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This past weekend was Zine Machine in Durham, NC. I didn't table but I did visit, and wanted to share some of the zines and other stuff I picked up! I do plan on tabling next year, I really love this event and always have a good time.

These are the mini-zines I picked up! I think I traded for all of them.

Top, from left to right:

• Red illustration zine: Andrew Manning Harrell
• May 2024 Trans Book Reviews: by Charlie Probus, @anticapitalistcrafts
• The Beatles: by Maggie Marshall at What's That Zine
• Weight Lifting Zine: by Tristin Miller at One Rep Weightlifting

Bottom, from left to right:

• A Girl Without Skin: by Meg Lentz (I think this zine is relief printed? and the text is taped on. It's so cool!)
• Flower Symbolism for Budding Witches: Lady Book Witch Press
• A Small Poem by Nora: I'm not sure who made this! There's no other info besides the "by Nora" byline. Maybe also Lady Book Witch? since her name is Nora and she's a poet. But I don't see this zine on her socials! If you know about this zine, drop me a line.

• Moments with Nice Cat by Rebekah Evans — I already have some prints from Rebekah, I think her style is so cute! I couldn't resist a whole zine full of her illustrations.
• Paroxysm Volume IV from MystoPress — I planned on picking up this zine if they were tabling! I bought Paroxysm Volume 3 at Zine Machine a couple years ago and I genuinely think it is one of the best horror anthologies I have ever read. The quality is amazing. I'm so excited for Volume IV!!

• Radical Acceptance Vol. 1 by Tristin Miller — I traded for this one, the artist was so kind and sweet! It is by the same artist as the One Rep Weightlifting zine above, but this time I linked to their artist Tumblr (the mini-zine was mostly advertising their weightlifting coaching).
• Equinox by L.H.A. Ferguson and designed and published by S.A. Yates — I think it was Yates who traded this with me, apparently Ferguson has been writing poetry for a few years and as a wedding gift their friends all made art inspired by his poetry and gifted it to him in this zine! I love the story behind it!

• HTTRNSBTCHCITY by Ria "Air" Garcia (pronounced "Hot Trans Bitch City") — I am so obsessed with this artist's art style, I had to get this huge 8.5x11" comic zine!It's full of reversible illustrations that can be read in any direction, and the purpose is to "showcase the disorientation and confusion that can come with transitioning in a world that does not accommodate for the safety and wellbeing of trans people." Definitely an artist to watch for me!

• I totally messed up and have no idea who the artist for this is! I paid in cash so there's not even a digital receipt to follow up on. I'd really like to figure it out but I can't find any trace of it online, not even on Rhino Market's socials (they have a huge gap between 2019 and 2023, and based on the date I think this event was in 2021). I bought this to give as a gift so if you know the artist please contact me! My search continues…

• T-shirts from Atrox Design — bought these sight unseen out of a mystery t-shirt package and I couldn't be happier! They look so cool.

Without a doubt, artists have the coolest business cards, and they're often a little art piece all their own! I've numbered these to make them easier to reference.

1. Bramble Bug
2. Plastic Flame Press
3. Rebekah Evans
4. Yumeng Fu
5. Julia Gootzeit
6. Kelly Toth
7. Ria "Air" Garcia
8. Ryan Oakley
9. J.B. Shear

I wish I had grabbed more business cards, but oh well. My brain tends to get pretty disorganized in crowds. There was also an artist, Molly, who I had meant to go back and buy a pumpkin print from… And now I don't remember her full name either. Oops. I'm sure there's others I meant to go back to as well and missed. Hopefully next year!

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