The zine fair season is definitely picking up in Sydney with Kinokuniya starting off with its zine fair a couple of weeks ago. The MCA’s zine fair is on today in collaboration with the Writer’s Festival happening around the same time. I will be lurking around the MCA and issue 3 of Sharp and Pointy… Continue reading MCA Zine Fair
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Craft, zines and craft zine
A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [ziːn], “zeen”) is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock. … In recent years a… Continue reading Craft, zines and craft zine
The zinefest that never was
I was supposed to be at the Manchester zinesfest last Saturday, but through a bizarre combination of natural disasters and plane trouble I ended up spending five hours in the airport and arriving twenty minutes before closing time. Very disappointed, not to mention cranky as hell and there’s no way in hell I’ll ever go… Continue reading The zinefest that never was
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