L.A. ZINE FEST IS AN ANNUAL EVENT CELEBRATING ZINES, COMICS, AND OTHER FORMS OF SELF-PUBLISHING. WE ALSO ORGANIZE ZINE WORKSHOPS & PANELS & RELATED EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
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Today, April 27th, is the Claremont Zine Fest! LAZF organizer Bianca will be tabling with Brodie Foster Hubbard of Fair Dig, a zine about jiu-jitsu (and so much more…), and selling some LAZF merch and Guides To LA. Swing by and say hello–she will have candy!
Claremont Zine Fest is from 1-5 PM at the Pitzer College Grove House (on campus) in Claremont, CA.
TONIGHT APRIL 23RD!
LA Zine Fest will have a table selling merch, zines and other goodies at this awesome show tonight, co-hosted by ALL SCENE EYE and DUM DUM ZINE!
FREE BEFORE 10 PM! With music by Seasons, Luna is Honey and Washing Machines!
PLUS….
- Zine readings from DUM DUM Issue No. 3
- Tarot by Meagan Boyd
- Summer Fun Time Society Photo Booth
- Dancers, live painting, and TONS & TONS MORE!
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RSVP on Facebook HERE
What zine libraries or archives do you know about in Los Angeles and Southern California? Have you visited or donated to one?
Shelley Tersolo took some rad photos of LA Zine Fest for USC’s The Interloper! Check out the rest here!
Thanks GRRLPROBS! Check out their recap article about LA Zine Fest here!
![The LA Zine Fest had organized a panel discussion with LA punk pioneer Alice Bag (The Bags, Castration Squad, The Boneheads, Alarma, Cambridge Apostles, Swing Set, Cholita…), Riot Grrrl’s Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Partyline, Cool Moms), and filmmaker, Arts Editor for LA Record Drew Denny (also in Bon Bon) at the Moth theater on Sunday night. It was a dream team panel as they had advertised it, since these women had been involved in over 10 bands collectively, and in too many projects to list them here, with activities going from independent film makers, to LadyFest organizers, educators, writers, bloggers, activists, and of course zinemakers…
Ironically, Alice Bag, who describes herself as an agitator and master trouble-maker, modestly said she was inspired by Pussy Riot whereas it is obvious these Russian women were inspired by what started in the US some decades ago, the punk Riot Grrrl movement… And especially, Alice Bag was already performing with a bag over her head in the mid 70s! She explained that this anonymity was very liberating, ‘It was so empowering to have this outlet’, she said, adding that, as a young and poor Chicana, she wasn’t comfortable to express herself in English. She has since published a book in English, ‘Violence Girl’ that she wrote the ‘punk-rock way’, entry after entry as a blogger. At the time, she preferred to connect with people the face hidden behind a bag to escape the stereotypes. As she got older, she definitively embraced her identity as a woman, a Chicana who grew up in East LA. But she insisted they were just having fun at the time, they were not thinking it would make ripples and expand the way the movement did.
Allison Wolfe remembered the pre-internet times, when so much communication was happening without phone and today’s technology, ‘There was more a sense of community than now!’ she added, although she looked amazed of the success of the LA fest, ‘this isIncredible DIY! So much of this is gone from my life, I miss the 90s!’ She explained how the zine culture was important as the ‘scary’ media weren’t speaking to them. By scary she meant she wasn’t happy about the way media were distorting and watering everything down. ‘It [the zines] was an accessible outlet, and I did a zine before starting a band’. They agreed that the same sense of community can now be achieved with social media, but that it isn’t the exact same feeling…
Read the rest of this rad article at Rock NYC!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/11b2d4203c363dd4eae4c204bfba243d/tumblr_mivzdkFGCC1r7dp8jo1_500.jpg)
The LA Zine Fest had organized a panel discussion with LA punk pioneer Alice Bag (The Bags, Castration Squad, The Boneheads, Alarma, Cambridge Apostles, Swing Set, Cholita…), Riot Grrrl’s Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Partyline, Cool Moms), and filmmaker, Arts Editor for LA Record Drew Denny (also in Bon Bon) at the Moth theater on Sunday night. It was a dream team panel as they had advertised it, since these women had been involved in over 10 bands collectively, and in too many projects to list them here, with activities going from independent film makers, to LadyFest organizers, educators, writers, bloggers, activists, and of course zinemakers…
Ironically, Alice Bag, who describes herself as an agitator and master trouble-maker, modestly said she was inspired by Pussy Riot whereas it is obvious these Russian women were inspired by what started in the US some decades ago, the punk Riot Grrrl movement… And especially, Alice Bag was already performing with a bag over her head in the mid 70s! She explained that this anonymity was very liberating, ‘It was so empowering to have this outlet’, she said, adding that, as a young and poor Chicana, she wasn’t comfortable to express herself in English. She has since published a book in English, ‘Violence Girl’ that she wrote the ‘punk-rock way’, entry after entry as a blogger. At the time, she preferred to connect with people the face hidden behind a bag to escape the stereotypes. As she got older, she definitively embraced her identity as a woman, a Chicana who grew up in East LA. But she insisted they were just having fun at the time, they were not thinking it would make ripples and expand the way the movement did.
Allison Wolfe remembered the pre-internet times, when so much communication was happening without phone and today’s technology, ‘There was more a sense of community than now!’ she added, although she looked amazed of the success of the LA fest, ‘this isIncredible DIY! So much of this is gone from my life, I miss the 90s!’ She explained how the zine culture was important as the ‘scary’ media weren’t speaking to them. By scary she meant she wasn’t happy about the way media were distorting and watering everything down. ‘It [the zines] was an accessible outlet, and I did a zine before starting a band’. They agreed that the same sense of community can now be achieved with social media, but that it isn’t the exact same feeling…
This will be the first in a series of posts about the events going on during L.A. Zine Fest 2013, on February 17th! We have a great line up of events happening the day of the zine fest, mostly held in The Moth Theatre, just down the street! All workshops and discussions are FREE, however there is limited seating at the Moth, so if you really want to see something, be sure to get there early to snag a seat in time. Many thanks to our awesome workshop leaders and panelists for creating these events!
Anthologizing Your Zine with Mend My Dress Press
Sunday, February 17th
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
@ The Moth Theatre
With Colleen Borst, Neelybat Chestnut, Maranda Elizabeth, & Osa Atoe
In this workshop/ panel discussion, the founders of and authors represented by Mend My Dress Press will talk about the process of anthologizing zines. Zinesters who have been creating for years and who have many issues of their zine may be thinking about compiling their past issues into an anthology in book format, and we will talk about the process from our points of view.
How do we sift through content, deciding what to (and what not to) include? What are the pros and cons of self-publishing? What are the pros and cons of working with a publisher? What kind of publishers are out there that might be interested in a zine anthology? We’ll go over these questions through our experience and also offer tips on working with designers, promoting books and working with independent bookstores.
Please note: this is not a workshop on how to work within design programs, but will focus on content and strategy.
Be sure to check out Mend My Dress Press (table #47), Maranda Elizabeth (#49) and Osa Atoe (#64) at their respective tables the day of Zine Fest!
We are one week away from the second annual LA Zine Fest, which means that we are seven days away from the block party of our dreams! There are going to be 100 exhibitors, new and returning; KXLU DJs playing throughout the day; the Zine Library at HRLDRY; extra bike parking in front of Orange20, and amazing workshops and panels at The Moth Theatre. It’ll also be an opportunity for you to buy LAZF posters and buttons, plus t-shirts with our logo (now in COLOR!) and our 2013 design courtesy of Amy Fortunato of No Kings.
Did you RSVP yet? We’ll let you in if you haven’t, but why wouldn’t you want to let people know you’re going?
Check out this awesome drawing by one of our exhibitors, Luna Blue Art Collective! We have 8 days to go…where are you at on the excitement scale?
