SFZF2024
Day of Programming
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
City View at Metreon (135 4th St #4000, San Francisco, CA 94103)
11am-5pm
About 230 exhibitors!
11am-3pm, on the Balcony
San Francisco Public Library button-making and book giveaway (on the balcony)
12-4pm, on the Balcony
Screen Printing w/ Print.Organize.Protest (on the balcony)
12-4pm, on the Balcony
Zine Workshop in the Kids Zone (on the balcony)
12-4pm, on the Balcony
Deco Pin Workshop (on the balcony)
1-2pm, in the Panel Room
Power of Print in the Age of Misinformation w/ Nes Aaliyah, Cynta Camilia, London Pinkney, and Sarah Maloney. Facilitated by Mel Gillman.
3-4pm, in the Panel Room
Q&A with SFZF2024 Guest of Honor Eddie Ahn.
7-9:30 pm
After-Party at Silver Sprocket (1018 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 — at City View at Metreon
Screen Printing with Print.Organize.Protest
12-4 pm at City View at Metreon, on the balcony
Screenprint t-shirts posters and signs of resistance & empowerment. Print.Organize.Protest will provide designs from artists in the community and equipment for public use, YOU come and print them. Paper & fabric will be provided, participants are encouraged to bring clothing and other materials to print on.
Power of Print in the Age of Misinformation
1-2 pm in the Panel Room, City View at Metreon
ASL interpretation provided.
Whose perspectives get told in our age of misinformation and censorship? How do we fight back? Nes Aaliyah, Cynta Camilia, Sarah Maloney, and London Pinkney will talk about the power in print media, alternative voices, and communities in battling oppressive institutions, governments, policies, etc.
Facilitated by Mel Gillman.
Nes Aaliyah is a Palestinian writer-artist. They have worked in makeup, journalism, and animation. They live alone in Vancouver, where they make violent and horny art.
Cynta (They/Them) is a queer Malay hard boiled egg freshly produced from the peninsula island of Malaysia, nestled between the south east asian spirits of the land, and carved within the ghastly gross gelatinous goop of body horror practical effects. Cynta can also be categorized as a “cartoon sound effect” on most bad days, and a cartoonist on good days–usually between Monday to Friday during the most cursed hours of the night.
Sarah Maloney is a queer cartoonist and educator. They make comics across many genres that share themes of grief, loss, nature and queerness.
London Pinkney is a writer and editor-in-chief of The Ana, a quartly arts magazine that acts collection and celebration of humanity. Founded by queer folks of color, we seek to embrace the nuances of human experiences.
Mel Gillman is a graphic novelist and colored pencil artist who specializes in weird queer spec fic and nonfiction comics. They are the author of several graphic novels, including As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, and most recently, Other Ever Afters. They are also the chair of the Comics BFA and MFA Programs at California College of the Arts.
Eddie Ahn
Eddie Ahn is a self-taught artist and creator of ADVOCATE, a graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House, in April 2024. For over 15 years, he has served as a nonprofit attorney and the executive director of Brightline Defense, a San Francisco-based environmental justice nonprofit. He has also served as an AmeriCorps member, teaching arts and public speaking classes for elementary students in Oakland Chinatown. In addition to his nonprofit work, his art is displayed on utility boxes and walls throughout the city, and he has been recognized as a Cartoonist-in-Residence by the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.
Q&A with SFZF2024 Guest of Honor Eddie Ahn
3-4 pm in the Panel Room,City View at Metreon
ASL interpretation provided.
Facilitated by Nick Sousanis.
Nick Sousanis
Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor in Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he started and runs an interdisciplinary Comics Studies program. He is the author of Unflattening, originally his doctoral dissertation, which he wrote and drew entirely in comics form. Published by Harvard University Press in 2015, Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Association Humanities award for Scholarly Excellence and the 2016 Lynd Ward prize for Best Graphic Novel. Sousanis’s comics have appeared in Nature, The Boston Globe, Columbia Magazine, and MIT Technology Review.
More at spinweaveandcut.com or @nsousanis
SFZF 2024 After Party
7-9:30 pm at SILVER SPROCKET
Close out the fest with us at Silver Sprocket! We're assuming you'll be in the mood to wind down and party after spending the day with amazing artists at SF Zine Fest 2024! We'll be at Silver Sprocket for some music and refreshments. It'll be great to see you all!
Silver Sprocket is a San Francisco based publisher, gallery, and retail shop championing socially conscious and independently produced comic books, graphic novels, and related arts.
Silver Sprocket