My first-ever zine fair booth at 60!
My booth at the Zomics: Comics & Zine Fair, Wignall Art Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
My First Zine Fair at 60
I've been making handmade books, magazines, newspapers, and zines (self-published magazines) since I was a wee one, so I was absolutely thrilled to finally gather together a collection of the zines I've created this year for the Zomics Festival of Comics and Zines at Wignall Art Museum, Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California, last week — my very first zine fair at age 60!
Ever since I was little in the 1970s, I knew that screens like TVs were 'evil'. I watched and railed against my little brother who I felt was far too enmeshed in screens. Later, I had the words to describe what this meant; screens could be addicting.
When I watched Wim Wenders 1991 movie Until the End of the World, my worst fears came to life. In it, the character's dreams were cast onto a screen, and they could not look away; lost completely in a dream world.
I created my Go Analog Af zine as a fuck you to the billionaires that steal our souls to fill their pockets through the screens of phones, computers and tv monitors. If you object to the word fuck, don't buy this zine.
Go Analog Af zine by Kathy Crabbe (double page spread)
How to Call Upon the Dead
This next zine was inspired by my work as a professional psychic-medium over the last 20 years. Especially when I first realized I could contact the dead during my training in an English Traditional Healing Circle. It was life-changing to know that the dead still live on as souls. The cover was inspired by a dream I had about the ancestors which I compiled into a best selling book. I also included quotes from an actual book I'm writing about our human and animal ancestors illustrated with hybrid creatures.
How To Call Upon the Dead zine by Kathy Crabbe
Second Saturn Return
Last year, during my second Saturn Return (an astrological transit we all undergo around age 60), I undertook a second maturation process, because yes, Saturn is THE Queen of maturation processes. During my first Saturn return at age 30, my entire business plan for Lulu Design, my silk art business came to me in a rebirthing session and for the next 30 years, I proudly became a full-time artist and soul reader.
If you want to delve more deeply into your own major life transits I offer readings here.
At 60, it's not about how we fit into the world by making a living it's more about the legacy we leave behind, as we enter this last phase of life. For me, art has always been my lifeline beyond words. I am passionate about color. It's my religion, so to speak. At age 40 (Uranus Opposition), I became of service through my psychic mediumship, which involved words of healing and service to others.
Now at 60, I want to make objects so I can share my words combined with my art. Zines have taken center stage. Zines are small, self-published, punk rock, radical acts of resistance and passion that fight against the systems of oppression that keep us small and disconnected from each other. Zines are anti capitalist. They are for the people and by the people and are often traded or given away.
How to Call Upon the Dead zine by Kathy Crabbe (double page spread)
DIY Energy: It's Everything
My first zine fair was amazing. I felt that energy - that fight, that spirit of DIY and DIT (do it together) alive and well in those who make, by hand, their passion come alive through small handheld objects of words and art.
What I love about the process of making zines is that it's down and dirty - fast - I can draw with markers and crayons and write in cartoon bubbles and swear and cut and paste to make something that is real and tangible and handheld, not precious. Hell, it's $2 at a fair, or traded, or even free. It gets the work out there, it's freedom, it's fun, it's survival, it's everything. It's a way to stay true to self in an AI, influencer, screen addicted, billionaire psychopath, death cult world, which is voluntarily designed to keep us enslaved and addicted.
Zine Bundles
Go Analog Af zine and pin by Kathy Crabbe
Go Analog Af zine & pin by Kathy Crabbe
3-Zine Bundle by Kathy Crabbe
Zine Structures
During the Zomics Fair I was surrounded by many alt-thinking folks sharing their self-published zines, pins, stickers, art and weirdness. I spent the whole day making connections and had a blast!
So far this year, I've completed nine different zine structures from my favorite zine-making book, Whatcha Mean What's a Zine? Above, are some of the zines I brought to the fair.
👉 Check out 2026 zines here.
*more coming soon*
Find my zines at these shops & upcoming zine fairs:
Enchanted Earth Trading Post: Temecula, CA (How to Call Upon the Dead zine plus greeting cards and wood cat art and prints)
Mojave Zine Fest: May 15-16 (Spoonie Collective)
The Biggest Little Zine Fest: May 31, Long Beach (I'm not tabling, but my zines are there)
Anarchist Book Fair of the Inland Empire: June 6 (Spoonie Collective)