Stone Soup Zine Fest 2025!

This year's poster, drawn by Maddie Sackett

On Auguest 9th, 2025, Milk & Honey Comics and its founder Giancarlo D'Alessandro hosted the fifth annual Stone Soup Zine Fest in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. Milk & Honey's historic coastal downtown, Wilmington is a place that is dramatically on the rise, and we would love to see a growing artistic comic culture grow along side it. Giancarlo has been going to a lot of small comic shows in the tri-state area, but has wanted Wilmington to be a destination, hence why we got to roll up our sleeves and do it ourselves. For the second year in a row, we had this years show at the Hannah Block Community Center, a former USO building and current theater. Please enjoy some of the best images taken by photgragher Skyler Davies. You can see even more at Stone Soup's Instagram here.

A special thanks to all of our vendors, where they're from in no particular order:

1. GremlinDraws (Wilmington)

2. Tanner Henry (Wilmington)

3. Shawnee Sage/Seasonal Sage (Garner, NC)

4. Adam Seats (Raleigh, NC)

5. Lunar (High Point, NC)

6. Alice Holleman (Raleigh, NC)

7. River Rumsey (Fort Mill, SC)

8. Cody Tenaglia/Bramble Bug (Durham, NC)

9. Jack Estep (Wilmington)

10. NelRae Toler (Wilmington)

11. Christopher Williams (Durham, NC)

12. Ella Joklik (Washington DC)

13. Jeffery Vossler (Wilmington)

14. Emily Wigglesworth (Cary, NC)

15. Arely (Charotte, NC)

16. Eli Cameron/Adrawer4Ever (Raleigh, NC)

17. Maddy Morphs (Brooklyn, NYC)

18. Brian Judge (Cary, NC)

19. DeHootz (Grand Rapids, MI)

20. Kathy DeLoria (Richmond, VA)

21. The Printed Yam (Sanford, NC)

22. Comics Blogger (Cary, NC)

23. Jaiden Hord (Durham, NC)

24. JJ Rockstroh (Wilmington)

25. UglyJa!l (Richmond, VA)

26. Bee Rose Tattoo (Wilmington)

27. Dead Petal Oddities (Wilmington)

28. Scott Hansel & Caroline Smith aka PercyDewd (Greenville, SC)

29. Adrianne Huang (Raleigh, NC)

30. Angela Fernot (Wilmington)

31. Madeline Priebe (Raleigh, NC)

32. Hunter Lynn/Apollo (Wilmington)

33. nan buie (Wilmington)

34. Auggie Pines (Wilmington)

35. Jenny Ormond (Wilmington)

36. Orion Styles (Wilmington)

37. Reese Perez/CozysPeaches (Leland, NC)

38. Toby Williams (Leland, NC)

39. Van Lazarte (Durham, NC)

40. Natalia Lopes (Raleigh, NC)

41. David Caldwell (Knoxville, TN)

42. Shane Goione (Wilmington)

Also featuring booths from the Cape Fear Literacy Council, The New Hanover Library, Encore Magazine, and also treats and coffee provided by Current Coffee.