#South London Comic Zine Fair

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Webzine 02 is out on Patreon and with it the list of moots and faves who are tabling this summer in the US and Europe (that I could find...)

I would love to do this again next year! So if I forgot a friend, let me know if you intend to table next year, I would love to shout you out.

This month on the webzine: Commissions (BCS, Disco Elysium), the Graphic novel pitches I am working on, Moodboards, and artist spotlight!

You can read the webzine for any amount donated.

[fanzines]

Gorgeous little poster for the South London Comic And Zine Fair, happening today in London, England, U.K. Follow them on Instagram, to stay up to date with other London zine events.

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South London Comic and Zine Fair returns after four year hiatus next month

The free South London Comic and Zine Fair (aka SLCZF) returns on Sunday 10th July 2022, for its third outing at Stanley Arts (formerly Stanley Halls) – after a four year hiatus. The Fair offers a gathering of creators and collectives of all shapes, sizes, stories, genres and moods, brought together at an iconic South London venue, for a marketplace style event. Award-winning cartoonists,…

[caveartfair]

7 Zines That Helped People Work through Mental Health Issues

For the uninitiated, a “zine” is often defined as a self-published, small-circulation magazine that documents the happenings of a subculture or a niche topic. But in practice, the art of the zine is governed by “non-rules.” A zine can be consist of 40 pages, or just one. It can be entirely made up of pictures or feature no pictures at all. It can make sense, but it doesn’t have to.

During the 1980s, zine-making often involved taking a pile of collages, poems, essays, images, or doodles; lining them up, just so, over the glass of a Xerox machine; then making copies, and stapling together a series of printed pages like this. Copies might be shared with friends or left in a stack at a local record store. Today, publishing a zine can be as simple as one person creating a web page or as elaborate as a small editorial team collaborating on a printed periodical with a cover star. But the non-rules haven’t changed: If you make it and publish it yourself, and it has text, images, or both, you can probably call it a zine.

Perhaps because of this flexibility, artists and other creatives have found in zines a judgment-free space, and for some, it’s a prime medium for discussing serious, personal issues, like mental health. This point was made late last month when an art exhibition in India, organized by one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, Dr. Vikram Patel, illustrated how zines can help break down the stigma surrounding mental health. To explore the topic further, we share below seven examples of such zines, with insights from their creators on how these creative projects helped them navigate their own experiences with mental health.

For Girls Who Cry Often (2016)

Excerpt from Lina Wu, For Girls Who Cry Often, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Excerpt from Lina Wu, For Girls Who Cry Often, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Lina Wu, a Toronto-based artist and illustrator, collected stories and testimonies from over 20 contributors to create the 40-page zine For Girls Who Cry Often. “It’s a nice feeling to be a part of something bigger,” she said of the collaborative creation process.

For the zine, Wu focused on exploring mental health through a femme lens and let her own experiences inform her process. “For much of my life, I noticed that ‘getting emotional’ was seen as a girly or feminine thing—meaning it is often dismissed as dramatic and frivolous,” she explained.

Wu created a dreamy pink atmosphere to backdrop the contributors’ candid and sometimes dark confessions. The zine’s adolescent tone is a nod to the fanzines of the 1990s that gave teenage girls a voice. In fact, Wu points out that zines are accessible art objects because people can easily share and buy them (readers buying copies of For Girls Who Cry Often are encouraged to pay what they can afford).

An interdisciplinary artist, Wu experiments with poetry, illustrations, comics, photography, and design in her zines. And while she doesn’t bring For Girls Who Cry Often to zine fairs anymore, she noted that making it has helped her grow as an artist.

Fuck This Life (2005–present)

Excerpt from Dave Sander, Fuck This Life, 2018. Courtesy of 8ball Community.

Excerpt from Dave Sander, Fuck This Life, 2018. Courtesy of 8ball Community.

Today, Dave Sander (a.k.a. “Weirdo Dave”) is a visual artist known for collaborations with Vans and Supreme. But back in 2005, Sander was cramming newspaper and magazine clippings into his desk drawer almost out of habit. “After I got a lot,” Sander said, “I thought it would be time to make a zine.”

Flipping through the pages of any issue of Fuck This Life is like witnessing the end-of-life montage people describe after a near-death experience. For Sander, zine-making can be an aggressively cathartic process: “You get to kill shit in your own way,” he offered.

Fuck This Life is a stream-of-consciousness compilation of found imagery—like the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb or porn stars mid-orgasm—the result of Sander channeling his pain to “create a beautiful, loud, brutal fantasyland.” He refers to the zine ashis deepest, darkest best friend. “It was my reason for living, so I guess it saved me,” he said.

Grief Poems (2017)

Excerpt from Chloe Zelkha, Grief Poems, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

Excerpt from Chloe Zelkha, Grief Poems, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

Chloe Zelkha describes her father’s death as a “sudden, heartbreaking shock.” Within months, she’d printed out a collection of poems she found in books or discovered through teachers and grieving groups, then spread them out on her kitchen table. There, the Berkeley-based Zelkha began painting onto the pages, cranking out one after another in succession, without drafting or revising. As she found more poems, she created more pages. The result was Grief Poems, a 26-page exercise in letting go.

Zelkha’s introduction to zines was Project NIA’s The Prison Industrial Complex Is… (2010–11), a straightforward explainer zine with minimal text and simple black-and-white illustrations. She sees zines are an inherently raw medium. “That permission that’s kind of baked into the form,” she said, “is liberating.”

Poems by everyone from Kobayashi Issa to W.S. Merwin are coated in Zelkha’s uninhibited brushstrokes. She compared her process with child’s play or dreaming: “If you watch a kid play on their own for long enough, you’ll see lots of fears, feelings, ideas eeking their way into their game, and then transforming in real time. Or when we dream, and different people, places, concerns visit us in weird ways.”

Identity Crisis (2017)

Librarian–slash–zine-maker Poliana Irizarry is probably better known for their autobiographical black-and-white zines, like My Left Foot (2016) and Training Wheels (2013). But with Identity Crisis, the San Jose–based artist seemed the most vulnerable they’ve ever been. “My abuela suffered many miscarriages at the hands of American doctors, and her surviving offspring also struggle with reproductive issues,” Irizarry wrote. “Many Puerto Ricans do.”

Before the birth control pill was approved by the FDA in 1960, nearly 1,500 Puerto Rican women were unknowingly part of one of the earliest human trials for the pill. Between the 1930s and ’70s, nearly one-third of Puerto Rico’s female population of childbearing age had undergone “the operation,” often without being properly educated on its effects.

Irizarry made Identity Crisis,their first full-color art zine,during a South Bay DIY Zine Collective workshop. Personal and family histories intersect across fragmented pictures of succulents and Southwestern landscapes in a half-prose, half-verse journey through Irizarry’s identity. In just a few pages, Irizarry wrestles with intergenerational trauma and their own post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Irizarry speaks directly to their oppressors, defiant and resolute: “I live in spite of you.”

Shit I Made When I Was Sad (a.k.a. sad zine)(2018)

Excerpt from Shit I Made When I Was Sad a.k.a. sad zine, 2018. Courtesy of Malin Rantzer and Anna Persmark.

Excerpt from Shit I Made When I Was Sad a.k.a. sad zine, 2018. Courtesy of Malin Rantzer and Anna Persmark.

It started when Swedish friends Malin Rantzer and Anna Persmark were showing each other drawings and writing in journals they’d made while they were feeling low. “I noticed that some of the stuff we’d drawn resembled the other’s drawing,” Malin remembered, “and I think at that point we realized we should make a zine about being sad.” Rantzer turned to social media and put out a “swenglish/svengelska” (Swedish-English) call for submissions.

The then–Sweden-based duo (Persmark has since relocated to Portland, Oregon) made sad zine by cutting out and taping or pasting their artworks onto new pages, then scanning them and folding them into a booklet. Persmark sees zine-making as one of the most intimate ways of sharing her feelings; she goes out in person to share copies with her community.

“Even if all the submitters did not know each other,” Malin explained, “they were all friends’ friends or friends’ friends’ friends, and maybe that also can contribute to an atmosphere where it is safe to be vulnerable.” While making the individual works helped them heal, Persmack noted that the process of compiling the zine proved to be revelatory: “Sadness is both intensely personal and universal,” she said.

Sula Collective Issue 3: Mental Health (2015)

Oyinda Yemi-Omowum, An Emotional Response to Colours, 2015. Excerpt from Sula Collective Issue 3: Mental Health, 2015. Courtesy of Sula Collective.

Sula Collective calls itself an online “[maga]zine for and by people of colour.” Initially an exclusively online zine—different from a blog in name and ethos—it reflected its Gen-Y creators and their new ideas of what a zine could be. It’s one of the more visible new zines, among many, with the purpose of turning an online network into an IRL community. Ever since they founded it in 2015, co-creators Kassandra Piñero and Sophia Yuet See knew they wanted to dedicate an issue to mental health.

Sula Collective Issue 3: Mental Health sheds light on how teenagers of color navigate their parents’ more conservative understanding of mental health issues. “We wanted to discuss the things we kept hidden from our parents or couldn’t talk about with friends,” Piñero and Yuet See explained.

The issue was published in November 2015 and serves as a record of how today’s young artists are taking intersectional approaches to dealing with mental health issues. For example, Oyinda, a then–16-year-old Nigerian girl living in London, submitted a color-coded collage of self-portraits and textures called An Emotional Response to Colours. The literary submissions are paired with original artworks, sourced from Sula Collective’ssubmissions inbox, which range from digital art to watercolors. When asked about what makes zines a unique medium, Piñero and Yuet See answered, simply, “control.”

Shrinks: A Retrospective (2018)

Excerpt from Karla Keffer, Shrinks: A Retrospective, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Excerpt from Karla Keffer, Shrinks: A Retrospective, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Shrinks is part of Karla Keffer’s zine series “The Real Ramona,” where she discusses being diagnosed with and treated for PTSD after almost 30 years in therapy. The Mississippi-based artist found a sense of direction for her work, and Shrinks in particular, through learning about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.

This phenomenon (which gave daytime television hosts the ratings of their dreams) involved psychologists across America fueling a nationwide hysteria by diagnosing patients with satanic ritual abuse (SRA) and sending them off to tough-love camps.

“Shrinks are human and fallible,” Keffer explained. “I had put a great deal of trust in their infallibility.” In Shrinks, Keffer created profiles of every therapist she’s ever had—like Julie the gaslighter and Jill the racist. Survivors of abuse are often—and paradoxically—burdened with the task of seeing through the abuse and saving themselves. “One of the things I found difficult was sorting out what had happened with each therapist—like, did she/he really say that outlandish thing?” Keffer recalled.

So much of zine-making is about reclaiming—reclaiming the freedom of expression, reclaiming space, reclaiming the past. And, as Keffer put it, “you’ve made your own book, which is not something you experience when you’re writing short stories and sending them to lit mags.” If any one thing can define zines as a medium, it’s the unbridled control it gives artists.

from Artsy News

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Curriculum - Biografía - CV

Muriel Bellini. 1974. Buenos Aires. Argentina. Licenciada en Artes Visuales IUNA. Dibujante y editora de Fanzines.

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FANZINES El Mentalista N°1-10 / 2008 - 2018 / Editorial Muriel Bellini Fanzine Witold Gombrowicz - Cartel de Tipos Moviles. Editorial SUPERABUNDANS HAUT. Buenos Aires. 2009 INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL About Witold Gombrowicz work --- EKSPERYMENTALNYCH FILMÓW KRÓTKOMETRAŻOWYCH O TWÓRCZOŚCI WITOLDA GOMBROWICZA - http://witoldfest.blogspot.com.ar/ Fanzine WITOLDFEST - Cartel de Tipos Moviles. Editorial BOQUERON. Buenos Aires. 2009 Ficticia la adivina con Mantrul (Santiago Castagnino). 2013 En esta laguna se bañan los héroes con Mantrul (Santiago Castagnino). Editorial El santo. 2013 Fueron las plateadas cruces de Black Sabbath y su resplandor. 2013 Araña bebe #1 y #2. Editorial Muriel Bellini. 2014 Mano roja.  Editorial Muriel Bellini. 2014 John Waters. Cómo tener relaciones en un baño de aeropuesrto sin que se note.  2013 Tiras piedras a una lata, silbás. Editorial Burlesque. Bs. As. 2014 Squish, dibujos míos con textos de Gustavo Von Chuyo. #1 - 2015; #2 - 2016; #3 - 2017 Sunday, Texto y dibujos. Editorial Muriel Bellini. 2016 Domingo, Texto y dibujos. Editorial Muriel Bellini. 2016 Transtec. Editorial Muriel Bellini. 2017 La mascara de fu manchu. Editorial Muriel Bellini. 2017 Diez estrategias de manupulación medíatica. Chomski. Editorial Spiritoso Risografía de Federico Paladino . 2017 Exes. dibujos míos con textos de Gustavo Von Chuyo. editorial WAI. Buenos Aires. 2017

FANZINES COLECTIVOS La cosca fanzine. Especial sobre la Coca Sarli. A.A.V.V. 2013 Luces calientes atraviesan mi mente. A.A.V.V. 2013 Calendarios Piñas. A.A.V.V. 2014, 2015, 2016 Calendario Webcomic A.A.V.V. 2015 Mamá mamaá. A.A.V.V. Editorial El Santo. 2015 Pornogore,  flip con Judith Asilos. 2015 Piñas dibujos. #1, #2. A.A.V.V. Risografía. 2015, 2016 Flasherito A.A.V.V. Argentina. 2015 - 2016 Carboncito #19 - #20A.A.V.V. Peru. 2015, 2017 Suspect Device #4 , #5 A.A.V.V. USA. 2015, 2016 Bebabebomag. A.A.V.V. Grecia. 2015 El Temerario #9 A.A.V.V. España. 2015 Basura, Gráfica. Santiamén, A.A.V.V. México. 2015 Chalupa A.A.V.V. Colombia. 2014 Kovra 6 A.A.V.V. Ediciones Valientes. España. 2016 Zafarrancho A.A.V.V. Argentina. 2016 Taco de ojo A.A.V.V. México. 2015 Peleas con palos Con Guillermo Valarino. Uruguay- Argentina. 2016 Iconos Rusos A.A.V.V. (sobre la banda LRHDP) 2016 El mentalista  A.A.V.V. #2, #3  Buenos Aires. 2016 CORTO PUNZANTE, A.A.V.V. de Ediciones de Cero. Buenos Aires. 2016 Summer Break Project 2016 Zine, de Plus Zéro con Guillermo Valarino. Altos Pirineos; 2016 Las Billeteras, de Proyecto Piraña. A.A.V.V. Buenos Aires. 2016 El mato un policia motorizado Fanzine. Buenos Aires. 2017 Pornobrotser, con marco toXXXico. 2016 Snuff comicx #9. Italia. 2015 Alkom'X #8 y 9, de Le Garage L. A.A.V.V. Forcalquier. Francia. 2017 Bilderberg A.A.V.V.  USA. 2017 Eatenbyducks, serigrafico. A.A.V.V. Francia. 2017 KOVRA 6 EDICIONES VALIENTES. España. 2016 ALIVE - Debuting at Toronto art book fair 2017 Tom Davis, Jeffrey Krikscuin, Muriel Bellini, Bea Parsons 44 pages / b/w Curated and published Jon Vaughn for Ecstasy Editions. Canada. 2017 

TRABAJOS EDITORIALES Clitoris. Argentina. 2015 Marvin. Online. Mexico. 2016 Fierro 2 números de la etapa volúmen 3 (Argentina) 2017 CINEFANIA. Libro de oro cinefania Monstruos. Ediciones Dario Lavia. Volúmen 5. Argentina. 2016 Club Costurero Eléctrico, A.A.V.V. de Adriana Lozano. Bogotá; Online. 2016 Burlesque 2014. Argentina Zero 2016. Francia Wai comics 2016. (Reedicion 2018) Argentina El Santo su diario 2013 - 2017. Argentina TIKTOK COMICS 2017 Online. España KATMANDI 2017 Online. Argentina nuevosdiscosnuevashistorietas.tumblr.com . Argentina Vamos las pibas - Fanzine colectivo 2017 El Volcan. Municipalidad de Rosario. 2017

EDITORIALES Cobra verde. Arg. Michaux. Arg. Cinefania. Arg. Municipalidad de Rosario. Arg. Musaraña Editora. Arg. Wai comics. Arg. Carboncito. Perú

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DIBUJOS PARA BANDCAMPS Mariano Rodriguez Tambor Horizontal Black Pope Santy Z (vinilo fisico tambien) Morte lenta Vladimiro Bellini Tarantula 2016

EXPOCIONES y FERIAS Galeria LDF 2011 Expo Fantasmas Espacio Una Casa San Telmo 2011 Fantasmas, espacio Niceta. (Febrero, Bs. As.) -  (marzo Brasil) 2012 Expo viñetas sueltas Cafe Roberto Arlt El pan dulce del sesante. Biblioteca Nacional - Unla.Expo colectiva IUNA BsAs 2013 Expo colectiva CCBorges 2013 Expo tapas de libros Libreria Fedro. 2013 Taco de ojo. Los Angeles. 2015 Ciclo de experiencias en la galeria Cecilia Caballero. Con Lux Lindner BsAs 2015 Viñetas sueltas 2015, 2016, 2017 FERIA TIJUANA - PATIO EL LICEO 2015 Mueran Humanos y Mujercitas Terror - Niceto Club (Buenos Aires; 2016) Molly Nilsson + Ménage à Trois - Club Cultural Matienzo (Buenos Aires; 2016) Edición de mayo de Gran Barata / Feria de arte - CHIN CHIN (Buenos Aires; 2016) arteBA Edición 25 - La Rural Predio Ferial (Buenos Aires; 2016) FERIA PARAGUAY 2016 F. D. A. C. M. A., de Lino Divas: Hazlo tú mismo - Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires; 2016) Traditional Sushi Noise 3 - Círculo Felino (Buenos Aires; 2016) Corporatio 2016 - Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (Buenos Aires; 2016) Primer Festizine - Teatro La Higuera (Viedma; 2016) The Underdog Gallery Fair. London, UK 2016 Cierre de Temporada 1 de Radar Visuales - Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires; 2016) South Parade Fair, Frome, BA11 1, United Kingdom (2016) Sudestada CCRecoleta (2107) Cu Chi / Plus Zéro - Studio La Quy Tung (Ciudad Ho Chi Minh; 2017) arteBA Edición 26 - La Rural Predio Ferial (Buenos Aires; 2017) PROA - PULSO - 2017Comicopolis 2017Dibujados 2016, 2017 Junto a Marco Toxico y David Paleo expo en YAPEYU GALERIA. NOVIEMBRE 2017 CC Recoleta. Dibujo Erotico - Enero 2018 (no hay catálogo) CC Recoleta. Dibujo y Mujeres aca y Ahora - Mujeres dbujantes Argentinas y su historia- Marzo 2018 (no hay catálogo) CC Recoleta. LATINO TOONS. Dibujantes latinoamericanos de historieta. Mayo 2018 (no hay catálogo, saldra un libro por el curador Juancho Nava, en México) Latino Toons Taco de Ojo The Pink Book. 2018 México. Vamos las Pibas Colectivo

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Dalston Comic (creators) Club are delighted to be part of this years South London Comic & Zine Fair @slczf Saturday 14th July

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Gareth Brookes

Gareth Brookes is an experimental graphic novelist and printmaker who utilises unconventional materials such as embroidery and pressed flowers to illustrate an overarching narrative. The artist is also a tutor in Foundation Studies at City & Guilds of London Art School, as well as somehow finding time to be a visiting lecturer in Illustration at the University of Lincoln and even the annual organiser of the South London Comic and Zine Fair!

Despite his twitter and website being somewhat formal, Brookes posts both his finalised works and testing’s monthly on his Instagram. Whilst the occasional photo of his cat or George Clooney’s ‘Combat Academy’ being found, by Brookes consistently updating his followers with his unique works, overall this platform has a far more genuine diary-like feel. Not only this, but it is also evident how in the last two years (Jesus I’ve stalked this guy too much) that his style has changed where Brookes is now solely amalgamating embroidery and detailed lino cutting within a singular design.

The artist used these techniques originally within my favourite of his graphic novels, ‘The Black Project’, 2013, which tells a disturbing story about a character who creates his girlfriends from household objects. This won Brookes multiple awards and notoriety around the world, where he occasionally hosts international workshops which was most recently in a College in Seoul, South Korea.  

Although he usually has creative control over his works with many of his smaller graphic novels having been self-published, Brookes doesn’t always promote these online. For instance, when you search his satirical novel ‘Mainly Boys and Comely Girls’, it currently states it is unavailable on his website as well as it being absent from his social media. Whether this is due to it being a collaboration with Steve Tillotson I am still unsure as it’s very hard to grab a bloody copy of!

[readingbukowski]

Went to South London comic & zine fair today and picked up this little book of poems by Lizzy Stewart - my first ever zine! (at Stanley Halls)

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A View from the Frontier - BF at the South London Comic and Zine Fair. Plus EdieOP Joins Our Editorial Team!

A View from the Frontier – BF at the South London Comic and Zine Fair. Plus EdieOP Joins Our Editorial Team!

After several weeks of being involved in events and projects outside of the site – chairing or sitting on panels at ELCAF, Gosh! Comics Process and the Cartoon Museum; co-organising Small Press Day; publishing and launching our new Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook – you might think a day of Broken Frontier tabling at the inaugural South London Comic and Zine Fair would only add to our…

[ksacomicclub]

The amazing Catford Comic & Zine Fair returns on Sunday 9th! Get down to the Blythe Hill Tavern, the best pub in South London, and get your mits on some lovely comics and zines in time for Christmas! There’ll also be a communal table run by Broken Frontier, so if you have some comics or zines to sell, you can drop them off there (max 2 titles, 5 copies each, details here)

[mattboycedraws]

This will be happening at the @beer_rebellion on October the 1st! The smallest #comic fair in South #London! Put it in your diaries! #comics #zines #prints #comicfair #zinefair #gipsyhill #crystalpalace #beerrebbellion

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Indie comic creators and publishers aplenty lined up for London “Brew Zine 24”

The Gipsy Hill Brewery in South London will be the venue for Brew Zine 24, a zine and comic fair happening on Sunday 7th July 2024

The Gipsy Hill Brewery in South London will be the venue for Brew Zine 24, a zine and comic fair happening on Sunday 7th July 2024. With the mantra “Come for the beer, stay for the zines (or vice versa!)”, the fair, taking place in the rooms of the brewery, will feature distribution tables, a communal table, workshops and zine swaps. There is quite a strong focus on both zines and…

[teresaferreiro]

I'm at South East London Comic and Zine fair sharing table with Mr Nathan Cowdry @stinkstagram there are loads of good artists here but we are missing more visitors so we r discussing politics. I won the debate. End of the communication. Pls send help, buy our stuff at Stanley Halls (Norwood Junction) til six. We r poor and we are pro science. #southeastlondon #comic #comicfair #fair #artist #publishers #politics #cartoons #drawing #illustration #zine #stanleyhalls #norwoodjunction #london #festival #comicfestival #comix #fun #lol #sendhelp

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The cover to the zine which will be launched and available at the South of the River record fair this Sunday in New Cross, London...hosted by the magnificent @below_beyond . Come check out a load of cool stuff and say hello 💀💀💀 www.keatez.com #illustration #doodle #art #instartist #drawing #paint #comic #painting #ink #picame #instadaily #dailydoodle #tattoo #tattooart #blacklines #dotwork #blacktattooflash #tattooflash #blackworkerssubmission #darkartists #blacktattooart #lowbrow #keatez

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Announcing the Exhibitor List for South London Comic and Zine Fair on July 15th - SLCZF Includes Gary Northfield, Cat Sims, Avery Hill, Broken Frontier and Many More!

Announcing the Exhibitor List for South London Comic and Zine Fair on July 15th – SLCZF Includes Gary Northfield, Cat Sims, Avery Hill, Broken Frontier and Many More!

While it’s another excellent year for high-profile London comics festivals like ELCAF and Safari Festival, 2017 was looking to be a quieter one for more grassroots events, with both CECAF and the Alternative Press Takeover on hiatus. Luckily we have graphic novelist Gareth Brookes (A Thousand Coloured Castles) to step into the breach with his new event the South London Comic and Zine Fair. Coming…

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Never Been Reborn - An Experimental Journey into Alt Comics Narrative from William Powers

Never Been Reborn – An Experimental Journey into Alt Comics Narrative from William Powers

One of a number of titles I picked up from this year’s Communal Table at the South London Comic and Zine Fair Never Been Reborn is a fascinating exercise in  alternative narrative construction by London-based small presser William Powers. Utilising the surrealist cut-up writing technique, it appropriates text from an obscure novel Powers obtained from a charity shop. One which was apparently…