2025 Greensboro Zine Fest

Event Name: GREENSBORO ZINE FEST 2025

When/Where: July 27th 2025, ONE REP WEIGHTLIFTING in Greensboro NC

What: Zine festival!

Rating: 5/5

Website: https://gsozinefest.com/

Income: ~$200. Traded about $50 worth of stuff on top of that

Expenses: Table was $35 for half of a 6 ft table - meaning we got 3 ft.

Provided: Half table, and two chairs. Free parking. Free cupcakes and coffee!

Everyone was really nice, we did a couple of zine n sticker trades, and we got a surprising amount of fujo talk for a non-fujo-themed event 😄 shoutouts to the people who recognized the ai no kusabi print… And shoutouts to my bigass tomato that's finally turned red after a month.

I'm kinda laffing that I did all pet doodles and 0 humans (or otherwise? Fursonas?! Fav characters? ), maybe next time I should have an example of a person out too :p or maybe people just love seeing their pets more than themselves!! Still tryna find the balance between displaying my live drawing vs trying to show off my comix!!!

Thanks so much to all the super cool vendors with super cool art, and to the super cool staff for making sure we all had food and water and atmosphere 😄 and to the happy customers who chain-mailed each other into getting their pet drawn.

• The staff were great. They were going around looking at art, making sure we were OK, and refilling the water and food for everyone.
• The venue was cozy and fun, I loved the zines hanging from the ceiling.
• Speaking of water… water dispensed from a cooler, with options for cold, warm, and hot. It's great to just get up and get water for yourself!
• Cool artist culture, people trade and talk to each other, very supportive. People brought their own tables and chairs to share with each other! Our table buddy, xohzero, told a lot of their friends to get a doodle from us haha.
• It's closer to us than Durham/Raleigh, 1 hr of travel vs 2 hours.
• Mostly print material, rather than mass-manufactured stuff like charms and pins. I like print material.
• Great inspiration for us to make a bunch of new zines! And great inspiration from seeing everyone else's work, zines can be anything…

• Small space with little air conditioning means it was a little warm. It wasn't HOT, but just a bit over room temperatuer. They did suggest bringing a personal fan, which we WERE GONNA but then we forgot to pack it in the trunk ahah.

Yes, I would love to come back to GSO Zine Fest again, whenever we can, all the way from Charlotte :p ! I would like to bring more small objects like free stickers and mini zines to use the half-table space much better.