Perzines
RPS Collective is a DIY arts Non profit serving the Oakland Art Community providing classes, gallery shows, and retail featuring zines, art, and other hand made goods.
Handcrafted artist zines from inside the city walls.
Ivy Rose Zines are self-published perzines delving into an intimate, embarrassing, and always genuine internal world. Based in the Bay Area for the past six years, each perzine is a delicately crafted compilation from the various sketchbooks of Ivy Rose. Each zine is a deeply personal reflection of a different aspect of the author's life. These stories act as mirrors for the readers to see themselves with and illustrations drawn to evoke the emotions we often forget to let ourselves feel.
Fantasy & esoteric art zines, prints, & galactic ephemera.
Fun Time Printshop For The People (ftpftp) is an abolitionist - anarchist - communist - Black - Indigenous - zine distro and diy press.
Some Shade of Blue attempts to tell stories through pictures, words, and time
Mixed media zines and art that explore topics like identity, love, and emotion through drawing and collage.
Established in 20XX and drawing inspiration from waaaaay too many years of being Black in America, The Mushroom Queendom looks to challenge social ignorance and political tomfoolery wherever it mayest lurk.
Cammy is originally from Tokyo, Japan and currently based in San Francisco Bay Area. "Tokyo Bookish Cat" is her zine project, especially focusing on exploring the area through the visits of bookstores.
James Huynh comes from a VIetnamese-Chinese refugee family that resettled in the suburbs of Los Angeles County. He has spent his whole life deeply entrenched in Asian immigrant/Asian American communities. He now lives in East Bay and has been involved with different community based organizations and currently is working to build up tenant power in the region. An Asian American Survival Guide zine was written with the intention of being in conversation with the breadth and diversity of Asian American experiences. Please reach out at asianamsg@gmail.com if you want to talk more!
Zines full of comics poetry, silly stories, and the beautiful mundanities of life.
Brown Recluse exists to uplift the work of QTBIPOC zine makers.
Lydia Sviatoslavsky is an arts & culture writer for Broke-Ass Stuart and Bay City News. She also runs THOUGHT ROT, a website where she publishes artist interviews and experimental writing (https://thought-rot.net). She welcomes new ideas and creative collaborators.
PM Press is an Oakland-based radical, independent publisher of zines, comics, books, and media.
We started Irrelevant Press in 2014 to make zines together and foster creative friendship.
We're still happily zine-ing and now making pins and other media as well.
As of April 2017, we offer printing services! We can print digitally and with our newly-acquired ~*RISOGRAPH MACHINE*~.
Laneha House is a family run small press that solely publishes the work of Lawrence Lindell, Breena Nuñez and The BAYlies Magazine Comics Anthology.
Aside from per-zines, Sierra's zines focus on history, arts, and aesthetics while amplifying the voices and stories of folks within the QT/BIPOC community.
BAMPFA Student Committee is a free to join, student-led club connected to the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive that allows any student to engage in the arts via zine making, film watching, archive reading, and more. Our zines reflect that the unique intersection of higher education, the art world, and local Bay Area issues affecting student populations that intersect and incubate in the BAMPFA environment.
Long Arm Stapler is the art moniker of Bay Area born-and-raised Maira. They make zines about mental health, gender, and queerness. Sometimes they draw dogs, once in a while they record a podcast about zines, and most of the time they're thinking about karaoke. Their latest call for submissions is for Zine of the Hill 3, an all-queer issue of their King of the Hill fanzine.
Acardellart is a Queer Taiwanese-American owned small business empowering Mindfulness & Healing w/Handcrafted Illustrated Goods. Intentionally slowing down, I deconstruct generational trauma in hopes of breaking toxic cycles. I Illustrates stories I wished I could have seen as a child. Conversations rooted in mental health & emotional safety. I believe in creating safe spaces to heal your inner child thus empowering your higher self. My illustrations gently remind you to lean into presence so we can navigate an authentic life.