Who?

Elvis Bakaitis is a Brooklyn-based zinester and future librarian. In 2012, they co-organized the NYC Feminist Zinefest with Kate Angell. This year, Elvis gave talks on queer history and/or zines at The New School, Rutgers University, the Hedrick-Martin Institute (home of Harvey Milk High School), Gotham Professional Arts Academy,  Kearny High School in New Jersey,  Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore. They also facilitate the monthly feminist bookclub at Bluestockings Bookstore, and co-facilitate the Radical Librarians Reading Group. Currently, they are working on Homos in Herstory, a comics zine that focuses on 19th and 20th century queer history. You can find their zines at radical bookstores, and at their online Etsy shop, Captain Elvis’ Cartoon Shack.

Feel free to get in touch:

elvismuseumz AT gmail.com

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Sightings:

Comics:
Now available online from Etsy!:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/CaptainElvis

Or from these fine online zine purveyors:

Cindy Crabb’s dorisdorisdoris distro
Once Upon a Distro (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Sweet Candy Distro (scroll down to middle of page)

And at these physical locations:
NYC:
Bluestockings Bookstore
USA:
Quimby’s of Chicago
Red Emma’s of Baltimore
Wooden Shoe Books of Philadelphia
Firestorm Books of Asheville, North Carolina

Or at these Zine Libraries:
Salford Zine Library (UK)
Brooklyn College Zine Library (NY)
Community Lending Library of Bitch Media (Portland)
Denver Zine Library (CO)
Barnard Zine Library (NY)

Events:
Geeks Out! Let’s Have a Geeky: Queer Cartoonists BGSQD, Lower East Side, NY / January 16, 2013
Adventures from Home: Another Feminist Zine Reading! / Bluestockings Bookstore, NY / Sunday, October 21, 2012
Philly Feminist Zinefest Reading / Wooden Shoe Bookstore, Philadelphia / Saturday, August 25, 2012
Baltimore Feminist Reading Group: Feminist BBQ Series / Red Clover Collective, Baltimore / Sunday, August 12, 2012
Brooklyn College Zine Library Opening / Brooklyn College / Tuesday, July 31, 2012
“Bam Kabloom! Destroying Gender Stereotypes in Comics” – Panel hosted by Papercut Press, with fellow panelists Amy Reader, Sally Madden, Wendy Xu and Alice Meichi Li / Bluestockings Bookstore / July 18, 2012
“Homos in Herstory” Zine Event / Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore / Thursday, April 26, 2012
Brooklyn Zinefest Reading / Brooklyn Fireproof East / Wednesday, April 11, 2012
“I Read It in a Fanzine!” Feminist Zines Reading / Bluestockings Bookstore / Sept. 1, 2011

Press:
Autostraddle: Article – “I Went To the Brooklyn Zinefest, Had Feelings, Found Three More Zines You Should Read”
Interview with Jude Vachon of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Public Library
Zine Review on GeeksOut.com
Interview by the folks at Brooklyn Zinefest
“The man behind the illustrated postcards of Bluestockings”
Somebody’s Autobiography
Salford (UK) Zine Library

http://zines.barnard.edu/zinefest/2011/petes-candy-store/zines

Indypendent newspaper
and again

Illustrations for: Bluestockings Bookstore, Queers for Economic Justice, The Indypendent Newspaper, Means of Production Apparel, Queerball, post-pride street party (2011 & 2012), Gerrit Lansing reading at Poe’s Kitchen at the Rattlesnake Inn

Work in compliation zines: My Feminist Friends, Suburban Blight, Make Out Magazine, Hoax Zine, Fuckin’A Zine, a thousand times yes: reflections on yoko ono, Don’t Tell Mom- the Babysitter’s Queer, The Borough is My Library, Adventures in Menstruating