About Joe Carlough:

Hello! I’m Joe, a queer artist from Philadelphia. I run the zine press and record label Displaced Snail. My partner Katie Haegele and I run a zine library and show space out of our of home in East Falls, Philadelphia called the East Falls Zine Reading Room, in which we keep a catalogued collection of over 1,600 zines. We’ve toured nationally with our zines, and you can find my work in galleries, distros, and small businesses, on musician’s merch tables, as background pieces in TV shows & movies, and around the way. Since making my first zine in 2008, I’ve designed and printed 27,588 copies of 312 unique zines; 3,584 copies of 47 releases on cassette and record; and 3,100 copies of 2 of my own works released by other publishers. Most are of my own work or are collaborative, the others were for-hire for poets and writers, organizations like Joyful Noise Recordings and Portland State University, and musicians like Tall Tall Trees, Serengeti, Spencer Moody, Deerhoof, and No Joy. Keep an eye out for my zines as set pieces in the movie Adam (2019) and final episode of the third season of Awkwafina is Nora from Queens!

In November of 2018, I started a DIY record label called This & That Tapes, which I’ve since folded back into Displaced Snail. The label focuses on cassette releases because cassettes are the zine of the music world: they’re cute, handmade, and I can do it all from my home studio - though I’ve recently branched out into some vinyl and lathe cuts. All digital downloads from the label are now and will always be free, so go give them a listen. Here’s a super rad interview I did with WXPN’s The Key, a feature about cassettes in the Sunday Edition of the Philly Inquirer, a quarantine check-up with Magnet Magazine, and I was included on an episode of WHYY’s Movers & Makers, talking about the East Falls Zine Reading Room.

If you'd like to email me, head to the contact page or just write to me at joseph at displacedsnail dot com.