Tag: mca zine fair
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Zine Round-Up Part 2
And we’re finally back for Part Two. Pancake Batter Mike Watt is known for his grotesque characters. They remind me of old, *old* caricatures. Pancake Batter is about his works going as paste ups on wall around anonymous parts of the city. He even includes S.H.U’s recipe for the glue they both use. If you…
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MCA Zine Fair 2016
So I went to the MCA Zine Fair the other week. It was pretty good. But in terms of size, MCA’s was pale in comparison compared to the Other Worlds Zine Fair (which you can read about here). And I guess this is where the comparison will play out. In the previous two years, the…
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Zine Swag
So a couple of weeks back I had picked up a few zines from both the MCA and Other World’s zine fairs. Archonic It’s an architecture/design mag put together by students, by the looks of things. The design of the magazine has all the elements that are in vogue; photos dissected by simple geometries, large…
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Head 2 Head Zine Fairs
Last year, I went to two zine fairs in one day. The Other Worlds Zine Fair was organised in protest against one of the sponsors (being Transfield [Services/Holdings] who also manage the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres) backing the MCA, and thus the zine fair. I had to see both, because it is pointless…
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Two Zine Fairs, One Day
It’s dark on the coach back. The most repeated question I’ve been asked today was “what was the turn out like?” This is what happens when there are two zine fairs on in one day. Once again the MCA was having a zine fair, where the indie publishing scene congregates and trades over plastic tables.…
The Screaming Wall 