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Wellington Zinefest 2024
Wellington Zinefest 2024 was held on October 12th & 13th at VUW's School of Design Innovation. We also held an after party on October 28th at Trades Hall.
Thanks for another great year. Check out some cute photos and stuff below, and stay tuned for Wellington Zinefest 2025.
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Sunday
Stallholders
Below is a gallery of stallholders who you'll find at the Wellington Zinefest 2024!
A few stallholders chose not to be included or didn't submit information, so you'll find a few surprises on the day ;)
Saturday 12 October
Abbie Wood
Abbie loves drawing all things indoor plants, crown lynn ceramics, NZ birds and florals.
AstroEden
Hi! My name is Eden Laing, I’m a kiwi artist/illustrator with an eye for colours and a heart for storytelling. I love outer space and making art about little people exploring big worlds.
Chemfrogz
Chemfrogz presents a series of zines about mental health, relationships and various songs turned into zines. Also available will be some Kandi bracelets and handmade stickers.
Donnyclaws
Multi-media monster, horror fan, future drag thing! I make a range of zines about drag, horror and personal experiences.
Elena Lee
Elena is an illustrator who loves making art and zines of magical forests, baking and cats
Fey Day Arts
Fey Day Arts is a fantastical, queer artist who makes zines about whatever might be on their mind at any given moment. Find witchcraft advice, dungeons and dragons choose your own adventures, and tarot guides at their stall!
FreedomShop
FreedomShop is a local anarchist collective with the aim to spread radical anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist information & to support decolonisation - Māori never ceded sovereignty.
Gus Mitchell
Gus is just a guy who draws comics for fun. He has drawn comics for Salient, Speck and Bristle, and now tirelessly works on his own projects, like the one about a planet of conspiracy theorists and the one about a retired dolphin soldier.
Handmade by Katrina
Katrina loves to create zines about her heritage, hobbies and things that happen around her. She will also have some stickers and prints available with her cute and quirky art style!
Jewelia Howard Art
Jewelia is a non-binary goblin who spends all their time sleeping, drawing, and talking about neopets and movies they loved 20 years ago.
Josh Terei
Josh spends his time making alot of "creative excuses", and now he will finally make some creative zines.
KasCreates
KasCreates is an avid doodler and illustrator who enjoys drawing strange, spooky animals, cryptids, and other imaginary creatures that appear in her brain. Her zines tend to showcase these weird creatures and other areas of interest.
Kelly Chang
Kelly Chang makes colourful zines and comics for all ages.
Landroverfarm Press
David Merritt is a techno-luddite from way back and runs a copyleft, bespoke, recycling publishing empire called Landroverfarm Press from a no exit gravel road in the middle of nowhere. He is a one person, travelling, zine-making sweatshop.
Laya Rose Art
Laya Rose is an illustrator who makes zines about plants, bugs, and books.
Lil Beastie Art
A zine about Goblins, a zine about Dragons and a zine full of scribbles.
Lizzie Murray
Zine brat Lizzie Murray like drawing naked ladies, hopes her award-winning haiku flip zine makes you laugh and thinks you look lovely today.
Mina Ziner
Zines full of vampires and sword fights, wolf myths through time, goth bands and silly signs, Moomin magic, fairy tales, fork facts, and more besides!
RY$
RY$ dives into the rabbit-holes of Hip Hop so you don't have to. The cultural zeitgeist that is the focus of the collection this year is the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef of 2024. These two rap titans engaged in a very public, damaging feud. Their beef transcended rap and hip hop circles, and bled into the mainstream. This collection explores the genesis of their beef, and presents the facts objectively. Who won this beef? You decide.
Sarah Mckerrow
Sarah presents an ever growing collection of zines on a range of subjects. also selling hand drawn stickers, inktober prints and original artworks.
Shay Likes Orange
Shay is an artist and graphic designer with a passion for tea, orange and painting cats. Their zines are all about capturing little moments and the importance of self care.
Somn Martin
Somn Martin makes a variety of comics and zines, with mostly autobiographical work. They also sell silly clown stickers and various prints. Look here for Wellington Zinefest Best Comic Zine 2023 runnerup 'Migration.'
Squibble Design
Squibble Design makes zines about art life with cats and day-to-day life as an artist!
The Glitch Witch
THE GLITCH WITCH, also known as Cassidy (they/them), is a world-building, dungeon mastering, artist extraordinaire. Their interest lies in creating dark art that both bemuses and amuses, while capturing that nostalgic liminality only found in some hazy memories.
Thorn Richards
Thorn loves bugs and art zines, and is a regular at local art markets. Their publications are filled with bugs - weird, wonderful and a bit sumptuous. All creatures are hand drawn with fountain pen and saturated with digi-colours. Their love of wild wee critters, alien forms and innovative creatures real and imagined spills into all of their making practice, which also includes jewellery and sculpture. Through their art Thorn seeks to celebrate, encourage and empower diversity and transformation.
VUW Deisgn Students
Enjoy zines and other creations from VUW's design students.
Wellington Access Radio
Wellington Access Radio will be joining us to interview stallholders and attendees during Wellington Zinefest
Zoe Joan Art
Zoe Joan Art makes works injected with queer māori magic. Her zines are full of fantasy goodness, as well as messages of love and confidence.
Adam from
Adam presents “FROM,” a lowfi zine developed for his final year capstone programme. Interviewing Wellington image makers—where are they from and how does that inform their practice now? A collection of generously shared stories, insights into experiences, and what motivates them as creatives. Alongside this Adam is offering a selection of “Quick and Dirty” zines he makes every week so he doesn’t go mad.
Ashley Maher
Ashley makes silly zines about anything that takes her fancy. Topics range from cats to cones to cryptids
Chantal McIlraith
Chantal is a Pōneke based artist who works in both acrylics and digital mediums. She can usually be located operating on 3 hours of sleep and lots of bubble tea.
Frankie goes to hell
Hey there, I’m Frankie I make comics! Currently working on ‘When I wake’ a dark comedy series about dealing with internal trauma and the consequences of your actions. When I wake serves as a format to express my personal experiences in a digestible and entertaining manner. Living in Wellington for more than half my life, this story cannot be told without it’s connection to Wellington and the hold it has on my heart and mind. If you like eating the rich, blurring the constructed lines of good and bad, and the deconstruction of gender roles, this series will hopefully speak to you.
Gakus
Egg Diary: A mysterious story about non-human beings.
Karma: Two brothers, who will pay for the sin?
HOLO
BIG DATA is the work of HOLO, a publication made from repurposed digital resource. noise and 3d shape are combined to create a series of new works, exploring texture and structure.
made with current-day code on previous generations' technology powered by renewable energy.
Herbs and Rain
Treve (they/them) is a disabled trans creator who makes zines on adapting activities such as witchcraft, gardening and recipes to be as low spoons as possible.
Rainbow Media Database:
After an exciting zine fest Sophie (she/they) and Treve (they/them) have gone back to the small and big screen to find that good, good rainbow content. We can't wait to share our latest favourites in our hand illustrated zines.
Joe Harlow
Discover tales of a long lost civilisation of ancient robots confronting extinction when their world is overgrown by rapidly evolving organic lifeforms. Zines and bundles focus on different aspects of the ever expanding art, characters, story and lore.
Kalesbug
Kale's joy for creating zines comes from wanting to share ideas that I find funny, sexy, silly and everything in between. Kale loves to work on character driven stories, and enjoy exploring ways to create memorable moments that will engage with audiences.
Kate Seager
Kate Seager’s zines feature the often humorous events of April, a twenty-something protagonist.
Knights Studios
Kia Ora! Knights Studios is a small family business with a key focus on telling cute and impactful stories whether it’s through our comics, games or stickers! Temporal Souls is our main comic by Chloe Stephenson which follows a dysfunctional group through a fantasy land.
Lara Frizzell
Lara is an illustrator and the creator of the comic webseries 'OH NO! Japan', a personal story of four chaotic years teaching English in the land of the rising sun. Her other interests include: cute things, yōkai, fish, anime, fish, DnD, and just about everything to do with fish!
Lemon Juice
Lemon Juice is a poetry zine that publishes interviews, articles, and essays on poetry form and breaking the form. Created and edited by Emma Shi.
little bird
little bird is an independent creative & Chinese-style brush artist based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Armed with a bamboo brush in one hand and a digital brush in the other, they enjoy applying traditional painting, calligraphy & handicraft techniques to illustrate the fantastic mythology of the heavenly realms, the enduring tranquility of the natural world, and the simple pleasures of the every day.
Louise Beryl
Louise Beryl (she/her) is a Pōneke based graphic designer who loves to be a lil bit silly and a lil bit educational with her designs. She sells zines, stickers, prints and other bits n bobs. She can be found on Instagram at @louiseberyldesign or her online store louiseberyldesign.com/store
Nopono Collective
Nopono is a blend of photography, illustration, and a touch of madness.
robbie k
Robbie's creative work puts an ecological spin on sci-fi worlds, which started with an All-Tomorrows-meets-Octavia-Butler comic called Radicalis. His recent zines feature 8-bit native birds, which occasionally escape from a game-dev hobby project about prehistoric Aotearoa.
Skyesescape
Compulsive and adventurous escapee from reality skyesescape - a growing artist with a range of funny, meaningful and relatable zines as well as stickers and prints.
sphiggs and moorchild
Moorchild presents "the book of swords" and "the book of crowns" two fantasy zines inspired by medieval art. Also available will be limited art prints and sticker packs.
Sphiggs releases their first zine, “Drink recipes for the (somewhat) cheap and (mildly) strange”, with a cute cartoonish style inspired by children’s animation.
Stray
Stray is a UX designer by day and a zinemaker/comic artist occasionally. Her zines are mostly autobiographical and explore the mundane. All her zines are handmade with love.
Tegulai
Cosplayer by trade, Teg has been making art both personal and fanish for many years. Having collaborated on zines before, they have recently branched out into making them themself, about whatever fun topic crosses their mind at the time!
TheKingKez
Kez makes art and comics and dumb jokes. Featured zines include topics like 'books I like', 'what if a river was spooky', and 'sexy clown girls'.
Tomollusk
Tomollusk is an artist, illustrator, painter and picture-maker from Wellington New Zealand. He has an intricate and surreal art style that focuses heavily on texture and contrast. His work is inspired by comics, movies and cartoons and zines are a place where he compiles it all together.
What a Stitch up (Heather McIlraith)
Crotcheted critters and creations from the home of a mental health nurse. May not be like grandma use to make, but will hopefully put a smile on your face. What a stitch up is an Ōtautahi based creator who dabbles in plushies and zines.
Sunday 13 October
5ever Books
5ever is an underground publishing house based at Rebel Press, Trades Hall in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. We print, splice, bind and chop pesky dank little books. Our scope is nebulous. Form and sense of disciplinarity remains plural. But our target is clear: to publish punchy, intense and interdisciplinary work, woven together by a shared transformational kaupapa. We recognise the collective necessity of actively infiltrating and affecting our playground and home, Wellington. As we balance our vision with pragmatism, we are committed to realising a post-capitalist vision that honours Te Tiriti O Waitangi in Aotearoa. We are serious in our playfulness.
AllyRat & Shit-Imma-Artist
Cute and creepy friends making zines together. AllyRat makes lolita fashion zines while Shit-Imma-Artist makes horror comics.
Arden Etoile
Arden Etoile makes zines about intimacy, queer love, and mermaids. They also offer $1 a minute portraits!
