Eulogy of the
Independent Zine
📍 Hotel Vegas – 1502 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702
🗓️ Saturday, April 11, 2026
🕐 6:00 PM — Doors Open
🕐 7:00 PM — Independent Publishing Panel
🎟️ Tickets – $10 at the door
📱 @glazezine | @hotelvegastexas
Featured Publications
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bodiestoobare
bodiestoobare is a 21+ erotic and sex-educational zine centered on consent, boundaries, and sexual expression. Through visually immersive and sex-positive content, it explores topics including harm reduction, testing, psychology, and advocacy. Rooted in inclusivity and community care, the project also supports organizations focused on anti-trafficking efforts and survivor resources.
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Digi Shots Magazine
Digi Shots Magazine is a Texas-based photography publication centered on images shot exclusively on digicams. Showcasing modern concepts with a y2k touch. It's a publication that tries to connect with the people with concepts such as Physical Dysmorphia, Alienism, Realism, etc.
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Graphic Voltage
Graphic Voltage is an up-and-coming fashion brand rooted in sustainability and independent multimedia publishing, supporting a diverse collective of local writers and artists. Cultivated with strong elements of community, G.V. explores a wide range of social, cultural, and political topics impacting both local and nationwide audiences. Debuting its first zine in April 2026, the brand dedicates this inaugural issue to supporting community aid.
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Hook'd Magazine
Hook'd Magazine is a student-run fashion, beauty, and culture publication at UT Austin dedicated to providing emerging creatives with invaluable artistic and professional experiences. Hook'd thrives on a symbiotic culture where members inspire one another and gain access to endless opportunities and resources to bring their creative visions to life. Through their semesterly magazine, it provides a dynamic platform for emerging talent to showcase their work and build strong portfolios.
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Hot Rodeo
Hot Rodeo is a brand new Austin-based print publication and party series. Positioned as a love letter to the artists, outsiders, and underground cultural figures shaping the city, it celebrates work that rejects respectability and embraces the raw, the strange, and the transgressive. Rooted in a desire to move art and correspondence off increasingly surveilled digital platforms, Hot Rodeo creates space for connection through print and in-person experience.
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Lewk Magazine
Lewk Magazine is a student-led fashion and culture publication based at Texas State University created to spotlight emerging creatives and redefine inclusivity within the industry. Founded to build community and provide a platform for expression, Lewk brings together writers, photographers, designers, and stylists to explore fashion, lifestyle, and real stories. Through collaborative work and a commitment to diversity, it creates a space where creatives can learn, grow, and shape the future of fashion on their own terms.
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Locket
Locket Magazine is an independent culture zine documenting Austin’s creative scene through photography, writing, and raw visual storytelling. Spanning music, fashion, and lifestyle, it captures the energy of artists and the people shaping culture in real time while opening the door for new creatives to be part of it.
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Nerve Damage
Nerve Damage is an Austin-based magazine, label, and event platform documenting underground electronic music and rave culture. Combining interviews, design-forward layouts, and illustration-heavy storytelling, it operates across print, music releases, and live events while capturing the scene and actively shaping it.Description goes here
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Nopal
Nopal Magazine is an Austin-based "low budget New Yorker" featuring short fiction + poems about being on your phone, furry cartoons, hyperlocal news, interviews, and stupidly difficult crosswords.Description goes here
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NOURISHED by Chúng Mình Collective + Tiger Balm Press
NOURISHED is a collection of family recipes and ancestral stories that have been passed down. Their first edition centers the voices of immigrants and children of immigrants from the Asian diaspora in the Greater Austin Area. Through food, they celebrate the resilience, resistance, and cultural history that help shape our community’s identity today. 100% of zine proceeds go towards local mutual aid efforts supporting immigrants in the Greater Austin Area.
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Retired Nihilist
Retired Nihilist Vol 1 is a collection of paintings, digital collage and writings by Austin-based artist Christine Arnold. Retired Nihilist blends elements of surrealism, horror and fantasy through the repurposing of found family photos, reflecting on the passage of time, consumption of love, and the threads that string us together.
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Sidecar Junkaroo
Sidecar Junkaroo is an Austin-based print magazine dedicated to art, music, and comedy. Through interviews, satire, and visual storytelling, it documents the artists and communities shaping the city in real time. Built by a collective of writers, designers, comedians, and artists, each issue acts as both a cultural snapshot and a lasting artifact of the moment.
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SPARK
SPARK is an experimental multimedia publication driven by constant reinvention. Beginning in 2014 as a fashion magazine, SPARK has since evolved into a collaborative and diverse network of students passionate about converging art, culture, fashion, and design into an evocative anthology of both written and visual stories.
Along with producing online content throughout the year, at the end of every semester, they release a print magazine created by their 200+ staff of UT Austin students. Each magazine is set inside a curated world and centered around a guiding theme.
Live Performances by:
Night Ritualz // @nightritualz
Joan Dark // @joan.dark.dj
CRVO // @joaquin.gendron
careabout // @careabout.band
🕐 6:00 PM Start | Ages 21+
Print is not Dead – Independent Publishing Panel
🕐 7:00 PM
Texas-based queer art collective creating immersive fashion experiences that blend performance and storytelling to spotlight trans, BIPOC, and underground voices. Q&A to follow.
Meet the Panelists
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Ashlee Hawkins
Moderator
Ashlee Hawkins is a Texas-based creative working across publishing, fashion, and modeling. With experience spanning independent media and New York Fashion Week, they bring a strong perspective on creative direction, visibility, and building platforms within independent publishing.
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Jaelin Valero
Editor-in-Chief, Locket Magazine
Jaelyn Valero is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Locket Magazine, an independent Austin-based music zine documenting the city’s live scene through photography, writing, and visual storytelling. Built as a collaborative platform, Locket highlights emerging artists and offers a space for creatives to contribute and grow within the local music community.
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Vico Tadeo Puentes
Founder, TOMO MAGS
Vico Tadeo Puentes is the founder of TOMO MAGS, an Austin-based print platform and mobile concept space dedicated to independent magazines, art books, and global publishing. What began as a traveling project has evolved into a cultural hub for print, design, and connection beyond the digital screen.
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Nathan Dinh
Editor, NOURISHED
Nathan Dinh is a Vietnamese-American visual artist born and raised in Austin, TX. They received their BFA in Visual Art Studies from UT Austin, and currently is a high school art teacher in the Austin-area. Their work appears as paintings, comics, and zines. They have exhibited at zine fests throughout Texas.
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Mariam Ali
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Glaze Magazine
Mariam Ali oversees both the creative and operational workflow of Glaze Magazine. She supervises daily operations and end-to-end production, guiding each volume from concept to final print. Her work involves theme development, contributor onboarding, photoshoot coordination, editorial planning, layout review, and final distribution. She ensures every volume is cohesive, visually compelling, and editorially strong.
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Skyler Burk
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Glaze Magazine
Skyler Burk is a creative director and editor whose work blends visual storytelling with intentional community-building. As Co–Editor-in-Chief of Glaze, she leads the magazine’s artistic direction, shaping its brand identity, editorial voice, and immersive visual world. She specializes in executing large-scale shoots, building creative partnerships, and producing multi-stage events that amplify Glaze’s impact.