Pressing Concern Books & Rekkids (2007-2021)

Pressing Concern Books & Rekkids was founded in Chicago in 2007 by Anne Elizabeth Moore to address the lack of small press outlets that support writing, comics, and other published work by young women and nonbinary folks in the Midwestern United States. Currently based in the Catskills, Pressing Concern focuses on nonfiction text and graphics […]

Our Big Drawing (2018)

Our Big Drawing was a collaborative, ephemeral project conducted with the Detroit neighborhood, Banglatown, in Summer 2018. In partnership with Power House Productions (PHP), Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Mendes gathered a group of local participants—mostly youth, and mostly first- and second-generation immigrants from Bangladesh—to go on two walks through the neighborhood, separated by […]

Water, Housing, and Land in Detroit, MI (2018)

Continuing the long-running investigative comics journalism series (previously called Ladydrawers) as a collaborative endeavor, Melissa Mendes and Anne Elizabeth Moore recently completed a 16-month series for Truthout that explores water, land, and housing rights in and around Detroit, Michigan. Through in-depth interviews, shoe-leather reporting, deep research, and brilliant, thoughtful graphics, the series seeks to explore challenges to survival […]

Letterpress Vomit Poster Series (2017)

The Letterpress Vomit Poster Series (2017) began as an organic exploration of what improvisational wood-type printing might be able to accomplish. The onomatopoeic spellings were created on the fly in the studio, with punctuation used to create visual interest. The first poster is green on white paper with an alternate red word, while the second […]

Seeing Silence (2016)

Seeing Silence was a collaborative zine-making project conducted in 2016 with students in the designmatters program at ArtCenter. Participants were asked to create visual responses—on paper, transparencies, or translucent materials—to a series of prompts recalling moments they may have experienced censorship, silence, or disability. Participants were then encouraged to rework each others’ images and ideas to create something […]

the Adventure School for Ladies (2011-present)

The Adventure School for Ladies is an occasional, experimental graduate program that explores gender, cultural production, political engagement, and economic matters with the top ladylike scholars in the field of adventure studies. Our 2016 program was divided into two international sessions. Session I was held over a single week in Detroit, Michigan in June. We worked […]

Let’s Chat About Civil Rights / Let’s Chat About Civic Memory (2016)

Let’s Chat About Civil Rights / Let’s Chat About Civic Memory was installed in April 2016 at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa at the behest of St. Ambrose University. The images, by Melissa Mendes and Sheika Lugtu—a Ladydrawers collaboration—are accompanied by oral histories from local Quad Cities residents regarding two major aspects of Davenport’s participation in the […]

Harvey & Me (2016)

A comics memoir and collaboration with Melissa Mendes, Harvey & Me is a six-episode literary series for Belt based on Anne Elizabeth Moore’s work and travels with Harvey Pekar. Read “Let’s Just Wait,” “Uninteresting Phone Call,” “Laureates for Everything,” “Book Signing,” “Pulling Lynda Barry’s Leg,” or bookmark the whole series here.

Chicago Radical Publishing Timeline (2015)

The Chicago Radical Publishing Timeline (2015) was installed in June of 2015, during Pride and CAKE, in the front window of Andersonville’s legendary Women & Children First Books. The timeline included radical publishing projects from queers and folks of color throughout Chicago’s history, and was installed with a selection of complementary books on display in the front window, […]

How To Make This Very Zine (2004 – present)

First created in 2004, How To Make This Very Zine is a single-page eight-fold set of instructions for making itself. It has since been translated into Arabic, Greek, German, Georgian, Khmer, Russian and Spanish. Download them all here.