The Queer Affirmations Coloring Book

Joe Carlough is a queer artist from Philadelphia. He runs the zine press Displaced Snail, the DIY record label This & That Tapes, and together with his partner Katie Haegele, the East Falls Zine Reading Room, a cataloged collection of over 1,600 zines. To date, he’s sold over 24,000 copies of roughly 300 zine titles, most his own work, some for hire or in collaboration with organizations like Microcosm Publishing, Joyful Noise Recordings, Womanly Mag, and the Mütter Museum. He’s worked with artists for publishers from indie to Random House, and musicians such as Deerhoof, No Joy, Spencer Moody, and Serengeti.

Ally Shwed is a cartoonist from Jersey City, NJ. She attended the Savannah College of Art & Design and has created work for clients such as The Boston Globe, The Nib, Vox, The Intercept, and First Second Books, among many others. She also publishes comics through her micropress, Little Red Bird, which has been nominated for multiple awards; and when she’s not creating editorial cartoons or editing anthologies, she’s usually drawing cats.