#ppzf2025

✴️PIKES PEAK ZINE FEST 2025✴️⁠ Celebrate the art of the zine & self-publishing at Colorado Springs' free annual small press event since 2019! Support 40+ local & national Exhibitors selling their zines, books, & printed art. Free zines & posters will be available at the door, and many zinesters are open to trading, as well. Zines are for everyone, and print is not dead!⁠

✴️NEW SHIRTS!✴️ As mentioned in our last post, our Bonfire shirts, sweaters, & more are for sale to help us fundraise for PPZF 2025 & beyond! 20% of the purchase price of these items goes toward funding our events & the rest is just the base cost of the product. *💙🧡🖤⁠* We've got some new designs up, as well as new & returning colorways & items to choose from 👀. If you order now, you should be able to get them in time for PPZF 2025! *💙🧡🖤⁠* Designs featured are:

🌈 Zine Rainbow 🌈 - an altered version of PPZF 2025's poster on the back of the shirt with a little printer detail on the front. 📖 Zines for All 📖 - the design that's on our new totes on the front with a small PPZF logo on the back neck. 🏔 Mountain of Zines 🏔 - PPZF mascots in front of Pikes Peak on the front also with small logo on back. 🎃 Spooky Zine Parade 🎃 - The first merch design we ever made! Mascots design on the front with small logo on back.

Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participating in-person!!!⁠

bit.ly/PPZF2025FB⁠

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⁠✴️CZEGE & SON COMICS AND GAMES✴️⁠

paulczege.com⁠

instagram.com/paul.czege⁠

🔹Denver, CO⁠

🔸Bio: Journaling games and zines about playing them immersively by Paul and zine comics about Nash's characters drawn by him. ⁠

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✴️DEIMOS ROSE✴️⁠

theothersideseries.cfw.me/comics/first/#content-start⁠

instagram.com/m0thmans.ass⁠

🔹Colorado Springs, CO⁠

🔸Bio: Just a queer artists drawing cool demons and other art. ⁠

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✴️DWEEB DRAWS✴️⁠

instagram.com/dweebdraws_⁠

🔹Longmont, CO⁠

🔸Bio: dweeb brings a unique blend of humor and heart to her work. With a knack for making the serious feel light and the mundane feel magical, dweeb’s art is a comforting companion for anyone navigating life’s ups and downs.⁠

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✴️EDGELANDS RESEARCH✴️⁠

bit.ly/edgelands-research⁠

🔹Denver, CO⁠

🔸Bio: Edgelands Research is a collaborative art and publishing practice focused on exploring the “unruly edges” between urban and rural, human and natural, digital and physical⁠

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✴️ERIN GREENHALGH OF SPECIMEN ZINE✴️⁠

specimenzine.com⁠

instagram.com/specimenzine⁠

🔹Denver, CO⁠

🔸Bio: Specimen Zine captures the transformative power of attention, whether towards a striking flower, an unknown insect, a new city, or an old friend. Specimen is created by Erin Greenhalgh, a writer and visual artist from Denver.⁠

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🔸🔷 ➡️ Getting to Kraemer Family Library ⬅️🔷🔸⁠ Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!⁠ Here's some video directions & photos of the venue to show you where our sponsor, UCCS's Kraemer Family Library, is located in University Center on the 2nd floor. Stop in for a quiet area to read, work on a zine, and be sure to check out their Zine Collection (Curated by Organizer Liz)!⁠ 📘📙📓⁠ FROM THE MAIN ENTRANCE: ⁠ 🔸Just inside the doors of University Center, go up the stairs directly in front of the entrance, or take the elevator to the 2nd floor (to the right of the lobby & across from the info desk). ⁠ 🔹Out of the elevator or at the top of the staircase, to your left is Kraemer Family Library!⁠ 🔸The Zine Collection is on a vertical shelf near the comics & manga near the front of the library.⁠ ⁠ See you soon!!! 👋⁠ 📓📙📘⁠

🔸🔷 ➡️ Finding the Gender Neutral Bathroom ⬅️🔷🔸⁠ Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!⁠ Here's some video directions & photos of the venue to help you get to the Gender Neutral Bathroom at Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. ⁠ 📘📙📓⁠ FROM THE ENTRANCE OF PPZF (BERGER HALL): ⁠ 🔸Across the hallway, by the big bulletin board, are an elevator to the left or stairs on the right.⁠ 🔹Take either to go up a level to the 3rd Floor. ⁠ 🔸Go down the hallway past the sitting area and the bathroom (& another water fountain) will be on the right.⁠ ⁠ See you soon!!! 👋⁠ 📓📙📘⁠

🔸🔷 ➡️ How to get here [Pt 2] ⬅️🔷🔸⁠ Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!⁠ Here's some video directions of the venue to help you find Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. We'll again be at the University Center building in Berger Hall. Parking is free on Saturdays in lots 222 & 224, and public buses 9 & 34 have stops in front of UCCS.⁠ 📘📙📓⁠ Look for the colorful “Olympians and Paralympians Among Us” sculpture to help orient yourself. ⁠ ⁠ TO BERGER HALL FROM MAIN ENTRANCE: ⁠ 🔹Enter the glass entrance for University Center (to the left of the sculpture if your back is to the parking lots). ⁠ 🔸Just inside, you can either go up the stairs directly in front of the entrance, or take the elevator to the 2nd floor (to the right of the lobby & across the info desk). ⁠ 🔹To get to Berger Hall from the frozen yogurt machine, go down the hallway to the right (past Big Cat Coffee). ⁠ 🔸At the end of the hall is a ramp and a short staircase to the entrance of Berger Hall!⁠ ⁠ See you soon!!! 👋⁠ ⁠ 📓📙📘⁠

🔸🔷 ➡️ How to get here [Pt 1] ⬅️🔷🔸⁠ Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow! Here's some video directions & photos of the venue to help you find Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. We'll again be at the University Center building in Berger Hall. Parking is free on Saturdays in lots 222 & 224, and public buses 9 & 34 have stops in front of UCCS. 📘📙📓⁠ Look for the colorful “Olympians and Paralympians Among Us” sculpture to help orient yourself.

TO USE ELEVATOR OR INTERNAL STAIRS: 🔹Enter the glass entrance for University Center (to the left of the sculpture if your back is to the parking lots).

OR TO TAKE THE EXTERNAL STAIRS: 🔹Past the statue, go up the stairs to the 2nd level courtyard. 🔸Across the courtyard on the north west corner, will be the entrance to University Center your left putting you right in front of Berger Hall.

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