@maggieumber
I paint, print, & program graphic novels & zines. My newest book, Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, is nominated for a Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel. Buy my books, prints, toys: https://maggieumber.com/
“Self-Publishing is Political in Nature Because Taking Control of the Means of Production is a Radical Act”
A rather good 2022 Broken Frontier interview I did with the splendid Simon Moreton. www.brokenfrontier.com/simon-moreto...
“I feel it behooves me to inform the cynics, the jaded, and just crusty old bastards in general (you know, like me) that Ramirez is not fucking around with this one.”
New review of @forever4pm.bsky.social's FLEA on @fourcolorryan.bsky.social's Four Color Apocalypse: www.patreon.com/posts/book-r...
Not sure if it ticks all the boxes, but the Chicago Printers Guild website is stuffed full of past events and ongoing series.
www.chicagoprintersguild.org
Colorful graphic tile with logo and text. It says: “2025, Ideas Beyond Formats, Applications open October 10”. Logo features a dolphin breaking out of a light bulb while holding a box in its mouth. The words “Ideas Beyond Formats” appear on top of the graphic. There is a colorful meta border.
Ideas Beyond Formats is a paid publishing program geared towards supporting and amplifying artists who live/share stories of marginalized communities, who feel outside of traditional power dynamics. For more information, go to,
www.sonnenzimmer.com/ideas-beyond...
The goal of Pretty Good Fest is to get some form of art into everybody’s hands. https://bit.ly/4gCU3oy
come to milk on saturday!
chicago/mpls cartoonists: our fest is walkable from the amtrak train station
MILWAUKEE!!!
This Saturday 9/27 from 11am-5pm -- MILK Comics Festival. I'll be a SPECIAL GUEST ?!?!? Come on down and check things out, please! Wow!
@milkcomicfest.bsky.social
#comics #milwaukee #comix #zines #altcomics
A photo of a stack of single page zines, folded and unfolded, on a colorful table cloth
I wasn’t gonna make an updated business card zine for @milkcomicfest.bsky.social then I did it anyway haha
OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY
Rust Belt Review vol. 6 by Sean Knickerbocker (Self-Published)
Accepted by Andrew Greenstone (I think!)
Outstanding Anyhology goes to
Rust Belt Review vol. 6
Sean Knickerbocker
Self-Published
Accepted by a pal whose name I didn’t get.
#sox #ignatzawards
Congrats to all of tonight’s Ignatz Award recipients:
Outstanding Mini Comic:
Allodynia by Violet Kitchen
Outstanding Collection: World Within The World by Julia Gfrörer
Outstanding Graphic Novel: Precious Rubbish by Kayla E.
Outstanding Anthology:
Rust Belt Review Vol 6 by Sean Knickerbocker
"270°" by Maggie Umber. Owl facts and abstract art, arguably more of a "picture book" than a comic. Umber's use of the fat-tipped sharpie markers has me thinking wistfully about my art school days.
Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, one of the great geniuses of cartooning who showed the medium’s literary potential, was born on August 22, 1880.
Pencils, sharpened
Generative art tools
Rust Belt Review vol. 6 was nominated for an Ignatz @smallpressexpo.bsky.social ! My graphic novel is excerpted in there.
Get RBRv6 from @rustbeltreview.bsky.social & Chrysanthemum Under the Waves from me at INZF.
Insert Name Zine Fest
12-6pm 8/23-24
Squirrel Haus Arts
3450 Snelling Ave
Mpls, MN
My anthology is nominated for an Ignatz. Go vote for it.
CANON #5 is now available for purchase! this issue is loaded with fascinating interviews with: Kayla E, David Slatkin, Maggie Umber (which we conducted ourselves), and Jake Zawlacki!
#Altcomics
Details from a few Comics Blogger Books publications:
Maggie Umber from Death Spark 2
Drew Lerman from Sketchbook Drawings 2024
Floyd Tangeman from Death Spark 1
Tana Oshima from Before / After
An image of a Chicago Reader story featuring a photo of a recent Zine Club Chicago event and this headline: “South Side Zine Fest brings a celebration of self-publishing to Bridgeport; Zine Club Chicago and Chicago Public Library’s Richard J. Daley branch joined forces to plan the event”
Thank you to @chicagoreader.com and reporter Sydney Richardson for a great preview of South Side Zine Fest! You can check it out in the print edition and online here: chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...
#SSZF2025 #zines #DIY #SouthSide #Chicago
Canon #5 is here! Available at canonzine.bigcartel.com
Interviews with Kayla E, @maggieumber.bsky.social , art dealer David Slatkin, and critic Jake Zawlacki.
Articles, reviews, and More!
@ftmou69.bsky.social
@fourcolorryan.bsky.social
@plasticgrapes.bsky.social
A blue and red flyer featuring the South Side Zine Fest and Zine Club Chicago logos and this text: “Join Us for the Inaugural South Side Zine Fest! Presented by Zine Club Chicago; A celebration of self-publishing with Zine Camp vibes!; 11 am-4 pm Saturday, July 26, 2025; Richard J. Daley Branch, Chicago Public Library, Bridgeport; Find more information on zineclubchicago.com”
We’re SO EXCITED to announce our brand-new event: South Side Zine Fest! Our celebration of self-publishing with Zine Camp vibes will be held 11 am-4 pm Saturday, July 26, 2025 at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, #Bridgeport. Free!
More info: zineclubchicago.com
#zines
A collage of several images of zines created by the South Side Zine Fest 2025 exhibitor Maggie Umber and this text: “Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest! Welcoming Maggie Umber!; July 26, 2025; Chicago Public Library; Bridgeport”
MEET OUR #SSZF2025 ZINEMAKERS: MAGGIE UMBER!
@maggieumber.bsky.social
(she/her) paints, prints, and programs graphic novels and #zines. She's published four graphic novels — Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Sound of Snow Falling, Time Capsule, 270°. Her work has been widely anthologized ...
Three Chicago Zine Fest posters taped up on a wall, covering up old ripped up posters.
Thank you to the CZF 2025 print sponsors, PrintNinja and Perfectly Acceptable Press.
Have you seen any #CZF2025 posters out in Chicago?? Thank you to our print sponsors, Perfectly Acceptable Press and PrintNinja, for providing gorgeous posters of Kelly Wang's art!
We'll have riso-printed posters for sale on Saturday. #ChicagoZineFest
Maggie Umber
We interviewed our fellow comics creator, @maggieumber.bsky.social for CANON #5! Available now! @loadingthecanon.bsky.social
#Altcomics
canonzine.bigcartel.com/product/cano...
A photo of a poster for Chicago Zine Fest in pinks and greens. There are buttons featuring an illustration of the Harold Washington Library sitting on top of the larger poster along with a black sticker that says Chicago Zine Fest in white block letters.
A crowd sits in folding chairs facing a presenter in a baseball cap and jeans.
Original art being raffled to raise money for Chicago Zine Fest. The art includes a ceramic creature, framed comics, a hand bound collection of comics, and a hand illustrated tote bag.
A crowd faces a projector screen where comics are being displayed. The artist crouches at the front of the crowd and reads their comic into a microphone.
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to Touch Grass Read Zine this weekend to support @chicagozinefest.bsky.social !
Will we see you at @chicagozinefest.bsky.social at Harold Washington Library this Saturday? 👀
Flyer for Touch Grass Read Zine. A comics reading fundraiser for Chicago Zine Fest happening Sunday July 13th, 2025 from 5-7 pm at Skunk Cabbage Books in Avondale, 2826 N. Milwaukee Ave. There'll be an art raffle as well. 6 local chicago zine makers: ✲ Daimon Hampton ✲ Hink (Adelle) ✲ Maggie Umber ✲ Bridget Bilbo ✲ Elias Gonzalez ✲ Leigh Hugenberg Masks required and provided!
This Sunday! It's TOUCH GRASS READ ZINE!!
Please join us from 5–7 pm at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social in Avondale for a reading by six fantastic local comics artists, including @gingerrbridge.bsky.social & @maggieumber.bsky.social & @daimondrewthis.bsky.social.
Come out to support #CZF2025!!
Last week at Broken Frontier... Chrysanthemum Under the Waves – Maggie Umber @maggieumber.bsky.social Provides a Darkly Layered, Haunting Insight into Her Psyche Across Nine Vignettes. www.brokenfrontier.com/chrysanthemu... Review by @lydiaturner97.bsky.social
New review up on my site, Maggie Umber's "Chrysanthemum Under The Waves" : www.patreon.com/posts/book-r...
Red book cover. Eric LaRocca. This Skin Was Once Mine (and Other Disturbances) “Must read horror” The New York Times. An inky black snake-like shape slinks up the red cover, parts falling away into inky tendrils or smoke.
A model wears a Dolce & Gabbana (Spring Summer 2015) long red collarless jacket with thick black embroidery and matching short pants. A black top and gold necklace peek through the loose, unfastened jacket opening. The black shoes are worn without socks.
#HauteCover #StokerCon
There’s Dolce & Gabbana on
ALL THE PARTS OF YOU THAT WON’T EASILY BURN
(from THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINE AND OTHER DISTURBANCES)
by @ericlarocca.bsky.social
Pub’d by @titanbooks.bsky.social
💙📚 🩸📚
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