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Another cool zine fair coming up.
USURP Zine fair Saturday 28th April 2012.
- We are currently putting together details of how many tables will be available on the day and will keep you updated.
- Tables are free (but limited) and we are looking for applicants to take up these seats! To apply, please be in touch with your details and web link so we can allocate tables.
- We also have a number of slots for workshop demos. We are particularly interested in talks on- tips for self publishing and working with printers and screen-print demos. But if you have any ideas for workshops or talks, please be in touch with a summary.
- We currently have tables assigned to our friends Walrus Zines and Other Asias. We will be updating the list of contributors with tables over the next month before out progamme is out!
This is our flyer! Please respond email, print and share! Thank you, we are very excited and hope you are too!
This looks fun if you’re in the Manchester area. (Salford Zine Library: Fanzine Convention featuring SZL film and Q&A)
Just a heads up if you like good music writing - they’re ending tomorrow! I’m not looking to make any money on these, just cover postage and save them from the recycling bin. I also have a couple of years worth of US Nylon magazines I’ll be listing in a few weeks. If you’re looking for any issues give me a shout.
Future Tense
Subtitled ‘A comic compilation about “2012” and/or “the future,” featuring 11 different artists’, which is exactly what it is. I don’t normally buy comics because I’m more of a words person than a pictures person but I enjoyed this a lot and two of my favourites were almost text free, by Edie Fake and Caroline Paquita. There’s also a great mostly-text piece by one of my favourite zinesters Al Burian. Not everything was to my taste but that’s the risk with compilations.
My favourite thing about the zine though is how it looks - it’s printed on a risograph duplicator mostly in blue ink so there’s some lovely print effects (although I trained as a printmaker so I may be biased). The yellow pages in the middle are a nice touch too.
Well worth your money and still available from Caroline Paquita’s Etsy shop, along with an illustrated calendar.
(photos from her Etsy listing - it’s too dark and foggy here)
I’ve been sorting out all my zines lately so that they might fit into, um, three boxes. There’s 20 years of zines here - I’ll start picking some out to feature here soon. Recognise any?
Reading Outing #2 - Astronomy Now
This wasn’t a proper reading outing, more that I had too many errands in town and had to stop for lunch. Luckily I had the latest issue of Astronomy Now in my bag.
I’ve been a space nerd since I was very small and even though I can keep up with all the space news online it’s nice to sit down and read some proper articles. This issue had some good stuff on the Moon and nice article about indoor astronomy - I didn’t know hanging out the window with my telescope was so frowned upon! I wish the magazine was more fun but I like it more than the others I’ve read.
Eat, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow
(I had a strange chicken sandwich with pine nuts. Will not be returning any time soon)
Blimey - someone is scanning in pages from the entire run of Select magazine. I think I read pretty much every issue of this. (thanks to James for the tip!)
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