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spb Grant (Past Recipients)

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2022 Grant Recipient: Tobi Carr

Tobi Carr (@sistagrrrlzine) is a Black queer creative from Houston, Texas. When not reading feminist theory, they work on their zine, Diary of a Sista Grrrl, which delves into their experience as a Black gender nonconforming person in the alternative scene. Tobi will use this money to create a zine detailing the history of Black people in punk. The intended audience of this zine would be both Black alternative people who have spent years in the scene and Black alternative people who are recently figuring out their place. This zine would include music recommendations, profiles of prominent Black punk musicians, and submissions contributed by Black punk artists.

Tobi Carr, recipient of the 2022 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2022 Grant Recipient: Marcelo Gonzales

Marcelo Gonzales (@marcelomgonzales) is an author and illustrator. He uses inks, oil pastels, and even MS paint to tell stories of death, transforming, ghosts and ghostliness. He is currently residing in Corpus Christi, Texas where he enjoys the sunshine and the pelicans. Marcelo will use this grant to print I.S.A.A.C.2., his first full color 40-page book which will feature a collection of oil pastel illustrations and short stories about ghosts trapped in houses and bodies, and explore themes of dying and transformation. You can check out more of his work here: https://www.marcelomgonzales.com.
Marcelo Gonzales

Marcelo Gonzales, recipient of the 2022 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2021 Grant Recipient: Patrick Grady

Pat Grady is a Houston-based artist from Arlington, Texas. While Grady explores most visual mediums, lens-based expression is where he finds himself most comfortable. Love and gratitude have been themes of Grady’s work as of recent as he attempts to understand his day-to-day influences and what significance they hold. Expressing the importance of reflecting on these influences and extending gratitude to them, is a central theme of Grady’s work. He finds it important to recognize what truly fuels us and what makes life worth living. From the inherent beauty of nature to the casual coffee dates with friends, we are influenced and impacted daily by a vast variety of energies. Grady believes the key to love is understanding. If we work to understand these influences and how they shape us it can lead to quite a peaceful life.

Patrick Grady, recipient of the 2021 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2021 Grant Recipient: Linda Mota

Linda Mota utilizes personal experience, trauma, and dreams/hallucinations to create art and stories to share with others. Discomfort and discovery through shades of grey while incorporating more unorthodox occult texts is a common theme among her work. Body issues from other queer friends and herself is shown through genderless cult figures, body horror, and a level of androgyny where people can see bits of their more desirable selves. Finding a common universal feeling among works through her stories is a personal goal that she hopes others can feel. 

Linda Mota, recipient of the 2021 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2020 Grant Recipient: Karina Killjoy

Karina Killjoy is a disabled queer femme artist, librarian, & community organizer who makes zines about radical self-love, trauma recovery, healing as resistance, & queer femme joy, all grounded in a practice of radical vulnerability.

Karina Killjoy, recipient of the 2020 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2020 Grant Recipient: Ruben Ramires

Ruben Ramires is a Houston-based Portuguese illustrator, and poet. He writes mainly poetry, prose and illustrates. His poetry and drawings are usually autobiographical, melancholic and nostalgic, but also talk about relationships and self-empowerment. A lot of his work is inspired by mental health and its challenges. He often employs rough lines and crude figures which are meant to capture raw emotions. His drawings incorporate different elements of verse, poetry, and humor. He has exhibited his drawings at art galleries in Houston. He attended zine fests in Houston and Austin. He illustrated “Elements of an adored mind,” a poetry book published by Rizapress. Also, he was featured in their Multimedia poetry and art journal. He has been a featured artist in PÒETISTHME #5, a French poetry magazine, with a whole section named “Rencontre” dedicated to his work. He was selected by UpArtStudio in Houston to design a window mural in downtown, that is currently being displayed on Main Street. He is the co-founder of FeministsForBreakfast, an ARTctivist project that uses illustration and social media platforms to give a voice to women, minorities, LGBTQA+ and POC people. He is currently working on his first Portuguese poetry book, and also on some partnerships with art galleries/projects in Portugal.

Ruben Ramires, recipient of the 2020 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2019 Grant Recipient: Gianna Rendon

Gianna Rendon is the Founder of Echale Books, a pop-up bookstore in San Antonio, Texas. They began doing zines, at first for a school project and then because they realized the books/stories they wanted to provide their community didn’t exist yet. For more information on Echale Books, check them out on IG: @echalebooks!

Gianna Rendon, recipient of the 2019 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters

2018 Grant Recipient: Kai Ramey

Kai is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and one of the founders of NWA Zine, along with friends Daryl Doggé and Amari Douglin. Follow @NWAZine on Instagram.

Kai Ramey, recipient of the inaugural 2018 shane patrick boyle Memorial Grant for Emerging Zinesters.

About shane:

Founder, torchbearer, historian, and guide of Zine Fest Houston from its early beginnings in the 90s, shane kept zine culture alive and created the foundations of the rich community. shane patrick boyle was a graduate of the University of Houston with a major in creative writing and a minor in LGBT studies. During his many years in Texas, he founded and helped organize the early years of Zine Fest Houston. He spent his time between Houston and Mena, AK, where he cared for his mother. He coalesced and held together a network of DIY artists and makers that still gather from all over southeast Texas and beyond for the festival he helmed. He published a self titled autobio zine, “shane,” for many years and was the founder/president of the Houston Area Comics Society. He was a gentle, nurturing soul and always put his friends and work first.