http://smallprint.org.nz zines, comics and small press in auckland, new zealand Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:10:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zinefest Wellington 2008 Originally uploaded by The Bottomless Paddling Pool is tomorrow, Saturday 15 November at Wesley Church Hall in Taranaki Street, Wellington. Check out the Facebook event for details. http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/11/14/zinefest-wellington-2008/ Drawing Silence is a new webcomic by Wellington comics artist Draw. It reprints from, and continues, his self-published comic series Clutter. It was launched at the recent NZ Comics Weekend, which I wasn't quite organised enough to post about in advance. Sounds like it was fun! http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/05/07/wellington-webcomic/ Issue 1 - front by The Bottomless Paddling Pool Another zine I picked up in Wellington last year was Hoard, "a zine on collections". I bought the first two issues from Madame Fancy Pants on Cuba Street - #1 was about stamps and #2 was about sugar packets. Both are ... http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/04/30/hoard-zine/ I was in Wellington towards the end of last year, and picked up a few local zines, comics, and small-press things that have since been sitting in a pile on my living room floor waiting for me to write about them. One of those was White Fungus #8. I guess ... http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/04/30/white-fungus-9-release-at-mighty-mighty/ As part of the weekend's Ladyfest, Cherry Bomb organised a zines & things market day! Saturday's weather was horrible, but impressive numbers of people turned up to Cross Street Studios to check things out anyway. I took along a table of Moon Rocket leftovers (shhh, don't look at that link, it's ... http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/02/25/ladyfest-auckland/ Side Stream is an Auckland-based anthology of "poetry from the fringe" that is published and distributed freely every second month. I've picked up copies of previous issues at Cherry Bomb (which currently isn't a physical shop) and at Revel café in K Road, though I haven't yet tracked down issue #12, ... http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/02/18/side-stream/ Yesterday was Cross Street Carnival! The street was closed off for the day, and there was music, aerial acrobatics, performance art, general carnival mayhem and a Craftwerk market happening in the middle of it all. This was the first time Cherry Bomb Comics had set up shop since closing their physical ... http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/02/17/zines-in-cross-street/ I'm going to begin this blog in the time-honoured zine tradition of apologising for how long it's taken. The last Small Print festival was in the middle of 2005. Now, two and a half years have gone by, 2008 is well underway and all my talk of organising more events ... http://smallprint.org.nz/2008/02/12/hello/