Welcome to
Cryptid Crossing

Cryptid Crossing is a zinester collective that centres stories and discussions by and for the niche, the transgressive, and the underrepresented. Through our constellation of comics, essays, and art publications, we aim to carve a welcoming path for all creeps and freaks of nature to safely pass through. Watch this space for our cryptic thoughts on queer and trans existence, daddy issues, mental health, movies, munchies, cats, yaoi, and other strange fixations.

Meet the Artists

Bob (they/them)
@knifebobjpg

Bob is a non-binary designer whose work focuses on the genderqueer experience and interrogating socio-spatial institutions that essentialise cisheteronormativity. They are passionate about subaltern stories and everyday forms of resistance and deviance – in other words, a way out – of the medicine and law of gender binarism.

Evan (he/she)

Evan Ibarra (he/she) is multidisciplinary designer whose work focuses on the fragility of memory in a post digital age and explores the boundaries of social taboo. A multiracial transexual artist based in East Los Angeles, she has been vending zines since 2022 and has work with LA based publisher Cash Machine. With a multifaceted interest in personal history, data collection, and public sociology, Evan's work explores a variety of topics that typically link fandom with larger conceptual frameworks.

Hua (he/they)

Hua is a maker and educator of queer games, interactive archives, and computer simulations. Their work focuses on historical and speculative interfaces for queer participatory subcultures, exploring how perverse pleasures and desires for autonomy operate through institutional bureaucracies and technological infrastructures. Most recently, Hua published a zine based on their MFA thesis titled "Yaoi Homunculus", a playful sex-design study of the fujoshi-to-transmasculine pipeline through the lens of gender-affirming healthcare, boys' love algorithms, and alchemy. They have been vending at zine festivals and artist markets internationally since 2016.

Isha (she/they)
@milk.curdles

Isha is a story artist, animator and brainrot connoisseur from Singapore currently based in Los Angeles. They make zines for the purpose of catharsis and combining theory with culture — usually regarding fandom behaviour and affect. When they’re not hunched over their desk on the computer, you can find them monkeying around at the bouldering gym, or jamming out to their self-made playlist of Ace Attorney soundtracks.

Jillian (they/them)
@jukefluke

Jillian is a designer with too many interests and not enough time. For now, they’re currently interrogating the socio-cultural performance of dining and its perverse architectures. If you manage to catch them outside of work, they’re probably sipping on a good cup of coffee.

Wani (she/her)
@wanisok

9 to 6 corpo meat puppet
6 to ??? roam in the forest
sometimes draw ( ˆ𐃷ˆ) .ᐟ.ᐟ

YT (penguin) is the best axe in Berlin!
@rdfztiz

practices necromancy with extra steps.
working on too many things at once, none of them safe for work.
penguin is the pronoun.FEED ME.

Juntuki (they/them)
@nthburger

grade a certified bum. Fandom is an ethnographic experience for them.

Jeff (he/him)

Like if an alcoholic salaryman figured out how to draw yaoi. Lapsed design major and corporate dog.

Dan (they/she)

Dan is a tired corpoRAT lesbian still finding the space to be queer in a world that seems to want them dead. Zines are their latest attempt to be seen. I love rats, pigeons, and other small creatures.

Maisa (she/they)

Maisa is a mainly self-taught artist from Finland, where nature and traditional folklore inspire and intrigue her. Nowadays she’s primarily focusing on digital art- designing and redesigning more original characters than she can keep track of- and occasionally dabbling in creative writing. She’s interested in anything fantastical and/or supernatural, weird and obscure, and whenever she’s not roleplaying as a put-together Master’s student, she’s partaking in escapism via art, books, tv shows, music, and long walks in nature. She’s secretly convinced she’s a changeling replaced at birth by the Finnish forest gnomes.