Hi everyone,
Two new opportunities for young media creators and young thinkers. Read on or go straight to http://www.projectnext.net.au/ or http://www.leftright.org.au/
Bel
ABC TV and Zapruder’s other films, the people who brought the Chaser team to TV, and the creative force behind The Gruen Transfer, and ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton, are looking for creative young people who are original thinkers with a view about what’s happening in Australia and the world, to work on Project NEXT.
Project NEXT, is the working title of a new topical 10 x 30min program which will be on your screens later this year - on ABC1, ABC2, the web, mobile phones and on-line.
‘We want to open the door to the next generation of thinkers and performers, to find people who will abandon the usual definitions and who can look at the world in a different way.
We are looking for original communicators, people who know in their hearts that there’s more to the news cycle than we are being fed each week.
It’s not just on-air talent we’re after. This is a great opportunity for a new and talented team, across several disciplines, to build a TV and web program from the ground up.’
Project NEXT is seeking applications from creative people between the ages of 18 and 30 to work as reporters, producers, camera/directors, editors, graphic artists, researchers and web content producers.
Applications to work Project NEXT close at 5pm Monday 16 March 2009.
If you want to apply or find out more information go to: http://www.projectnext.net.au/
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Also, Due for public launch in early 2009, Left Right is Australia’s first independent and non-partisan think-tank of young minds. They are currently looking for new part time volunteer staff in Victoria and NSW.
http://www.leftright.org.au/
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Broken Pencil news
Broken Pencil Newsletter - January 2009
Broken Pencil Magazine Announces the Commencement of the
2nd Annual Indie Writers Deathmatch Short Story Contest
NOW LIVE ONLINE:
www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch
The trash talk, the vitriol, the voting, the viral videos and...oh yeah...the stories!
It's all happening right now as Broken Pencil sets 8 stories against each other, a literary cage match from which only one author will emerge, the bruised battered champion of indie lit!
Last year's Deathmatch drew hundreds of thousands of hits to our Online Arena. Fans from all across the planet voted for their favourite story in the culture's bloodiest fiction contest. This year's battle should prove to be just as violent!
"This is definitely not a contest for sensitive writer types. If you can't handle the thought of your short story being smacked down by online voters, then you'll want to stay well clear of this one. Think Literary Survivor. On an island. Surrounded by a sea of sharks." - Jennifer Moss, The Vancouver Sun, Dec 28, 2008
The Line Up:
Round 1, January 26: "Girlfriend" by Sherwin Tjia vs "There are Two 'i''s is Wii" by Natalie Pendergast
Tija's crossdressing adolescent angst vs. Pendergast's boy-boy incest video game soap opera
Round 2, February 2: "Night Work" by McKinley M. Hellenes vs "All Tarted Up" by Kirsten McKenzie
Hellenes gives us West Coast trailer trash. McKenzine counters with small town Scottish slags.
Round 3, February 9: "Imagine Us With Belly Button Rings" by Kathleen Phillips vs "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by Jessica Grosman
Phillips goes deep into the sad lives of adolescent girls and Grosman's sad adolescent girl stalks the subway in search of a new mom.
Round 4, February 16: "The Invisible Man Takes a Shit" by Jeffrey Gandell vs "Isn't He Fantastic" by Chris Illuminati
Gandell's invisible man has a stomach ache but Illuminati's Mr. Fantastic has bigger, super hero size problems.
Complete bios of authors as well as more information about their stories available upon request.
Also: Follow the battle blow by blog on twitter: http://twitter.com/brokenpencilmag
Contacting Us
Founded in 1995 and based in Toronto, Canada, Broken Pencil is a website and a print magazine published three times a year. It is one of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. We are a great resource and a lively read! A cross between the Utne Reader, an underground Reader's Digest, and the now defunct Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press. Also, ground breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention.
Hey, want to say something about our magazine, let us know about an upcoming event, send in a zine or website or CD for review or maybe do a piece for the mag? Don't be shy! We want to hear from you. Send us an email at editor@brokenpencil.com, or a letter at PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, On, M5S 2S7 Canada, or call us at 416-204-1700.
Broken Pencil Magazine Announces the Commencement of the
2nd Annual Indie Writers Deathmatch Short Story Contest
NOW LIVE ONLINE:
www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch
The trash talk, the vitriol, the voting, the viral videos and...oh yeah...the stories!
It's all happening right now as Broken Pencil sets 8 stories against each other, a literary cage match from which only one author will emerge, the bruised battered champion of indie lit!
Last year's Deathmatch drew hundreds of thousands of hits to our Online Arena. Fans from all across the planet voted for their favourite story in the culture's bloodiest fiction contest. This year's battle should prove to be just as violent!
"This is definitely not a contest for sensitive writer types. If you can't handle the thought of your short story being smacked down by online voters, then you'll want to stay well clear of this one. Think Literary Survivor. On an island. Surrounded by a sea of sharks." - Jennifer Moss, The Vancouver Sun, Dec 28, 2008
The Line Up:
Round 1, January 26: "Girlfriend" by Sherwin Tjia vs "There are Two 'i''s is Wii" by Natalie Pendergast
Tija's crossdressing adolescent angst vs. Pendergast's boy-boy incest video game soap opera
Round 2, February 2: "Night Work" by McKinley M. Hellenes vs "All Tarted Up" by Kirsten McKenzie
Hellenes gives us West Coast trailer trash. McKenzine counters with small town Scottish slags.
Round 3, February 9: "Imagine Us With Belly Button Rings" by Kathleen Phillips vs "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by Jessica Grosman
Phillips goes deep into the sad lives of adolescent girls and Grosman's sad adolescent girl stalks the subway in search of a new mom.
Round 4, February 16: "The Invisible Man Takes a Shit" by Jeffrey Gandell vs "Isn't He Fantastic" by Chris Illuminati
Gandell's invisible man has a stomach ache but Illuminati's Mr. Fantastic has bigger, super hero size problems.
Complete bios of authors as well as more information about their stories available upon request.
Also: Follow the battle blow by blog on twitter: http://twitter.com/brokenpencilmag
Contacting Us
Founded in 1995 and based in Toronto, Canada, Broken Pencil is a website and a print magazine published three times a year. It is one of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. We are a great resource and a lively read! A cross between the Utne Reader, an underground Reader's Digest, and the now defunct Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press. Also, ground breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention.
Hey, want to say something about our magazine, let us know about an upcoming event, send in a zine or website or CD for review or maybe do a piece for the mag? Don't be shy! We want to hear from you. Send us an email at editor@brokenpencil.com, or a letter at PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, On, M5S 2S7 Canada, or call us at 416-204-1700.
Comic Books
Dear comics savvy person,
this email is a pointer to the blog, 'An Island Art'
www.anislandart.blogspot.com
where the two latest posts concern
1. comics broadcasting
and
2. 'Target 144': a chance to make some comics yourself.
Please drop by if you have a minute.
Or two.
Yours,
Bernard
Bernard Caleo
Proprietor
Cardigan Comics
www.cardigancomics.com
this email is a pointer to the blog, 'An Island Art'
www.anislandart.blogspot.com
where the two latest posts concern
1. comics broadcasting
and
2. 'Target 144': a chance to make some comics yourself.
Please drop by if you have a minute.
Or two.
Yours,
Bernard
Bernard Caleo
Proprietor
Cardigan Comics
www.cardigancomics.com
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Melbourne City Pillars program
This could be something interesting to look into at our next meeting...
Hi,
I thought the following info might be of interest to the zinester and indie press types who belong to the City Library Street Press group. Pass it on if you think it's interesting...
The City of Melbourne is running a youth initiative called the City Pillar Challenge, aimed at awarding an innovative creative or business venture that will have a positive impact on Melbourne and its visitors.
City pillars are cylindrical, upright structures located on footpath corners around central Melbourne. They are most commonly used as news stands but the high number of pedestrians that pass city pillars every day make them ideal locations for maximum exposure.
The City Pillar Challenge will award innovative creative or business ventures that will have a positive impact on Melbourne and its visitors. Students must submit a detailed business proposal on how to use the space. Whether it's a photographic booth, craft market, information hub or other creative pursuit, the use of the space is limited only by the imagination of entreprenuerial students!
Individiduals or teams of students from the Australian Academy of Design, Australian Catholic University, RMIT University, Victoria University, William Angliss Institute and Melbourne University are eligible to enter. Students must submit an expression of interest by Friday 3 April but will have until late May to develop their detailed proposal. Entries will be judged on originality, creativity, business vitality and environmental sustainability.
For more details, visit the City of Melbourne website at www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/citypillars... or friend us on facebook!
Hi,
I thought the following info might be of interest to the zinester and indie press types who belong to the City Library Street Press group. Pass it on if you think it's interesting...
The City of Melbourne is running a youth initiative called the City Pillar Challenge, aimed at awarding an innovative creative or business venture that will have a positive impact on Melbourne and its visitors.
City pillars are cylindrical, upright structures located on footpath corners around central Melbourne. They are most commonly used as news stands but the high number of pedestrians that pass city pillars every day make them ideal locations for maximum exposure.
The City Pillar Challenge will award innovative creative or business ventures that will have a positive impact on Melbourne and its visitors. Students must submit a detailed business proposal on how to use the space. Whether it's a photographic booth, craft market, information hub or other creative pursuit, the use of the space is limited only by the imagination of entreprenuerial students!
Individiduals or teams of students from the Australian Academy of Design, Australian Catholic University, RMIT University, Victoria University, William Angliss Institute and Melbourne University are eligible to enter. Students must submit an expression of interest by Friday 3 April but will have until late May to develop their detailed proposal. Entries will be judged on originality, creativity, business vitality and environmental sustainability.
For more details, visit the City of Melbourne website at www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/citypillars... or friend us on facebook!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Emerging Writers Festival Internship
Emerging Writers’ Festival 2009
Internship: Associate Producers
The Emerging Writers’ Festival is looking for artists and arts management students to undertake Internships and play a vital role in the management and development of the 2009 Festival
These positions are voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
This Internship is an ideal grounding for developing your career in the sector. Each intern will be exposed to all facets of festival management, including responsibilities covering the administration of the festival, the production of the festival as well as the programming of the festival, and will play a significant role in the success of the Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Position description
Working closely with the Festival Director, Admin and Communications Coordinator and Festival producer you will
– Be responsible for the program development, management and realisation of one selected program within the 2009 Festival.
– Assist in the overall development and management of, including assisting of the running of the program, of the 2009 Melbourne town hall program
– Be responsible for one selected business project within the organisational structure
– Assist with the coordination of Festival Artists
– Attend relevant meetings with EWF board, project partners, publicist etc
– Attend weekly staff meetings
– Contribute to the streamlining of EWF processes, and feed these into ongoing documentation;
– Produce a post-event report.
Conditions
– This position is voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
– The successful applicant will negotiate a weekly schedule with the Festival Director, which is expected to be a half-day to a day per week. Work will build for the whole team in the month before the Festival with the successful applicant needing to be very available the ten days of the festival.
– Actual days/hours per week are to be negotiated. Some work outside of these hours might be necessary e.g. to attend meetings.
– The intern reports to the EWF Director, David Ryding.
– The position is located within the Next Wave Offices, Office 4, 5 Blackwood St North Melbourne with some work undertaken offsite as required.
– The EWF WorkCover and public liability insurance covers the intern
Selection Criteria
– A passion for new writing, and for the environments which showcase and accommodate it – this position will work best for people who are keen to learn about literary events management, so let us know why this internship would be a great experience for you right now;
– Superb communications skills, both oral and written;
– The ability to respond to direction, and work both independently and as part of a team;
– Ability to commit to a consistent weekly schedule against other work and study commitments, across the entire six-month period, with peak periods in the month before the Festival – please let us know about all your competing time commitments;
– Familiarity with relevant office software such as MS Office, in a Mac OSX environment;
– Desirable: previous experience working on comparable events;
– An interest in EWF’s mission and target audience development groups.
Application process
After the close of applications on Tuesday, January 27th, shortlisting will quickly take place and we expect applicants to be available for interview on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 3rd.
Applicants should be able to start in mid-February 2008.
For further information please David Ryding via director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Applications must include a statement addressing the selection criteria, along with your covering letter, CV and referees’ contact details.
Applications must be received by 5:00pm Tuesday, January 27th.
Please apply by email: director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au using subject line Associate Producers
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David Ryding
Director
Emerging Writers' Festival
Friday 22nd - Sunday 31st May 2009
www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
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Internship: Associate Producers
The Emerging Writers’ Festival is looking for artists and arts management students to undertake Internships and play a vital role in the management and development of the 2009 Festival
These positions are voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
This Internship is an ideal grounding for developing your career in the sector. Each intern will be exposed to all facets of festival management, including responsibilities covering the administration of the festival, the production of the festival as well as the programming of the festival, and will play a significant role in the success of the Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Position description
Working closely with the Festival Director, Admin and Communications Coordinator and Festival producer you will
– Be responsible for the program development, management and realisation of one selected program within the 2009 Festival.
– Assist in the overall development and management of, including assisting of the running of the program, of the 2009 Melbourne town hall program
– Be responsible for one selected business project within the organisational structure
– Assist with the coordination of Festival Artists
– Attend relevant meetings with EWF board, project partners, publicist etc
– Attend weekly staff meetings
– Contribute to the streamlining of EWF processes, and feed these into ongoing documentation;
– Produce a post-event report.
Conditions
– This position is voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
– The successful applicant will negotiate a weekly schedule with the Festival Director, which is expected to be a half-day to a day per week. Work will build for the whole team in the month before the Festival with the successful applicant needing to be very available the ten days of the festival.
– Actual days/hours per week are to be negotiated. Some work outside of these hours might be necessary e.g. to attend meetings.
– The intern reports to the EWF Director, David Ryding.
– The position is located within the Next Wave Offices, Office 4, 5 Blackwood St North Melbourne with some work undertaken offsite as required.
– The EWF WorkCover and public liability insurance covers the intern
Selection Criteria
– A passion for new writing, and for the environments which showcase and accommodate it – this position will work best for people who are keen to learn about literary events management, so let us know why this internship would be a great experience for you right now;
– Superb communications skills, both oral and written;
– The ability to respond to direction, and work both independently and as part of a team;
– Ability to commit to a consistent weekly schedule against other work and study commitments, across the entire six-month period, with peak periods in the month before the Festival – please let us know about all your competing time commitments;
– Familiarity with relevant office software such as MS Office, in a Mac OSX environment;
– Desirable: previous experience working on comparable events;
– An interest in EWF’s mission and target audience development groups.
Application process
After the close of applications on Tuesday, January 27th, shortlisting will quickly take place and we expect applicants to be available for interview on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 3rd.
Applicants should be able to start in mid-February 2008.
For further information please David Ryding via director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Applications must include a statement addressing the selection criteria, along with your covering letter, CV and referees’ contact details.
Applications must be received by 5:00pm Tuesday, January 27th.
Please apply by email: director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au using subject line Associate Producers
--
David Ryding
Director
Emerging Writers' Festival
Friday 22nd - Sunday 31st May 2009
www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
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Sticky Newsletter
Essential Communications from Sticky Institute spanning the last month and next.
If this is annoying to read, please enjoy the word document attached.
CONTENTS
Zine Calendar Dates And Things You Need To Know
New Stuff Instore
Niche for Zine
From our new Canberra Zine Correspondent in Darwin
From our Adelaide Zine Correspondent who didn't really count on being
a Correspondent
From Our Paris Zine Correspondent
False Diary
Zine Reviews
Classifieds
Most Hip Student Population According To Visits To the Institute
What is this email and why am I getting/not getting it
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ZINE CALENDAR DATES AND THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
WHATEVER YOUR LOCATION:
Sticky is good mates with the USA zine distro papertrail and ciara is
doing a call out for any zines you might like to get considered for
overseas mail order distribution. Ciara has her own selection process,
it's not open slather, but you can read up on the sort of stuff she
goes for (mostly personal or political) at
http://www.papertraildistro.com/submit. In her words, "I beg you to
send me zines". And Sticky vouches for Papertrail as a highly reliable
distro.
IN MELBOURNE:
HOME SWEET HOME
Brunswick Bound Jan 17 – Feb 17
361 Sydney Rd Brunswick
An exhibition of Evil Brothers and zinemakers Tom and Ned, who have
joined forces from opposite ends of the country. Gallery open Mon –
Sat 10-6pm and Sunday 11-5
INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE CONSPIRACY WEEK at Sticky
This week long conspiracy includes
Zine Fair,
SAT 14 February 12pm onwards, Degraves Subway.
The first ever International Literature Conspiracy week will be held
from Mon 9 – Sunday 5 February featuring zine launches at Sticky,
insane creative projects to get involved with, and yes, a kick arse
zine fair SAT 14 FEBRUARY 2009. What better way to celebrate your love
for zines than on valentines day people. So mark this one in your
diaries, and get ready to staple your heart out, because Sticky's zine
fair this year packed the subway out, and it's going to be the same
deal in 09, only bigger. Stay tuned. Book cheap flights now. But avoid
Jetstar (see last month's newsletter).
Book your (free) table with Candace, runawaykite@gmail.com
THE REST OF THE PROGRAM (which will also go up on the website in the
next 48 hours)
International Literature Conspiracy Week
festival program 9th-15th Feb
MONDAY 9TH FEB
Target 144
12.00 pm 9th Feb – 12.00 pm 14th Feb at Sticky
Join the conspiracy! At midday Project144 begins, where zinemakers and
comic artists meet at the official Target144 headquarters (Sticky
Institute) to begin a 144 hour odyssey of creation where zines and
comics will be conceived, produced and released at Sticky's Zine Fair
on the sixth day. Target144 creations will be complete with proof of
dates incorporated into the work such as newspaper dates, receipts or
metcards across the critical 144 hours. Works can be made remotely as
well as instore, and everyone is urged to join the conspiracy. The end
results will be launched and sold at the Target144 table at the Zine
Fair on the Saturday.
TUESDAY 10TH FEB
Zine launch – Sure 6 Project
6pm – 7pm at Sticky
Launch of the Sure 6 Project compiled by Elle 36, inspired by the 90s
zine Sure issue number 6, where zinemakers were asked about their
practice and zine culture. The Sure 6 Project resurrects Kane Sure's
concept and the first issue in this new ongoing project will be
launched.
Conspiracy Theory
An International Literature Conspiracy Gig and Zine Evening.
9pm – at The Arthouse, 616 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. $5 at the door
A zine and musical event, this evening will include performances by
Made Austria and heaps of zine readings. There will also be a zine
stall and The Arthouse will be a temporary base for Target144.
WEDNESDAY 11TH FEB
Launch of zine Moth Wings with instore performance of Maddie & Jorja
Kelly Forever
6pm – 7pm at Sticky
The launch of 'Moth Wings' zine, an anthology of childhood drawings,
and an in store performance by Maddie & Jorja Kelly Forever. Come and
be a child again and have a draw with textas and crayons and remember
what it was like to be uninhibited and untainted by the complexities
of adult thinking.
THURSDAY 12TH FEB
Zine Launch – Foxes in the supermarket
6pm – 7pm at Sticky
Aaron, Beck and Jon launch their highly anticipated Coles/Safeway
split zine 'Foxes in the Supermarket'.
FRIDAY 13TH FEB
The Opinion Society
6pm – 7pm - Sticky
Meeting the last Friday of every month, this is a special festival
edition of the Opinion Society complete with refreshments. Bring your
opinions and discuss zines while in their natural habitat.
SATURDAY 14TH FEB
Zine Fair and Festival Launch
12pm – 5pm – Degraves St Subway
Launched by Minister of the Arts Lynn Kosky at 2pm, the Zine Fair will
take over the subway underpass with hundreds of local and nationally
produced zines, comics and independent press, as well as featuring
Sticky's inhouse official Valentines Day cupid (complete with bow,
arrow and typewriter) who will take love letter dictations on Sticky
Institute stationary to be instantly issued to your Valentine.
The zine fair will also be launching the efforts of the Target144
initiative, where zinesters and comic artists will release their
creations made in the last 144 hours, and be host to the legendary
'You' zine bag making marathon where the aim is to create as many YOU
bags as possible, to package the zine, in the one afternoon. The bags
will go into circulation containing the following week's zine.
Everyone is welcome to come along and take part. 'You' is a free,
Melbourne anonymous zine issued weekly since 2001
2pm – official launch of zine fair, Sticky's new back wall, and speeches
12-5pm – You bag making marathon
SUNDAY 15TH FEB
2pm - 3pm Public viewing of the zine collection at the State Library
of Victoria. Free but booking required (stickyshop@gmail.com).
The State Library of Victoria have an incredible zine collection going
back to the 80s within the Rare Printed Collections section. This is a
special opportunity to see the width and breadth of the collection
which is being prepared for cataloguing.
IN SYDNEY:
Intellectual Zine Presentation
Friday 23rd January
There will be a presentation conducted by two Australian zine
librarians - Jessie Lymn and John Stevens - that will be run as a part
of the Research Applications in Information and Library Studies
conference (or RAILS5), held at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The talk will focus on their involvement in two prominent zine
collections that they have had respective involvement with: the State
Library of Victoria's Rare Printed Zine collection and the Newcastle
based Octapod collection. For more information, please check out the
conference web-site:
http://www.communication.uts.edu.au/conferences/rails/
DIY MARKETS/ ZINE FAIR AT LITTLE FISH
Sunday 1 Feb 1pm – 5pm
At Little Fish, 22 Enmore Rd Newtown
To book a table, email ghostesky @ gmail.com with Fish Market as the
subject. It seems to be gaining momentum. Legendary zinemaker 7U has
given this monthly event his personal endorsement:
"hey little fish is good, they do loads for the local arts community
here in sydney providing an affordable space right on enmore rd in
newtown for artists.the small percentage she does take from artists is
based on whats sold, which i dont think is unreasonable. you should be
more supportive of people who support the zine scene, not put down
what they are doing because they have a minimal charge to provide a
space on one of the most expensive/trendy streets in sydney."
RISO ACTION
Sydney has its own rizzeria, a new printing collective, somehow linked
to big fag press, with their own site due to be updated.
www.rizzeria.com. Risographs are a cheap alternative to colour
photocopying (or spot colour) for multiple quantity printing (ie for
runs over 50) and remain economic until runs of over 10,000 copies.
Obviously the riso is the stuff of awe for all zinemakers.
IN CANBERRA:
Zine Fair
Sat 7 Feb 10am –5pm
ACT Writers Centre
Competing with 'Yeah Write' for the lame-title-for-event stakes, is
the ACT Writers Centre youth festival 'Scribble', happening on Sat 7
Feb 10am –5pm. While sticky are all for zine fairs, this one is
charging zinemakers $10 a table which is just ridiculous. Apparently
people have been making off with the tables in previous years. No
comment. It's at QL2 Foyer, Gorman House Ainslie Ave, Braddon. BYO
your own table and chair and there's no charge. Yes, they are totally
serious: ."Please note there's no fee if you
can bring your own table." Just make sure no-one runs off with it.
Table theft is very high in Canberra, apparently.
Book your real estate via poetry.slams@gmail.com
IN ADELAIDE:
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM ADELAIDE FOR MARCH:
Dear Foreigners,
Please accept my warmest invites to attend the 2nd annual Format
Festival, our poorly named fledgling DIY festival, which is occuring
from March 1st to 15th in the city of Adelaide. I would particularly
encourage you to come over for the weekend of Friday March 13th to
Sunday March 15th, whereupon we'll be having the Adelaide Zine and DIY
Fair (Saturday 14th), an evening of cycling films entitled 'Bikes
Camera Action (also on the 14th) and the Academy of DIY, which is a
bunch of workshops on everything from gender identity to bike repair
(Sunday 15th).
I understand that Adelaide isn't exactly the world's most appealling
holiday destination, but there'll be a wealth of world famous
zinesters and indie
press types there, including Sticky's own Luke Sinclair, Vignette
Press, Breakdown Press, Arlene Texta Queen and possibly US zine icon
Dave Roche, author of On Subbing.
yours,
Ianto Ware
Director
Format Festival
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NEW STUFF INSTORE
It's hot and tempers are short so here are some tiny snippets of some
of the new stuff.
10 Things To Hate About My Sister
$3
lapptheocean@squatspace.com
OK speaking of hot, Elena and Allegra are SO HOT RIGHT NOW. This is
one of Elena's. I love it when she talks how much her sister annoys
her with the electric eels, complete with eels in a radioactive tub.
And the torture sequence etc. As for the pricing…well, they're
workin' it.
Kenneth
$2
Amazing, amazing am-a-zing zine about a girl's development and
diagnosis of anorexia and her eventual recovery. This is easily one of
the most engaging personal zines you will come across, and is an
incredible insight into the mentality one develops with an eating
disorder. This is an INCREDIBLE read. You have to read it.
Hoopla Issue 3
$3
This is like an anarcho feminist revolution zine about crafts and
being radical and such like. I'm losing energy at this point but
without reading it, it looks pretty good. It makes cross stiching
cool.
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NICHE FOR A ZINE
A robot dedicated zine. Yes, it seems so obvious but nobody has done
one since Zeke in year 9 from early 00's. Please. Someone. The demand
is there. I know I'd read it.
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FROM OUR NEW CANBERRA CORRESPONDENT IN DARWIN, Gemma Nourse.
This month: Darwin: its history, relationship to DIY and present day
observations.
Hello, hello. Yes, nice to meet you. While you may have noticed that I
am the Canberra correspondent, truth is I am not in Canberra right
now. I arrived back in the humid and humble hellhole I affectionately
call home about a month ago, which others call 'Darwin'.
Here are the top three most important facts about Darwin to create a
little profile for your greedy craniums:
Home to around 100,000 people, Darwin is small enough for many to know
each other's most personal secrets, but large enough to have one
shopping centre that provides depressing retail therapy and every
highschool kid's social life.
You can count the number of book and record stores in the whole place
on one hand, and there is only one tiny music venue that supports
local, original artists. The rest are cover bands.
Paul Keating once said that the best way to see Darwin was from
overhead as you fly to Europe.
Here's my theory: Darwin's isolation, lack of artistic infrastructure
and misguided hatred from 'Southerners', as they are called, has
created an interesting D.I.Y. culture that permeates many areas of a
Darwinian's life and experience. The truth? There's not much going on
here. So to see anything interesting happen, you kind of have to get
of yo' ass and make it happen.
I think this culture has something to do with Darwin's history, and
its need to keep reinventing itself. My Papou and Yiayia (Greek
Grandpa and Grandma) were first generation Australians, and helped
establish Darwin in its early years. My Papou taught himself English
by reading through the dictionary each night and became a building
contractor, while Yiayia worked in a corner store and set up a home
for her family. They both had to do it for themselves, because no one
else would do it for them. Word is that the town had that overall vibe
at the time, as each family tried to stay afloat. Later, when my mum
was around 16, Darwin and my family had to again reinvent themselves
after Cyclone Tracy hit. While my uncles and aunties were evacuated,
Yiayia and Papou, along with many other locals, decided to stay back
and help rebuild the city. Darwin has always relied on the support of
its people for its creation, reinvention and improvement, and this
culture of involvement and community still remains.
Nowadays, Darwin's most attractive quality to many locals is its
laidback lifestyle, separated by a very fine line from shameless
laziness. It takes a bit of courage and enthusiasm to create what you
think the town is lacking. There are a handful of zinesters, musos,
artists, writers and actors kicking around, who all belong to this
little community of people who love what they do and appreciate each
other.
So the next time you go to spit on the part of the map of our country
that depicts the shameful capital city of my humble Territory, think
twice. While we may be the land of humidity, mosquitoes and
nothing-much-else-ness, think also of the good people who work
tirelessly to stand up to the legions of cover bands, skanky
nightclubs and the majority bogan population to do their bit in the
name of culture. Word.
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FROM OUR ADELAIDE ZINE CORRESPONDENT WHO DIDN'T REALLY COUNT ON BEING
A CORRESPONDENT
The following fantastic report on zines making their way across the
land has been kindly provided by zinemaker Simon Gray, just intended
as a personal email, but was so awesome he relented and let us turn it
into a column. Don't stop now Simon!!!
TRUE TALES OF BRAVERY & HONOR
Is a web comic collected in a comic zeen. It's Ninjas vs. Penguins
conspiracy story.
Aaron Humphrey is your contact man, he turned up in the last half hour
of the Pt. Augusta zine fair in time to miss everything. When my
computer buggered up I lost his e-mail but the zeen lists a wweb address:
www.braveryandhonor.com
A BIRD IN THE [THE] BUSH
A mixed bag of everything from Natalie Von Catalie from Da Gong, pal of
Maddy Phelan's. You've probably got this one.
zombetty@hotmail.com
MY FIRST ZINE ISSUE TWO (#1)
Owen Heitmann normally just prints his web comics but has thrown that in
& has produced this zine which is a mixed bag of stuff he's doing
between projects. It's actually his most personally revealing work. He's
just had a submission for TANGO rejected 'cause it was too pornographic!
owen.heitmann@gmail.com
I AM A CAMERA #12 & DISPOSABLE CAMERA #5
Like I need to tell you about Vanessa Berry.
vanessaberryworld@gmail.com
NICOLA HARDY IS UPDATING HER STATUS AND DREAMING ABOUT CAR ACCIDENTS
Comic artist Nicola's first short story collection is rather good.
nicola@secretenvelope.com
IN SICKNESS
Maddy Phelan's been hanging around Ianto Ware too long & gone and
produced this academic wank about subjectivity & the body. Actually one
of her better efforts, she reports she's putting an end to cutey pie
zines about cats now.
maddy.phelan@gmail.com
MADAM LASH'S GRAND OPENING
Poet Kerryn Tredrea's collection is a good few years old now , but
there's still copies showing up at zine fairs & it's worth it for the
collection of fonts alone.
skinwilleatitself@yahoo.com.au
BY THE TIME YOU'RE TWENTY FIVE
You've probably heard of Emma Davidson, but she's pretty slack, so you
might need to kick her arse to get these zines to you. This was her
latest I picked up @ TINA.
PO Box 4 Enmore NSW 2042
SPICY PONY SECRET FANTASY #4 & PUFF BOOK #1
Chris Tamm is a street artist extrodinaire & Australia's living answer
to Zippy the Pinhead. He's a hairy fat 30something running a gallery
thing in Sydney & raving to me about the cutey pie girls he meets
through his most successful SPICY PONY series.
konsumterra@hotmail.com
SPRAK! VOL #2 & WHAM GLAM THANK YOU MA'M
I've seen a SPRAK! in Sticky but not sure how up to date you keep w/
Kami McInnes as I've heard him whinge that Polyester is the only place
in Melbourne that'll stock him.
PO Box 278 Edwardstown SA 5039
SHADOWLANDS, 2085 & LAFFERTY ON NORFOLK ISLAND
Stephen Stanley was one of the stars of the Pt. Augusta Zine Fair. Based
in Whyalla, he used to have a strip published in Adelaide's News Ltd
paper THE ADVERTISER back in the 80s. He's apparently got a back shed
full of old professionally & self published comic books.
stansei@centralonline.com.au
MORE LOVE TRUTH & HONESTY
Paul Byron released a new Bananarama fanzine years after the first, now
covering Belinda Carlisle, Michelle Pfeiffer & Elastica too. Still
really about Paul though.
paulibyron@gmail.com
DIAGRAM #2
Another collection of impressive drawing by Helen Nehill.
h.nehill@hotmail.com
D90
John Stevens, I understand, is one of Sticky's bright young sycophantic
yes-men. I assume you have this too.
spurzine@gmail.com
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FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT IN PARIS, Lisa Pham.
This month: 2009: A Cyberspace Odyssey
The Internet has a lot to answer for.
Despite a surface distance of 16,780 kilometres between Paris and
Melbourne, I am still able to keep in touch with what's happening on
the other side of the globe. Thanks to Facebook, I always know when
Sticky is sleeping, in the same way that Sticky always knows what I'm
making for dinner. Thanks also to Facebook, I was able to catch up
with an old high school friend who now lives in Zurich, making
Moleskine-type notebooks in her spare time. More recently I met up
with Maddy, a zinester from Wollongong, while she was in town over the
Christmas holidays. We spent the day eating Tibetan food, walking
around Paris and going to the Rodin museum. Maddy left for a 14 hour
bus ride to Berlin that night and I suggested that she meet up with my
friend Emily, a zinester from Melbourne who now lives in Berlin.
Perhaps all of this could have happened without the Internet, but much
more coordination and planning would have been required.
The Internet is not always useful, however. I'd been meaning to visit
an artist squat in Paris which I'd heard about through the grapevine.
Short on time, I relied on Google to find out where it was. Despite
the website not being updated since 2003, I remained positive.
Apparently the squat was open to the public every day except Mondays,
from 1pm to 7pm. Sadly, when we got to 59 rue de Rivoli a few days
ago, all we found was an abandoned squat – much more disappointing
than an abandoned building which could be turned into a squat.
One of my Facebook friends uploaded photos of his favourite zine front
covers. Oddly, I was thankful that none of my zines were among the
list. Every now and then there are discussions about digitising zines
– but to do so would to lose its meaning. I love reading back on my
old zines because it reminds me of who I was at a particular time in
my life, and how much I've changed (or haven't changed) since that
zine was made. There is an honesty in these early zines, an intimacy
between myself and the 50 other people who managed to get a copy. Many
things shared in the zines are things that I would not tell an online
audience, where strangers from all over the world could find and read
it without its original context. Rather than trying to get as many web
hits as possible or having an eternal presence on the World Wide Web,
I want my personal zines to remain ephemeral. Perhaps the same could
be said about squats.
My New Year's Resolutions for this Sticky column: to find an artist
squat; to visit the anarchist bookstore; to learn more about the
bookstore Shakespeare & Co; to continue writing.
Happy 2009 from Paris!
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FALSE DIARY - A ZINE COLUMN By Luke You [Special Extended Edition]
Column #10 – The Ten Commandments of The Zine Stall
I've done a few zine stalls in my time. Some stalls were completely
awesome with hundreds of hungry zine fans climbing over each other to
get their hands on zine goodness (TINA, The Festival Of The
Photocopier, The Adelaide Zine Fair) and some so gut wrenchingly awful
my hands are beginning to shake just writing about them here
(libraries in the middle of nowhere in far far Western Victoria with
only two ten year olds in attendance). After earning my stripes
through years and years of gruelling zine stall action I want to share
with you the following list. It is a list of how to create the most
kick-ass zine stall in the history of zine stalls for you and for the
kids who want to pick up some zine action. Some of the things I
mention may seem so obvious that it is almost embarrassing to write
them down. Things like "table". But trust me, in the world of zine
stalls nothing is always as it seems. Here are my Ten Commandments of
The Zine Stall:
1. You will need zines. I recommend taking more zines rather than
less, more as in different zines. The bigger your stall is the more
you will blow peoples minds when they stumble across the stall and the
more zines you have the more likely it is that you will have a zine
that someone is interested in.
2. Take change, lots of change. You will need many one dollar coins,
two dollar coins and five dollar notes. Incredibly, even zine world
legends who should know better will try to buy a $1 zine from your
stall with a $50 note.
3. Light. You will need light so that people can see your zine stall
and people can see your zines. I once agreed to do a zine stall at an
all day metal festival at The Espy and I arrived to find the room in
complete darkness. This may be good to enjoy your garden type Manowar
knock-off, but is a big no no for a zine stall.
4. Table. You will need a table to put the zines on. If you put them
on the floor they will get dirty and people will stand on them. YOU
NEED A TABLE TO HAVE A ZINE STALL. And whats more it should be a big
table. One of those big trestle tables is what you are looking for
here. At the previously mentioned metal gig in complete blackness the
organiser of the gig offered me a table approximately the size of a
dinner plate to display my 300+ zines on. This was not good.
5. Suitcase. You will need to transport your zines to the location of
the stall safely for both your back and the condition of the zines.
You will need a suitcase on wheels. If you pack your case in a shonky
manner the zines will get bent and people will not want your zines.
My current rig is a big-ass second hand black suitcase on wheels that
set me back $20 from Savers but which has paid for itself twenty times
over. I pack the zines in large plastic envelopes inside the suitcase
and fill the rest of the case with towels. You don't want those
babies moving around. Even I have been criticised for the condition
of my zines at zine stalls. Connoisseurs of zine culture such as
"Metal Ash" will rip you to shreds at TINA if you dare to show up with
creased zines.
6. Another person. Try to organise for there to be two people on the
stall so if you need to get food, go to the toilet or get a drink you
don't leave your stall unattended and have all your money stolen by
filthy hippies. Another idea is to line up someone to drop by the
stall just for half an hour at some point during the stall to give you
a break. To go back to a point I made a couple of sentences ago. DO
NOT LEAVE YOUR ZINE STALL UNATTENDED AT ANY TIME OR ALL YOUR MONEY AND
ZINES WILL BE STOLEN BY FILTHY HIPPIES.
7. Signage. You want to let people know who you are and where you are
from without them having to ask. My usual technique is to bring along
a fat permanent marker and find a cardboard box out the back of the
venue and write the distro name on the card and pin it to the front of
the table. This also gives you and your stall a look of distinguished
DIY cred.
8. Stay until the end. If you have agreed to do a stall at an event
it is only polite to stay until the end of the event. Once you start
to pack up your stall it kind of signals to the fans that the night is
winding down. I actually set up a stall at the all day metal fest of
complete darkness but broke rule #8 by packing up after just two hour
of power. However, the room was so dark that no one knew either that
I was there or that I had packed up early.
9. Publicise. Let the kids know that you will be there. This means
zine fans might actually come and gets the word out there that you
have the indie cred.
10. Stock. Taylor your stall to the event. If you are running a
stall at an all day metal fest make sure the 'Westside Angst/You'
split zine with Lemmy from Motorhead on the cover is front and centre.
So there you have it zine fans. Now go forth and create zine stalls
wherever you may be. And if everything falls apart and all of your
money and zines are stolen by filthy hippies pick up a pen and write a
zine about it. That would be one awesome zine.
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ZINE REVIEWS
Welcome to Red Ink's review column. If you think she's out of control,
email us to set her straight. And if you'd like to have a rival zine
review column for us to publish in this section, bring it on! We live
in a pluralist society! We can have multiple review sections!
THE RED INK SECTION
Fergus#15
$1
P.O Box 132, Bentley WA 6982
Fergus is an amazing little zine. So much care has clearly been taken
in its creation with it's fabric covered cover and stuck-in stickers
and pieces of paper and yet it's only one dollar. In this issue,
Fergus contains two sections, the first being an alphabetical
description or Fergus's suburb, East Victoria Park. She takes us
through the area starting with her pathological feeling of Attachment
to her suburb, her opinions of her local Elected representatives that
run tuna drives at Christmas time and the Zebra crossing outside the
cheesecake shop. The second section, called The Peonies, is 13 bits of
Fergus's life, like #8 Diaries and #11 Saturday Night.
Fergus is really well written, it's never too saccharine with it's
homey descriptions of East Victoria Park and Fergus writes with just
the right amount of cynical humour. It's just such a lovely zine to
hold and to own because it's handmade and perfectly pocket sized. It
provides that element of zines which make them so wonderful.
Tangibility.
Little Sticks
$1
have.you.ever@hotmail.com
Little Sticks is an unassumingly written zine about someone in an
in-between moment who is craving a holiday. Type written on 15
separate cards and bound together with a single rubber band, the style
of writing just slowly draws you in and you're a little disappointed
that there isn't more when you finish reading. The descriptions of the
movements of the writer 'from bed to couch to kitchen to video shop…'
accompanied by a list of songs playing and books being read at the
time makes the zine feel familiar and the slight smudges and typos
which haven't been corrected add to the innocence of the tone.
This zine clearly requires time and effort to construct and it's
amazingly reasonably priced at only $1. What makes this a good zine is
that it isn't anything but this small vignette of what the author was
thinking and feeling at the time of creation and it's really lovely to
have that presented in such an unpretentious manner.
Anyone Can Be…A Warrior Princess
$2.50
citylibrarystreetpress.blogspot.com
It amazes me that a zine workshop group, purporting to be made up of
creative people who meet up and talk zines, and that also receives
financial support and venue from the City library can put out such an
awful zine. You'd think that if they knew anything about zine culture,
they wouldn't let this poorly put together and overpriced zine out on
the shelves. It seems that this zine was made by only a couple of
people since it lacks serious content, with the exception of the
article on the Camberwell Market which is well written and is really
too good to be in this zine. The rest of the zine consists of a
hand-drawn warrior princess captioned by various tag-lines, cut and
paste photocopied pictures of warrior princesses with other people's
heads on them and a poorly photocopied collage of craft.
When so many good zines are being put out by individuals who have to
compile them on hallway floors, who don't receive funding and who sell
them for ridiculously low prices, it's seems wrong for a group that is
so supported to be putting out this poorly crafted zine. What's worse
is that they're charging $2.50 for it, when clearly it is worth much
less than this.
NB Avid readers will remember 'Anyone Can…' was named the Worst Zine
Title of 2008 by Sticky in October's newsletter.
Stickmen #9
$1.50
Finally Stickmen #9 has been released. The scratchily drawn comic ,
depicting the adventures of Stickmen and his ninja foes is so
endearing, it's impossible not to like it. It's completely hand drawn
and the photocopying has improved through the previous issues to award
this one with the least amount of photocopy cut-offs. Standout
sections of this issue are the implosion of Stickman, the analysis of
'Mr. Sandman' by Pat Benattar and the author's reaction to his VCE
results.
This comic proves that you don't need to produce something incredibly
polished and well planned out to make an impact and it really is a
creation which defines the genre of zine.
Nicola Hardy is Updating Her Status and Dreaming About Car Accidents
$4
nicola@secretenvelope.com
I'll just say this now that I'm not a huge fan of short story zines so
I needed this zine to do something impressive to make me like it. And
it kind of got there, maybe. Hardy is usually a comic artist, but in
this publication she creates stories which may or may not be
fictional. There are good pieces, like Night Drive and Discoveries and
not-so-good pieces, such as Hyena. The story section of this zine is
okay, with the inclusion of a playlist (awesome) but does include one
crucial error. A blog post. Never include a blog post in a zine.
The other thing that could be improved in this zine is the
presentation. For a comic artist to produce such an unappealing zine
is surprising. It is typed in various Word fonts with a blocky black
and white presentation which makes it seem sterile and looks really
boring. For this zine to be considered much better, it would benefit
from a less clinical outlay and a more welcoming and personal
aesthetic.
Contact: redinksection@gmail.com or you can send your zines to be
reviewed to: Red Ink P.O. Box 41 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 8009
To send in your own reviews and get a rival review section up and
going here, email stickyshop@gmail.com. Pluralist society, people!
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CLASSIFIEDS
Nobody wants anything, nobody has lost anything, the world is
complete. Just don't watch the nightly news.
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MOST HIP STUDENT POPULATION ACCORDING TO VISITS
ANNOUNCING THE WINNING SCHOOL POPULATION FOR 2008:
We were going to wait till International Literature Week to make this
incredible announcement but by then, who cares? New school year etc.
Really this should have been done in December. So… drumroll…MacRob
have won by a LONG SHOT. Yes, it is official, Mac Rob girls' school
has the coolest student population in Melbourne.
THE PRIZE
MacRob will get a lovely letter written to their principle from Sticky
Institute saying how wonderful and well behaved their students are in
public in the new year, and *the first five students to rock up to
sticky and display their macrob student card will get their own
zinepacks (by post) and membership to the institute. Oh it pays to be
cool. And here is the final tally from 2008:
Korowa…4
Lauriston…1
Carey…9
Warrandite High…4
MacRob…14
Melbourne High…8.
Melbourne Girls College…3
King David School…4
St Michael's Grammar…1
Star of the Sea…1
Buckley Park…1
University High…from 8 to 10 to 11
Mullauna College…4
Princess Hill…from 3 to 9 to 10
Caulfield Grammar…3
Emmaus College…3
Brighton Secondary College…2
Mordiallac Secondary College…2
Eltham College…5
Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School…1
Collingwood College…12
Sydney Rd Community School…1
Austin Hospital School…3
Hogswort's…4
Little Yarra Steiner School…1
Loreto…1
Firbank Grammer…5
Academy of Mary Immaculate…6
NEW ENTRANTS
Strathmore…1
Trinity Grammar…1
2009 CENSUS WILL BEGIN IN EARNEST IN FEBRUARY.
If this is annoying to read, please enjoy the word document attached.
CONTENTS
Zine Calendar Dates And Things You Need To Know
New Stuff Instore
Niche for Zine
From our new Canberra Zine Correspondent in Darwin
From our Adelaide Zine Correspondent who didn't really count on being
a Correspondent
From Our Paris Zine Correspondent
False Diary
Zine Reviews
Classifieds
Most Hip Student Population According To Visits To the Institute
What is this email and why am I getting/not getting it
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ZINE CALENDAR DATES AND THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
WHATEVER YOUR LOCATION:
Sticky is good mates with the USA zine distro papertrail and ciara is
doing a call out for any zines you might like to get considered for
overseas mail order distribution. Ciara has her own selection process,
it's not open slather, but you can read up on the sort of stuff she
goes for (mostly personal or political) at
http://www.papertraildistro.com/submit. In her words, "I beg you to
send me zines". And Sticky vouches for Papertrail as a highly reliable
distro.
IN MELBOURNE:
HOME SWEET HOME
Brunswick Bound Jan 17 – Feb 17
361 Sydney Rd Brunswick
An exhibition of Evil Brothers and zinemakers Tom and Ned, who have
joined forces from opposite ends of the country. Gallery open Mon –
Sat 10-6pm and Sunday 11-5
INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE CONSPIRACY WEEK at Sticky
This week long conspiracy includes
Zine Fair,
SAT 14 February 12pm onwards, Degraves Subway.
The first ever International Literature Conspiracy week will be held
from Mon 9 – Sunday 5 February featuring zine launches at Sticky,
insane creative projects to get involved with, and yes, a kick arse
zine fair SAT 14 FEBRUARY 2009. What better way to celebrate your love
for zines than on valentines day people. So mark this one in your
diaries, and get ready to staple your heart out, because Sticky's zine
fair this year packed the subway out, and it's going to be the same
deal in 09, only bigger. Stay tuned. Book cheap flights now. But avoid
Jetstar (see last month's newsletter).
Book your (free) table with Candace, runawaykite@gmail.com
THE REST OF THE PROGRAM (which will also go up on the website in the
next 48 hours)
International Literature Conspiracy Week
festival program 9th-15th Feb
MONDAY 9TH FEB
Target 144
12.00 pm 9th Feb – 12.00 pm 14th Feb at Sticky
Join the conspiracy! At midday Project144 begins, where zinemakers and
comic artists meet at the official Target144 headquarters (Sticky
Institute) to begin a 144 hour odyssey of creation where zines and
comics will be conceived, produced and released at Sticky's Zine Fair
on the sixth day. Target144 creations will be complete with proof of
dates incorporated into the work such as newspaper dates, receipts or
metcards across the critical 144 hours. Works can be made remotely as
well as instore, and everyone is urged to join the conspiracy. The end
results will be launched and sold at the Target144 table at the Zine
Fair on the Saturday.
TUESDAY 10TH FEB
Zine launch – Sure 6 Project
6pm – 7pm at Sticky
Launch of the Sure 6 Project compiled by Elle 36, inspired by the 90s
zine Sure issue number 6, where zinemakers were asked about their
practice and zine culture. The Sure 6 Project resurrects Kane Sure's
concept and the first issue in this new ongoing project will be
launched.
Conspiracy Theory
An International Literature Conspiracy Gig and Zine Evening.
9pm – at The Arthouse, 616 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. $5 at the door
A zine and musical event, this evening will include performances by
Made Austria and heaps of zine readings. There will also be a zine
stall and The Arthouse will be a temporary base for Target144.
WEDNESDAY 11TH FEB
Launch of zine Moth Wings with instore performance of Maddie & Jorja
Kelly Forever
6pm – 7pm at Sticky
The launch of 'Moth Wings' zine, an anthology of childhood drawings,
and an in store performance by Maddie & Jorja Kelly Forever. Come and
be a child again and have a draw with textas and crayons and remember
what it was like to be uninhibited and untainted by the complexities
of adult thinking.
THURSDAY 12TH FEB
Zine Launch – Foxes in the supermarket
6pm – 7pm at Sticky
Aaron, Beck and Jon launch their highly anticipated Coles/Safeway
split zine 'Foxes in the Supermarket'.
FRIDAY 13TH FEB
The Opinion Society
6pm – 7pm - Sticky
Meeting the last Friday of every month, this is a special festival
edition of the Opinion Society complete with refreshments. Bring your
opinions and discuss zines while in their natural habitat.
SATURDAY 14TH FEB
Zine Fair and Festival Launch
12pm – 5pm – Degraves St Subway
Launched by Minister of the Arts Lynn Kosky at 2pm, the Zine Fair will
take over the subway underpass with hundreds of local and nationally
produced zines, comics and independent press, as well as featuring
Sticky's inhouse official Valentines Day cupid (complete with bow,
arrow and typewriter) who will take love letter dictations on Sticky
Institute stationary to be instantly issued to your Valentine.
The zine fair will also be launching the efforts of the Target144
initiative, where zinesters and comic artists will release their
creations made in the last 144 hours, and be host to the legendary
'You' zine bag making marathon where the aim is to create as many YOU
bags as possible, to package the zine, in the one afternoon. The bags
will go into circulation containing the following week's zine.
Everyone is welcome to come along and take part. 'You' is a free,
Melbourne anonymous zine issued weekly since 2001
2pm – official launch of zine fair, Sticky's new back wall, and speeches
12-5pm – You bag making marathon
SUNDAY 15TH FEB
2pm - 3pm Public viewing of the zine collection at the State Library
of Victoria. Free but booking required (stickyshop@gmail.com).
The State Library of Victoria have an incredible zine collection going
back to the 80s within the Rare Printed Collections section. This is a
special opportunity to see the width and breadth of the collection
which is being prepared for cataloguing.
IN SYDNEY:
Intellectual Zine Presentation
Friday 23rd January
There will be a presentation conducted by two Australian zine
librarians - Jessie Lymn and John Stevens - that will be run as a part
of the Research Applications in Information and Library Studies
conference (or RAILS5), held at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The talk will focus on their involvement in two prominent zine
collections that they have had respective involvement with: the State
Library of Victoria's Rare Printed Zine collection and the Newcastle
based Octapod collection. For more information, please check out the
conference web-site:
http://www.communication.uts.edu.au/conferences/rails/
DIY MARKETS/ ZINE FAIR AT LITTLE FISH
Sunday 1 Feb 1pm – 5pm
At Little Fish, 22 Enmore Rd Newtown
To book a table, email ghostesky @ gmail.com with Fish Market as the
subject. It seems to be gaining momentum. Legendary zinemaker 7U has
given this monthly event his personal endorsement:
"hey little fish is good, they do loads for the local arts community
here in sydney providing an affordable space right on enmore rd in
newtown for artists.the small percentage she does take from artists is
based on whats sold, which i dont think is unreasonable. you should be
more supportive of people who support the zine scene, not put down
what they are doing because they have a minimal charge to provide a
space on one of the most expensive/trendy streets in sydney."
RISO ACTION
Sydney has its own rizzeria, a new printing collective, somehow linked
to big fag press, with their own site due to be updated.
www.rizzeria.com. Risographs are a cheap alternative to colour
photocopying (or spot colour) for multiple quantity printing (ie for
runs over 50) and remain economic until runs of over 10,000 copies.
Obviously the riso is the stuff of awe for all zinemakers.
IN CANBERRA:
Zine Fair
Sat 7 Feb 10am –5pm
ACT Writers Centre
Competing with 'Yeah Write' for the lame-title-for-event stakes, is
the ACT Writers Centre youth festival 'Scribble', happening on Sat 7
Feb 10am –5pm. While sticky are all for zine fairs, this one is
charging zinemakers $10 a table which is just ridiculous. Apparently
people have been making off with the tables in previous years. No
comment. It's at QL2 Foyer, Gorman House Ainslie Ave, Braddon. BYO
your own table and chair and there's no charge. Yes, they are totally
serious: ."Please note there's no fee if you
can bring your own table." Just make sure no-one runs off with it.
Table theft is very high in Canberra, apparently.
Book your real estate via poetry.slams@gmail.com
IN ADELAIDE:
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM ADELAIDE FOR MARCH:
Dear Foreigners,
Please accept my warmest invites to attend the 2nd annual Format
Festival, our poorly named fledgling DIY festival, which is occuring
from March 1st to 15th in the city of Adelaide. I would particularly
encourage you to come over for the weekend of Friday March 13th to
Sunday March 15th, whereupon we'll be having the Adelaide Zine and DIY
Fair (Saturday 14th), an evening of cycling films entitled 'Bikes
Camera Action (also on the 14th) and the Academy of DIY, which is a
bunch of workshops on everything from gender identity to bike repair
(Sunday 15th).
I understand that Adelaide isn't exactly the world's most appealling
holiday destination, but there'll be a wealth of world famous
zinesters and indie
press types there, including Sticky's own Luke Sinclair, Vignette
Press, Breakdown Press, Arlene Texta Queen and possibly US zine icon
Dave Roche, author of On Subbing.
yours,
Ianto Ware
Director
Format Festival
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NEW STUFF INSTORE
It's hot and tempers are short so here are some tiny snippets of some
of the new stuff.
10 Things To Hate About My Sister
$3
lapptheocean@squatspace.com
OK speaking of hot, Elena and Allegra are SO HOT RIGHT NOW. This is
one of Elena's. I love it when she talks how much her sister annoys
her with the electric eels, complete with eels in a radioactive tub.
And the torture sequence etc. As for the pricing…well, they're
workin' it.
Kenneth
$2
Amazing, amazing am-a-zing zine about a girl's development and
diagnosis of anorexia and her eventual recovery. This is easily one of
the most engaging personal zines you will come across, and is an
incredible insight into the mentality one develops with an eating
disorder. This is an INCREDIBLE read. You have to read it.
Hoopla Issue 3
$3
This is like an anarcho feminist revolution zine about crafts and
being radical and such like. I'm losing energy at this point but
without reading it, it looks pretty good. It makes cross stiching
cool.
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NICHE FOR A ZINE
A robot dedicated zine. Yes, it seems so obvious but nobody has done
one since Zeke in year 9 from early 00's. Please. Someone. The demand
is there. I know I'd read it.
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FROM OUR NEW CANBERRA CORRESPONDENT IN DARWIN, Gemma Nourse.
This month: Darwin: its history, relationship to DIY and present day
observations.
Hello, hello. Yes, nice to meet you. While you may have noticed that I
am the Canberra correspondent, truth is I am not in Canberra right
now. I arrived back in the humid and humble hellhole I affectionately
call home about a month ago, which others call 'Darwin'.
Here are the top three most important facts about Darwin to create a
little profile for your greedy craniums:
Home to around 100,000 people, Darwin is small enough for many to know
each other's most personal secrets, but large enough to have one
shopping centre that provides depressing retail therapy and every
highschool kid's social life.
You can count the number of book and record stores in the whole place
on one hand, and there is only one tiny music venue that supports
local, original artists. The rest are cover bands.
Paul Keating once said that the best way to see Darwin was from
overhead as you fly to Europe.
Here's my theory: Darwin's isolation, lack of artistic infrastructure
and misguided hatred from 'Southerners', as they are called, has
created an interesting D.I.Y. culture that permeates many areas of a
Darwinian's life and experience. The truth? There's not much going on
here. So to see anything interesting happen, you kind of have to get
of yo' ass and make it happen.
I think this culture has something to do with Darwin's history, and
its need to keep reinventing itself. My Papou and Yiayia (Greek
Grandpa and Grandma) were first generation Australians, and helped
establish Darwin in its early years. My Papou taught himself English
by reading through the dictionary each night and became a building
contractor, while Yiayia worked in a corner store and set up a home
for her family. They both had to do it for themselves, because no one
else would do it for them. Word is that the town had that overall vibe
at the time, as each family tried to stay afloat. Later, when my mum
was around 16, Darwin and my family had to again reinvent themselves
after Cyclone Tracy hit. While my uncles and aunties were evacuated,
Yiayia and Papou, along with many other locals, decided to stay back
and help rebuild the city. Darwin has always relied on the support of
its people for its creation, reinvention and improvement, and this
culture of involvement and community still remains.
Nowadays, Darwin's most attractive quality to many locals is its
laidback lifestyle, separated by a very fine line from shameless
laziness. It takes a bit of courage and enthusiasm to create what you
think the town is lacking. There are a handful of zinesters, musos,
artists, writers and actors kicking around, who all belong to this
little community of people who love what they do and appreciate each
other.
So the next time you go to spit on the part of the map of our country
that depicts the shameful capital city of my humble Territory, think
twice. While we may be the land of humidity, mosquitoes and
nothing-much-else-ness, think also of the good people who work
tirelessly to stand up to the legions of cover bands, skanky
nightclubs and the majority bogan population to do their bit in the
name of culture. Word.
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FROM OUR ADELAIDE ZINE CORRESPONDENT WHO DIDN'T REALLY COUNT ON BEING
A CORRESPONDENT
The following fantastic report on zines making their way across the
land has been kindly provided by zinemaker Simon Gray, just intended
as a personal email, but was so awesome he relented and let us turn it
into a column. Don't stop now Simon!!!
TRUE TALES OF BRAVERY & HONOR
Is a web comic collected in a comic zeen. It's Ninjas vs. Penguins
conspiracy story.
Aaron Humphrey is your contact man, he turned up in the last half hour
of the Pt. Augusta zine fair in time to miss everything. When my
computer buggered up I lost his e-mail but the zeen lists a wweb address:
www.braveryandhonor.com
A BIRD IN THE [THE] BUSH
A mixed bag of everything from Natalie Von Catalie from Da Gong, pal of
Maddy Phelan's. You've probably got this one.
zombetty@hotmail.com
MY FIRST ZINE ISSUE TWO (#1)
Owen Heitmann normally just prints his web comics but has thrown that in
& has produced this zine which is a mixed bag of stuff he's doing
between projects. It's actually his most personally revealing work. He's
just had a submission for TANGO rejected 'cause it was too pornographic!
owen.heitmann@gmail.com
I AM A CAMERA #12 & DISPOSABLE CAMERA #5
Like I need to tell you about Vanessa Berry.
vanessaberryworld@gmail.com
NICOLA HARDY IS UPDATING HER STATUS AND DREAMING ABOUT CAR ACCIDENTS
Comic artist Nicola's first short story collection is rather good.
nicola@secretenvelope.com
IN SICKNESS
Maddy Phelan's been hanging around Ianto Ware too long & gone and
produced this academic wank about subjectivity & the body. Actually one
of her better efforts, she reports she's putting an end to cutey pie
zines about cats now.
maddy.phelan@gmail.com
MADAM LASH'S GRAND OPENING
Poet Kerryn Tredrea's collection is a good few years old now , but
there's still copies showing up at zine fairs & it's worth it for the
collection of fonts alone.
skinwilleatitself@yahoo.com.au
BY THE TIME YOU'RE TWENTY FIVE
You've probably heard of Emma Davidson, but she's pretty slack, so you
might need to kick her arse to get these zines to you. This was her
latest I picked up @ TINA.
PO Box 4 Enmore NSW 2042
SPICY PONY SECRET FANTASY #4 & PUFF BOOK #1
Chris Tamm is a street artist extrodinaire & Australia's living answer
to Zippy the Pinhead. He's a hairy fat 30something running a gallery
thing in Sydney & raving to me about the cutey pie girls he meets
through his most successful SPICY PONY series.
konsumterra@hotmail.com
SPRAK! VOL #2 & WHAM GLAM THANK YOU MA'M
I've seen a SPRAK! in Sticky but not sure how up to date you keep w/
Kami McInnes as I've heard him whinge that Polyester is the only place
in Melbourne that'll stock him.
PO Box 278 Edwardstown SA 5039
SHADOWLANDS, 2085 & LAFFERTY ON NORFOLK ISLAND
Stephen Stanley was one of the stars of the Pt. Augusta Zine Fair. Based
in Whyalla, he used to have a strip published in Adelaide's News Ltd
paper THE ADVERTISER back in the 80s. He's apparently got a back shed
full of old professionally & self published comic books.
stansei@centralonline.com.au
MORE LOVE TRUTH & HONESTY
Paul Byron released a new Bananarama fanzine years after the first, now
covering Belinda Carlisle, Michelle Pfeiffer & Elastica too. Still
really about Paul though.
paulibyron@gmail.com
DIAGRAM #2
Another collection of impressive drawing by Helen Nehill.
h.nehill@hotmail.com
D90
John Stevens, I understand, is one of Sticky's bright young sycophantic
yes-men. I assume you have this too.
spurzine@gmail.com
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FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT IN PARIS, Lisa Pham.
This month: 2009: A Cyberspace Odyssey
The Internet has a lot to answer for.
Despite a surface distance of 16,780 kilometres between Paris and
Melbourne, I am still able to keep in touch with what's happening on
the other side of the globe. Thanks to Facebook, I always know when
Sticky is sleeping, in the same way that Sticky always knows what I'm
making for dinner. Thanks also to Facebook, I was able to catch up
with an old high school friend who now lives in Zurich, making
Moleskine-type notebooks in her spare time. More recently I met up
with Maddy, a zinester from Wollongong, while she was in town over the
Christmas holidays. We spent the day eating Tibetan food, walking
around Paris and going to the Rodin museum. Maddy left for a 14 hour
bus ride to Berlin that night and I suggested that she meet up with my
friend Emily, a zinester from Melbourne who now lives in Berlin.
Perhaps all of this could have happened without the Internet, but much
more coordination and planning would have been required.
The Internet is not always useful, however. I'd been meaning to visit
an artist squat in Paris which I'd heard about through the grapevine.
Short on time, I relied on Google to find out where it was. Despite
the website not being updated since 2003, I remained positive.
Apparently the squat was open to the public every day except Mondays,
from 1pm to 7pm. Sadly, when we got to 59 rue de Rivoli a few days
ago, all we found was an abandoned squat – much more disappointing
than an abandoned building which could be turned into a squat.
One of my Facebook friends uploaded photos of his favourite zine front
covers. Oddly, I was thankful that none of my zines were among the
list. Every now and then there are discussions about digitising zines
– but to do so would to lose its meaning. I love reading back on my
old zines because it reminds me of who I was at a particular time in
my life, and how much I've changed (or haven't changed) since that
zine was made. There is an honesty in these early zines, an intimacy
between myself and the 50 other people who managed to get a copy. Many
things shared in the zines are things that I would not tell an online
audience, where strangers from all over the world could find and read
it without its original context. Rather than trying to get as many web
hits as possible or having an eternal presence on the World Wide Web,
I want my personal zines to remain ephemeral. Perhaps the same could
be said about squats.
My New Year's Resolutions for this Sticky column: to find an artist
squat; to visit the anarchist bookstore; to learn more about the
bookstore Shakespeare & Co; to continue writing.
Happy 2009 from Paris!
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FALSE DIARY - A ZINE COLUMN By Luke You [Special Extended Edition]
Column #10 – The Ten Commandments of The Zine Stall
I've done a few zine stalls in my time. Some stalls were completely
awesome with hundreds of hungry zine fans climbing over each other to
get their hands on zine goodness (TINA, The Festival Of The
Photocopier, The Adelaide Zine Fair) and some so gut wrenchingly awful
my hands are beginning to shake just writing about them here
(libraries in the middle of nowhere in far far Western Victoria with
only two ten year olds in attendance). After earning my stripes
through years and years of gruelling zine stall action I want to share
with you the following list. It is a list of how to create the most
kick-ass zine stall in the history of zine stalls for you and for the
kids who want to pick up some zine action. Some of the things I
mention may seem so obvious that it is almost embarrassing to write
them down. Things like "table". But trust me, in the world of zine
stalls nothing is always as it seems. Here are my Ten Commandments of
The Zine Stall:
1. You will need zines. I recommend taking more zines rather than
less, more as in different zines. The bigger your stall is the more
you will blow peoples minds when they stumble across the stall and the
more zines you have the more likely it is that you will have a zine
that someone is interested in.
2. Take change, lots of change. You will need many one dollar coins,
two dollar coins and five dollar notes. Incredibly, even zine world
legends who should know better will try to buy a $1 zine from your
stall with a $50 note.
3. Light. You will need light so that people can see your zine stall
and people can see your zines. I once agreed to do a zine stall at an
all day metal festival at The Espy and I arrived to find the room in
complete darkness. This may be good to enjoy your garden type Manowar
knock-off, but is a big no no for a zine stall.
4. Table. You will need a table to put the zines on. If you put them
on the floor they will get dirty and people will stand on them. YOU
NEED A TABLE TO HAVE A ZINE STALL. And whats more it should be a big
table. One of those big trestle tables is what you are looking for
here. At the previously mentioned metal gig in complete blackness the
organiser of the gig offered me a table approximately the size of a
dinner plate to display my 300+ zines on. This was not good.
5. Suitcase. You will need to transport your zines to the location of
the stall safely for both your back and the condition of the zines.
You will need a suitcase on wheels. If you pack your case in a shonky
manner the zines will get bent and people will not want your zines.
My current rig is a big-ass second hand black suitcase on wheels that
set me back $20 from Savers but which has paid for itself twenty times
over. I pack the zines in large plastic envelopes inside the suitcase
and fill the rest of the case with towels. You don't want those
babies moving around. Even I have been criticised for the condition
of my zines at zine stalls. Connoisseurs of zine culture such as
"Metal Ash" will rip you to shreds at TINA if you dare to show up with
creased zines.
6. Another person. Try to organise for there to be two people on the
stall so if you need to get food, go to the toilet or get a drink you
don't leave your stall unattended and have all your money stolen by
filthy hippies. Another idea is to line up someone to drop by the
stall just for half an hour at some point during the stall to give you
a break. To go back to a point I made a couple of sentences ago. DO
NOT LEAVE YOUR ZINE STALL UNATTENDED AT ANY TIME OR ALL YOUR MONEY AND
ZINES WILL BE STOLEN BY FILTHY HIPPIES.
7. Signage. You want to let people know who you are and where you are
from without them having to ask. My usual technique is to bring along
a fat permanent marker and find a cardboard box out the back of the
venue and write the distro name on the card and pin it to the front of
the table. This also gives you and your stall a look of distinguished
DIY cred.
8. Stay until the end. If you have agreed to do a stall at an event
it is only polite to stay until the end of the event. Once you start
to pack up your stall it kind of signals to the fans that the night is
winding down. I actually set up a stall at the all day metal fest of
complete darkness but broke rule #8 by packing up after just two hour
of power. However, the room was so dark that no one knew either that
I was there or that I had packed up early.
9. Publicise. Let the kids know that you will be there. This means
zine fans might actually come and gets the word out there that you
have the indie cred.
10. Stock. Taylor your stall to the event. If you are running a
stall at an all day metal fest make sure the 'Westside Angst/You'
split zine with Lemmy from Motorhead on the cover is front and centre.
So there you have it zine fans. Now go forth and create zine stalls
wherever you may be. And if everything falls apart and all of your
money and zines are stolen by filthy hippies pick up a pen and write a
zine about it. That would be one awesome zine.
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ZINE REVIEWS
Welcome to Red Ink's review column. If you think she's out of control,
email us to set her straight. And if you'd like to have a rival zine
review column for us to publish in this section, bring it on! We live
in a pluralist society! We can have multiple review sections!
THE RED INK SECTION
Fergus#15
$1
P.O Box 132, Bentley WA 6982
Fergus is an amazing little zine. So much care has clearly been taken
in its creation with it's fabric covered cover and stuck-in stickers
and pieces of paper and yet it's only one dollar. In this issue,
Fergus contains two sections, the first being an alphabetical
description or Fergus's suburb, East Victoria Park. She takes us
through the area starting with her pathological feeling of Attachment
to her suburb, her opinions of her local Elected representatives that
run tuna drives at Christmas time and the Zebra crossing outside the
cheesecake shop. The second section, called The Peonies, is 13 bits of
Fergus's life, like #8 Diaries and #11 Saturday Night.
Fergus is really well written, it's never too saccharine with it's
homey descriptions of East Victoria Park and Fergus writes with just
the right amount of cynical humour. It's just such a lovely zine to
hold and to own because it's handmade and perfectly pocket sized. It
provides that element of zines which make them so wonderful.
Tangibility.
Little Sticks
$1
have.you.ever@hotmail.com
Little Sticks is an unassumingly written zine about someone in an
in-between moment who is craving a holiday. Type written on 15
separate cards and bound together with a single rubber band, the style
of writing just slowly draws you in and you're a little disappointed
that there isn't more when you finish reading. The descriptions of the
movements of the writer 'from bed to couch to kitchen to video shop…'
accompanied by a list of songs playing and books being read at the
time makes the zine feel familiar and the slight smudges and typos
which haven't been corrected add to the innocence of the tone.
This zine clearly requires time and effort to construct and it's
amazingly reasonably priced at only $1. What makes this a good zine is
that it isn't anything but this small vignette of what the author was
thinking and feeling at the time of creation and it's really lovely to
have that presented in such an unpretentious manner.
Anyone Can Be…A Warrior Princess
$2.50
citylibrarystreetpress.blogspot.com
It amazes me that a zine workshop group, purporting to be made up of
creative people who meet up and talk zines, and that also receives
financial support and venue from the City library can put out such an
awful zine. You'd think that if they knew anything about zine culture,
they wouldn't let this poorly put together and overpriced zine out on
the shelves. It seems that this zine was made by only a couple of
people since it lacks serious content, with the exception of the
article on the Camberwell Market which is well written and is really
too good to be in this zine. The rest of the zine consists of a
hand-drawn warrior princess captioned by various tag-lines, cut and
paste photocopied pictures of warrior princesses with other people's
heads on them and a poorly photocopied collage of craft.
When so many good zines are being put out by individuals who have to
compile them on hallway floors, who don't receive funding and who sell
them for ridiculously low prices, it's seems wrong for a group that is
so supported to be putting out this poorly crafted zine. What's worse
is that they're charging $2.50 for it, when clearly it is worth much
less than this.
NB Avid readers will remember 'Anyone Can…' was named the Worst Zine
Title of 2008 by Sticky in October's newsletter.
Stickmen #9
$1.50
Finally Stickmen #9 has been released. The scratchily drawn comic ,
depicting the adventures of Stickmen and his ninja foes is so
endearing, it's impossible not to like it. It's completely hand drawn
and the photocopying has improved through the previous issues to award
this one with the least amount of photocopy cut-offs. Standout
sections of this issue are the implosion of Stickman, the analysis of
'Mr. Sandman' by Pat Benattar and the author's reaction to his VCE
results.
This comic proves that you don't need to produce something incredibly
polished and well planned out to make an impact and it really is a
creation which defines the genre of zine.
Nicola Hardy is Updating Her Status and Dreaming About Car Accidents
$4
nicola@secretenvelope.com
I'll just say this now that I'm not a huge fan of short story zines so
I needed this zine to do something impressive to make me like it. And
it kind of got there, maybe. Hardy is usually a comic artist, but in
this publication she creates stories which may or may not be
fictional. There are good pieces, like Night Drive and Discoveries and
not-so-good pieces, such as Hyena. The story section of this zine is
okay, with the inclusion of a playlist (awesome) but does include one
crucial error. A blog post. Never include a blog post in a zine.
The other thing that could be improved in this zine is the
presentation. For a comic artist to produce such an unappealing zine
is surprising. It is typed in various Word fonts with a blocky black
and white presentation which makes it seem sterile and looks really
boring. For this zine to be considered much better, it would benefit
from a less clinical outlay and a more welcoming and personal
aesthetic.
Contact: redinksection@gmail.com or you can send your zines to be
reviewed to: Red Ink P.O. Box 41 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 8009
To send in your own reviews and get a rival review section up and
going here, email stickyshop@gmail.com. Pluralist society, people!
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CLASSIFIEDS
Nobody wants anything, nobody has lost anything, the world is
complete. Just don't watch the nightly news.
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MOST HIP STUDENT POPULATION ACCORDING TO VISITS
ANNOUNCING THE WINNING SCHOOL POPULATION FOR 2008:
We were going to wait till International Literature Week to make this
incredible announcement but by then, who cares? New school year etc.
Really this should have been done in December. So… drumroll…MacRob
have won by a LONG SHOT. Yes, it is official, Mac Rob girls' school
has the coolest student population in Melbourne.
THE PRIZE
MacRob will get a lovely letter written to their principle from Sticky
Institute saying how wonderful and well behaved their students are in
public in the new year, and *the first five students to rock up to
sticky and display their macrob student card will get their own
zinepacks (by post) and membership to the institute. Oh it pays to be
cool. And here is the final tally from 2008:
Korowa…4
Lauriston…1
Carey…9
Warrandite High…4
MacRob…14
Melbourne High…8.
Melbourne Girls College…3
King David School…4
St Michael's Grammar…1
Star of the Sea…1
Buckley Park…1
University High…from 8 to 10 to 11
Mullauna College…4
Princess Hill…from 3 to 9 to 10
Caulfield Grammar…3
Emmaus College…3
Brighton Secondary College…2
Mordiallac Secondary College…2
Eltham College…5
Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School…1
Collingwood College…12
Sydney Rd Community School…1
Austin Hospital School…3
Hogswort's…4
Little Yarra Steiner School…1
Loreto…1
Firbank Grammer…5
Academy of Mary Immaculate…6
NEW ENTRANTS
Strathmore…1
Trinity Grammar…1
2009 CENSUS WILL BEGIN IN EARNEST IN FEBRUARY.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Blog Awards
Encouraging you to all vote for The Dawn Chorus in this :
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-australia-or-new-zealand-blog/
Cate (my wife) writes for them and it's an ace Feminist blog :-)
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-australia-or-new-zealand-blog/
Cate (my wife) writes for them and it's an ace Feminist blog :-)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Next meetings and Sketchcrawl
Hello everyone!
Hope you all had good holidays and all that :-)
We're commencing meetings again next week and then every fortnight, the first few meetings will be to plan the next series of workshops and discuss our big plans for anyone can issue 3, both of which have been progressing along nicely in our absence of meetings...
So hopt to see you all at the City Library next Wednesday 14th January...
It's also the latest Melbourne Sketchcrawl this Saturday, the locations are yet to be decided, but keep an eye on :
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39212487341
Hope you all had good holidays and all that :-)
We're commencing meetings again next week and then every fortnight, the first few meetings will be to plan the next series of workshops and discuss our big plans for anyone can issue 3, both of which have been progressing along nicely in our absence of meetings...
So hopt to see you all at the City Library next Wednesday 14th January...
It's also the latest Melbourne Sketchcrawl this Saturday, the locations are yet to be decided, but keep an eye on :
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39212487341
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