Shef­field Zine Fest 2015

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Not many updates recently, I’ve been really busy with univer­sity applic­a­tions and DIY Space for London organ­isa­tion (some excit­ing news to come from us on that very soon, once we’ve got certain things fixed in stone).

I went up to Shef­field again a few weeks ago for the zine­fest, organ­ised by my friends Bettie and Chella, and stay­ing at Rebecca’s with Tukru. I think there must be some­thing around Shef­field in the Spring that I’m horribly aller­gic to. Whenev­er I go up in March or April I have some kind of horrible reac­tion, yet when I’ve been up in the Autumn, no prob­lem. Once when the bus went past Chester­field, a nearby town, my whole face puffed up like a hamster and no amount of anti-histam­ines would deflate it, and was that way the whole week­end, spon­tan­eously deflat­ing again once I was clear of Derby­shire on the way home. I had no hamster face this time, but sinus pain and a nasty rash on my shoulders and naus­ea. Perhaps I’m aller­gic to steel. Nowhere else in the region seems to give me this prob­lem. (It’s also sad because the zine­fest venue has a slide, and I’ve never been able to go on it in any of the years I’ve been, it not being a good idea when you’re pukey or suffer­ing from balance prob­lems due to a giant swollen face and glands.)

So I wasn’t firing on all cylin­ders, and missed out on a friend’s birth­day drinks, and didn’t get to hang out with people as much as I would have liked, but over­all I still had a good time, and came home with a big bag of traded zines which I haven’t had time to read prop­erly yet. Here’s some photos I took of the event and with links to the work of the excel­lent people in the pictures.

The next zine fair I’m tabling at is the NW Zine­fest up in Manchester on the 30th of May.

Tukru

Tukru‘s not-at-all-scary author photo, inspired by Jessica Fletch­er.

Pete Dead Trees

Pete from Dead Trees and Dye

Marching Stars

Lizzie and Emma from March­ing Stars. Sadly soon to close, so catch their clos­ing down sale.

Jen

Jen at the entrance stall.

Insurrection

Insur­rec­tion comic.

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Harriet Alana and a top secret mystery spy.

Footprint

Foot­print print­ing co-op.

Clod

Clod magazine.

Bear hat

I can’t remem­ber who these lovely people were. Anyone know?

Animated Review

Anim­ated Review.

Fortune teller

Glam­our­ous fortune tell­er.

Holly

Holly Casio.

Zucchini sign

The one, the only, the incred­ible Madame Zucchini (who was doing a veget­able craft work­shop)

Zucchini lady

Madame herself.

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Eric, sa chouchou chou.

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Veget­able creations.

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