Hello! I’m Joe, a queer artist currently based in Philadelphia, PA. I am one half of Consonant Collective, an arts collective based in Philadelphia that runs a record label and a micro-press, together with my parter Katie Haegele. 

I am a DIY enthusiast and lathe cutter, and like to make records in my home studio. I use two different machines to lathe cut the records, a 1936 Presto 6DSP and a 1947 Rek-O-Kut Challenger. The machines work by using a sapphire stylus to push the grooves, and thus the music, into the records. You can read more about the process if you’re interested here.

My first book, The Queer Affirmations Coloring Book, was published by Microcosm Publishing in 2023, and my second book Queer Horror: Fun and Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media, co-written with Gina Brandolino, is out now, also through Microcosm.

New Releases (as of August 19, 2025)

- Queer Horror: Fun and Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media
- How to Have Fun Rockhounding
- How to Have Fun at the Ren Faire
- I’m in a Noise Band by Katie Haegele + Mother Love 8” Record by assholeknife
- HEXERCISE VHS by Matt Cannon + Soundtrack on 12” Record

Stats (as of August 19, 2025):

Zines assembled: 32,620
Published works: 5,120
Cassettes duped: 2,908
Records pressed & embossed: 2,876

Residencies, Press, & Other Cool Shit:

2025
- Vendor at American Librarian’s Association (ALA) Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
- Interview with Other Record Labels
- Record Residency with MovieJawn Magazine
- Super-limited records cut with The Dwarves

2024
- Cloudcroft Studios Artist Residency (sponsored by Tioga Arts Council) (Owego, NY)
- RVK Art Book Fair (Reykjavík, Iceland)
- Interview with Rowan University
- Record-making Workshop at The Athenæum of Philadelphia
- Record-making Workshop at Swarthmore University

2023
- Vienna Fanzineist Art Book & Zine Fair (Vienna, Austria)
- Interview with Microcosm Publishing
- Interview with It’s Always Halloween Podcast

2022
- UNESCO City of Literature Writing residency (Reykjavík, Iceland)
- Interview with Microcosm Publishing

2021
- Interview on NPR’s The Colin McEnroe Show
- Feature in Chestnut Hill Local

2020
- Interview with WXPN’s The Key Magazine
- Interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Interview with Magnet Magazine
- Feature on WHYY’s Movers & Makers
- Feature in Dosage Magazine

2019
- Zine Vitrine Reading at DobraVaga (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

For events & general information, follow me on Instagram, and feel free to get in touch if you’d like.

Here’s a short film I made about the cats in my neighborhood:

Ann Arbor, MI: Vault of Midnight
Asheville, NC: Downtown Books & News
Berkeley, CA: Pegasus Books Downtown
Brooklyn, NY: Quimby’s Bookstore
Chicago, IL: Quimby’s Bookstore
Jersey City, NJ: Word Bookstores
Jersey City, NJ: The Word Distribution
Lansdowne, PA: The Scrappy Cat
Philadelphia, PA: The South Street Art Mart
Philadelphia, PA: Vault + Vine
Portland, OR: Antiquated Future
Portland, OR: Microcosm Publishing

Displaced Snail was founded in December of 2008. Rad.