Howdy, I'm Shannon Spence! I'm a cartoonist, zinemaker, community organizer, and former medical technologist from Hampton, VA. I live with my husband and pittie mix (Tater Tot) in NYC.
I hold a strong belief in the power of comics to move and inspire, and I enjoy creating stories that bring joy and help me to process overwhelming emotions. I started as a woodcut printmaker and fell for comics hard. I love experimentation with unique zine formats, cheap and colorful tools, and new printing methods.
I founded the Comix Accountability Club in 2022. I also started an indie small press called CART Press in 2025 with my zine bestie Maddie Sackett.
Photo by Nicole Millman.
Reach out to me if you'd like to collab, I'm all ears!
Contact me →| 2026 | Norfolk Indie Comics Expo (NOICE) - Norfolk, VA |
| 2025 | Notable Work CART Press (Co-founder) - Small press zine and comic printing for small publishers, individual artists, and businesses in Brooklyn, NY Trash & Other Filth Group Show - Dwightmess Gallery, MD Artist of the Month - Riso Inc. Comix Accountability Club Retreat (Sole organizer) - Shepherdstown, WV
Trash & Other Filth Live Performance as Mutagen - Dwightmess Gallery, MD Frog Farm 9 Comic Reading - Brooklyn, NY Secret Third Thing Comic Reading - Brooklyn, NY Distractor Comic Reading - Columbus, OH Exclamation Point Comic Reading - Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Fest (MoCCA) - NYC Brooklyn Indie Comics Expo (BICS) - Brooklyn, NY Toronto Comic and Arts Festival (TCAF) - Canada Silverlake Comics - Los Angeles, CA Frog Farm Fair II - Brooklyn, NY Philly Zine Fest - Philadelphia, PA Coney Island Zine Fair - Brooklyn, NY Cartoon Crossroads Columbus - Columbus, OH Pittsburgh Indie Comics Expo (PIE) - Pittsburgh, PA Lancaster Zine Fest - Lancaster, PA Jersey City Art Book Fair (JAB) - Jersey City, NJ |
| 2024 | Notable Work Comics Advocacy Group Mini-Grant Recipient Punk Lab Girl: Burn it Down! Book Release & Tour (self-organized) - Desert Island, Brooklyn, NY and Partners & Son, Philadelphia PA. Additional signings in VA and MD. Comics Necromancy Workshop at JC Print Room - Jersey City, NJ
Pizza Party Pizza Party Comic Reading - Brooklyn, NY Bug Milk Comic Reading - Toronto, Canada
Short Run - Seattle, WA Small Press Expo - Bethesda, MD Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) - Chicago, IL Pictobeach Bazaar - Brooklyn, NY TCAF - Canada Staunton Underground Comic and Zine Fest (SUCZ) - Staunton, VA |
| 2022 | Comix Accountability Club (Founder) - 400+ members, Online, in-person Best Comic Zine Finalist - Broken Pencil Magazine Awards |
