Welcome

Welcome to the Chicago Zine Fest's website.

The organizers of the Chicago Zine Fest would like to thank Quimby's Bookstore, Johalla Projects, Columbia College's Fiction Department, Renegade Handmade, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Sara Drake, the Gadabout Film Festival, Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carre, Greg Means, Anne Elizabeth Moore, John Porcellino, all of our donors, everyone who gave us advice, everyone who came to our open meetings, our exhibitors, readers, art show participants, workshop facilitators, and everyone who came to check out the fest.  Please take a moment to recognize the hard work of our volunteers who helped promote and run the fest, they totally rock.


We would like to extend a special thank you to a few individuals without whom, there probably would be no zine fest.  John Wawrzaszek, Liz Mason and Darcy Dahl worked harder than they should have, and for that we are in their debt.


We hope you had a lot of fun during the zine fest.  We had a lot of fun organizing it, and we learned a lot. We've already started talking about the 2011 fest, and we would love it if you wanted to be a part of that discussion.  We have scheduled a 2010 wrap up/2011 preliminary planning meeting.  Everyone is welcome to the meeting, whether you just want to voice your feelings about the fest, give us advice, or if you would like to be an organizer for 2011.


2010 Post Fest Meeting/Looking ahead to 2011
Saturday March 27, 2010 2pm
Chicago Underground Library
621 W Belmont


If you post reviews or photos of the zine fest, please send them our way!  We have a flickr pool too, please contribute your visual memories!

 

Please enjoy site, consider contributing to our forums or commenting on blogs. We encourage you to register / login (note: you can also login by scrolling to the bottom of any page and clicking "login").

Featured Donor: Angee & Spudnik Press

Angee at Spudnik Press helped us out big time with some screen-printed posters for the Zine Fest.  You should start seeing these going up all over the city in the next couple of days.  Above is a picture of Angee in the Spudnik space when we picked up posters from her.  Angee is the founder and director of Spudnik Press, and she was very enthusiastic and motivated in getting this project done for us.  We're very excited to have Spudnik involved with us, and if you've seen the poster you know how awesome they look!

 

Spudnik's mission, according to their website, is "to provide facilities and services available to artists who need a place to create or exhibit their original artwork, especially those who cannot obtain access to traditional printmaking facilities and exhibition spaces because of financial or other limitations.  To provide education in printmaking practices though uniting professional artists with a diverse community of emerging artists, established artists, youth, and adults."

 

Spudnik has open studio sessions three times a week, as well as classes and other printmaking-related events.  You can find info about that and about what they do on their website, over at http://spudnikpress.com.  In short, they're an amazing organization and a great resource for Chicago to have, and we're very excited to have them involved with us!  Next time you need something screenprinted, or if you're interested in learning about the process and getting involved, Spudnik should be the place you go.

 

In other news, the Zine Fest After-Show is all confirmed!  If you were wondering what's going on after a day of exhibiting, here it is:

 

Saturday, March 13th

Ball Hall

1621 N Kedzie #3

7:30 PM

FREE!!!

Readings by:

Aaron Cynic

Richard Wehrenberg

Rosy Phinick

Music by:

Eric Ayotte

Letters to the Moon

World's Smallest Puzzle

 

So come on by, say goodbye to your out-of-town (or in-town) friends, listen to some good words and songs by good people, and hang out!  Spread the word.

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