ALTERNATIVE PRESS FAIR! Sunday 1st February 2009

Sunday 1st February 2009

St Aloysius Social Club

Phoenix Rd

London

NW1 1TA

(nearest tube Euston)

Ho ho ho! It’s a christmas comic!

Handmade and bound was a massive success yesterday. With the comics stall, exhibiting 15 artists’ excellent creations we had a great time and made a few quid to help with those darned christmas presents! Which brings me onto the subject of a christmas comix zine that i’m putting together just in time for christmas it’ll be called “wake up to christmas” and will cover all aspects of the festive period from gripes and grumbles to joyeux noel in the form of comic strips, articles, stories or whatever you fancy. the deadline is the weekend of 15th november, so email me at jimigherkin(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk if you’re interested.

Also, keep an eye out here as we are planning another event for february! Yay! See ya,

jimi

HANDMADE & BOUND BOOK ART, ZINES AND COMIX EVENT

Here’s the write up from their website:

Handmade & Bound is an independent fair with affordable,
handmade artists’ books, comics and zines. It was conceived partly in
response to the fact that there will be no London Artists book fair at
the ICA in 2008, and further in response to the changes to the nature
of that event when it returns in 2009 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
So we decided to make our own.

The spaces are extremely limited, and the response has been
incredible already. So we are trying to find ways to maximise the usage
of the space.

The event we want to have will be based on handmade but affordable books and zines. We want to achieve a good balance between artists books and zines (in the DIY punk tradition).

Also, we’re gonna have a comics table and a zine table, so mosey on down and check it out!

see ya!

handmadeandbound.com

Al Maceachern produces comic jam, yeah!

I received a lovely package the other day from comics genius Al Maceachern of the comics jam drawn by some of the artists at the comics and zine event. Check it out here or get in touch with Al for some printed copies amdrawing.co.uk.

Love all round yo, keep your eyes open for the next event…

Jimi

Pictures!

They’re a bit all over the place but so was the day! Take care y’all. All pics available here.

Big thanks to you all!

Well what a great time we had! There was a steady stream of interested visitors, whether
they were friends of exhibitors, people who had seen a flyer or one of our links or listings
and those that just happened by. We had zine readings which added a moment of intimacy to
the proceedings and gave us something to think about. There was a variety of comics and
zines there and the time flew by as we created a comic strip together and a collaborative
drawing(so keep an eye out for those).

If you missed it, then not to worry, we’ve already got something in the pipeline for later
in the year so watch this space!

Thanks to everyone who came down to show off their stuff on the day (see the updated link on
the right) and to everyone who helped in putting it together, whether it was moral support
or physical labour(or both)! Big shout outs to Peter Lally for being optimistic energetic
and a general source of supportive vibes, plus his time and effort in flyering and
promoting, Sean Duffield for supportive words and a mailing list as long as my arm! Al
Maceachern for making flyers and organising the comic strip, josceline fenton for putting
the word right out there and helping with the flyering, Alex Fitch for getting us on air and
editting the “y’knows..” out! John Anderson, Giovanni Spinella, Richard Hayes and the Comics
Creators Guild for their support which put my mind at rest and was really touching. Chloe
McCormack for her really personal reading and Chris for reading his article about student
life in Durham. Shabs, Zarina and Cella for flyering, giving up their time. Also to everone
who took flyers and told a few people about us including (but not exclusively) Gosh!,
Orbital and the Camden comics stall.

As well as everyone who came along and added to the
atmosphere, see you next time!

ps pics up here soon

COMICS AND ZINE EVENT IS GO GO GO!!!

Yo people! Here goes! I hope you’re all ready! If you haven’t caught up yet here’s all the info

Pens, pencils and photocopiers!- A comics and zine event

Saturday 19th July 2008

11:00am – 7:00pm

The Plough
27 Museum Street
London
WC1A 1LH

Bringing together comics and zine creators from all over the country to showcase their work in London in a celebration of self publishing. Lots of activities on the day including live drawing- take part in drawing a collaborative comic, and hear some great zine readings! All this right next door to London’s famous Cartoon Museum. What a great way to start the summer holidays!

Check out the links on the right for travel information etc

Nearly there, just one last push!

Hey everyone, we’re nearly there! There’ll be a day of flyering on the Saturday 12th July, just meet up at the Plough at 1pm. Also, I’ve had lots of ideas from people for activities, zine readings, group drawings etc and will be posting a kind of timetable soon, so let me know when you want to do your thing!

Take care everyone,

jimi

x

Al Maceachern’s event flyer!

Al Maceachern has taken matters into his own hands like Mel Gibson in Ransom (only MUCH cooler!) and produced his own flyer! What a dude! Well done that man! Check out his other cool work here.

Flyering & drinks in London!

We need you to help make this event really special, so why not help promote it by doing a bit of flyering and comics and zine event related chit chat in london! The date is set for Saturday 12th July 2008, just one week before the event takes place! The idea is to meet up somewhere in London then for each of us to take an area and meet the wonderful public to tell them about our event, I’ll be making a list of comic and record shops, art galleries, cafes &c. That I think would be good places in each area, but of course any ideas would be gratefully accepted. So whether you’re in North, East, South, or West, get in touch and let us know what you can do.

Meeting @

The Plough (maps etc in the link on the right), 27 Museum Street, London at one o’clock in the afternoon.

If you can’t make it then you could print the flers below and distribute them til your heart’s content!