Stalls at 2009 Zine Symposium

45+ stalls of zines, books, comix, art, crafts and radical culture

Individual zine table

The individual zine table is a place where you can sell your zine(s) if you don’t have a table at this year’s symposium. It’s really easy to get your zine(s) on the individual zine table. All you need to do is bring the zines down on the day. The person behind the individual zine table will make a note of how many copies you’ve given us, how much to sell them for & when you’re ready to leave you can come collect any zines that haven’t sold and all the money from the ones that have. If you want more details or to let us know that you’re bringing your zine(s) you can send us an email at edd@rnzine.co.uk.

Stalls, distros, zines, comix & journals

(There are one or two stalls still to confirm, but this is 99% of the stalls that are coming to this year’s Symposium)

56A infoshop – www.56a.org.uk
56A is a radical social centre in South London stocking an array of radical zines, comics and books.

Active Distribution – www.activedistribution.org
One of Europe’s largest zine, book, comic, everything distro for all things anarcho.

Art is Proof – www.artisproof.com
A design and print collective selling art prints/ ephemera and apparel.

Arty – www.artymagazine.com
Frustrated by opportunities for emerging artists to voice their opinions and concerns and inspired by seminal punk zine Sniffin’ Glue, artist Cathy Lomax started Arty in April 2001. In its 25 issues to date it has critiqued the famous, the infamous and the as-yet-to-be-discovered and put subjects such as Britishness, romance, scandal and architecture under the spotlight.

Attack!!! – www.ecartilage.co.uk
Attack!!! is a themed collection of people’s work with music, whilst eCartilage zine is a mix of writing and artwork.

Appalling nonsense / banal pig – www.appallingnonsense.co.uk
Steve Tillotson and Gareth Brookes began Banal Pig comics in the summer of 2005 since then they’ve produced over a dozen comics including ‘The manly boys annual’, ‘Man man’ and ‘Smell of the wild’.

Bel – www.belsartworld.com
Belinda Chen makes hand-made, screenprinted books and zines

Bracket Press – www.bracketpress.co.uk
Bracket Press make handmade editions: pamphlet, books and cards. Letterpress and digitally printed. Essays and poetry by Penny Rimbaud (ex-Crass), Tom Hodgkinson (The Idler), Youth (Killing Joke), John Mitchinson (Q.I.).

Brainscan / Stolen Sharpie Revolution – www.smallworldbuttons.com
Alex is the author of seminal zine creating book, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, as well as the inestimable zine, Brainscan. Alex will also be contributing to a number of workshops throughout the day. More information is on the workshops page.

Brighton comics stall
This year the Brighton comics creators are coming out in force with Gavin Burrows (The Plot Thickens/ Rocket Science), Sean Duffield (Paper Tiger) and Dan Locke (Green), Geoff Half-shark-half-octopus and eight more comic makers coming up to London.

Bogus Baby – www.myspace.com/cpowza
Bogus Baby is part of the Girls who draw collective and creates comics, zines, badges and t-shirts.

Brighton zine fest collective – www.brightonzinefest.com
Will be bringing fanzines from Emma Jane Falconer (Fanzine Ynfytyn, and Being Editors) as well as Toby Chelms (New Wave of Cut n Paste) and Edward (Mujinga). Emma will also be doing a workshop with Alex Wrekk.

Camberwell illustration group – http://penheadella.blogspot.com/
A group of 10 illustration students from Camberwell College of Arts with a series of zines each on various subjects. All are really interested in zines, self-publishing and handmade work working in areas like printmaking, drawing, painting, typography and photography.

Cherry Bomb comics – www.cherrybombcomics.co.nz
Cherry Bomb comics publishes queer and feminist zines and comics from New Zealand and Australia.

Compromise Comics Enterprise – www.phillipmarsden.com
Phillip Marsden is a small press comix creator who works on a collaborative comic, ‘Blackout’, and many other one-shot comics, pamphlets, prints and oddities.

Corndog Publishing – www.corndog.co.uk
Corndog zine distro is relatively new but already stocks over 200 zines, books and comics from the UK, USA and Australia. They’ve started to lean towards more illustrative books in the recent past and are the UK distributor for Chilli Con Carne comics

Cut up
There are three ladies who produce a zine called cut up based on a process of stream of consciousness, we create each element together and continually divide the stimulus until we each have a selection of words that we can illustrate. Each zine has a run of 100 and each cover is individually embellished/ cut/ painted.

Cute But Sad Comics – www.cutebutsad.co.uk
Howard writes comics. Badger is about a lonely badger who lives in his old flat, whilst Anthropomorphism in action sees talking bronchioles, a naughty squirrel and a cosmic cow hang out. He’ll also be selling craft stuff relating to the comics.

Dans Le Matin – web site coming soon!
Dans Le Matin is a new zine collective based around the work of Matt Walkerdine (www.damnsealegs.co.uk), Seb Wheeler (www.myspace.com/powerpoprocks) and Owen Richards (www.owenrichards.co.uk). We are embarking on a project which focuses on publishing hand assembled, limited edition zines that celebrate the fine details of life.

Dead Trees and Dye – www.deadtreesanddye.com
A relatively long running zine distro now based in South London. Has a number of art and comic zines as well as the more standard music/ radical zines.

Decadence – www.myspace.com/decadenceb
Decadence is an underground comic collective and anthology. They have been self-publishing their anthology and comics since 2003. A lot of the stories take elements from the sci-fi genre but are exploring ideas such as ecology, war, society and the ego.

Everything you touch turns to gold – www.myspace.com/lityerses
A Birmingham based punk zine, focusing on local music and underground, whilst interviewing some larger bands like Gallows and Cancer Bats . It also has photos by JC photography and articles about films and books.

Fever zine - www.myspace.com/feverzine
Fever zine is a lo-fi publication printed quarterly in a5 black & white, covering a mixture of music, art, fashion, zine culture, and blogs.

The Forest – http://theforest.org.uk
The Forest is a free arts and events space in central Edinburgh. We have aided production and distribution for a wide variety of publications. Our own fortnightly zine, CIA Nights, has recently published its hundredth issue. To celebrate, we turned colour.

Full mono/ Pocket panther – fullmono.blogspot.com
A group of artists who have put together a zine called Pocket Panther (after our cat), and are setting the date of the symposium as the launch. They will also be bringing the comic Full Mono along with some letterpress and linoprint tidbits.

Girl photographer
Girl photographer is a full colour, quarter sized perzine of varying lengths written by Eleanor Jane. It’s about travelling, running away, modifying plastic cameras, living & working as a professional artist and every issue has two pages of Welsh content.

Hannah Waldron – www.hannahwaldron.co.uk
Hannah makes small run editions of her books (50-100 normally) and uses screenprinting and handmade elements in her books. Recent publications are ‘Today I am a Polar Bear’, which is an artists book for children, and ‘First waves, then clouds’, a book of drawings with fold out pages.

Herman Peaks Comics
Comics by Scott Smith (scottjasonsmith.blogspot.com), Christopher Tayler (www.myspace.com/chimpomusic) and Peter Basden (peterbasden.blogspot.com). The comics mainly consist of observational humour and autobiograhy.

Hey Monkey Riot zine – www.heymonkeyriot.co.uk
Hey Monkey Riot is the artwork created by Edd, the editor of Last Hours. After making Last Hours for over five years he got bored of high print runs and now likes working with screenprints, lino-prints, and handbound comics. He’ll be reprinting comics about Gaza, Buffy and Ikea for the Zine Symposium as well as a new issue of journal comics.

Hoi Polloi Press
Hoi Polloi press are a collective of four illustrators from Bristol, including Jack Hudson (www.flickr.com/jackhudsonillustration) and Owen Gatley (www.flickr.com/owengatleyillustration), and one from Brighton. Their zines vary from narrative based collections to those around a specific theme. They will also be bringing prints, badges and various forms of craft.

Illustrators Elbow – www.illustratorselbow.com
A group of illustrators who make tons of zines, as well as various crafts. Our zines vary from simple photocopied booklets to more elaborate screen printed books. There will also be a number of screen prints for sale.

Greenberg and Hughes… we are not lawyers – www.isabelnecessary.com
Isabel Greenberg has produced some amazing visual diary comics and short comic novellas, whilst Tom Hughes (myfriendgouache.blogspot.com) who writes comics and zines such as How I tenuously know all four original members of Black Sabbath.

Jimi Gerkin comics – comicsandzines.wordpress.com
Jimi is a small press monster not only producing comics and zines but also helping to put on the Alternative Press Fair and working on a new anthology showcasing all the amazing stuff happening in the small press scene at the moment.

The Jungle Club
A group of Camberwell second year illustration students.

Kitchen District – www.kitchendistrict.com
Kitchen district is a fun place for dirty little comic’s & t-shirts featuring dirty beasts and bunnies.

La Bon Pomme
A zine produced by a group of second year illustrators and animators at Kingston university. La Bon Pomme is produced twice a term, each on a different theme, with contributions from students and guest illustrators.

Last Hours zine – www.lasthours.org.uk
A punk rock and radical culture bi-annual zine. Its very, very good!

Lazy Soosan – The Alphabet Series – lazysoosan.blogspot.com
The Alphabet Series is a self published illustrative zine devoted to the rip-roaring phenomenom that is the Alphabet with each issue being dedicated to one letter.

LCC third year illustration
A group of illustrators in their final year of a graphic/ media design course at the London College of Communication. Creating self-made publications of various formats that are rich in content and personality. Illustrators include Erica Dorn (www.erica-dorn.com), George Hurst (www.georgehurst.co.uk), Giulio Miglietta (www.giuliomiglietta.com), Al Strang (www.alstrang.com) and Lauren Necati (www.laurennecati.com)

Lighthouse Distribution
A collection of radical literature focusing on DIY, anarchist and anti-capitalist issues.

Lizz Lunney comics – www.lizzlizz.com
Creator of Waiting for sushi, I love dinosaurs, Party animals and many more comics.

Loserdom zine – www.loserdomzine.com
A personal zine based in Dublin, Ireland with comics, stories and reviews. Now on its 17th issue. They will also be bringing along copies of Rag, an Irish anarcha-feminist zine.

Love to print collective
The Love to print collective is an all girl collective that make zines, comics and artists books using screenprinting, gocco printing, photocopying and digital printing. Members include Karoline Rerrie (www.lonelypanda.com), Tanya Meditzky (www.milkkitten.com), Gemma Correll (www.gemmacorrell.com), and Sarah Ray (www.sarahray.co.uk). They’ll be launching the long awaited 4th Milkkitten at the Zine Symposium as well as a new Love to Print Zine.

Marching Stars distro – www.marchingstars.co.uk
Marching Stars is a little distro that was set up because Lizzy was sad about the number of distros I loved closing and going on long term hiatus. I decided I could do something, therefore I should do something. And I have. The distro’s name comes from a lyric by the band Tegan and Sara.

Mark Pawson – www.mpawson.demon.co.uk
A selection of Mark Pawson’s self-published, handmade books, cards and badges, together with Crap Hound Magazine (USA) and silkscreened books by Le Dernier Cri (France).

Meow zine – www.meowmagazine.blogspot.com
Meow is a zine published published roughly every three-four weeks and is open to all contributors. Each issue is given a specific theme by the Meow team. It is filled with beautiful images and words.

Morgenmuffel zine & Cowley Bookshop – www.morgemuffel.co.uk
A comic zine made by Isy, with the distro that she helps run at the Brighton Cowley Club, which carries a range of radical and alternative culture zines.

Ninja Bunny – www.ninja-bunny.com
Has a series of three mini-comics, ‘The adventures of Ninja Bunny’ based on his webcomic, as well as an autobiographical comic, badges models and screen-printed postcards.

Now or Never – www.myspace.com/noworneverpaper
Now or Never is a twice annually published anarchist paper from Norwich.

On’t Road Zine & Distro – http://www.myspace.com/positivebastard
On’t Road zine is a punk and travel diary stories by Luke Positive Bastard who used to write Waterintobeer zine and was a long term contributor to Rancid News/ Last Hours. The distro lives in a suitcase with lots of tasty zines inside.

Past Tense – www.past-tense.org.uk/
Past Tense is a publishing project based in South London, exploring London radical history. Initially it began as the work of one person, uncovering the subversive, hidden and esoteric past around the Elephant and Castle and Southwark. As it exists now it has grown to include several individuals, autonomously following their own historical trails, publishing new texts and reviving old, out of print ones.

Pepperzine
Pepperzine is a collection of zines designed by multiple creatives which include and address many areas and subjects. In all they will have around 50 zines, with around 10 subjects, at the Symposium.

Ricochet! Ricochet! and Lets Just Pretend zines – www.myspace.com/ricochetricochet
Colette and Patrick will be running their Ricochet! Ricochet! distro and selling their own zine, and some records from Colette’s record distro. There’ll also be Kate selling copies of Lets Just Pretend, Matthew Hell and other stuff of hers.

Shebang – www.shebang-mag.co.uk
Shebang is a light blue homemade zine crammed with music features, travel guides, artist profiles, craft tutorials and any other fancies that catch their eye. It’s a two women effort to create a zine that is both inspiring and appealing.

The Sound of Drowning – www.soundofdrowning.com
The Sound of Drowning is a long running alternative comic series produced by Paul O’Connell and other comic artists from the UK and abroad.

Subtext – www.subtextmagazine.co.uk
Subtext is a feminism politics and culture magazine run by a collective, written and managed entirely by volunteers.

Talk is cheap/ London street medics
Talk is cheap is about punk rock, politics, comics and A to Z of alternative London. They will possibly selling issues of Brainspew plus a display on London Street medics and donations for the Save Dave campaign.

Throwing up in comic sans
It’s not just a zine it’s a mini-production with t-shirts, puppets, masks and prints being created alongside it. Photos can be seen here.

We Are Words + Pictures – www.wearewordsandpictures.com
So, the plot: Form a band, but make comics instead of music. Instead of ‘rehearsals’ we take a practice session to the pub and jam out descriptions, sketches and still images. Instead of ‘gigs’ we gear up for comic-conventions and small press shows. We treat ‘zines and small-press comics as albums, doing things the DIY way.

What they could do, they did – www.theydid.org.uk/magazine/
WTCDTD is a non-profit group working in South London that promotes the work of emerging artists through grassroots publishing, performances, exhibitions, events and parties across London and the UK. We have collectively written, edited, published and distributed zines, travelogues, printed art pieces, and handmade art books.

Whitechapel anarchists – whitechapelanarchistgroup.wordpress.com
The Whitechapel anarchists are a relatively new anarchist group based in the area near where the Symposium is taking place. They publish a regular free paper called WAG.

Your pretty face is going straight to hell – www.tukrulovesyou.com
Miss Tukru makes Your Pretty face is going straight to hell, which is a perzine. Neither Miss Tukru or the zine are anywhere near as scary or angry as the title suggests; it’s simply taken for an Iggy & the Stooges song.

Zineswap – www.zineswap.com
Zineswap aims to be a resource through which people can swap their zines with one-another. It also aims to become a vast archive of contemporary zine publishing, existing as both an online catalogue and an annual exhibition.

2008…

If you’re interested in such things you can see a list of who had stalls at last year’s symposium here.