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Books that full body sprites are seen in

Some sprites are used in multiple books, here’s a list of them. No LI or MC sprites are listed here as they are generally not reused.

All sprites can be found here.

Please note the names listed here are based on the PB file names.

Half body sprites are listed in this post.

If the redraw has (F) next to it, it is a full body version. If it has a (H) next to it, it is a half body version.

Half body sprites are listed in this post. Animals are listed in this post. Non Human sprites are listed in this post.

This post is not complete and will be updated as each sprite is added

Adventurous Ambiguous Female FireFighter

Hot Couture, Surrender

This is a version of Beautiful Ambiguous Dancer (F)

Aggressive Ambiguous Male Rival

Wake The Dead, Wolf Bride

Alert Asian Female EMT

Big Sky Country, Open Heart, Rising Tides, Wishful Thinking, With Every Heartbeat

This is a version of Futuristic White Female Guard & Mean Asian Female Cop

Aloof Ambiguous Female Student

High School Story: Class Act, Queen B, The Royal Romance, Save The Date, Sunkissed, Wolf Bride

This is a redraw of Trendy Ambiguous Female Teen

Ambassadors Wife Hispanic

Distant Shores, The Nanny Affair, the Unexpected Heiress

Ambiguous Royal Baby

A Courtesan Of Rome, Desire And Decorum, The Crown And The Flame

Ambitious Indian Mother

Foreign Affairs, High School Story: Class Act, Laws Of Attraction, Mother Of The Year, Open Heart, The Elementalists, The Nanny Affair, With Every Heartbeat

Ambitious Male White Hunter

Wolf Bride

Amicable White Nurse

Baby Bump, My Two First Loves, Open Heart, The Nanny Affair, With Every Heartbeat

Arrogant Black Sister

Open Heart, Platinum, Sunkissed, The Nanny Affair, The Royal Romance, Veil Of Secrets

Attractive Asian Female Actress

Laws Of Attraction, Queen B

Aunt Hispanic

The Royal Romance (Bianca), With Every Heartbeat

Beautiful Ambiguous Dancer

BloodBound (Serafine), Foreign Affairs, Queen B

This is a version of Adventurous Ambiguous Female FireFighter (F)

Black Male Security Guard

Laws Of Attraction, Surrender, Wolf Bride

Boho Ambiguous Female Contestant

America’s Most Eligible (Teagan), Platinum, Save The Date, Untameable, Wolf Bride

Caring Ambiguous Mother

A Very Scandalous Proposal, Laws Of Attraction, Save The Date, Sunkissed

Charming Asian Actress

Foreign Affair, Open Heart, Save The Date, The Nanny Affair

Charming Asian Judge

America’s Most Eligible (Penny), Foreign Affair, Laws Of Attraction, Open Heart, The Nanny Affair

Chic Hispanic Housewife

The Nanny Affair

Competitive Black Reporter

Platinum, Rising Tides, The Royal Romance, Wishful Thinking (Ellen Thompson), Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

Confident Arabic Priestess

A Courtesan Of Rome

Confident Black Female Chief

Open Heart (Dr Emery), With Every Heartbeat

Confident Black Female Teacher

Queen B

This is a redraw of Excited Black Female Professor (H)

Conservative White Tech Father

The Nanny Affair

Conservative White Tech Mother

The Nanny Affair

Cranky Ambiguous Father

Bachelorette Party, Laws Of Attraction, Sunkissed, Wishful Thinking

Cute White Female Child

BloodBound, My Two First Loves, Red Carpet Diaries

This is a redraw of Girl Hispanic Sweeet/Tourist (H)

Daunting Black Model

Foreign Affair, Hot Couture, The Nanny Affair

Determined Black Female Neighbour

With Every Heartbeat

Dignified Ambiguous Mother Young

Baby Bump, The Royal Romance

This is a redraw of Dignified Ambiguous Mother (H) & Sweet Ambiguous Mother (F)

Drained White Female Prisoner

Wake The Dead, Wolf Bride

Drained Native American Male Prisoner

Wake The Dead, Wolf Bride

Drew

Ms Match

Fashionable Asian Friend

The Nanny Affair (Jenny)

This is a redraw of

Flirty Ambiguous Best Friend

Baby Bump, Hot Couture, Ms Match, Night Bound, Save the Date, With Every Heartbeat

Flirty Hispanic Assistant Female

Baby Bump, Laws Of Attraction, The Nanny Affair (Robin)

Focused Camera Woman

Baby Bump, Big Sky Country, Open Heart, Platinum, Rising Tides

Friendly Ambiguous Female Dominant

Surrender

Friendly Ambiguous Grandfather

America’s Most Eligible, The Freshman Series, High School Story: Class Act, Ms Match, My Two First Loves, Open Heart, Rising Tides, Slow Burn. Sunkissed, The Royal Romance, Wake The Dead

This is a redraw of Wise Ambiguous Chauffeur

Friendly Arabic Lady

A Courtesan Of Rome

Friendly Asian Student

America’s Most Eligible, High School Story: Class Act, Night Bound, Open Heart, Passport To Romance, Platinum, Queen B, Rising Tides, Slow Burn, Sunkissed, The Freshman Series, The Heist: Monaco, The Royal Romance

Friendly Asian Wilderness Guide

Laws Of Attraction, Shipwrecked

Friendly Black Male Student

America’s Most Eligible, Big Sky Country, High School Story: Class Act, Passport To Romance, Platinum, Red Carpet Diaries, Ride Or Die, Sunkissed, The Freshman Series, The Royal Romance, Wishful Thinking

Friendly Hispanic Dad

The Freshman Series, Nightbound, Open Heart, Rising Tides, Sunkissed, Wishful Thinking, Wolf Bride

Friendly Hispanic Female Attending

Open Heart, The Royal Romance, With Every Heartbeat

Friendly Hispanic Female Dialect Coach

Bachelorette Party, Mother Of The Year, Open Heart, Red Carpet Diaries, Save The Date, With Every Heartbeat

Friendly Hispanic Female Patient

Baby Bump, Big Sky Country, BloodBound, My Two First Loves, Open Heart, Rising Tides

Friendly Polynesian Male Amor/Security/Wrestler

BloodBound, The Heist: Monaco, High School Story: Class Act, My Two First Loves, The Royal Romance, Shipwrecked, With Every Heartbeat, Witness: A Bodyguard Romance, Wolf Bride

Friendly White Dad

This is a redraw of Quiet White Dad (F)

Friendly White Female Flight Attendant

High School Story: Class Act, Passport To Romance, Open Heart, Red Carpet Diaries, The Nanny Affair

This is a redraw of Friendly White Bartender (H) & Postal Clerk White (F)

Friendly White Priest

Open Heart, The Nanny Affair

Futuristic Hispanic Male Guard

America’s Most Eligible, Perfect Match, Shipwrecked, Wake The Dead

This is a version of Worker Hispanic Construction/Tough

Futuristic White Female Guard

Bachelorette Party, BloodBound, Night Bound, Perfect Match, The Royal Romance, ShipWrecked, Wake The Dead, Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

This is a version of Alert Asian Female EMT (F) & Mean Asian Female Cop (F)

Grumpy White Male Shopkeep

Big Sky Country, Distant Shores, The Heist: Monaco, High School Story: Class Act, Hot Couture, Platinum, Rising Tides, The Royal Romance, Sunkissed, The Unexpected Heiress

This is a version of Intimidating White Male Robber (F) & Touch White Old Male (M)

Hot White Clubber

BloodBound, Most Wanted, Ms Match, Red Carpet Diaries, Save The Date, The Heist Monaco, Wishful Thinking

Insincere Husband

Surrender

Insincere Wife

Surrender

Intelligent Black Child

The Nanny Affair

Intimidating Arabic Female Executive

Slow Burn

This is a version of Outgoing Arabic Female Partyer (F) & Seductive Female Arabic Empress (F)

Intimidating Asian Female Smuggler

Shipwrecked

Intimidating Asian Male Smuggler

Shipwrecked

Intimidating East Asian Bully Scarred

It Lives Beneath, Ship Wrecked, Wake The Dead

Intimidating White Male Owner

The Nanny Affair, Wolf Bride

Intimidating White Male Robber

BloodBound, Desire And Decorum, The Elementalists

This is a version of Grumpy White Male Shopkeep (F) & Tough White Old Male (H)

Jealous Native American Female Leader

Wolf Bride

Kind Ambiguous Governess

A Very Scandalous Proposal, Desire And Decorum, Distant Shores

Kind Black Dad

High School Story: Class Act, Ms Match, Open Heart, Wolf Bride

Kind White Father

My Two First Loves, Open Heart, Perfect Match, Wishful Thinking

Loving White Child

The Nanny Affair

Mean Ambiguous Male Doctor

Crimes Of Passion, Laws Of Attraction, Open Heart, Queen B, The Royal Romance, Wolf Bride

Mean Asian Cop

Baby Bump, My Two First Loves, Queen B, Ride Or Die, Surrender

This is a version of Futuristic White Female Guard (F) & Alert Asian Female EMT (F)

Mean White Male Cop

America’s Most Eligible, Baby Bump, The Heist: Monaco, My Two First Loves, Open Heart, Red Carpet Diaries, Ride Or Die

Mischievous Ambiguous Female Witch

Ms Match, Night Bound, Queen B

Mother Black Conservative Tech/Generous/Trustworthy

My Two First Loves, Rising Tides, Slow Burn, The Nanny Affair, With Every Heartbeat

Mother Asian Generous/Trustworthy

Rising Tides, With Every Heartbeat

Mother Asian Powerful

Foreign Affairs

This is a redraw of Strict Asian Secretary (F), Trainer Scientist Female Asian (F) & Serious Asian Executive (H)

Mother Hispanic Conservative Tech

The Nanny Affair

Mother Hispanic Generous/Trustworthy

High School Story: Class Act, Rising Tides, With Every Heartbeat

Mysterious Black Broker

The Heist: Monaco, The Nanny Affair

This is a redraw of Stern Black Judge (F)

Mysterious White Busker

Baby Bump, BloodBound, High School Story: Class Act, Hot Couture, Night Bound, Perfect Match, Platinum, Red Carpet Diaries, Ride Or Die, Save The Date, The Freshman Series, Wishful Thinking

This is a redraw of Nice White Female Hippie (F)

Nerdy White Male Intern

Bachelorette Party, BloodBound, Crimes Of Passion,The Freshman Series, The Heist: Monaco, High School Story: Class Act, Hot Couture, Laws Of Attraction, Mother Of The Year, Open Heart, Passport To Romance, Perfect Match, Platinum, Queen B (Benji), Red Carpet Diaries, The Royal Romance, Surrender, Wishful Thinking

This is a redraw of Suspicious White Noble (F)

Nervous Hispanic Male Hunter

Wolf Bride

Nice White Female Hippie

America’s Most Eligible, Big Sky Country, Hot Couture Red Carpet Diaries, Rising Tides, The Elementalists, The Unexpected Heiress, Wolf Bride

This is a redraw of Mysterious White Busker (F)

Nurse Black Amicable/Attentive

Baby Bump, Big Sky Country, High School Story: Class Act, My Two First Loves, Open Heart, Red Carpet Diaries, The Heist Monaco, With Every Heartbeat

Outgoing Arabic Female Partyer

America’s Most Eligible (Lina), BloodBound, Crimes Of Passion, Hot Couture, Platinum, Queen B, Save The Date, Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

This is a redraw of Seductive Female Arabic Empress (F) & Intimidating Arabic Female Executive (F)

Pompous White Father

The Nanny Affair

Pompous White Male Critic

BloodBound, Crimes Of Passion, The Heist: Monaco, High School Story: Class Act, Hot Couture, Mother Of Year, Ms Match, Night Bound, Open Heart, Perfect Match, Platinum, Queen B, Red Carpet Diaries, Rising Tides, Sunkissed

Postal Clerk White

Big Sky Country, Mother Of The Year, Open Heart, Passport To Romance, Queen B, Rising Tides, Save The Date, The Elementalist, The Heist: Monaco

This is a version of Friendly White Bartender (H) & Friendly White Flight Attendant (F)

Pregnant Black Female Friend

Wolf Bride

Public Relations Black Female

The Nanny Affair

Quiet White Dad

The Freshman Series, Laws Of Attraction, Open Heart, Red Carpet Diaries, Save The Date, Wolf Bride

This is a redraw of Friendly White Dad (F)

Quiet White Female Servant

A Courtesan Of Rome, BloodBound, Desire And Decorum, Night Bound, Save The Date, The Royal Masquerade, The Unexpected Heiress

Quirky Asian Female Nerd

Open Heart, Queen B, Sunkissed, With Every Heartbeat

Radio Stern Female Cop

Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

Rich White Fiancee

Ms Match, The Nanny Affair (Sofia)

Robed Ambiguous Child

BloodBound, Blades Of Light And Shadow

Scheming White Noble

BloodBound, Desire And Decorum, The Elementalists

This is a redraw of Serious White Male Executive (H)

Seductive Female Arabic Empress

Bachelorette Party

This is a redraw of Outgoing Arabic Female Partyer (F) & Intimidating Arabic Female Executive

Serious Ambiguous Female Restauranteur

Slow Burn

This is a redraw of

Serious Asian Male Agent

Big Sky Country, Laws Of Attraction, My Two First Loves, NightBound, Open Heart, Ride Or Die, Rising Tides, The Freshman Series, The Heist: Monaco, Veil of Secrets, Wishful Thinking

Serious Hispanic Queen

A Very Scandalous Proposal, Baby Bump, Hot Couture, Ms Match, Open Heart, Platinum, Queen B, Slow Burn, The Nanny Affair, The Royal Romance

Serious Hispanic Goth

BloodBound, Platinum, Queen B, Rising Tides

Serious White Executive

Baby Bump, BloodBound, Laws Of Attraction, Night Bound, Open Heart, Perfect Match, Platinum, Rising Tides, Slow Burn

This is a redraw of Upbeat Indian Woman (H)

Serious White Female Resident

Big Sky Country, Mother Of The Year, Open Heart, The Royal Romance, Wake The Dead, Wolf Bride

Service Agent Asian Male

Crimes Of Passion, Foreign Affairs, Night Bound, Open Heart, Perfect Match, The Royal Romance

Service Agent White Female

Foreign Affairs, Hot Couture, Passport To Romance, Perfect Match, The Royal Romance, Wishful Thinking

Scientist Female Asian

Open Heart, Perfect Match, Wishful Thinking

Shirtless Black Male

BloodBound, Night Bound, Perfect Match, Sunkissed

Shirtless Vest Hispanic Male

America’s Most Eligible, Bachelorette Party, BloodBound, Night Bound, Platinum, Surrender, Wishful Thinking

Sick Hispanic Female Patient

Foreign Affairs, With Every Heartbeat

Sneaky Paparazzi Black Female

Foreign Affairs, Slow Burn, The Nanny Affair

Snobby White Matriarch

A Very Scandalous Proposal, Big Sky Country, Mother Of The Year, Open Heart, Passport To Romance, The Elementalists, The Nanny Affair, The Royal Romance (Lucretia Nevrakis)

Snooty White Housewife

The Nanny Affair

Stern Ambiguous Female EMT Supervisor

Open Heart, With Every Heartbeat, Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

Stern Black Judge

Laws Of Attraction, Mother Of the Year, The Freshman Series, Veil of Secrets, Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

The same face is used for the sprite Mysterious Black Broker (f)

Stern Ambiguous Female Priest

Blades Of Light And Shadow

Strange Ambiguous Uncle

Wolf Bride

Strict Asian Dean

Foreign Affairs, The Nanny Affair

Strict Asian Secretary

America’s Most Eligible, Big Sky Country, Hot Couture, Passport To Romance, Perfect Match, Platinum, Red Carpet Diaries, Ride Or Die, Rising Tides, The Freshman Series, The Heist: Monaco, The Royal Romance

This is a redraw of Mother Asian Powerful (F), Trainer Scientist Asian Female (F) & Serious Asian Executive (H)

Strong Ambiguous Female Troop

Bloodbound

Stubborn Ambiguous Sister

Laws Of Attraction Open Heart (Keiki Lahela), Queen B

Stubborn Asian Female Activist

Surrender

Stubborn Black Female Activist

Surrender

Stubborn White Female Activist

Surrender

This is a redraw of

Student Hispanic Excited

Desire And Decorum, Distant Shores, High School Story: Class Act, Save The Date, The Elementalists, The Royal Romance

Student Hispanic Shy

With Every Heartbeat

This is a redraw of Student Hispanic Excited

Suspicious White Noble

Blades Of Light And Shadow, Desire And Decorum, Distant Shores, The Elementalists, High School Story: Class Act

This is a redraw of Nerdy White Male Intern (F)

Sweet Ambiguous Female Doctor

Baby Bump, Hot Couture, Open Heart

This is a version of

Sweet Ambiguous Mother

America’s Most Eligible, Baby Bump, My Two First Loves, Open Heart

This is a redraw of Dignified Ambiguous Mother (H) & Dignified Ambiguous Mother Young (F)

Tough Asian Pilot

Big Sky Country, Ride Or Die, The Royal Romance

This is a redraw of Grump Asian Driver (H)

Tough Black Cop

My Two First Loves, Queen B, Ride Or Die, Wishful Thinking

Tough Hispanic Female Driver

Bachelorette Party, Save The Date, Witness: A Bodyguard Romance

Tough Old White Man

Bachelorette Party, BloodBound, It Lives Beneath, My Two First Loves, Ride Or Die, Save The Date, The Freshman, The Heist: Monaco, Wishful Thinking

Traditional Male Hispanic Friend

Wolf Bride

This is a redraw of

Trainer Scientist Asian Female

Open Heart, Perfect Match, Shipwrecked, Wishful Thinking

This is a redraw of Strict Asian Secretary (F), Mother Asian Powerful (F) & Serious Asian Executive (H)

Trendy Ambiguous Female Teen

Big Sky Country, Save The Date

This is a redraw of Aloof Ambiguous Female Student

Trendy Black Girlfriend v1 & v2

Baby Bump (v2), Mother Of The Year (v1 & v2), Sunkissed (v1), Wolf Bride (v1)

Unkind Ambiguous Ex

Crimes Of Passion, Foreign Affairs, Open Heart, Save The Date

Upbeat Indian Resident

Open Heart, With Every Heartbeat

Vain Ambiguous Mother

America’s Most Eligible, Baby Bump, Open Heart

Waiter Ambiguous

Baby Bump, Bachelorette Party, The Heist: Monaco, Laws Of Attraction, Mother Of The Year, Ms Match, Open Heart, Passport To Romance, Perfect Match, Queen B, Red Carpet Diaries, Rising Tides, Slow Burn, Sunkissed, The Royal Romance, Wishful Thinking, Wolf Bride

Wealthy Ambiguous Female Daughter

A Very Scandalous Proposal, The Heist: Monaco, Hot Couture, Queen B, Save The Date, Slow Burn, The Royal Romance

White Male Security Guard

Laws Of Attraction, Wolf Bride

Wise Ambiguous Chauffeur

The Nanny Affair (Carter), The Unexpected Heiress

This is a redraw of Friendly Ambiguous Grandfather (F)

Wise White Female Elder

Wolf Bride

Wise White Teen

The Elementalists, The Nanny Affair

Worker Hispanic Construction/Tough

Big Sky Country, BloodBound, High School Story: Class Act, Hot Couture, It Live Beneath, Open Heart, Red Carpet Diaries, Ride Or Die, Save The Date, Slow Burn, The Royal Romance, Wishful Thinking

This is a version of Futuristic Hispanic Male Guard (F)

Young Asian Female Patient

Foreign Affairs, With Every Heartbeat

Youthful Black Female Friend

Surrender

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Travel Diary: Zinefest Christchurch, by Bryce Galloway

I used to go to all of New Zealand’s annual zinefests, but now that there’s six of them (!?!?) I only go to my hometown zinefests - Hamilton/Wellington, and one other, in strict rotation. I’m weird like that, just ask my friends.

Last time I was here (2013) I was in a lonely hotel on the edge of Cathedral Square, telling the assembled locals to go zine, cos it was one of the best cultural vehicles for a city lacking infrastructure. Christchurch (Ōtautahi) was post-quake. Christchurch is still post-quake, just a little less so.

This time round I’m staying with friend, artist, musician and Content Manager at inde radio station RDU - Gemma Syme. I slept on Gemma’s coach, until drunken friends and flatmates woke me with their banter and late-night fry-up. I listened to the drunken Pakeha boys try and argue their iwi (tribal) status with the Māori girls. What, with the sleeping bag over my head, I totally missed that one of the boys in question was friend and zinester Spencer Hall. Once they’d left I got up and checked they’d turned the oven off. Those, “don’t drink and fry” ads, ya know?

I see nobody from Christchurch Zinefest 2013 at the 2017 event. This must be a completely new local zine spasm. However, Christchurch’s ongoing love of the risograph and the influence of designer/art school lecturer Luke Wood are still present, extended by Jane Maloney’s riso press (M/K Press Ltd) and her pre-Zinefest riso-zine workshops.

Christchurch Art Centre are providing this space by virtue of the fact that they have a zinester in their ranks - Louise Sutherland. Otherwise, Alice Bush is the primary organizer of this year’s event.

Louise’s zines precede her. She be the author of the wonderful Coaster Frenzy, here today for just “$1 or swaps”. Alice and I gush our respective roller coaster stories at the Coaster Frenzy author. Alice has the world’s highest rollercoaster under her belt. I have the world’s highest vertical-drop rollercoaster under mine, which is surprising, I HATE heights. I launch into the Dead Kennedy’s rollercoaster disaster anthem Funland at the Beach, and later kick myself for the inappropriateness of that song in the context of post-quake Christchurch!!!

Louise says she feels privileged to have been part of the Christchurch rebuild, “It’s a moment in history. How many of those do we get to share.” Louise contends that Christchurch art and music have benefitted from the quakes; that a formerly closed scene, full of hierarchies, is now open to all players. That’s very ziney. It’s a sentiment echoed in issue two of the riso music journal Cheap Thrills (at Zinefest with editor - Erin Kimber). In the opening article - On the Value of Music - Matt Scobie writes, “I believe these events allowed or encouraged us to break free of the shackles of competitive individualism driven by exchange values and start acknowledging the importance of seeing the Ōtautahi music community as a synergetic whole…”

Hey, there’s Cameron from riso design journal Strips Club. His Strips Club collaborator’s moved to Berlin. Maybe there won’t be another volume of Strips Club. “Awe, do a White Fungus.” I encourage. “Berlin/Chch to their Taiwan/Wellington. Interview White Fungus’s Hanson brothers.” We talk politics, voting patterns, Winston Peters, the “king-maker” in post-election New Zealand. Cameron tells me about the massive Justice Building, that cynically opened for election season photo ops with members of the incumbent National party, closing again for ongoing construction as soon as the polling booths were shut.

I do the stall-holder circuit, it probably takes about an hour to get a reasonable handle on the qualities of the various zines on offer. All the zinesters are doing the same thing; doing the whole circuit before deciding how to spend their budget of $5, $10, or $20. I spend every cent that I make in sales of my own zine - Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People. I get all zinesters to sign their work.

There are approximately 20 stall-holders here according to Alice: Asian exchange students have written about racism against their own, David Merritt has his foldout poetry housed in upcycled books and banana box linings, there’s a zine from the Christchurch Women’s Centre, Spencer’s pop-up comics and satirical propaganda commands (Spencer also passes round a folded piece of paper for a comics jam on fictitious FX pedals), there are other inde comics, second hand books, witch zines, potion zines, stickers, handmade jewelry, cassettes, CD-zines, creative writing, sci fi stories, photo zines, travel zines, cat zines, music zines, even a zine about zines.

I sell more zines when I’m not on my stall than when I am there!?!? I’m not surprised, zine shopping is a potentially self-consciousness experience in the extreme. Where else do you examine someone’s art while they examine your face for signs of enjoyment, waiting for you to decide whether their art’s good enough to purchase. Imagine being installed next to your own gallery painting, with your hand out!? But that’s also the best thing about zinefest, you meet ALL the artists.

Bleeeurh! A bit tired and hungover now. Need coffee. The worst busker in the world sits in her wheelchair outside Bunsen Café warbling some churchy dirges over karaoke backing. Too good to be full-o-character, too bad to forgive her genre of choice.

My zinefest neighbor is a scrapbooker from the US, so I’m compelled to ask her if she thinks the scrapbooker kits one finds in art/stationary shops are a rip. Thankfully, she does. She appears to be afloat in NZ, not knowing if her art school back in the US will be restructured out of existence or not. Is looking to find an arts program in New Zealand.

Cameron of Strip Club packs up early. Bastard! Makes a huge hole in the wee zinefest presence/footprint.

I’m just not acclimatized to this Christchurch cold. They’ve put the Wellington guy in exactly the wrong place, by the draughty doorway. Locals chit chat in tee shirts while I hug myself, jacket zipped, hat pulled tight!?!?

I’m encouraging Louie of Dunedin Zinefest and Alice of Christchurch to get committees of helpers. They’re both currently running their zinefests solo!?!?

Spencer tells me to check out his story about NZ alt rock legend Bruce Russel being the alter-ego of NZ alt rock legend Martin Phillips, as printed in his Lyttelton Rotten Radio zine.

It’s nearly 5 PM. I pack up and make short work of my farewells so that I can catch a bus to the airport and relax knowing I’m in the right place for my flight back to Wellington.

Back home and checking the best of my haul:

Cheap Thrills Issue 2 - an elegant risographed volume of NZ music past and present

Wandering Wolves is a gorgeous riso, the very first zine of Prabha Mallya, made at one of the workshops leading up to zinefest. Poetic mix of tagged animal narrative, poetry, illustration, photo and collage.

Field Notes from The Crescent City – July 2017 “It’s a very efficient and sensible method of burial that ensures you can never ever escape your family, even in death.”

Louise Sutherland’s holiday snaps and memories of New Orleans (including its cemeteries), well enough written and photographed to transcend any photo album limitations

A Most Elusive Species – by Louise Sutherland’s brother Robert. Photo essay of seemingly empty zoo enclosures. A subtle variety to the picture-by-picture approach creating a rewarding sense of narrative.

Burn Out is a pun. Yes, there are cars, but the scars are not the result of spinning tyres but of the sun’s rays peeling the paint off that once proud finish - by Robert Sutherland.

The cutest wee Untitled zine that pitches it’s teensiness against clipped horror narratives from Greek myth.

Cuss Weird cussing birds. Inexplicable.

OX OX OX... a CDR economically clothed in a folded A3. Rockabilly are the first chords, with hints of Ramones and Stooges. Next song is quite different, same vocal stylings but over “Dunedin Sound” meets Fall repetition. In the zine, we’re regaled with some pretty compelling “um and ah” misadventures from the band’s singer. Now they play a kiwified Joy Division cover. Sweeet!

Strawberry Stories runs some loopy narrative logic, or lack thereof. And some nice red spot-colour on the strawberry coloured one, though s/he’s not actually a strawberry eh, s/he’s like a person with a tree growing outta their head!?!?

A Zine Fanzine Beautifully designed and laid out riso about zines. Tightened up my own understanding about the provenance of zines, though changes to conjecture when talking about post internet zines.

Misc - Excellent poems by Arwen Miriama Sommer. “Snow is built of feathers and birds are built of trees”

All About the Sex* The Christchurch Women’s Centre decide to distribute their newsletter at zinefest, so it’s a zine now. An intro to the Woman’s Centre and their weekly discussion forum, plus an intro to the Red Tent movement and editorial about aging women’s identity.

Rotten Radio Zine - Spencer Hall’s good at writing original meandering comedy nonsense about music and culture.

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