Wellington Zinefest 2010 photos!

Our youngest zinester of the fest, Zora, age 9!
















A talk involving all but one of the major players in NZ zine culture from the last 10-15 years. Intense.


Natural Glow performing at the after party at Watusi.

Wellington Zinefest 2010 - Best Of The Fest

Wellington Zinefest Best of the Fest 2010

Winner - Daily Secretion

Runners up - Cup Cake Monsters 12 and Common-sense nihilist guide to life

The Good Book !

I just recieved a box of this good lookin' Good Book for zinefest! Ooh La la

Check it out!
http://thegoodbookmag.wordpress.com/

The Comics Show!

The Comics Show

Throughout the day The Comics Show, a documentary about comic books in New Zealand by Shirley Horrocks will be screening in the library space.

“The writing and drawing of comic books has remained a little-known and under-rated area of New Zealand culture. Director Shirley Horrocks reveals it to us as a highly creative subculture with a rich local history. Despite a moral panic about comics in the ‘40s and ‘50s (recalled here by Eric Resetar, the grand old man of local comics), later decades brought us the exciting counter-culture work of Barry Linton and the other artists of Strips magazine (such as Dick Frizzell and Grant Major), the new directions taken by women artists such as Coco and Pritika), and the publication of long-form ‘graphic novels’ such as Ant Sang’s Dharma Punks and Dylan Horrocks’s Hicksville. There are now comics for all ages and interests. Comics have links with animation and with music (as shown by Chris Knox and Karl Wills among others). This highly entertaining and visually inventive film takes us from Auckland street culture, to Wellington’s ‘Eric Awards’, to a do-it-yourself comic collective (‘Funtime’ in Christchurch). This is an unexpected, eye-opening arts documentary with broad appeal.”

What babes!

We are delighted we will once again have with us some lovely people and zines from the Wellington City Library collection, they are offering off-site borrowing from zinefest, so go to their space and check it out, literally.

How to get from Mighty Mighty to The Watusi

Unique stall opportunity...

First zinester to email wellingtonzinefest@gmail.com can call dibs on Mighty Mighty's love seat/corner nook.
Can be used as is or (as Tofu Abortion did last year) turned around to form a circular counter.

AFTER PARTY!

Our after party is a go-go, we have four cool bands with zine connections for you to party with in the evening at Watusi. Come along, entry is a gold coin. The illustrious Best of The Fest will be announced at the show.

GOT A VAN?

Calling all awesome! We need help moving tables to Mighty Mighty on the 20th. If you have transport and are keen to help out please email wellingtonzinefest@gmail.com

Zinefest after party at The Watusi

We are delighted to announce that this year's Zinefest after party will be at the The Watusi
6 Edward Street, Central Wellington.

The after party will kick off with the annoucement of the 'Best of the Fest' winner. Stay tuned for details of the band line up and a map for out of towners.

Wellington Zinefest Committee 2010. Left to right: artist - Matt Whitwell, artist and Massey School of Fine Arts Lecturer - Bryce Galloway, artist, Comics Fest co-organiser and comics distributor - Claire Harris, zinester, musician and Lady Fest co-organiser - Kim Gruschow.

Wellington Zinefest 2010 is all go!

It will be held Saturday 20th of November at Mighty Mighty.

This year we are expanding Zinefest to include a broader range of self-published works.

Hey, don't forget to stay in touch with the goings on at the upcoming Auckland Zinefest 2010 to be held on August 14th.

Go to http://akzinefest.blogspot.com/