Hamilton Zinefest

And… drum roll…. to announce the Best of Fest 2014 (…thanks Bryce Galloway for your Judgy-ness)…

1st place to / Alex Wild & Vanessa Berry for their split perzine on first car buying: Boi Racer And Mazdabator/Everyone Drives A Used Car. Great characterisations and captured moments on the journey to those first used wheels.

2nd place to / Janice Abo Ganis & Janice Krause for their sentimental photographic reverie on Tokoroa. Not that sentimental actually; contemporary vernacular and soiled archives.

3rd place to / Ziggy Lever for his untitled translucent zine/art-object.

Workshops and Talks are going to happen during the day at zinefest… here’s the line up :

10:30am – Kylie Buck / Tessa Stubbing (NZ Zine Review)

Zine binding with Kylie & Tessa [Max: 10 participants]

From the simple staple, to hand-sewing and more – this is a hands on workshop that covers the basics, and introduces some alternative techniques to zine binding. Materials supplied.

11:30am – Ant Sang /

Talks about the revival of Dharma Punks

Ant Sang has been described as “part of a new generation of sequential artists who challenge the tired misconception that comics are juvenile or lacking in literary merit.” He produced the surprisingly popular Filth mincomix in the mid-90’s, and kicked off the new millenium with his most ambitious project yet – a 384 page, serialised comic called The Dharma Punks. Ant will talk about the journey his comic series The Dharma Punks has taken from comic book to publication as a graphic novel via Kickstarter.

12:30pm – Ash Spittal /

Personal narratives within a Queer context

Ash started making zines a year ago after drawing lots of pictures of transgender men and not knowing what to do with them. He compiled the images and distributed them to friends. The work ended up becoming a sort of study of the transmasculine community in Aotearoa. Ash will be talking about zines and comics that have inspired him to write about being a queer trans* person. He makes zines about being different and being ok with that. He also likes superhero comics a lot.

1:30pm – Matt Emery (Pikitia Press) /

Talks about New Zealand comics and the development of Pikitia Press

Matt will be talking about the history of New Zealand comics over the last 100 years and the evolution of Pikitia Press as a publication company publishing the best in independent comics from NZ and Australia.

2:30pm – Lucy Meyle /

Exploring new frontiers: experimental publications & zine-making [Max 10 participants]​

This talk will look at contemporary artists who disseminate their work by exploiting the social, flexible, and contingent nature of small publications. It will also discuss how we can think of zines/comics/books not as finished objects, but as testing grounds for provisional ideas, social experiments, or explorations of form. Using these concepts as starting points, the talk will then explore some practical possibilities for making experimental publications.

Yes… there is an after party…      Biddy Mulligans / 8pm / Bands / $5       See y’all there…

There will be some interesting talks and workshops taking place on the day at Hamilton Zinefest… more details about that to come.  Check out our EVENTS page for up-to-date info… but in the meantime, come along to RAMP Gallery Collingwood Street, Hamilton on Wed 7 May for two events to whet your appetite….

WORKSHOP / Bryce Galloway / Wed 7 May – 3:30pm

[at RAMP Gallery, School of Media Arts, Wintec Campus, Collingwood Street, Hamilton]

Bryce Galloway is author of the long-running zine Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People and teaches zine-making classes at Massey University, where the front page of the assignment reads: “Zines have no place in a university; the idea that a student could fail this paper for making a bad zine is perverse…” With ambivalence, Galloway has taken the punk rock DIY of the zine to university scholarship.

Hear Bryce talk about his mixed feelings on teaching zine-making, and why he persists.

[Bryce says don’t take the title of his zine too literally; you’ll be sadly disappointed, or pleasantly surprised, depending on your predilection. Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People is most often the everyday diary of its 48 year-old creator Bryce Galloway: true tales of parenthood, teen diary episodes from 80s Hamilton, or days strung together as single-page comics narratives. Some episodes detour off into fan art, or warts ‘n’ all accounts of larger art projects by Galloway. Smelly. Self-effacing, Bleak. Funny.  Bryce will also be exhibiting his zines at Hamilton Zinefest 2014]

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RAMP GALLERY – EXHIBITION OPENING / small press / Wed 7 May – 5:00-7:00pm

[at RAMP Gallery, School of Media Arts, Wintec Campus, Collingwood Street, Hamilton]

Print media is alive and kicking, at least in the world of fanzines. Fanzines (or zines) are oddball self published magazines. Despite, or because of, the world wide web, fanzines are experiencing a boom. small press at RAMP Gallery surveys some of the best Australasian fanzines from recent years.  Join us for the opening preview of small press Wed 7 May, 5-7pm.

We have some fabulous exhibitors at the Hamilton Zinefest… check out our new “Exhibitors” page for deets (and check back as more will be added soon)