2026 Novel Ideas Art Book Fair

Madison Cowles and Alán Serna, the artists behind Feral Editions, present a thought-provoking exploration of survivorship, grief, gender identity, immigrant narratives, and displacement. With experience exhibiting both nationally and internationally, their work offers a meaningful perspective on these important themes. Available works include self-published risograph zines, novellas, poetry, art books, exhibition catalogs, stickers, and prints, each telling a unique story and reflecting the artists’ personal experiences.

Patrick Farris is a San Antonio based artist working with photographic images, photographic printing, poetry/text, sound, and other media. His work often explores elements of place, community, meaning, language, and spirituality. He has shown work around San Antonio, including his recent exhibition DAME KIND which reflects on mystical experience through images, poetry, and recorded sound.

Mark Menjívar is a San Antonio based artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. His art practice primarily consists of creating participatory projects while being rooted in photography, oral history, archives, and social action. His work is regularly collected as self published books and broad sides.

R. Galvan
My studio and publishing practice brings together works that examine how the self is shaped and administered. Using text, drawings, performance, and objects, I explore how racialized and queer bodies move through social and bureaucratic systems. For the Art Book Fair, I will present Storytime: Removable Lives (an artist book collecting anonymous immigrant narratives), Crib Sheets (cheat sheets as business cards), When You See Unusual Misfortune (a piggy bank print for a penny), along with zines and other artist books.

Shelby Criswell
Published comic works, including QUEER AS ALL GET OUT and HEEBIE JEEBIES, as well as self-published zines.

Velvet Jam Press is an independent publishing platform focused on risograph printing, experimental bookmaking, and collaborative practice. We produce limited-edition books, zines, and printed ephemera that explore materiality, layered color, and tactile production. Through collaborations with artists and communities, our work centers identity, authorship, and accesswithin contemporary print culture.

WIN_P PRESS is an independent artist and bookbinder based in Austin, TX. Nguyen finds ways to reuse secondhand materials and scraps—lovingly referred to as ‘junk’—and turn them into unique and functional journals. Her art and writing zines are inspired by her travels and hobbies.

Analysa Castellano, owner of FLOWER Art & Design, is a San Antonio based caricaturist, fine artist, and crafter. She will be sharing her handmade buttons, stickers, zines, and other unique creations with market visitors and is excited to bring joy to those who share her same silly, niche interests.

French and Michigan‘s publication program provides artists with the opportunity to have a book produced on their work. Accepted through a rigorous application process, artists are paired with researchers and writers that explore the artist’s subject matter to create an insightful record of an installation, series, or multiple years worth of work.

Lilly Morrill
High Lonesome Sellouts are a series of poetry zines and collages focusing on how spaces hold emotional and lived experiences beyond their physical form. My work is rooted in small, often forgotten towns across Texas, places shaped by memory, absence, and the quiet realities of change. These landscapes are not passive; they actively influence the people who move through them, stay behind, or return.

Pudding Label is a publishing imprint founded by James H. Chae and produced by Pudding Projects. The label explores the intersections of design and music, music and design. Many designers share a unique relationship with music, whether from being in bands, printing zines, designing flyers or DJing. Pudding Label was conceived of in a similar spirit, to participate in music culture from a designer’s perspective and operated like a record label.

Robert Craig Bunch is the author of two books of interviews with Texas artists from Texas A&M University Press: The Art of Found Objects (2016) and The Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds (2025). He has self-published three books of his Life magazine collages. In addition to the books, he will bring a selection of his surreal collages.

Tyler Rico is a designer based in Austin, Texas. His practice engages publication as a vehicle for material and temporal exploration—examining the conceptual potential of image sequences and methods of reproduction.

Victoria Suescum, Panamanian artist and San Antonio resident since 1988, will have available for purchase lithographs and sticker packs from her current series titled “La Suerte está echada” (“The Die is Cast.”) Pre-orders for the snail mail Doble Suerte Club will be accepted. Stamp- your-own lucky booklets and select pushpins loaded with paint & coated in resin, used to create the original artworks, will be on exclusive sale at this live event.

Founded in 2010, the Texas Sculpture Group is a statewide, membership-based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting contemporary sculpture and sculptors. Published in celebration of the organization’s 15th anniversary, Contemporary Texas Sculpture: Artists of the Texas Sculpture Group features over 100 Artist Members from all over the state, documenting the wide-ranging aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary Texas sculptors, showcasing the dynamic range of what makes sculpture and sculptors distinct within the broader world of art.