This past weekend the Consonant Collective had an absolute blast in the Zine Pavilion at the American Library Association’s 2025 conference. The exhibition hall of the Pennsylvania Convention Center (right here at home in Philly) was full of publishers and other exhibitors talking about books with folks from around the country.
Librarians are some of our favorite kinds of people, so we had the pleasure of not only sharing our work but connecting with many lovely, like-minded folks—some of whom are old friends. Thank you to Violet and the other organizers of the Zine Pavilion for making all this happen!
These donated zines were raffled off in bundles to librarians to help them start or add to their institution’s zine collections.
A view of the Zine Pavilion in full swing. Joe is on the right in a blue shirt, chatting with folks about Consonant Collective’s many projects.
Here’s our good buddy Nicole aka Taped off TV, co-owner of the South Street Art Mart, slinging zines and being her charming self.
This lovely human invited us to reach into the monster’s mouth to get a free zine. Yikes!