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August 17, 2007

portland zine symposium

by gl. at 10:17 pm

last weekend i attended the portland zine symposium, primarily because the amazing anna magruder helped organize it this year (yes, she of the fabulous rebel rabbit craft fair). don't get me wrong: i love that portland has such a strong zine culture and i ordinarily like to support it and the stumptown comics fest (happening next month), but it was easier for me to make the time to go since someone i knew & wanted to support would be there.

also, she was facilitating a mask workshop! i've been responsible for a couple of those, so i was happy to get the chance to make a mask without facilitating it, and i wanted to make sure anna had warm bodies in the classroom. :) she brought some amazing stuff and was an excellent & gracious hostess.

[hard to tell, but the mask is actually a dark blue, not black]

of course, i also picked up several zines & other assorted bits:

• typecritters: american typewriter
  ornamental icons made from font alphabets, prettily bound.

• 3 max ernst postcards

• zinester's guide to portland (4th edition)
  if you like bikes, zines, and portland, you'll like this guide.

• a sorry book: apologies, admissions, confessions, secrets, wrong-doings & regrets (vols 1&2)
  this is like a zine mix of "found" & "post secret" but for apologies. it definitely tickles me.

• long tail kitty
  an unexpected gem. i LOVE long-tail kitty & everything he loves!

• excerpt from city of roses
  i wish i had understood what "city of roses" was about before i walked away from the table. when i got home with the free excerpt, i discovered it was an urban fantasy set in portland, and if i had known that i would have bought the whole series right then.

• eat a sandwich
  i was delighted to discover this fat acceptance table with signs from new seasons describing the zines. i bought "eat a sandwich" in part because she was very honest & vulnerable in describing how embarassing & difficult it was for her to write it.

• the life & times of baby otto zeplin (the fake story of a real boy as told by bt livermore)
  i've been following this series online and it delighted me to see a beautifully bound version of volume 1 for sale. with a sweetly odd premise and a retro style, baby otto zeplin has definitely wedged his way into my heart.

• jane, free to choose, reclaiming our ancient wisdom, beginner's guide to responsible sexuality
  several political books. i was really disappointed when i found jane at the original publisher right after having purchased a photocopied version at microcosm publishing. i dropped the photocopy off at the denver library zine collection box.

• two cloth patches
  one with an anatomical heart on it and one with a heart symbol that says "revolution begins here."

in other news, i'm recovering from monday's fatal hard drive crash. it's terrible timing because i need to be preparing for september classes and especially artist's way promotion, but this means i just lost a week. i got celeste back last night with a new drive in her, but am now going through the tedious restore process. we keep weekly backups so i'm not missing too much, but i am really going to miss the answers i was in the middle of writing for diane's diy alert interview.

posted by gl. | August 17, 2007 10:17 PM | comments (4) | categories: exhibits & events

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