The 2008 Philly Zine Fest

was held October 5, 2008

at The Rotunda

Here's a list of everyone who was slated to table at the fest:

ZineWorld

http://www.undergroundpress.org

Zine World is a source for reviews and information about zines, comics, self-published books, chapbooks, and other DIY stuff. Often called the best review zine being published in the U.S., Zine World is an extensive guide to zine culture.

Walking Man, A Novel

http://www.timwbrown.com

Tim W. Brown is author of the recent novel Walking Man (Bronx River Press), a fictional biography of America's most famous zine publisher set in the 1980s-90s. Brown is a veteran zinester, having published Tomorrow Magazine, a poetry zine, from 1982-99. He was a planner of the now-legendary Underground Press Conference held annually in Chicago in 1994-96, and he currently is an advocate for small and indie presses as a board member of the New York Center for Independent Publishing.

True Grit Distro

http://www.truegritdistro.com

We specialize in DIY and self sufficiency titles, with a few memoirs thrown in. Most True Grit titles are printed in-house using recycled materials. We will also have delicious vegan baked goods!

Tric Zine

http://www.triczine.com

woo-hoo

Trees & Hills Comics Group

http://www.treesandhills.org

Trees & Hills is a community hub for cartoonists in Vermont, New Hampshire, and western Massachusetts. They share news, run a distro, have get-togethers, and publish anthologies. Their latest anthology (June '08) is about music and comes with a CD; the next one (Sep. '08) is about food and will include recipes and vegetable seeds.

Tiny Tales

Tiny Tales comics are small comic strips.

The La-La Theory, Katie

http://www.thelalatheory.com

I'll be bringing a variety of my own and other people's zines--some poetry, some fiction, zines that are compilations of interviews, and perzines. A nice mix. See yas there! <3

Tazewell's Favorite Eccentric

TFE is a personal zine that I've done off and on since I was 15 (for almost half of my life!). It's an outlet for me to work through issues like sexual abuse, relationships, and grief as well as a zine to tool for trading with other zinesters.

Sunday Morning Distro

Sunday Morning is a small mail-order distro for zines with something to say. We have a variety of food/vegan, how-to, feminist, and health-related zines, plus free items! See you at the fest!

Square Dance / Before Sleep

http://www.colintedford.com

Colin Tedford is the author of the minicomics Square Dance, Before Sleep, and others, as well as the monthly newspaper strip Spinning World. He is also a co-founder and organizer of the Trees & Hills Comics Group of northern New England, and has co-edited each of their anthologies to date.

Space 1026 & friends

http://space1026.com

Philadelphia's Space 1026 art crew bring new 'zines, comix, magazines, and artbooks from Cantab Publishing, Freenews, Megawords, Salty Snax, Bill McRight, Isaac Lin, Jason Hsu, Crystal Stokowski, Kyle Schmidt, Bonnie Scott, Michael Gerkovich, Mark Price, and MORE!

Simply Lark Press (distro)

http://myworld.ebay.com/simplylarkpress

Writer and interdisciplinary artist Christine Stoddard established her distro and indie media group, Simply Lark Press, in April 2008. Their first major event was hosting the 2008 Neo-Indie Arts Festival in Arlington, VA on July 26, 2008. Friend us on MySpace or Facebook!

Self_Titled.

Self_titled is a zine that reflects who i am and what i think is important. Showing significance through a cut and paste medium that is meant to be shared.

Sassyfrass Circus

Sassyfrass is a zine that follows the code of freaks (goobly gobbly we accept you one of us)...we're a little befuddled and cracked out on college these days, but still all freaky all the time. It's loaded with loaded with comics, musings on gender and sexuality, admissions of huge queer crushes on quasi-celebrities, and other Sassyfrass exclusives. Watch out for other Sassyfrass Freak Show specials, like the fortune telling typewriter and potentially a Philly Zine Fest mini-zine exclusive. Hellz yeah.

PURE INJOYMENT & Microcosm

http://microcosmpublishing.com

Expect a variety of zines from members of two respective affiliates, PURE INJOYMENT and Microcosm.

Pony Express Zine

Pony Express Zine is a mail art zine. It has mail art from around the world in all forms of paper medium. It is always looking for new readers and mail artists.

Planet Uhuru

Pamphlets, books, t-shirts, and bags benefiting African-led Development projects.

Parcell Press

www.parcellpress.com

Parcell Press is an online market for printed matter - zines, comics, independent books, artist prints, and more. Based both in Philadelphia and in Richmond.

P B & J (Publishing by Brianna & Jessica)

http://myspace.com/bandjpublishing

Jessica and Brianna make their own mini-comics and books. They are both 12 years old and just started 7th grade. They have published 5 books so far and plan to publish many more before they finish Middle School.

Origivation Magazine

http://www.origivation.com

Origivation magazine is dedicated to the preservation of original music. Since it's inception in 2001, Origivation has fostered the Philadelphia music scene with reporting by music enthusiasts and professionals.

MY MY

http://mymy.us

MY MY is a small shop selling kittens, zines & handmade awesomess, minus the kittens.

Madison Underground Press

http://www.madisonundergroundpress.com

Purveyors of Independent Comix & Punk Rock Soul Music. Publishers of Fun Time Comix, The Hic-Up, Suburban Legend Comix, OKEY-DOKEY, and very much more. Record Label proudly boasts acts such like Tit Patrol, The Headies, Hot Toddy & The Wilmington Wastoids, Skinny Dick Jones & His One Man Band, and also still very many more.

Jewish Celiacs Newsletter

http://www.jewishceliacs.com

Jewish Celiacs Newsletter, an 8.5x11 sheet of 10 pages, grew out of a web site of the same name, founded in early 2000. It caters to all people with Celiac Disease, but especially to Jewish Celiacs who have a need for "kosher" gluten-free food. JCN, for short, features articles on Celiac Disease, kosher food, Crohn's, Ulcerative Colitis, Autism, Jewish diseases like Tay Sachs and Canavan, and has list of kosher bakeries, restaurants, and shops, as well as eateries that may have a gluten-free menu.

hottt off the press / dhruva press

I am reserving the table for the hottt off the press printing collective and for my zine press, dhruva. Hottt off the press is a small print collective based in west philly--creators of the toolkit organizer--who work mostly with screen printing and letterpress... www.myspace.com/hotttoffthepress. dhruva is the label for my personal zines. www.dhruva.vesana.com

Green & Sailboats Zine and Jameson Murphy Crafts

http://www.flickr.com/users/sheena

Sheena makes a new zine called Green & Sailboats! (formerly of Mister Fujiyama Loves You zine), and shares a table with Jamie Murphy and his cute crafts!

Doctor Pizzoli and Kay Healy

http://www.doctorpizzoli.com

Gregory Pizzoli was born in 1983. So was Kay Healy. They will have tee shirts, posters, art prints (<--- mostly screenprints) and tons of books - including "The Pizza Book" - Philadelphia's first hand-written and illustrated guide to PIZZA in the City of Brotherly love.

Decades Of Confusion Feed The Insect

http://www.justinduerr.com

The zine Decades Of Confusion Feed The Insect has existed for thirteen years. It has been an ongoing document of writing and visual art, primarily, though not exclusively, by myself (Justin Duerr). By the time of Philly Zine Fest 2008, the zine will most likely have reached the 55th. issue. Since 2001, several issues were realized in the form of large posters, with standard "half-sized" zines filling the gaps between them. I hope to complete 70 of the large poster editions in my lifetime.

crash

CRASH ZINE

Feminist Pop Culture & Politics.

Cracks in the Concrete

http://freewebs.com/radicalrabbitdistro

Cracks in the Concrete is a small though ever-expanding Journal of Anarchism based in Tucson, Arizona. I've tabled the Philly Zine Fest for three years. This year my good friend Kat will be tabling for me. Hit up her table, talk to her, and pick up an issue of CITC!

chomp

http://www.myspace.com/chomp_pub

chomp publications, based out of philly, puts out a few nerdy things, most notably a zine called Lightbulb! which is written by three friends: kenny, lauren, and kerri. the zine highlights things they find hilarious but other people probably don't, like how funny it is to have crappy jobs, be deaf, have hypochondria, and have twitchy eyebrows.

childlike empress,zinevox podcast, annus horriblis et. al.

http://www.triscast.com

the creatrix of Childlike Empress, host of the triscast and zinevox podcasts, editor of the annus horriblis zine project. will be selling stuff and trying to conduct interviews.

Bits & Portions

http://bitsandportions.wordpress.com

What is Bits & Portions?

Bits & Portions is a collection of uncommonly good works made primarily of fiber. You will find Art Toys, Decorative and Wearable Fiber Art, Textile Art, Textile Design, Artists’ Books, Book Art, 'Zines, Paper Art, Paper Goods, Mixed Media, Art Quilts and Quilt Art.

Of course, from time to time, we’ll include items made in other media.

Best Zine Ever/ Amber the Arsonist

Two sisters, two personal zines!

I would like to reserve a table for my sister, Sarah, and I. Thanks!

Bellen!

http://boxbrown.com

Box Brown is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA. He has been creating the web and print comic Bellen! since 2006. He is currently developing the world’s largest body of comic work but still trails Osamu Tezuka by many many hundreds of thousands of pages.

Always Comix

http://www.myspace.com/alwayscomix

based out of beautiful pittsburgh and the modestly understated philadelphia, pa, aways comix is devoted to producing the absolutlely top drawer themed quarterly mini comic you have all come to know and love.

Absent Cause

http://www.absent-cause.org

redguard (aka Greg Butterfield) is the creator of Absent Cause zine, Red Army Comix, and contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. AC explores underground cultures, hidden histories, feminist and queer sexualities, chosen families and radical politics; vampirism, the gothic, horror and paganism; surviving abuse, coping with mental illness, self-harm and suicide.