Parramatta Zine Fair is our birthday party! Celebrating 2 years of zine-making from the Philippines 🇵🇭 to Western Sydney.

Uguisu Books is an independent publisher based in Sydney creating Japanese Australian zines and books. @uguisu_books

Designer, illustrator and picture book maker, living and working in the Blue Mountains on unceded Dharug and Gundungurra land. esteesarsfield.com

Bria McCarthy creates art for theatre, literature, film and education, specialising in experimental puppetry. She is the creator of Shadow House, a textile sculpture exhibited at the AGNSW and the NMA. An autistic artist with Wiradjuri and Irish heritage, Bria's work is shaped by neurodivergent imagination and explores multispecies worlds of ecology, metamorphosis and wonder. briamccarthy.com @Bomburia

Created by First Nations journalist, Phoebe McIlwraith, SPEAKINGTRUTH is a participatory translation project that distributes posters, zines and stickers of First Nations truth-telling resources; created with and for multilingual communities. speakingtruth.au @speakingtruthau

Oliver Reyes grew up in Fairfield's South American communities and now works as an illustrator and graphic designer across Sydney’s inner west. His independent comics and zines focus on queer and migrant experiences. In 2026, Reyes launched SYD City Zines, an emerging indie archive and resource hub designed to foster collaboration among local Sydney-siders. olliexreyes.com @sydcityzines

Consuelo Larenas is a Chilean-born multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. Through illustration, zines, and mixed media, she creates imaginative visual narratives that blend personal storytelling with fiction, inviting moments of curiosity, reflection, and emotional connection. consuelost.com

I am an artist (working with sculpture, printmaking, papermaking and zine making), radio gremlin at 2ser and an activist. lornamacritchie.net/zines

tentellepen is a sister maker duo consisting of Chantelle (designer) and Kirsten (visual artist). Together with their love for stories and mixed media, they aim to create work that is a testament to their rich cultural heritage and the textures of daily life. @mellechant @frankirstein_

Reese Claro is a Western Sydney based zine-maker with a heart for storytelling. They liken their creative practice to an orange: by sharing parts of themself, they hope to bring sweetness to other people's day. And as always: an orange is sweeter when it's shared. reesecore.cargo.site‍ ‍@reesecore

Lige is a Gadigal-based emerging artist (and curator, sometimes) who constantly contemplates suburban landscapes. @liquid_goose

Bona Obiri-Yeboah is the founder, executive director and chief editor of Non-Aligned Books, an independent art bookstore & imprint in Naarm specialising in new, rare & pre-loved printed matter on Africa, its Diaspora, class struggle and the Global South. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations & Japanese from The University of Queensland. He is also the author of Ruminations, a debut chapbook published by Cahyati Press in December 2024. nonalignedbooks.net

CJ Wu makes comics about life's little joys and struggles. Besides making comics, CJ translates children's books, teaches languages, and runs zinemap.com, a collaborative map of the global zine scene. cjwucomics.com

Muse Magazine is a Sydney-based creative collective that publishes creatives aged 18-25 in a hybrid print and digital magazine. We’re volunteer-run and publish young people’s art, music, writing, poetry, and everything in between! @musemagsyd

Soft Stir is an independent, Sydney-based publication examining art, music, culture and philosophy through the work of diverse and emerging Australian creatives. softstir.co

Ben Hoh is an award-winning visual practitioner, writer and design strategist whose work engages with the agency of different human and non-human communities. He has created computer games in collaboration with First Nations storytellers, made psychogeographical maps with recently arrived refugees, coached in creativity at the ABC, and taught interactive documentary making at the AFTRS. His short plays have been staged at Belvoir Street Theatre and Stables Theatre, and his articles and short fiction have appeared in Public Journal, Borderlands and Waiting in Space. @pedestrian.ben

A multimedia media project aimed at spreading antifascist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial graffit and street art from around the world. @radicalgraffiti

Fire & Fable Studios is a disabled and queer run studio, working with a small team of friends with a goal to increase accessibility in creative spaces and share our love for storytelling through comics, art and tabletop games. fireandfablestudios.com @fireandfablestudios

Bridge by Bridge is a Sydney hardcore fanzine & collective organising around so-called Sydney. @bridgebybridge

Musings on music, food and comics, as well as the subjective experience of these things/objects/lifelines. melodymenu.blog

Australian dreampop musician living in the clouds. @molli_musics

Tiny Paper Hearts is a collaborative creative effort between the Amanda and MHD which started in about 2007. tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

Dharawal/Wollongong based print and digital magazine. We showcase and publish musicians, artists and writers like you! limpzine.com.au

Essa is a mixed media artist who takes deep inspiration from the land and surrounding environment. Essa likes to make zines that span from playful and interactive to contemplative and educational. @alittletoosomething

I'm an award-winning Australian poet turned zinester. I create interactive literary text-talk zines towards the creation of more authentic characters in an AI-combative novel (I have a vision of a novel orbited by at least a hundred zines lol). @thepyjamapoet

Ethan Scotney is an architecture student, illustrator and founder or multidisciplinary design studio, Magni Studio. @magni_studio_

Zoe and Isaac Fazldeen are sibling indigenous artists whose zines and artworks draw inspiration from wildlife and nature, popular culture, literature and mythology. Their works include a diverse variety of styles and mediums including paintings, drawings, and digital artworks, and products made with hand-carved relief prints such as bookmarks and fabric patches. @isaac.fazldeen.art

I make colourful zines with hand-drawn illustrations, usually relating to my special interests: birds, movies, and candy/snackfood. @the_silly_sector

Christine Chan is an Australian born Chinese. She is a mixed media creative and started Whileaway Crafts to pursue her creative endeavours. @whileawaycrafts

Chromabyne is a print project where I share my dreamy fantasies. My subjects are often fantastical and I enjoy romanticising skyscapes, sceneries, and even animals in my colourful and bright style.Though not the main subject of all my work, I like to draw inspiration from the culture of my country, the Philippines, and incorporate it in my work. @chromabyne

Studioashie is a little world where big feelings of love, loss, and longing are hard to say out loud but live quietly in froggy and friends' hearts. studioashie.com/zines

CHAOTIC ANTICS is run by Corey; a queer, non binary artist and designer creating on Gadigal Land. Their zines revolve around queerness, gender and quite often lil ghosts. Alongside their art and design practice, they are passionate about running workshops in zine making, an interest they are currently exploring through a PhD program at UTS. chaoticantics.square.site

Talking about all things colonialism, culture and the pre-apolcaypse, Aphotic is a queer mixed-kid multidisciplinary zine maker. @_aphotic__

RATWINGZ is a transqueer zine maker, writer, and illustrator. He is passionate about making his gothic queer fantasies come to life. @ratwingz

My zines are a mixed bag of anxious musings, spooky vibes and nostalgic memories. I like to experiment with different formats and mixed media. @diana.rchy

Photography zines; poetry zines; collage zines. @mitchymerle

Adeline is a writer and tea practitioner with a special interest in speculative fiction. Her zines cover all her random interests (for now). @adelineblteoh

Young Harridan aka Kassie is a zine maker interested in making the personal political and testing the limits of what a photocopier can do. @youngharridan

I'm an illustrator and cat photographer based in Sydney! I create zines about cats I've encountered around Sydney. @katsuroyasu

Hi! I’m Fia an emerging designer and creative from Western Sydney. My practise is all about urging people to keep creating art! As I believe the fundamental human itch to create and tell stories will untie people through generations. As a LGBTQIA+ woman of migrant heritage the role stories within our community plays are important. @fromthetripod

Garish is a Western Sydney-based Australian-born Sri Lankan Tamil creative exploring identity, culture, self-expression and storytelling through handmade zines and independent publications. @lucikugathasan03

Musings of a knight errant.

Satya is an Indian, queer and transmasculine artist with a love for the cute, the queer and the mythical. Some common themes in his art and zines include pigeons, stars, werewolves, transness, queerness, neurodivergence and mental illness. Above all, he enjoys creating work with deep meaning, feeling and a story to tell. @mothburst

seasparo is a an auto-biographical zinester focusing directly on the personal oddities and strange stories shared from generation to generation. sometimes essays, other times illustrated prose, his zines cover language, transgender identity, and memory. seasparo.carrd.co

charlie/clementine is a multipley disabled non-binary femme zinester who draws from their lived experience. their zines range from cat photography to personal stories about growing up and leaving home. @viswrl.crd.co

CARRRY is a curator-run initiative that creates temporary and collective infrastructures for curatorial practice. Through exhibitions, open studios, workshops, reading sessions, writing, research, public programs, and shared experimentation, CARRRY supports emerging and independent curators to develop practice in dialogue with artists, communities, and one another. @carrry_____

Creating nostalgic, scrapbook-inspired designs rooted in memory, sentiment, and storytelling. Inspired by zines, pop culture, handwritten details, and the imperfect beauty of everyday moments. @leannewonderwall

Hey! My name is Ellie, a Korean-Australian designer/illustrator working on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia. I make silly and cute zines about my cat and childhood memories — I have a strong passion for exploring new mediums and telling stories to inspire and bring people together and make them feel less alone and fun. elliejiyoonpark.cargo.site

Gamer by heart, mum by day, artist always. I design online and craft offline. logicandlove.world

Sydney-based 2D digital artist creating playful original characters inspired by everyday moments and 90s cartoons. My work is cute, cheeky, and just a little mischievous—tiny monsters with a fun, charming twist. @kkmily_3in

Japanese designer and illustrator based in Sydney. O.D.D Lab creates colourful zines and stickers celebrating curious everyday moments and overlooked details. @odd_lab.art

Cia Studios is a one-person studio by Chinese-Indonesian graphic designer Felicia Clara, based on Sydney and standing on Gadigal Land. Through art and design, Felicia loves expressing her ideas to the world. ciastudios.framer.website

Hi! I'm Amina Adjis, a creative based in Sydney, Australia. With her perspective as an Australian-Indonesian Muslim creative, her works are heavily inspired by both her own heritage and identity. @youusosoup/

My zines contain mix of detailed and sketchy drawings, some about the in-between moments found in the landscape of the everyday, photographs and writings of me exploring my roots in Thailand and China, and others intended to give people an existential crisis. evaharbridge.me/zines

Lee Shui Shin is a film photographer documenting her curiosity, as she moves through life as a second generation Malaysian Chinese living in Australia. Currently shooting analog photography, mainly using 35mm film and a dearly gifted Asahi Pentax Spotmatic film camera fitted with a 35mm lens. Occasionally, a disposable Kodak for summer. shuishin.com

An introvert with a loud internal monologue. Pauline collects words, images and small observations, translating them into graphic compositions where typography behaves unexpectedly. Her zines sit between humour and restraint, inviting readers to pause, decode and hold onto each moment. @letranpauline

Independent micro press run by Filipina multidisciplinary artist/zine-maker Aphrodite D. publishing art and photo books, poetry chapbooks, and zines. aphrodited.info

Parramatta Zine Fair is our birthday party! Celebrating 2 years of zine-making from the Philippines 🇵🇭 to Western Sydney.

Uguisu Books is an independent publisher based in Sydney creating Japanese Australian zines and books. @uguisu_books

ZineMap is a a community-maintained map of the global zine scene run by CJ Wu @cjmakescomics. Join a growing community of contributors mapping the global zine scene together! Visit zinemap.com or follow @zinemap for site updates.

7 Seconds is the brainchild of Valerie and Ariana, two friends and writers who wanted to recreate the joy and vision of previous editorial experiences, this time with profits going towards charitable causes. Our work militates against memory escape and decreasing attention spans by bringing together physical media and the 7 seconds in which we choose to hold, store or dispose of short-term memories in our brain. @7secondszine

Jonah (He/Him) is a Filipino comedian and artist, born in Australia, raised in Western Sydney, and has an American accent. In other words, he can't pick a lane.

Hey, I'm Jae (Jaylen), an enthusiastic creator who has found love in the art of bringing ideas to life. @not.jae

Happiness come from meow meow. I draw and create picture book styled mini zines that share stories of my kitties, showing how we love and enjoy the little moments of life together! @maison.meowmeow

Karen is a Sydney based graphic designer and illustrator, who loves to document everyday life and thoughts into illustrated zines and share with people around her. @okii_mart

Artist / zinemaker. @lj.creatives

Anakbayan is the comprehensive national democratic mass organisation of the Filipino Youth. 🇵🇭 @anakbayan.sydney

Reese Claro is a Western Sydney based zine-maker with a heart for storytelling. They liken their creative practice to an orange: by sharing parts of themself, they hope to bring sweetness to other people's day. And as always: an orange is sweeter when it's shared. reesecore.cargo.site‍ ‍@reesecore

Lige is a Gadigal-based emerging artist (and curator, sometimes) who constantly contemplates suburban landscapes. @liquid_goose

Bona Obiri-Yeboah is the founder, executive director and chief editor of Non-Aligned Books, an independent art bookstore & imprint in Naarm specialising in new, rare & pre-loved printed matter on Africa, its Diaspora, class struggle and the Global South. He is also the author of Ruminations, a debut chapbook published by Cahyati Press in December 2024. nonalignedbooks.net

Eora-based multidisciplinary artist, DJ and researcher working across photography, print, and self-publishing. @malco2m

Live music and film photography zines covering Western Sydney, Inner West, Wollongong, Blue Mountains and Bathurst areas. @patographics

Silly Little Zine, created in my childhood bedroom on wangal land, has a focus on queer pop culture and women’s sports. @sillylittlezine

We are an independent publishing house dedicated to producing hand-bound publications. Through our work, we aim to share global perspectives on geopolitics, human rights movements, and art with our readers. @purpleflagpublications

For Worlds in Common. Gong Commune is based in Wollongong, we draw strength from the history of radical social movements from within the city and beyond.We want to create a world based on care, love and solidarity among people and with the ecosystems of which we are all a part, and to build a world based on the broadest possible freedom for all. gongcommune.wordpress.com

The Australian Anarchist Zine Archive is a an archive of local anticapitalist, feminist, no borders, radical queer zines made in various cities of Australia over the past 70 years. @australian_anarchist_zine_archive

A collection of sticker photography celebrating sticker artists and graffiti sub culture. @sydney_sticker_expo

Little Paper Cart is an independent publishing project making playful, observational zines about everyday life, local places, culture, and the little things worth noticing. @littlepapercart

I make zines about my special interests (mostly pigeons)! @pidgy_art

photographer and wanna be zine maker who enjoys taking photos with my dinosaur camera (literally a dinosaur).

Phil loves ramen, printing, toys, art, games, Japan & everything in between. @scribblin_phil

I'm Luke Tribe a zine maker on Gadigal Land. I make zines about dogs, mental health, toys and more dogs. @luketribedotcom

I'm a long-time experimenter with handmaking techniques like marbling, collage and watercolour painting to make sculptural and unusual zines that are a little bit like artist's books. lizzienagy.com‍ ‍@lizzie.does.painting

Phil Hassan draws comics, zines and stories about busted monsters and dark humour. And the occasional sketch collection! philhassan.com

HairyLychee is a one-woman art studio that is led by her philosophical and scientific brain and her creative spirit. Drawn to the whimsical, wonderful and grumpy things in life she is inspired to make works that are reflective, sometimes contemplative but that will always be fun and meaningful. @HairyLychee

I create work shaped by my experiences as a teacher, support worker, photographer and artist—each role teaching me to pay attention to people, to moments, and to the quiet emotional textures of everyday life and human connection to honour the stories that often go unseen. @fiona.grace.mcdonald

Justin Sane. Tired of looking for answers only to find more questions? Anti Matter Art will have no answers for you. Art with no meaning, but hopefully it’s fun. @anti.matter.art

Crossing Lights draws Anime-style scenery and pixel art illustrations inspired by the cityscapes, public transport, and everyday life of Greater Sydney, hoping to capture the feeling of a morning or dusk commute on the train or a walk around suburban streets and make it feel like an adventure. crossinglights-application.carrd.co

Pei is an Illustrator with a love for creating narrative, dreamy and whimsical artwork. @artofpei

Loretta (she/her) works primarily in gouache paint, colour pencil, and wax pastel. Using digital tools, she transform original artworks into zines inspired by self love, queerness, and connection. lorettark.com

Cute dives into nostalgia, with whimsical photography, perzines about my favourite media and my queer identity. @caitlinlidae

As an entomologist and birdwatcher, I am inspired to create art and document my experiences with birds, insects, and other critters in the Sydney region. @elntangle

The Australian Alternative Sino-Queer Collective (AASC) is a volunteer-led community organisation dedicated to building spaces of care, creativity, and solidarity for Chinese-speaking queer communities. Through arts, research, advocacy, and community-led events, we amplify Sino-queer voices, foster transnational connections, and imagine more inclusive queer futures. aascaus.org

Illustration, design and crunchy photo zines and goodies by @artvinsky

I'm just a guy who likes to make comics and zines.

Cally is a transmasc butch from the west who mostly writes about gender, dogs, and love. @transdogzines

Polly Holland Smith aka stickersheetbunny is a queer creative new to the zine space whose work incorporates photography, poems and personal interests.

Amidst unemployment, we started making zines together early this year. We typically make zines about our interests as artists in Western Sydney (eg. poetry, cooking, DnD, activism) - hoping to be a point of of connection and joy with the community, and have a way to speak about things that bring us joy and things that are important to us. @bybea_._ @ashasarchivez

Tideside Press is an independent, queer-run writing and zine project run by Milo, Tony and Maya, focused on lit-zines and other projects we decide to start and maybe finish. @tidesidepress‍ ‍

I make zines about my special interests in Bugs, Flowers, Crafting and Forensics. I also enjoy making personal zines that share stories about my life and my cats. I like experimenting with different media such as stamp making, painting, coloured pencils, pen, and scrapbook collages. @tseradesigns

Sehej Kaur is an emerging artist working on Darug Country. Travelling between sterile, domestic and interwebbed worlds, Sehej seeks out points of tension and overlap, interested in embracing the forever flux of her body amongst extractive structures in the so-called West. Sehej utilises the digital landscape and its natural multiplicity as non-linear methods of re-archival and reclaim. tetheredangel.cargo.site‍ ‍@bedroomang3l

LEZ gathers mental health peer support workers who make zines. Their work examines lived experience, safety, personal medicine, self-determination, mad pride, wellness planning, anti-psychiatry, and more.

Western Sydney Design Kids are a culturally diverse crew of Bachelor of Design students from Western Sydney University. Their zines fuse image and type to explore identity, place and belonging—sharing stories shaped by the cultures, communities and lived experiences of Western Sydney.

Marta Cubeddu is an Italian illustrator and graphic designer currently based in Sydney. martacubeddu.com

jda is a mixed media artist exploring the experience of cultural duality, the tragedy and comedy of capital and consumer culture, and the deflection of the male gaze. www.jdajda.com

Sandy Specs is a Viet-Chinese duo from Western Sydney, specialising in graphic design and illustration. Their work reflects aspects of East & South-East Asian culture, their favourite fandoms and their immeasurable love for knick knacks. @specclee‍ ‍@sandratu.pdf

Hi! I'm Jessie, currently an honours student with UTS Design, and I make art-prints and zines. My work is quiet and speaks to the people like myself who love to love. 573663.cargo.site‍ ‍@__jleftovers

Richard Trang is an emerging Western Sydney artist practicing on Dharug Land. He works between photography and installation, blurring the lines between both mediums. Diasporic identity, human experience and the climate emergency inform Trang's practice. @makingartsozmum

Sirinya Stuebe is an emerging Thai-Australian artist based on Dharug, Gundungurra and Gadigal lands. Often working with recycled fabrics, language, printmaking, ceramics and sound, she loves making zines to share her ideas and artworks with more people. @siri_stweeby_art

Monikka Eliah is an Assyrian writer and visual artist from Fairfield. monikkaeliah.com.au

Las Hermanas Mora is a multilingual creative practice by Ecuadorian-American-Australian sisters Elizabeth and Stephanie Mora. Through multilingual storytelling, illustration, collage art and other acts of self-publication, they create analogue zines that record and reclaim collective memory, diasporic experience, sisterhood, and the cultural knowledge carried through everyday life. shop.lostinbooks.com.au/catalog/author/elizabeth-mora

51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of "realism" in art as expressive actions. @51personaeproject

Independent micro press run by Filipina multidisciplinary artist/zine-maker Aphrodite D. publishing art and photo books, poetry chapbooks, and zines. aphrodited.info