HalloZINE FAIR!

Keep scrolling to visit the virtual tables of all of our spooky zine-makers from the 2025 HalloZINE FAIR...

Alasdair Watson

Alasdair is a Glaswegian artist, photographer, and writer. Alasdair creates zines filled with photos, poems, stories, science fiction, and essays, exploring ideas like the environment, nostalgia, loneliness, imperfection, and impermanence. He is self-taught and neurodivergent, and these experiences underpin his creative practice, which is interdisciplinary, ever evolving, and rooted in Scottish culture, nerd culture, the Scots Language, and the Scottish literary tradition of blending fantastical elements with stark realism.

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Agne Irbe and CreatureCarnivore

We are Illustration and Fine Art students at DJCAD in Dundee, and both create zines as a form of personal expression and as part of our work as artists! Agne's zines range from illustrated, silly mini-zines with introspective themes to collaged fanzines. CreatureCarnivore's zines are often text-based, using collage to express everything from personal struggles and queerness to pop culture opinions. We have also made a series of collaborative zines together!

Alex Penland

Alex Penland is a former Smithsonian kid. They spent their childhood running rampant through an early career as a child adventurer. Now a Pushcart-nominated author, Alex lives in Scotland while studying for a PhD. Their work has been internationally published; their first novella, Andrion, was published by Knight Errant Press in 2023.

Georgie Mac

I am a non-binary visual artist and zine-maker. My zines tell weird stories about more-than-human worlds, combining original text and drawings to produce poetic narratives, surreal comics, and hyper-niche fan works. My work is a compost heap of images, where strange lifeforms take root and mushy morphologies blur the boundary between our bodies and the wild. I print my zines using Risograph. The vibrant inks and ethereal textures make my hand-sewn zines feel alive in your hands. Pick one up, and you might feel it wriggle!

Jake Parappa Hainey & Rebecca Crawford

Jake & Rebecca are both lifelong artists, currently residing in Hamilton after spending the last three years in the Orkney Islands. Jake’s work consists of a mix of comics and zines on a bunch of topics but mainly focuses on pop culture, critique and horror. His newest work is 'Orlok Lives', an anthology he edited that celebrates the centenary of the film Nosferatu. Rebecca makes zines on the subjects of Paganism and nature with her most popular work being her Wheel of the Year series, focusing on each of the pagan festivals.

Funghouls Collective

We are a pair of Edinburgh-based creatives. Lyndsey Croal is an award-winning author of dark and speculative fiction, with stories published in over ninety venues. She writes sci fi, horror, and folklore-inspired tales from 100-words, to full novel length, and everything in between. Her longer works include Limelight and Other Stories and Dark Crescent, and her 100-word stories have inspired the zines Cecilia has illustrated and produced. Cecilia Bennett is an Editor, and fills their spare time with lino-printing and other creative endeavours. They are geeky about all things printing and production and have enjoyed bringing Lyndsey's stories to life with their work.

BatMakes

I make colourful zines about my own experiences, featuring discussions about mental health, neurodivergency, the school system and fun things too! I’ll also be bringing badges, stickers and art prints.

Mits Makes

I am a Malaysian multidisciplinary artist based in Edinburgh. I'm passionate about creating small, quirky and colourful crafts, just like me! My main medium is zine-making, and I also make original lino prints. My zines are a medium of radical expression, and finding/celebrating joy in the little things of life. Through my art, I aim to embrace and empower various themes including queer joy, disability, spirituality, and cultural heritage. I also explore unique interactive zine folds such as the waterfall zine and the square twist zine.

Nytastic

Ny Ali ‬is an illustrator and comic artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is seen making comics, prints and merch. Her work can be described as comedic, relatable and cute. If you like animals with hidden evil intentions to relatable everyday chores, then head by to Ny’s table. She likes to crochet and make a lot of fibre art friends, including frogs.

Abi Cooper

I am a queer zinemaker, ceramicist and handweaver. My perzines 'Pilgrimage' and 'Your Love Language was Food' explore grief and loss, the former through the lens of medieval and contemporary pilgrimage. I also make modern witch bottles. These handmade ceramic bottles are both made in memoriam to the people accused and killed as witches in the UK, and as personal magical objects, to be filled with charms that protect, strengthen and give good fortune to the user.

Ell J Walker

Ell is an Edinburgh-based artist who originally emerged from the North Sea. A lot of their work is inspired by folklore and the ocean - though they are also a big fan of death metal. They love writing and drawing comics but also making one-off zines - the latest of which are a selection of little A7 zines about foraging. They also sell lino prints, postcards and stickers.

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Toad Doctor

I make comics and zines featuring monsters and creatures of folklore often in tandem with queer elements to try and communicate messages about the human experience.

Right Villainous Chapbooks

Right Villainous makes zines queering folklore, history & rogue literature using risograph, collage, and traditional printmaking such as letterpress, wood engraving and linocut.

SeaSlugChloe

Often colours in. Sometimes gets it inside the lines. My name is Chloe Henderson and I am an Edinburgh-based interdisciplinary artist. I make art inspired by the natural world, mythological creatures, faerytales, nerd culture, and the radical idea that humans should be kind to every living thing.

Sounds Sketchy

I’m Lucy Stewart, a 24-year-old illustrator and ECA graduate. I LOVE zines, printmaking and rabbits <3 My style is heavily influenced by the live music scene, artistic LGBTQ+ communities, and graffiti scene that surrounded me while I was growing up in Glasgow. This DIY culture has informed a lot about my practice and the art style that I gravitate towards today :) I really enjoy looking at different subcultures in my work and the communities around them, be that through niche music genres or internet aesthetics. I also like to use my bunny characters to explore themes of mental health in my personal work :3

Tom Humberstone

Tom Humberstone is an award-winning comic artist, illustrator and writer based in Edinburgh. He is the author of Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis and his non-fiction comics have appeared in the Ignatz award-winning The Nib, the New Statesman, Vox, Buzzfeed + more. He writes about horror and pop culture in his newsletter, Grave Offerings.

Plant Powered Poet

Hey! I'm Gray. I'm a spoken word poet, theatre maker and zine enthusiast. I create (mostly) poetry zines and love exploring themes around nature, sex and queerness.

Steven Fraser

I create comics and zines that take a unique perspective on life and visual storytelling. I am autistic and identify as queer. My comics are personal, autobiographical and intimate.

nariarts

I'm a solo artist who makes zines, crafts, poetry, visual art, and photography. I've been selling zines online for a few months and giving freebies out to strangers for years.

Shining Arrow Zine Press

Full-time queer horror and part-time writer of the same, I'm a poet, zinester, and printmaker whose work revolves around queer liberation, hauntings, transformation, and bad puns.

Generic Millennial Angst

Hiya! I've just moved to Glasgow (well, Paisley) from Hamburg, where I was a Zine Club regular. I've tabled at four fests in that region since 2022. I've also done quite a few arts and crafts and general street markets. I finally started making my own zines during the pandemic and got increasingly heavily into them after a devastating divorce, realising it was my most productive medium and that zine people are my people (finally!). I've got probably 16 now, with Samhain and winter solstice ones in the works, among others :) Some are about nature, some are about serious issues, are just silly, and a couple I've done in themed workshops. Usually, they're informative and double-sided. I used to live in Japan and Korea as well, so interesting tidbits from those experiences tend to pop up. Actually, I sent in Barbie and Dresden Dolls contributions to Coin-Operated Press, too!

San Zhang

I am an interdisciplinary artist using zines as a method of storytelling and subversion. My zines often stem from personal diasporic experience and harbour themes of queerness, transformation and inspirations from Chinese mythology and Western folklore.