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![copyright Maggie Umber city street sunset with buildings with broken windows, text reads: Rust Belt Review A Comics Anthology Volume Six](/assets/images/books/anthologies/maggie-umber-rust-belt-review-volume-6.jpg)
Rust Belt Review Vol 6 Preorder
![copyright Maggie Umber maggie umber reading a copy of Chrysanthemum Under the Waves by Maggie Umber](/assets/images/blog/2024-07-16-cutw-production-sample-1.jpg)
CUTW Production Sample
![copyright Maggie Umber watercolor and pen drawing prints on a print rack by Maggie Umber](/assets/images/blog/2024-06-27-10-new-prints-at-oddball-market-1.jpg)
10 New Prints at Oddball Market
![copyright Maggie Umber crocheted bun alien and spiky nunion toys, text reads I'm an exhibitor at 2024 zine not dead fest](/assets/images/blog/2024-06-12-znd-fest-sat-1.jpg)
ZND Fest Sat
![copyright Maggie Umber cover wrap for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, a graphic novel by Maggie Umber, with Maggie smiling behind it](/assets/images/blog/2024-06-10-cutw-at-a2ac-drawing-worlds.jpg)
CUTW at A2AC Drawing Worlds
![copyright Maggie Umber cover wrap for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, a graphic novel by Maggie Umber, with Maggie smiling behind it](/assets/images/blog/2024-06-06-cxc-special-guest.jpg)
CXC Special Guest
![copyright Maggie Umber crocheted bun alien and spiky nunion toys](/assets/images/blog/2024-06-03-less-is-more-zine-tour-continues-1.jpg)
Less is More Zine Tour Continues
![copyright Maggie Umber 7 prints from Sound of Snow Falling and Time Capsule featuring animals and plants](/assets/images/blog/2024-04-22-less-is-more-zine-tour-launch-1.jpg)
Less is More Zine Tour Launch
![copyright Maggie Umber text reads: Chrysanthemum Under the Waves](/assets/images/blog/2024-03-13-cutw-available-for-preorder.jpg)
CUTW Preorder Available
![copyright Maggie Umber](/assets/images/blog/2024-03-08-anya-chases-down-the-end-1.jpg)
Anya Chases Down the End
![copyright Maggie Umber Maggie Umber in a green and black wool sweater, holding a copy of The Academic Hour by Keren Katz](/assets/images/blog/2024-01-26-the-academic-hour-1.jpg)
The Academic Hour
![copyright Maggie Umber chrysanthemum flowers, text reads: Chrysanthemum: the Storyboards, Maggie Umber](/assets/images/books/maggie-umber-chrysanthemum-the-storyboards-cover.jpg)
Chrysanthemum Shop Debut
![copyright Maggie Umber great horned owl with moon cycle, great blue heron flying, monarch life cycle, snake and frogs, butterfly and beetle pollinating plants](/assets/images/blog/2023-10-20-sosf-and-tc-prints-debut.jpg)
SOSF & TC Prints Debut
![copyright Maggie Umber A print of a large, black silhouetted spider and a smaller one, shadowed, on a pale orange background with the words in black above WE ARE HUNGRY and below MAGGIE UMBER. The frame around this central image advertises the 2023 CPG Publishers Fair.](/assets/images/blog/2023-10-17-cpg-publishers-fair-10-21-1.jpg)
CPG Publishers Fair 10/21
![copyright Maggie Umber books laying slanted on a wooden floor, with text that reads chrysanthemum: the Storyboards Maggie Umber, Maggie Umber Bunworld, PRETZEL Maggie Umber, Jonesy Maggie Umber, WE ARE HUNGRY MAGGIE UMBER](/assets/images/blog/2023-10-13-tour-stop-13-rain-taxis-tcbf.jpg)
Tour Stop 13: Rain Taxi's TCBF
![copyright Maggie Umber Maggie Umber](/assets/images/blog/2023-10-10-paper-jam-znd-performance.jpg)
PAPER JAM / ZND Performance
![copyright Maggie Umber Digital poster with two moon-headed figures surrounding a snake, above an octopus wearing a duck on its head. It is floating in the ocean with a sun setting or rising behind it.](/assets/images/blog/2023-09-26-zine-not-dead-21-cover.jpg)
ZINE NOT DEAD #21
![copyright Maggie Umber Chrysanthemum: the Storyboards zine surrounded by prints from Chrysanthemum Under the Waves](/assets/images/blog/2023-09-13-chrysanthemum-debuts-at-cabf.jpg)
Chrysanthemum Debuts at CABF
![copyright Maggie Umber Chrysanthemum: the Storyboards zine pages printed out laying spread out on the floor, sun-dappled](/assets/images/blog/2023-09-05-chrysanthemum-advanced-copies.jpg)
Chrysanthemum Advanced Copies
![copyright Maggie Umber ZINEmercado 2023 poster with a flying bird](/assets/images/blog/2023-08-24-tour-stop-7-zinemercado-1.jpg)
Tour Stop 7: ZINEmercado
![copyright Maggie Umber hand reaching out for a yellow zine that reads: Jonesy](/assets/images/blog/2023-08-09-tour-stop-6-inzf-1.jpg)
Tour Stop 6: INZF
![copyright Maggie Umber spiders, text reads: WE ARE HUNGRY! MAGGIE UMBER](/assets/images/books/maggie-umber-we-are-hungry-cover.jpg)
WE ARE HUNGRY at Zine Pavilion
![copyright Maggie Umber Maggie at her table cake with her zines and books. Magenta line drawings of Bunworld characters Bun and Piper surround her.](/assets/images/eric-bartholomew-maggie-umber-at-cake-2023.jpg)
Thank you CAKE/Zine Community!
![copyright Maggie Umber zines by Maggie Umber - Bunworld, Jonesy, Pretzel and a crocheted Bun toy](/assets/images/blog/2023-06-01-tour-stop-4-cake-chicago-3.jpg)
Tour Stop 4: CAKE Chicago
![copyright Maggie Umber printed pages of Bunworld waiting to be folded with a pair of blue gloves](/assets/images/blog/2023-05-20-bunworld-1-debut-czf-1.jpg)
Bunworld 1 Debut: CZF
![copyright Maggie Umber Maggie Umber and @brujaonpizza (Jenine) sharing a table at Madison Print and Resist Zine Fest](/assets/images/blog/2023-04-22-tour-stop-2-print-and-resist.jpg)
Tour Stop 2: Print & Resist
![copyright Maggie Umber a white pretzel on a black zine cover, text reads: PRETZEL, Maggie Umber](/assets/images/books/maggie-umber-pretzel-cover.jpg)
PRETZEL Debut: Print & Resist
![copyright Maggie Umber a red figure smiling on a book cover, text reads: Jonesy, Maggie Umber](/assets/images/books/maggie-umber-jonesy-cover.jpg)
Jonesy Debuts at ICE CREAM
![copyright Maggie Umber Vita Rhie Quintanilla and her Mom](/assets/images/blog/2022-06-02-schizophrenic-dialogues-film-1.jpg)
Schizophrenic Dialogues Film
![copyright Maggie Umber Digital poster with a pink background and a yellow sunburst. In the center, a figure with a large head and a small body is holding a large, spiky, green fruit. The figure is surrounded by a variety of plants and animals.](/assets/images/blog/2021-12-26-sosf-in-power-lines-billy-ireland-1.jpg)
SOSF in Power Lines/Billy Ireland
![copyright Maggie Umber a hand with painted fingernails, a woman with her back turned, text reads: amy lockhart and maggie umber, quimby's bookstore](/assets/images/blog/2020-01-30-quimbys-fanta-signing.jpg)
Quimby's Fanta Signing
![copyright Maggie Umber five carved woodcuts with ink on them of a woman in a boat, water, and a rock island](/assets/images/blog/2019-02-06-comics-in-spiralbound-mag.jpg)
Comics in Spiralbound Mag
![copyright Maggie Umber a colorful illustration of a flayed face filling the frame, green text reads: NOW, yellow text reads: 5](/assets/images/blog/2019-02-02-comics-in-fanta-bomb-mag-1.jpg)
Comics in Fanta/BOMB Mag
![copyright Maggie Umber painting palette with acrylic paint for Sound of Snow Falling](/assets/images/blog/2018-10-03-sosf-best-american-comics.jpg)
SOSF Best American Comics
![copyright Maggie Umber northern saw-whet owl, text reads: maggie umber 270](/assets/images/blog/2018-04-23-270-is-at-the-printer.jpg)
270° is at the Printer