Adventures in touring! In 2024: The Less is More Tour I debut new prints and toys and my graphic novel, Chrysanthemum Under the Waves. In 2023: My Mostly Midwest Zine Tour, I emerged from a 5 year hiatus as a self-publisher with 5 new zines.

Touring Archive

prints and toys that will be at oddball market
02/16/25
Jamie Coville's Best of 2024
oddball market flyer by Goodbye Press
02/12/25
8 New Prints Sunday at Oddball
image of a woman at a party meeting a demon lover, text reads: SAW Presents a FREE comics workshop, Your Daemon Lover with Maggie Umber, 1/24 7pm on ZOOM
01/21/25
SAW Free Friday Night Workshop
Maggie Umber at her drawing table working on the endpapers for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves
01/13/25
Your Demon Lover Awaits
Maggie Umber at her table at the Short Run Comix Festival in Seattle, WA
11/12/24
Staple + Stitch, TCJ Best of 2023
text reads: Short Run Comix Festival Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center Saturday, November 2, 2024 shortrun.org
10/29/24
Short Run & Marathon Art Show
yellow slice event information poster
10/24/24
Tangible Books Launch and Slice
a woman's face in profile with hair floating above her head, text reads: Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Maggie Umber
10/22/24
Chrysanthemum Under the Waves
a woman taking a breath, a black cloth covered chair in a dark room with a sword
10/18/24
CUTW Launch at Tangible Books
list of Publishers Fair vendors on a purple background
10/09/24
CPG Publishers Fair, CUTW Stores
A2CAF: Small + Indie Press 2024
10/02/24
A2CAF:SIP Sat, Preorders Shipped
boxes of Chrysanthemum Under the Waves preorders packed up and ready to ship
09/23/24
CUTW Advanced Debut at CXC
boxes of Chrysanthemum Under the Waves preorders packed up and ready to ship
09/20/24
Packing Preorders, CUTW Reviews
greeting cards with crows, blue jay and owls for the Urban Birding Festival
09/11/24
Urban Birding Fest this Weekend
cover wrap for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, a graphic novel by Maggie Umber, with Maggie smiling behind it
09/06/24
ZINEmercado Sunday
two pallets of Chrysanthemum Under the Waves graphic novels arrive
09/01/24
Pallets of CUTW Arrive
text reads Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Books, A Singular Graphic Anthology On Maggie Umber's Chrysanthemum Under the Waves August 13, 2024, by Dmitry Samarov
08/23/24
CAKE & Vol. 1 Brooklyn Review
Maggie Umber tabling at Insert Name Zine Fest 2024 talking to Ezra David Mattes, standing next to Justin Skarhus of Entropy Editions, photo by Ryan C
08/21/24
Recent Press & Reviews
Maggie Umber in an orange shirt sitting at her drawing desk holdin a pencil, text reads I'm Exhibiting at AUTOPTIC, August 17, autoptic.org
08/14/24
CUTW Prints at Autoptic and INZF
cover wrap for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, a graphic novel by Maggie Umber, with Maggie smiling behind it
08/10/24
hu u no Podcast Interview
maggie umber reading a copy of Chrysanthemum Under the Waves by Maggie Umber
07/16/24
CUTW Production Sample
watercolor and pen drawing prints on a print rack by Maggie Umber
06/27/24
10 New Prints at Oddball Market
crocheted bun alien and spiky nunion toys, text reads I'm an exhibitor at 2024 zine not dead fest
06/12/24
ZND Fest Sat
cover wrap for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, a graphic novel by Maggie Umber, with Maggie smiling behind it
06/10/24
CUTW at A2AC Drawing Worlds
cover wrap for Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, a graphic novel by Maggie Umber, with Maggie smiling behind it
06/06/24
CXC Special Guest
crocheted bun alien and spiky nunion toys
06/03/24
Less is More Zine Tour Continues
7 prints from Sound of Snow Falling and Time Capsule featuring animals and plants
04/22/24
Less is More Zine Tour Launch
text reads: Chrysanthemum Under the Waves
03/13/24
CUTW Preorder Available
chrysanthemum flowers, text reads: Chrysanthemum: the Storyboards, Maggie Umber
10/30/23
Chrysanthemum Shop Debut
great horned owl with moon cycle, great blue heron flying, monarch life cycle, snake and frogs, butterfly and beetle pollinating plants
10/20/23
SOSF & TC Prints Debut
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.
10/17/23
CPG Publishers Fair 10/21
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
10/13/23
Tour Stop 13: Rain Taxi's TCBF
Maggie Umber
10/10/23
PAPER JAM / ZND Performance
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.
09/26/23
ZINE NOT DEAD #21
Chrysanthemum: the Storyboards zine surrounded by prints from Chrysanthemum Under the Waves
09/13/23
Chrysanthemum Debuts at CABF
Chrysanthemum: the Storyboards zine pages printed out laying spread out on the floor, sun-dappled
09/05/23
Chrysanthemum Advanced Copies
ZINEmercado 2023 poster with a flying bird
08/24/23
Tour Stop 7: ZINEmercado
hand reaching out for a yellow zine that reads: Jonesy
08/09/23
Tour Stop 6: INZF
spiders, text reads: WE ARE HUNGRY! MAGGIE UMBER
06/23/23
WE ARE HUNGRY at Zine Pavilion
Maggie at her table cake with her zines and books. Magenta line drawings of Bunworld characters Bun and Piper surround her.
06/08/23
Thank you CAKE/Zine Community!
zines by Maggie Umber - Bunworld, Jonesy, Pretzel and a crocheted Bun toy
06/01/23
Tour Stop 4: CAKE Chicago
printed pages of Bunworld waiting to be folded with a pair of blue gloves
05/20/23
Bunworld 1 Debut: CZF
Maggie Umber and @brujaonpizza (Jenine) sharing a table at Madison Print and Resist Zine Fest
04/22/23
Tour Stop 2: Print & Resist
a white pretzel on a black zine cover, text reads: PRETZEL, Maggie Umber
04/21/23
PRETZEL Debut: Print & Resist
a red figure smiling on a book cover, text reads: Jonesy, Maggie Umber
04/06/23
Jonesy Debuts at ICE CREAM
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.
12/26/21
SOSF in Power Lines/Billy Ireland
a hand with painted fingernails, a woman with her back turned, text reads: amy lockhart and maggie umber, quimby's bookstore
01/30/20
Quimby's Fanta Signing
northern saw-whet owl, text reads: maggie umber 270
04/23/18
270° is at the Printer