Make a Zine Day
Leeds City Museum
Sat 28 Mar
11:00
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16:00
Leeds City Museum
Sat 28 Mar
11:00
-
16:00
Stall holders
| Sio Orient | Sio has an eclectic mix of prints and comics. Want to read about a day trip to Chernobyl interspersed with the history of the disaster? Or a folk horror for trail runners? Maybe a print of a Dystopian Noah’s ark, a retro TV with nostalgic films or just a nice illustration of the own and the pussycat? As an avid traveller, choosing to make whatever takers her fancy Sio has something for everyone a little bit left and/ or geeky. Check her out on Instagram |
| Evie Godfrey | A super snazzy, colourful selection of wonky illustrated goods. My work champions human-made (all items are hand-drawn, printed and prepped/ made by me) and supporting small and indie businesses. I'm passionate about LGBTQIA+ rights, the environment, activism and social justice, and my work often includes these themes. I make fun and janky art, which is super inclusive and addresses important subjects, as well as making folks smile! From illustrated mini zines, small comics, art prints, greetings cards, button badges, bookmarks, and feminist affirmation cards, folks are sure to find something that they love! |
| Saraya | Saraya is a creative Leeds born and raised known artistically for their neurodiversity zines and workshops. Saraya is a library assistant and works in access across the cultural sectors. Using zines to explore their ideas around identity, culture and history, they enjoy writing and crafting fun and informative works to encourage conversation and adult learning through play. |
| April the Frog Comics | I'm a comic artist, zine maker and printmaker. My work focuses on themes of identity, trans experiences and determination against oppression. I have an illustrative cartoon style and use a lot of bright colours in my art. I'm a multi-disciplinary artist using digital mediums and traditional mediums including: clay sculpting, lino printing and risograph printing. I intend to sell: zines, comics, prints (lino block, risograph and inkjet prints), stickers and badges. |
| Molly Pukes | Molly Pukes (Molly Grimshaw) is a North Yorkshire cartoonist, producing animations, illustrations, and comics from their studio in Leeds. Working within the creative industry since 2015, Molly has collaborated with a diverse range of brands and clients, alongside establishing their own independent creative practice. |
| Chris Printed This | I’m a graphic designer, printmaker and amateur historian based in South Yorkshire but hailing from the North West. I utilise different print methods like silk screen, lino and riso to make printed artworks, zines and other printed goods on niche subjects usually centred around art history, queerness, and on more esoteric and occult themes. For example I have recently explored in zine and print formats the ancient origins of Religious Relics, the subtle symbolism of Tarot Cards, Conspiracy Theories, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and currently I’m working on a project about local mythologies, beginning with a zine about Northern Folklore! |
| Krystina Baczynski | Kristyna Baczynski is a British-Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist who lives and works in the north of England. She is the creator of the graphic novel Retrograde Orbit and the illustrated seasonal plant guide The Wild Year. She has worked with publishers such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, 2000 AD, Carlton and Canongate. Alongside freelance work, Kristyna self-publishes comics and illustrated zines and experiments with risograph printing. Kristyna takes inspiration from nature and our historic and folkloric relationship with it, along with a heavy dose of 1990's pop nostalgia. Her work is full of colour, character and feelings. |
| Dr Simpo | Doctor Simpo is a 'Sequential Narrative Specialist' these skills he learnt through his education into comics, animation and storytelling which began at Leeds College of Art with Garry Barker, then Glasgow School of Art from the cohort of creatives working out of Glasgow's Hope Street Studios of the early noughties; Zander, Jamie Grant and Frank Quitely. He carried on his education into animation at the Pratt Institute in New York and the Royal College of Art in London, where he was luckily enough to be mentored by Bob Godfrey, Tim Webb and Sir Quentin Blake. Some of this insight is included within his book - "Bring Stuff to Life? YOU can with the 12 principles of animation." |
| Jack Fallows | Jack Fallows is an award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, model maker, game designer and musician based in Leeds, UK. They founded Leeds Comics Collective in 2023 and work full time making the narrative puzzle adventure ‘The Stormlamp Rituals’ |
| Bethany J | Bethan is a zine-maker and comics creator currently based in Leeds. She makes zines about all sorts of things, but recently, she has enjoyed making zines about music she likes. |
| Claire O’Brien | Claire (she/they) is an illustrator and author based in Leeds. They make zines and comics with a focus on pop culture, music history, cultural heritage, the community of third places, and the lived experiences of women. They are currently working on a graphic novel about how music connects and shapes us. |
| Larts UNI MA | Showcasing work from our illustration course, our will be sharing a mix of experimental and ergodic zines, playful visual storytelling, and a range of contemporary themes which explore personal narratives, counter‑stories, and hands‑on creative exploration. The MA Illustration course at Leeds Arts University is a welcoming, exploratory programme where students try out ideas, materials, and ways of working to discover what illustration means to them. Blending research with hands‑on creativity, the course encourages playful thinking, thoughtful visual storytelling, and inventive approaches. Students undertake personal and collaborative projects driven by their own curiosity, lived experience and a love of making, all with the belief that illustration is a powerful tool for communication, connection, and new ways of seeing. |
| Drawn in the Fog | Emily Harley (they/them) is a queer, disabled artist and activist from Leeds. As "Drawn in the Fog" they create art and designs which often focus on their identities, creating a range of zines, washi tape, badges and more. |
| Chella | Chella Quint OBE is an author, activist, outsider-artist-turned-educator, science communicator, and the founder of the Period Positive movement and the co-founder of Sheffield Zine Fest. In 2006 she coined the term “period positive” through DIY zine-making, performance, and feminist cultural activism, touring work from her zines Chart Your Cycle and Adventures in Menstruating, creating public interventions such as ad-busting, craftivism, installation, and building menstrual literacy in queer and feminist spaces. Chella’s books, Own Your Period and Be Period Positive, are widely translated and internationally recognised. Based in Sheffield (originally from Brooklyn), she works across culture, education, performance and policy, and is currently completing a PhD in art and design. |
| The Diana Tarot | Rudy Graves (he/they) is a writer and outsider artist, with a practice in collage and textile art. He has a background in cut-and-paste zine making, and in 2025 he created and published “The Diana Tarot”, a hand collaged major arcana tarot deck. |
| Dust Rat Collective | Hi there! We are the Dust Rat Collective! and we are a group of emerging young artists who produce a wide range of indie comics across a selection of genres. We believe anyone can find something to enjoy among our collection, regardless of what demographic they're in or what genre or story length they prefer. We pride ourselves on our diversity not only within our body of work but within the collective, representing people of all walks of life united by our love of comics and visual media. |
| Raspberry Cheesecake | Ciarraí Samson makes printed and handmade artist books. Their work moves between long-term research and wandering, using the book as a way to think about place, memory, and experience. |
| Little Scorpion Press | I’m a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher and educator, with side hustles pretty much always on the go. I work in mixed media and amongst other things, use print design, film and photography collage, sound and auto-theoretical writing to explore and listen to my own and other people’s experiences of everyday life. I have a particular interest in listening into lived experiences of multi-cultural working-class identity, the working conditions in the creative and cultural industries (CCI’s), precarity, chronic stress fractures, and socio-economic inequality. I’ve been involved with the design, development and delivery of a range of social and economic justice campaigns alongside working as an artist-educator. |
| Will Huck | Hi! I'm Will Huck and I like to create work that's playful, bold, and informative - in a variety of different mediums. I especially love drawing with thick brush pens and lino-printing, for the strong contrast and lo-fi appearance created this way. My reference points include old natural history books, giant monster movies, and dungeon-crawling fantasy games. I'll be selling zines, stickers, prints, hand-drawn originals, and more! See you there :-) |
| Robin Thistle | Robin Thistle is an illustrator and zine maker based in Leeds and currently studying a masters in illustration at Leeds arts university. Their work revolves around their interest in the horror genre, queer identity and music based subcultures with a big focus on traditional collage and print. |
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