IMAGE: Teddy Sandoval, Untitled, c. late 1970s–1980s. Color photocopy with spray paint, 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm). Courtesy of Paul Polubinskas, Teddy Sandoval Estate.
Zine & Print Market
Presented in Collaboration with St. Sucia
Zines and printmaking are powerful, grassroots mediums often deployed to uplift and bolster community building and activism – providing a DIY platform for production and dissemination.
These tools of communication were central to the queer and Chicanx communities of 1970s Los Angeles, when artist Teddy Sandoval developed his fictive institution and artistic persona, the Butch Gardens School of Art. Programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, this Zine & Print Market celebrates contemporary artists and collectives who continue this rich legacy of creative resistance.
This market is curated in collaboration with St. Sucia, a San Antonio-based feminist zine founded by Isabel Ann Castro and Natasha I. Hernandez. With global reach, St. Sucia centers the voices of Latinx women and femmes, exploring identity, gender, and sexuality through personal storytelling, visual art, and social commentary. Their work engages topics such as sex positivity, reproductive rights, and immigration, while reimagining cultural symbols, like the Virgin Mary, to shape new representations of Latinx feminist identity.
In addition to the market, the event will include an informal artist talk from 2pm – 3pm, facilitated by St. Sucia, featuring artists and organizers Ana Ortiz Varela, Maribel Falcon, and Ruben Ramires in conversation around zine-making and community.
Join us in celebrating artists and vendors whose printed matter fosters collective memory, identity, and transformation.
Market Vendor Lineup
ABODE PRESS: an intersectional, anti-racist 501(c)3 nonprofit publishing press based in the heart of Texas run by POC and queer/trans folks primarily in the South. We publish books that remind us of home.
El Gato Press: El Gato Press is the online shop of Michael Menchaca (they/them), an interdisciplinary Xicanx, non-binary artist working at the intersection of print and new media. Specializing in limited-edition screenprints and posters, Menchaca creates vector-based imagery that blends Mesoamerican codices, Mexican Casta paintings, European bestiaries, and Japanese video games with the seductive interfaces of Big Data technologies. They received their MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015.
Kay Fajardo: Honduran Colombian award-winning cartoonist who loves creating playful and colorful illustrations, zines, and graphic novels about self-acceptance and Latine culture. She’s the creator of Miss Quinces and Miss Camper, which were both national indie bestsellers, and its Spanish edition, Srta. Quinces, which received a Pura Belpre Award Honor.
Milpa Press: Milpa Press is a mobile print shop born and homegrown in Austin, TX.
MULTICONTEXTUAL is a publishing initiative in central texas authored by ana — cultivated eccentric, deliberate multidisciplinary, studious abolitionist, occasionally unperturbed.
Panocha Zine – Our goal for this space is to encourage others to discover what their lived experiences look like when they’re the ones telling their stories.
Ruben Ramires is a Portuguese-American illustrator based in Houston, Texas, whose playful, quirky, and minimalist work explores animals, plants, and our relationship with the world. Once dreaming of becoming a ballet dancer or a fireman, he now channels that imagination into drawing them instead, bringing humor, boldness, and curiosity to every piece.
Sincerely Sol: Sol A.G. (they/he) is a Texa-Rican cartoonist, illustrator, jewelry maker and zinester. They make auto bio minicomic zines as well as art reflecting their community and experiences.
St. Suciais a San Antonio–based feminist zine by Isabel Ann Castro and Natasha I. Hernandez that gives Latinx women a space to share personal experiences around identity, gender, and sexuality. With a global following, it features art, stories, and commentary on topics like sex positivity, reproductive rights, immigration, and reimagined cultural symbols such as the Virgin Mary.
Xicana Vegan: a zine containing recipes and thoughts for and by animal-loving and plant-eating folks. Printed in both English and Spanish, it works to embrace culture while practicing an ethics of care. Xicana Vegan Issues 1-5 feature recipes, artwork, reflections, and poetry based on concepts of health, the animals, the earth, and decolonizing diet. XV creator, Suzy González, also tables prints of her original paintings, stickers, and mini herbalism zines.
We Are Soup: an art collective of friends making art to fundraise for gender affirming surgery. 100% of our profits go to the fund. We believe that art is messy, silly, powerful, and limitless and we encourage one another to create anything and everything we want to support our mission.
Wetty Collective is a Queer, Crip, Chicanx-led creative and scholarly collective that builds Jotería conocimiento through zines, storytelling, and eco-erotic pedagogy. Rooted in the queer borderlands of occupied San Antonio, we nurture spaces of healing, joy, and political intimacy through art, activism, and scholarship. Drawing from Gloria Anzaldúa’s autohistoria-teoría, our work honors the sacred drip of collective memory, putería praxis, and wet survival. Together, we move through the dry, anti-erotic academy with radical softness and sacred filth.
About the Speakers
Ana Camacho Espiritu is a San Antonio–based artist and writer, and co-founder of the San Anto Zine Fest. Ana’s practice spans poetry, digital experimentation, and intimate reflections, writing poems, using the computer, constantly praying, and wondering where you are. In 2025, Ana joined the Adobe Press Poetry Cohort led by poet, critic, and memory worker mónica teresa ortiz, further grounding Ana’s work in community-centered creative and literary traditions.
Maribel Falcón is the Librarian for U.S. Latino/a/x Studies at the Benson Latin American Collection, where she connects students and researchers with the Benson’s unparalleled archives on Latin America, U.S. Latinx communities, and Indigenous histories. Born in Pecos, Texas, Maribel studied Sociology and Latin American Studies at UT Austin before working in public libraries, archives, and cultural institutions in New York, San Antonio, and Austin. A graduate of UT’s iSchool, she is also an active artist and cultural organizer, co-founder of Colectiva Cósmica, curator of music videos for Cine Las Américas, and a member of Chulita Vinyl Club, deeply committed to fostering creative and community-centered engagement with the arts.
Ruben Ramires is a Houston-based visual artist and zinester whose work has been exhibited across Texas, Oklahoma, and Portugal, including shows at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Hardy & Nance Studios, Insomnia Gallery, and Águas Furtadas. His small-format and print-based works engage playful, community-rooted approaches to DIY art culture. Ruben received the 2020 Shane Patrick Boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters and was named Favorite Local Visual Artist in OutSmart Magazine’s Gayest & Smartest 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards. His practice has also been highlighted in interviews such as Faces & Places, Heigh-Ho Pistachio, and RDP’s Apanhados na Rede.
About the Organizers
Isabel Ann Castro (St. Sucia) (she/her) is an illustrator and zine-maker from the Southside of San Antonio. She pulls inspiration from her neighborhood, stories from old-timers, deep diving the UTSA Digital Archives and pop culture.
Natasha I. Hernandez (St. Sucia) is a nurse and writer from San Antonio, Texas. Works include: poetry, comics, photos, and altars. In her free time, she enjoys sharing music as Dj HEAVYFLOW.