We interrupt your regular zine programming to bring you this exciting update: ZINE FEST HOUSTON IS GOING TO PORTLAND FOR THE PORTLAND ZINE SYMPOSIUM THIS SUMMER!
Update time!!!
OKAY, SO…last Friday I was asked by a fellow zinester to be a guest speaker for a class that she helps out with at a Montessori school here in Houston. Every quarter they investigate a specific theme and the theme for this quarter was zines! I wish I had a class like that when I was growing up. I would have enjoyed high school so much more. Anyway, the talk went very well and the teens were super interested in Zine Fest Houston/zines in general. After I talked about my background and how I became involved with zines, I talked about Zine Fest Houston and what my role was as one of the organizers as well as tips for beginning zinesters. I asked the teens if they would share their zines with me and most of them were so enthusiastic about sharing. This one girl showed me these one-page zines that she had made which were “motivational bathroom posters.” They were really awesome. I hope they decide to table at ZFH as a group.
The other great news that I’m extremely excited about is that ZFH might be tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium this year! We are in contact with the organizers of the PZS and they are apparently voting on our table sometime this week. If we get in, that means I have to buy a ticket to Portland soon, haha. The Symposium will be August 10-11 at the Abridge Event Center in downtown Portland. I’ll probably fly in a day or so earlier so that I can explore downtown and visit with people etc. Eeeek! Okay, I’m done, haha.
I think those are pretty much the only updates I have so far. We’re gearing up for the Pop Shop in a couple of weeks, so expect more social media blasts from us soon. We won’t bother y’all too much though. :3
Hello People of the Artworld! If you are unfamiliar with Zine Fest Houston below is a little bit about our organization: Zine Fest Houston is an event dedicated to promoting zines, mini-comics, and other forms of small press, alternative, underground, and DIY media and art. It is also a gr…
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported Zine Fest Houston by buying a compilation this weekend at the Houston Indie Book Fest! We have to make a few changes to the compilation, so this is only the first edition. Anyway, it was a fun day and we ended up selling 18 comps in all! Huzzah! I’ll be updating soon about our next event, which I believe is the Pop Shop in May.
In the meantime, here are a few articles and things that I find interesting:
1. Brooklyn Zine Fest at Public Assembly in the NYT
2. Literary mags are becoming must-reads
3. Off Cuts zine workshop with It’s Nice That
4. Artists’ self-publishing: where the digital and handmade coexist
