The 2nd Annual Long Beach Zine Fest is going to happen on April 24th, 2016.
Save that date, and tell all your friends. Expect more amazing Zines, Art, Print, and Music for LBZF16!
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IE Zine Quest 2015
The 4th annual IE Zine Quest will go down this Sunday, October 25th in Redlands. Every year the IE Zine Quest puts on an amazing fest with some great zinesters, and this year looks no different! A ton of amazing vendors, with some of our favorite zines will be at IEZQ. This event is partnering with DTR Artwalk. Live music, other art shows, and a beer garden, what more do you need?! Do not miss out!
Did you catch the music during Long Beach Zine Fest? Check out our 2015 lineup playlist on Soundcloud, and relieve the fun day we had. Groove to these songs and get excited about LBZF 2016!
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Did you miss the LBZF Zine Table panel at this years Long Beach Zine Fest? Don’t worry, we got you covered! Here’s the video of the whole panel featuring Francesca Lia Block, Greg Narvas, Teka-Lark Fleming, and Senay Kenfe, and enjoy a fun montage dripping with nostalgia for LBZF 2015.
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Huge thanks to everyone!
THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone that came out! It was such an amazing event and we owe it all to each and every one of you who was there! Everyone from our awesome zinesters, artists, writers, poets, illustrators, photographers, musicians, workshop advisors, panel guests, volunteers and organizers and OF COURSE all the attendees that poured in throughout the day! Double Thank You to our sponsors, food folks, coffee brewers, craft vendors, and especially The Museum of Latin American Art, this event was possible because you gave a group of LB zinesters the opportunity to dream big. Huge thanks to the entire MOLAA staff for helping make Long beach Zine Fest the success it was. It was an absolute pleasure and joy to be able to spend the day with each and everyone of you! Hope you guys had as much fun as we did! We really couldn’t have done it without all of you!!!
Name: Erwin Recinos
Zines: Photography / Graphic Design
Website: losojos.photos
Instagram: @losojosdemuerte
1. What kind of zines do you make?
I create photography zines. All photographs are taken by me either by digital, mobile or film.
2. What do you like about making zines?
Zines can take many forms and with DIY publishing it is exciting to what people create and see their ideas on paper instead of being locked up inside their heads with no way of reading or viewing it.
3. What are your zines about?
My zines are centered around my photographic journeys in & around Los Angeles. Either by car, public transit, or foot. I am also the events photographer for LATACO.com, a Los Angeles based website dedicated to the “taco lifestyle”.
4. How did you get started making zines?
After going to zine events, I saw the possibilities on what a zine could be. So, I made one titled “Metro Anonymous” all centered around my love of transit and commuting from home to work. Riding the Blue line and observing all the interesting visuals on that 45 minute ride from Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles. My commute varied in the last three years from train rides in the mornings, mid-day and evenings, so my visual perspective always varied and I believed it to be zine worthy.
5. Besides zines, what else are you passionate about?
Family, photography, tacos and art. Exactly in that order.
6. What advice would you give a new zinester?
Just try it. I fell into doing zines by chance and it seems like I can’t stop thinking making them. Write your ideas down on paper or put them in a random picker app on your phone. Do a drawing every month. Make that idea into a zine. See where it takes you.
7. Where do you look for your inspiration?
I use to find inspiration through photographers that I admired such as Jae Bueno, Eriberto Oriol and Tony Stamolis, to name a few. My inspiration now is drawn from within my thoughts and perspectives of photography. Examining my work and drawing better conclusions and ideas.
8. Any funny/interesting zine-related moments or stories you care to share?
As I was preparing my last zine, my daughter, Rosie, was interested in what I was doing. She asked so many questions that I asked her if she would like to make her own zine. She answered yes and began to gather some drawings together. I xeroxed copies of those drawings. Bought some pink & purple paper and proceeded to print her first zine. Two color way zine, 12-14 pages with a cover, all of her original artwork.
Scratch Zine Fair opened on August 30 at ESMOA (El Segundo Museum of Art) and decided to bring her along for the experience of selling her zine. My recollection is that she sold about 20 to 25 zines. Rosie made conversation about her zine and was the only youngest zinester at this event. With her earnings she bought more art supplies and crafts to feed her creative passions. That was a great day, won’t forget it.
Name: Julius Tanag
Zine: “Sofa King”
Website: juliustanag.com
Instagram: @juliustanag
1. What kind of zines do you make?
Collections of my hand lettered art and photography intermingled.
2. What do you like about making zines?
The tangible-ness. With all the internet sharing, it’s nice to hold actual, printed art.
3. What are your zines about?
A lot of things really. Sometimes silly ideas, and sometimes “angst-y” frustrations. I use lettering as an easy means to express and vent. The photography is a gritty look into society’s complexities regarding antidisestablishmentarianism. Just kidding, they’re just photos I took ’cause I felt like it.
4. Besides zines, what else are you passionate about?
Espresso and early seasons of Bob’s Burgers. Maybe other things.
5. What advice would you give a new zinester?
When printing, do a couple tests to make sure you’re getting the “double-sided-ness” just right! When you got it down, use that fancy colored paper. Also, maybe consider using a thicker paper for your cover for added effect?
6. What’s the biggest challenge you’ve had making zines?
Honestly, not much yet. That’s kind of the appeal to making zines, there’s nothing really too hard about it. You just got to do it!
7. Where do you look for your inspiration?
For lettering: my own stupid thoughts, silly things friends say, and some gods/goddesses of typography I creep on the internet. For photography: the quotidian. I mean, what else right? Life’s beautiful, yo.
Name: Sleep Talk Press
Zines: Cover Ups, Shut Up You’re Not My Real Dad, Decay of Instant Gratification, Soy Un Perdedor, #fearofmissingout, MTWTHF(Weekdays), I See A Blue Shirt, It Feels Orange, #fearofmissingout Vll, First Frame, Mundane, Mundane , Perfect Day , Don’t Mind Me
Website: sleeptalk.storenvy.com
Instagram: @sleeptalkpress
Tumblr: sleeptalkpress.tumblr.com
1. What kind of zines do you make?
Photozines.
2. What do you like about making zines?
I like that fact that I get to see my photographs in a different light. It’s off the computer screen and in your hands.
3. What are your zines about?
My zines are about the daily mundane observations I make through my photographs.
4. How did you get started making zines?
Two years ago I got fed up with being turned down for every “Open Calls to Submit” that I submitted to. Decided I should just make my own and haven’t stopped since.
5. Where do you look for your inspiration?
Perfect bound hardcover photo-books.
6. What advice would you give a new zinester?
Just keep creating zines and ask for help whenever you need it.
7. What’s the biggest challenge you’ve had making zines?
Spending seven months editing a layout and changing my mind once I think it’s done. Just doesn’t feel right yet.
The first Long Beach Zine Fest is less than a week away! Thank you so much to our community sponsors who have made this event possible!
(Free admission courtesy Target Free Sunday @ MoLAA)
Want to support the future of the Long Beach Zine Fest? Donate here! [paypal-donation]
Name: GRN+GLD
Zines: GRN+GLD Vol. 001-011
Website: grngld.com
Tumblr: grngldblog.tumblr.com
Instagram: @grngld
1. What kind of zines do you make?
Our zine is a paper mâché arm for the institution, GRN+GLD. We are a collective of 10 members who contribute sights, sounds, and servitude to that which is GRN+GLD. Our zines involve art from members, affiliates, articles about various GRN+GLD lore, silly pacification, indoctrination games, and more.
2. What do you like about making zines?
We like to provide an avenue for our respected affiliates and despicable members.
We like to give it away for free at our shows.
We like to self-deprecate on paper.
3. What are your zines about?
They are about all things GRN+GLD, including but not limited to: magic through the art of self-loathing, ritual use of lies to enhance reality, forthcoming releases from our members, crosswords, and fragmentation of the mind via group-based thought-speak.
4. How did you get started making zines?
Two old friends re-established a connection. One was ultimately forced into servitude and has been stapling papers ever since. He is very happy at the moment.
5. Besides zines, what else are you passionate about?
We make beats. We release our music.
Better living through constant self-deception.
Rebirth through dissociation of truth from reality.
6. What advice would you give a new zinester?
a.) Tell yourself you are a zinester.
b.) Believe it.
c.) Forget step a.)
7. What’s the biggest challenge you’ve had making zines?
Our warehouse was burned down (RIP the Wizard’s Den) by a disgruntled former member. He subsequently cursed us, and our former go-to venue. GRN+GLD Vol. 005 was lost in the flames. We are hoping to have the fragments pieced together by June 2029.
8. Where do you look for your inspiration?
Allied Forces Press, Arthur C. Clarke, DJ Detweiler, and Long Beach Thai’s Thai Boat Noodle (extra blood, extra spicy).
9. Any funny/interesting zine-related moments or stories you care to share?
If you lick a specific part of the GRN+GLD application (included in the back of every volume), you have a 1/20 chance of being the lucky recipient of 12 hours of grandiose self-delusion.
