

Elliott Dunstan

Elliott Dunstan is a writer and publisher of horror, surrealism and poetry, as well as handmade upcycled art and jewellery.

Publication Studio Guelph (PS Guelph)

PS Guelph is a micro-publisher of original books distributing through a global network (of Publication Studios).

Rebelle Zine

We are an independent multi-platform publication based in Toronto, fostering a community centered around promoting the success of women and queer folks in creative and business avenues.

Salem Paige

Salem Paige (they/them) is a queer, transgender poet, designer, and multidisciplinary artist.

James Rose N.C.

James Rose is a comic artist and illustrator with a passion for tattoos, kewpie dolls, dog motifs, and making playlists.

FANE

A subculture mag with a focus on the TLGBQIA2S+ community. We cover art, photography, music (especially Industrial, Noise, Drone, Sludge, Metal, etc.), poetry, and more. Free PDFs & Music Downloads!!!

Sheer Spite Press

Sheer Spite Press publishes and distributes beautiful, affordable, useful, generous, political, funny, heart-filled books and zines about survival, resistance, community, and solidarity.

Crooked Fagazine

Crooked Fagazine is an independent print magazine for shameless confessional storytelling, written by and for gaylords.

ash hernandez-o’gorman

ash is a queer and disabled zinester and ceramic artist of filipinx/irish ancestry

Sharon Pink

Queer witch making zines and aspiring to be in ways that are anti-white supremacy, fat liberatory, gender affirming, leatherQueer celebratory, Elder & crone honoring and sex worker positive.

Sam's Studios (Samuel Edme)

Samuel Edme is a Haitian-American cartoonist, editor, and creator of the ongoing comic strip The Shapes. When he's not cartooning, you can find him hoarding books.

Bug Cru

Illustrator, Artist and Tattooer

Rulito

Making comics/zines that feature anthropomorphic animals dealing with capitalism through humor

Charles Agopsowicz | withthesetwohands

Charles Agopsowicz | withthesetwohands is a creator in Calgary / Mohkinstsis Treaty 7 whose work focuses mostly on Canadian history, labour history, challenging Canadian identity, and reconciliation.

jefferydraws

jefferydraws is a nonbinary Toronto artist whom creates meaningful art around queerness, mental health, and fun.

Wyrdsmyth Press

Queer run micropress specializing in linocut prints and poetry.

Pretty/Gross

A disabled bisexual artist living and working in the GTA. Loves zines; making and reading compulsively about people's lived experiences but also; horror, pink and glitter.

twelveohtwo zine distro

twelveohtwo was a tabling-mostly distro based in tkaronto/toronto & then amiskwaciwâskahikan/edmonton from approximately 2005-2017.

Look Mum! Zine Distro

Meegan Lim

Meegan Lim is an illustrator based in Brampton, Ontario, known for her detailed illustrations focusing on food and cultural identity.

Notabeanie

chronically ill trans fairy prince "living" (dying) in the welfare system.

Bug Tourmaline

Writer, zinester, collage-er. Poetry and witchcraft.

Miles Macabre

QT Fatties NB

A grassroots collective by and for 2SLGBTQ+ fat folks in so-called New Brunswick. We have collaborative art/poetry zines and fat liberation info zines.