Hello there intrepid travelers!
So after much procrastinating here is our rundown on the 2009 Format Festival in the lovely city of Adelaide.
After arriving on Friday the 13th at an indecently early hour, we convened at 145 Hindley Street for the Zinester Walking Tour where we were informed of several dubious facts regarding Adelaide’s founding fathers, [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 23, 2009
Adelaide you got it going on…
March 22, 2009
Wollongong City Gallery Zine Fair
Wollongong City Gallery Zine Fair and Independent Artists’ Market is on again! Last year was its debut into ‘Excellent Zine Fair events’ (I made that up, but if there were such a category it would in there.) The event is part of Youth Week 2009.
We attended last year and had a great old time rolling around our [...]
March 22, 2009
smARTarts 2009
smARTarts Youth Arts & Cultural festival is on again this year and its sure to be a blast! Last year Amanda and I manned a stall at the festival and had a wonderful time. This year we will have another stall and I (fetus) will also have some artworks in the Exhibition (Opening night is Wednesday [...]
March 17, 2009
Dave Roche at Black Rose Tonight
Dave Roche will be doing another zine reading tonight at the Black Rose on Enmore rd tonight at 7pm before he flies off to Brisbane tomorrow. If you’re in Brisbane than you are in for a treat because Dave will be doing a reading at TurnStyle Community Centre.
I’ve listed a whole bunch of Dave’s zines [...]
March 16, 2009
Dave Roche zine talk Tonight
Salutations Earthlings!
While in Adelaide at the wonderful Format Festival (we’ll update on this later) we were lucky enough to meet the amazing, talented and all round nice guy Dave Roche, who has been doing a zine trek around Australia with his zines and book ‘On Subbing.’ Tonight Dave is coming to Sydney to give a [...]
March 9, 2009
Newtown Art Markets
Attention crafters and artist out there making wears to sell with no where to show/sell them. Never fear, an Artist Market is here!
That’s right, this coming Saturday 14th March 2009 there will be an artist market at the Martin Luther King mural area on King St, Newtown. The art market will be different to the [...]
March 9, 2009
La Fanzinothèque
When in France go to FANZINO! We have no idea why or how, but we recieved a bunch of flyers in the mail from Fanzino. Fanzinothèque is the first large company classification and archiving of all small press (music, comics, writing, etc…) with an average of 150 fanzines received per month.
This year Fanzino celebrate their [...]
March 9, 2009
Epitaph For My Heart #5
Seems our young Panda has been into either some kind of voodoo magic or has been sleeping with a rabbits head under her pillow because she’s back with ANOTHER new zine!
Epitaph for My Heart #5 is another brilliant zine in the series of Epitaph. This issue you will tell you about sleezy pick-ups lines and [...]
March 9, 2009
100th Post! Unfortunately not about world domination…
That’s right its our 100th post, I guess that’s all I really need to say. Now on to business, we have got heaps of zine trades over the past week, but unfortunately I am not in possession of all them, so don’t feel slighted if I haven’t mentioned your zine, I will eventually.
Comparisons Between [...]
March 2, 2009
MCA ZINE FAIR 2009: BOOK NOW!
Last year the MCA put on a gigantic zine fair and they are doing it again this year. There will be less tables this year so you had better get in quick and book a stall ASAP. Panda and I have already booked, so expect to see a colourful Tiny Paper Hearts stall with a [...]
