MystoPress
@mystopress.bsky.social
Mysto ♦ they/them ♦ 35 ♦ queer Latine artist making queer horror comics ♦ creator of the Paroxysm anthology ♦ PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER 10/1—10/17 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mystopress/paroxysm-vol-5-haunted
🎃🎃PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED is now live on Kickstarter!🎃🎃Check out our featured contributors, our rewards, special add-ons, and more on our page! Live from Oct 1—17 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🎃🎃PAROXYSM VOL 5: HAUNTED is now live on Kickstarter!🎃🎃Check out our featured contributors, our rewards, special add-ons, and more on our page! Live from Oct 1—17 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...
Looking forward to running this virtual panel on queer horror and healing for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social tomorrow @1—2PM EST!
In addition to tabling this month for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social I will be doing a virtual panel on healing within the horror genre, with a focus on community catharsis and queer horror. I hope you can join us and participate in the other workshops and events they have going on all month long!
September 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Looking forward to running this virtual panel on queer horror and healing for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social tomorrow @1—2PM EST!
Our Kickstarter is just a little over a month away! With 15 contributors and more comics and art than ever, I'm so excited for you to see what we've been cooking all these months.
The prelaunch page is live so please head over to give it a follow so you'll be notified the moment we go live!
The prelaunch page is live so please head over to give it a follow so you'll be notified the moment we go live!
September 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our Kickstarter is just a little over a month away! With 15 contributors and more comics and art than ever, I'm so excited for you to see what we've been cooking all these months.
The prelaunch page is live so please head over to give it a follow so you'll be notified the moment we go live!
The prelaunch page is live so please head over to give it a follow so you'll be notified the moment we go live!
In addition to tabling this month for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social I will be doing a virtual panel on healing within the horror genre, with a focus on community catharsis and queer horror. I hope you can join us and participate in the other workshops and events they have going on all month long!
September 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In addition to tabling this month for @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social I will be doing a virtual panel on healing within the horror genre, with a focus on community catharsis and queer horror. I hope you can join us and participate in the other workshops and events they have going on all month long!
I'm really excited to participate in @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social this year AND hosting my very first panel on healing and horror comics. Join me and many more great zinemakers next month via this virtual zine fest!
Natalia Lopes (Mysto) is a queer Latine working comic artist and micropublisher with over 6 years of publishing, editing, crowdfunding, and printing queer horror comics through their label MystoPress.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I'm really excited to participate in @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social this year AND hosting my very first panel on healing and horror comics. Join me and many more great zinemakers next month via this virtual zine fest!
LOVERS LAKE, an illustration I recently finished for Paroxysm Vol 5 coming to Kickstarter October 1st. I've got a short comic and a few other goodies for this anthology so look out for more teasers and our other contributor features soon!
August 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
LOVERS LAKE, an illustration I recently finished for Paroxysm Vol 5 coming to Kickstarter October 1st. I've got a short comic and a few other goodies for this anthology so look out for more teasers and our other contributor features soon!
We've been hard at work behind the scenes and can't wait to share our featured creators this year including folks brand new to Paroxysm like the fabulous @bowsully.bsky.social Stay tuned!!!
I've been quietly working on my submission for a while now...excited to see it all come together soon! 👻
IT'S OFFICIAL: PAROXYSM VOL 5 will be launching on Kickstarter October 1st! Get ready for horror comics, art and writing centered around the theme of HAUNTED made by our largest lineup of contributors yet. If you want to support indie/marginalized creatives, stay tuned for more campaign info soon!
August 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We've been hard at work behind the scenes and can't wait to share our featured creators this year including folks brand new to Paroxysm like the fabulous @bowsully.bsky.social Stay tuned!!!
Really excited to come back to Wilmington in just a few weeks for Stone Soup, so if you’re in the area and want to grab zines/trade, I’ll be there and at 2 more events. Unsure what things will look like event wise for me in the future, but I know I’m not the only one who had to scale back this year.
MystoPress will be returning to Stone Soup Zine Fest August 9th in Wilmington, NC! Presented by the good folks at @milkandhoneycomics.bsky.social be prepared to see some amazing artists and fellow zinesters! I also hope to have a new thing printed by then. Hope to see you there!
July 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Really excited to come back to Wilmington in just a few weeks for Stone Soup, so if you’re in the area and want to grab zines/trade, I’ll be there and at 2 more events. Unsure what things will look like event wise for me in the future, but I know I’m not the only one who had to scale back this year.
A peek at the very first contribution by @artofddraik.bsky.social to Paroxysm Vol 2 (so long ago!) as we gear up for their work in the upcoming Volume 5!
Working on my project for Volume 5 of Paroxysm Horror Anthology (published by @mystopress.bsky.social) and found my notes and storyboards for my first go around in Volume 2: Possession with my experimental comic project, “The Path”, which you should totally read.
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A peek at the very first contribution by @artofddraik.bsky.social to Paroxysm Vol 2 (so long ago!) as we gear up for their work in the upcoming Volume 5!
Just A Regular First Date accordion-folded mini now available at the fabulous distro @radiatorcomics.bsky.social along with most of my other comics & zines, come and get emmmm
We recently added Just A Regular First Date by @mystopress.bsky.social to our distro! Natalia kills at small quick gags that flip horror tropes on their heads! www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
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July 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just A Regular First Date accordion-folded mini now available at the fabulous distro @radiatorcomics.bsky.social along with most of my other comics & zines, come and get emmmm
It's been a while since I've shared a longer form comic from years past on here. "Muse" has to be one of my favorites, featured in Paroxysm Vol 2 back in...2020. Damn. It's kind of a love/hate letter to art school, inspired partly by a horrible rash I had on my hands during that time. (1/3)
June 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's been a while since I've shared a longer form comic from years past on here. "Muse" has to be one of my favorites, featured in Paroxysm Vol 2 back in...2020. Damn. It's kind of a love/hate letter to art school, inspired partly by a horrible rash I had on my hands during that time. (1/3)
MystoPress will be returning to Stone Soup Zine Fest August 9th in Wilmington, NC! Presented by the good folks at @milkandhoneycomics.bsky.social be prepared to see some amazing artists and fellow zinesters! I also hope to have a new thing printed by then. Hope to see you there!
June 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
MystoPress will be returning to Stone Soup Zine Fest August 9th in Wilmington, NC! Presented by the good folks at @milkandhoneycomics.bsky.social be prepared to see some amazing artists and fellow zinesters! I also hope to have a new thing printed by then. Hope to see you there!
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June 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In case you aren't aware, I have a newsletter! Receive monthly(ish) updates on newest releases, upcoming appearances and shop sales courtesy of Gumbo, our trusty mail slug. Currently working on archiving all my entries as this newsletter is now a year old! Sign up here www.mystopress.com/newsletter
@nomizu.bsky.social has a fantastically eerie comic getting featured in this year's anthology!
I’m so excited to be a part of this volume of Paroxysm! While you wait for this new volume you should follow @mystopress.bsky.social for updates and check out the older volumes… 👀
#indiecomics #horror #zines
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June 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@nomizu.bsky.social has a fantastically eerie comic getting featured in this year's anthology!
IT'S OFFICIAL: PAROXYSM VOL 5 will be launching on Kickstarter October 1st! Get ready for horror comics, art and writing centered around the theme of HAUNTED made by our largest lineup of contributors yet. If you want to support indie/marginalized creatives, stay tuned for more campaign info soon!
June 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
IT'S OFFICIAL: PAROXYSM VOL 5 will be launching on Kickstarter October 1st! Get ready for horror comics, art and writing centered around the theme of HAUNTED made by our largest lineup of contributors yet. If you want to support indie/marginalized creatives, stay tuned for more campaign info soon!
I blue pencil a LOT of thumbnails for stories I want to work on when I only have the time to quickly and loosely jot down ideas. These all sit in gigantic folders in my office. I recently pulled pages out from circa 2019 when I made a metric ton of these, and decided to pencil them in. (A thread)
May 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I blue pencil a LOT of thumbnails for stories I want to work on when I only have the time to quickly and loosely jot down ideas. These all sit in gigantic folders in my office. I recently pulled pages out from circa 2019 when I made a metric ton of these, and decided to pencil them in. (A thread)
Here's the second Animal Crossing coffee shop vibes zine! I haven't printed it yet save for a handful of test copies, but I hope to soon. If anyone has a favorite villager along with drink order/vibe ideas for them I'd love to hear! Merengue is featured here as a friend's favorite. (1/2)
May 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here's the second Animal Crossing coffee shop vibes zine! I haven't printed it yet save for a handful of test copies, but I hope to soon. If anyone has a favorite villager along with drink order/vibe ideas for them I'd love to hear! Merengue is featured here as a friend's favorite. (1/2)
Sometimes I make silly self-indulgent things that aren't as scary as the rest of my body of work. Like doodles of my favorite Animal Crossing villagers chilling at the coffee shop. Here's one of those zines, complete with what I think their drink orders and overall vibes would be. (1/2)
May 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sometimes I make silly self-indulgent things that aren't as scary as the rest of my body of work. Like doodles of my favorite Animal Crossing villagers chilling at the coffee shop. Here's one of those zines, complete with what I think their drink orders and overall vibes would be. (1/2)
Tonight I'll be in Durham with my zines! If you can please come out and support independent small creators!
May 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tonight I'll be in Durham with my zines! If you can please come out and support independent small creators!
Recently I found a box full of misprint copies of Paroxysm Vol 2 that are slightly smaller with darker pages than the regular books. No less chilling though, just some pages have details missing due to the darker print! I am listing them on my shop at a discount here www.etsy.com/listing/4302...
May 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Recently I found a box full of misprint copies of Paroxysm Vol 2 that are slightly smaller with darker pages than the regular books. No less chilling though, just some pages have details missing due to the darker print! I am listing them on my shop at a discount here www.etsy.com/listing/4302...
THIS FRIDAY I'll be in Durham for the Works On Paper Roundup at the Armory! I printed a few copies of my First Date mini and am bringing any remaining copies of my other zines (Paroxysm anthologies aplenty though!) And later in the year I'll be at the NC Art Museum for their Art Book Fair in Sept!
May 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
THIS FRIDAY I'll be in Durham for the Works On Paper Roundup at the Armory! I printed a few copies of my First Date mini and am bringing any remaining copies of my other zines (Paroxysm anthologies aplenty though!) And later in the year I'll be at the NC Art Museum for their Art Book Fair in Sept!
I don’t know how to tell you all this, but using reference photos to draw things you’ve spent decades of your life trying to master from memory gets comics drawn much faster. Forget trying to prove I can draw a car, bitch-ass Honda is getting a traced under layer and we’re MOVING ON goddamnit.
May 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I don’t know how to tell you all this, but using reference photos to draw things you’ve spent decades of your life trying to master from memory gets comics drawn much faster. Forget trying to prove I can draw a car, bitch-ass Honda is getting a traced under layer and we’re MOVING ON goddamnit.
JUST A REGULAR FIRST DATE is a comic I started almost exactly 1 year ago and only managed to finish it now. So glad i revisited it much later, the final result is all the better for it. It's a pretty silly idea, but do let me know if this is how online dating usually goes. I wouldn't know. (1/2)
April 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
JUST A REGULAR FIRST DATE is a comic I started almost exactly 1 year ago and only managed to finish it now. So glad i revisited it much later, the final result is all the better for it. It's a pretty silly idea, but do let me know if this is how online dating usually goes. I wouldn't know. (1/2)
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April 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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For days I've been working on this, based on the lyrics of Lingua Ignota, some of the most visceral and healing shit I've ever heard. For this one I focused on the track "I Who Bend The Tall Grasses". CW: viscera, bodily/religious trauma.
April 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For days I've been working on this, based on the lyrics of Lingua Ignota, some of the most visceral and healing shit I've ever heard. For this one I focused on the track "I Who Bend The Tall Grasses". CW: viscera, bodily/religious trauma.