Alexis Rippen is a designer, artist, and writer of the digital. During the day they design websites and during the night they study living on them. Their interests stem from examining cultural systems and gender as sieved through digital life, and how we interact with this completely new plane of consciousness made tactile through interfaces. They play in intersections of research based theory and openly disseminated low culture, especially in the context of the internet, "fan" spaces, queer identities, and experimental publishing. Probably best known for Butchverse Zine & Butchverse 2: The(y/He/She) Doujinshi.

Tshirt is a writer, a fan, and a writer about fandom. They run their eponymous small press, tshirt zines, best known as the publisher of Yaoi Zine, a biannual anthology series which catalogs both things that can loosely be described as "yaoi" and our attachment to them. Their writing is driven by their desire for more emic writing on fandom that still maintains a critical perspective. It's also informed by their interests in psychoanalysis, Asian American literary studies, and trans theory, as well as the places where they meet. They take them all about as seriously as you'd expect the person who runs Yaoi Zine to do so.

OUR STRETCH GOAL (completed!) COMIC ARTISTS

Max Banshees is a cartoonist and illustrator who has a love-hate relationship with the videogame Pathologic. It causes them to write an impassioned essay every two years or so.

"Why do fandoms exist, how do fans socialize with each other in global online spaces, and what different purposes do fanworks serve? The comic-essay “FRAGMENT EATERS” introduces readers to concepts from philosophy, linguistics, and fan studies that are relevant to these questions, and then uses them to make sense of how a game's fandom changed after a popular video essay was made about it."

A.C. Esguerra is a nonbinary Asian American comics artist and creator of award-winning 1930s pilot yaoi, Eighty Days (Archaia, 2021). They will continue throwing fantasy, history and sci-fi in a blender until morale improves or they die. They enjoy stationery, alternative fashion and feeding the local crows.

""The Prince" is an experimental ink + collage comic-memoir about how Laurent of Vere from C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince transformed me from a sexually repressed queer youngling into an out, nonbinary artist, a mid-2010s YaoiCon veteran and, in the BDSM community, a Dominant/top/Prince."

Calliope Neurotoxins: hello! How are you doing today? I live in australia. I've been doing some drawings and writing some stories. Do your teeth ache, too? Can I bite you.

"I made a pornographic comic about emasculation, intimate relationships and also getting throatfucked. Do you like halo? The guy from halo is in it, kind of."

Elle Shivers is a genderqueer Filipino-American writer, comic artist, and illustrator based in the Philippines. Sometimes condescending, always sincere, never unaccountable. A lover of science fiction and men.

"BOYS TOYS is a matryoshka doll in the form of a comic/visual essay about the chain links between three main ideas: being a trans fujoshi in the Global South, giant robots, and the sexualization of American military aesthetics. There is a transformation fantasy at the core of highly militaristic mecha/giant robot media, and this can correlate with how we imagine ourselves as trans and queer people in a highly globalized and hetero-patriachal world. A hetero-patriarchal world, which is aesthetically invested in the power fantasies that military and warfare conjures in the public cultural imagination, and in our investment in niche categorizations."

OUR CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS

Julia Norza is further from you than you'd think, but less far than you'd hope.

SPICYYETI is the artist, writer and programmer of the webcomics on spicyyeti.com.

Stitch is a journalist and rogue fandom/media studies scholar in the South. They will read anything once and write about it eventually.

Trisha Low is the author of two books-The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions, 2013) and Socialist Realism (Emily Books/Coffee House Press, 2019).

sofriel is a 2spirit tumblr veteran of 15 years. their complaints and other random thoughts can be found on tumblr at @wigwamcore.

[pigeon icon] is a thinker and watcher currently residing somewhere on the east coast of the USA, seeking out as much good art as one mind can hold. She has been published in multiple publications such as Yaoi Zine and Datura #2. She has a passion for seldom-discussed movies, forgotten YA books of the 2000s, and foods that use fruit in savory dishes. For more information please google "watch the comeback free online tv show soap2day".

CEL is a full-time fujoshi, Asian American studies fiend, recreational castrationhead.

Roland has been participating in online fandom since age ten, for better or for worse. They are also a zine maker, essayist, and wannabe novelist. An archive of his nonfiction and culture writing is slowly being accumulated at durandal.blog.

Elliott enjoys eroticizing horror and psychoanalysis. He is currently working on a dark romcom about toxic power struggles in the neoliberal shell game people still call academia.

hay is a writer and art worker who dreams about collective liberation, kpop, and open source internet forever.

simkjrs, also known as simk, is an artist, writer, and engineer whose favorite topic of research is the relationship between fantasy and reality, especially when it comes to the fantastical framework known as "ideology." unsurprisingly, one of his favorite hobbies is analyzing art, especially narrative art.

K. Lee is a disillusioned queer, cartoonist, author, etc. They published a YA graphic novel and are working on a second one while continuing to labor and fuck off otherwise.