ZINES

Please ask about zine trades!

DM me on instagram (boo) @the_buried_arts or email me at cepell23@gmail.com.

I've been making zines since I was in elementary school. I read about them in an American Girl Doll activity book, and I was hooked.

I became re-obsessed with zines in college when I found people around me who were making zines too.

(COMING SOON) One Passionate Kiss: A Queer Jesus Christ Superstar Fanzine.

2025. 24 pages. Color.

Mostly a ranking of the kiss scenes in proshot and film adaptations of JCS. Also my refections on the hsitory of the show, and its place in queer media.

(COMING SOON) Fare Well: Moving affirmations from goodbye cards

2025. 8 pages.

Created to process a huge move. Doodles created from the cab of a UHaul on the way from Boston, MA to Madison, WI. Text pulled from goodbye cards given to me by friends and family.

TRANSPORT

2025. 12 pages. B/W.

A love letter to my past daily bus route. Finding rest in the repetition of public transport.

Original linocut edition hand-printed on thrifted paper. 20 numbered copies. "Mass market" edition laser printed on cardstock.

Road Trip: Sketches from SC to SD

2024. 18 page minizine. B/W.

Documenting a 1700 mile road trip I took with my grandfather. Sketches completed on the road between South Carolina and South Dakota. Also contains a playlist of our favorite songs from the trip and an idex to the locations illustrated.

The Pixie Ring: Many marvelous Forms of Fungi

2024. 8 pages. B/W.

Created in the audience of a mycology conference. Line drawings of fairies assembling a fairy ring. Unfolds into a poster of various fungal sporophyte forms (fungus fruiting bodies).

Expired Patron

Created 2023. Edited 2025. 8 pages. Color.

Inspired by the cancellation of my childhood library card. Reflections on libraries and growing up.

Dino Kid

2023. 8 pages. B/W.

Describing the surreal experience seeing a child in a hinged dinosaur mask at a wedding in my home town."Trying to find the mystical in the mundane."

The Illustrated Life and Death of a Xylem Cell

2018. 8 pages. Covers color, interior B/W.

Humanizing the programmed cell death that occurs in all plants with xylem-based vascular structures.