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JESS JESS PRESS @ Dc zine fest 2025 Saturday 11/1 11am-4pm @ MLK jr Memorial Library

Find us at table 25!

Come see all our new projects at @dczinefest.bsky.social on November 1st! #DCZF25

Sick freaks magazine issue 1: the dmv featured artist: Grendel Menz

💚🚬💜 FEATURED ARTIST: @grendelmenz.bsky.social

Grendel Menz is a mixed Filipino/white artist based in the southern US. He has a profound love of anything involving horror, the woods, fantasy, and family - especially the overlap!

Sick Freaks Magazine Issue 1: The DMV Featured artist: Shurjo Mukhi

💚 🚋 💜 FEATURED ARTIST: Shurjo Mukhi

Shreya/shurjo mukhi is a Bengali multimedia artist that hopes to always create and reimagine with community-- to use art as a way to manifest healthy loves and ways of being in real and dream worlds.

Sick Freaks Magazine Issue 1: The DMV Featured Artist: Christine Zito

💜 🌳 💚 FEATURED ARTIST: @christinezitoart.bsky.social

Christine Zito is a printmaker and illustrator, graduated with my BFA from MICA 24. She works both digitally and traditionally, using the language and texture of block prints to inspire her work.

Sick Freaks Magazine Issue 1: The DMV Featured Artist: Hal Malone

💚 🎸 💜 FEATURED ARTIST: Hal Malone

Hal is a butch illustrator currently based out of Durham NC. Hal loves representing queer relationships & fantasy in their work. You can find more work on Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr as @cicadasaint.bsky.social

Sick Freaks magazine: Issue 1: the DMV Featured Artist: Rania Namoro

💜 🌮 💚 FEATURED ARTIST: Rania Namoro

Rania otherwise known as Dawmoro, is a black illustrator born from Togolese parents, raised in Pittsburgh, and currently based in the DMV. They specialize in combining vibrant colors with playful and ironic concepts

Sick Freaks magazine issue 1: The DMV Featured artist Linda Kuo Green and orchid Risograph comic

💚🐶💜 FEATURED ARTIST: @buppletea.bsky.social

Linda creates comics, zines, and illustrations to express personal experiences and explore the transformation that happens in close relationships. Her work is informed by an academic background in science, Chinese art, as well as the humanities.

SICK FREAKS Magazine Issue 1: the DMV Featured artist: Roland Boles

💜🥂💚 FEATURED ARTIST: @robablo.bsky.social

Roland Boles aka Robablo loves to write and illustrate action adventure comics and graphic narratives. His work focuses on absurdist comedy mixed with thrilling action sequences designed to keep readers at the edge of whatever surface they decide to sit on

Sick Freaks Magazine Issue 1: The DMV Featured Artist: Stefani Vlusha Green and Orchid Risograph Comic

FEATURED ARTIST: Stefani Vlusha

Stefani Vlusha is a horror comic artist making work ranging from character narratives to personal, exploring the constant stream of thoughts instead of pushing them away.

#comics #risograph #indiecomics #horrorcomic #dmv #baltimore

✎ᝰ.Riso Art & Zine Fest is back at Gallery Nucleus! On Saturday September 20th from 11 AM - 5 PM.
𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 Admission is FREE and all ages are welcome!
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⋆.˚ Details gallerynucleus.com/events/1090
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art assets @natandrewson.bsky.social
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#gallerynucleus #razfest #risograph #riso #risoprint

Image of hand holding issue 1 of sick freaks magazine in front of a risograph machine covered in stickers. The cover reads : issue 1: DMV sick freaks magazine

IT'S HAPPENING YOU GUYS!!!!! SICK FREAKS Magazine Issue 1 is debuting September 20th at Riso Art and Zine Fest @gallerynucleus! We are beyond excited to share the amazing comics our contributors came up with. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES AND PREVIEWS 💜🫢💚 #indiecomics #risograph

❀˖° BOOTH 01- Em Matthewson & Copy Cat Riso
❀˖° BOOTH 02- @jessjesspress.bsky.social & Meg Huntillo
❀˖° BOOTH 03- Space Type Co
❀˖° BOOTH 04- Gwyn Valerio & @harpersims.bsky.social
❀˖° BOOTH 05- @momcmasters.bsky.social
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JESS JESS PRESS X RISO EXPO PHILLY Riso expo Philly may 4th 2025 the rotunda 12-6 4014 walnut street Philly pa 19104 phillysoapbox.org

I’m tabling at Riso expo Philly may 4th 2025 12-6 the rotunda 4014 walnut street brought to you by the soapbox flier by @pupcloud free & open to the public

TOMORROW from 12-6 we’re tabling with @risoexpophilly at the Rotunda. We aren’t in the city of brotherly love often so we hope to see you there!!! Credit for flyers goes to @pupcloud.bsky.social /@risoexpophilly

Risograph Prints and zines laid across a table

Tabling with @jessjesspress.bsky.social at Queer makers market!! If ur in bmore swing by the Peabody heights brewery in Baltimore until 6

Text: Paradiso exhibiting artist Jess Xin Lin. Paradiso exhibition March 17 - 29, riso-Rama march 28- Texas state university, flex space galleries. Image:3 riso graph posters, one reads Free Them all!, the other reads from the river to the sea, and the third reads decolonize Palestine

Text: Paradiso exhibiting artist Jess Rae Lipinsky. Paradiso exhibition March 17 - 29, riso-Rama march 28- Texas state university, flex space galleries. Image: Riso print of a Chicken titled Chicken.

See you at Riso Rama 2025 Texas state university San Marcos, Texas

Riso prints by Jess Lin and @jesslipdraws.bsky.social will be in this years Riso Rama Paradiso show!!! If you’re in the area March 17th - 29th we’d love for you to show support and see the show in person! 💖🎉

VERY LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!!!! Get those pitches in!

Q:Can I still submit if I'm not from these areas? A:Yes, however we are trying to focus on publishing artists from the area for this issue. Future issues will have different themes

Q:What does the DMV stand for? A: Dc Maryland and Virginia. You could write anything about any part of these states!

Q:What colors will the magazine be A: Green and Orchid, however don't worry aboout fully polishing your sample pages! If we pick your comic we still may ask for edits so we are not looking for finished comics

Question: When is the deadline to submit? Answer: 2/13/25 Q:What are the dimensions we should work in? A: Sick Freaks will be printed 6x9" with 0.125" bleed

NOTE: We've recently extended the deadline to submit to 2/20

Text reads: SICK FREAKS ISSUE 1 FAQ image of a blue cat with stars around his head

🧵Thank you guys so much for the interest in the first issue of SICK FREAKS magazine. There were a bunch of really good questions so we wanted to answer them for all of you! Deadline to submit your pitch is 2/20/25 and you can find more info on the website in our bio jessjesspress.com

SICK FREAKS deadline extension was:2/13 NOW:2/20

Hey everyone! We’ve decided to extend the deadline to submit to SICK FREAKS to 2/20 meaning you have an extra week to send in you work!! For more information on submitting head to jessjesspress.com/sick-freaks
#risograph #indiecomics #opencallforartists

Hi!!! Thanks for the question! SICK FREAKS is 6x9in :)

"Sick freaks OPEN SUBMISSIONS (swipe for details)" illustration of a cat at a drafting table making comics

"We are seeking submissions for the first issue of SICK FREAKS magazine! The theme is the DMV area. We are looking for 2-4 page comics (no prose rn), Riso ready grayscale files, Fully owned by author/ artist. For more details visit jessjesspress.com"

"Submit your work to our email: jess@jessjesspress.com Include the following 1. At least 2 page sample 2. Logline summing up your comic 3. Artist bio 4. Contact info *please be sure to include "Issue 1 Submission in the subject line! For more details visit jessjesspress.com"

We are so excited to open submissions for our debut issue of SICKFREAKS magazine! SICK FREAKS is an independent riso magazine dedicated to uplifting marginalized artists working in comics! The first theme is the DMV area.

For more details, you can head over to jessjesspress.com!