CART Direct
CART Press \ud83d\udda8️Zine and comic making news from a couple of DIY-ers.
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How cartoonists are surviving and thriving in 2025
Dear comics friends,
It’s been the headline of 2025: the job market is abysmal. Every artist you know is struggling to find a way to balance the scales and keep art in their lives. Through the haze of rejection emails and rising rent, we a...
SPX Round-up, YEEHAW!
Hi Substack! It’s Maddie from Cart Press reporting from here in the eye of the pre-SPX storm. Normally, we are behind the table slinging zines, but this time we are making some lovely zine deliveries!
In this issue of CART Direct:
- Han...
Snorlax sat on my zine (and now it's perfectly bound) 📐
The professor says: choose all three!
Hey friends! You may remember from the last CART Direct that we have taken on learning perfect binding. Maddie has been working hard perfecting our process, and it hasn’t been easy street the whole...
We made something perfect
Perfect binding the DIY way
Hey y’all! Maddie here to give you the scoop on DIYing your way to professional bookbinding status. It’s been a long time coming, and we’ve still got more to learn—but I’m thrilled to say we’re getting ready...
Two printers, one zine (and puppets)
Time for spring zine-ing
Hey y’all, happy spring! Con season has started up again (we did Brooklyn Indie Comics Expo a couple weeks ago) and so it’s getting busier over here at Cart Press HQ. Between the folding and piles of paper, I wa...
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