Jimi Gherkin in conversation
Matt Badham speaks to Jimi Gherkin about his involvement with the Alternative Press Fair over at the Forbidden Planet blog.
We wanted to include different types of self-published material, so we dropped the ‘comics and zines’ reference. I had heard the name Alternative Press Expo and thought that alternative press was a term that was general enough for what we were trying to do. We were invited to have a table at Handmade and Bound (a book arts event at St Aloysius) to represent small press comics. We had about fifteen artists on that one table!
Jimi organises and is involved with all sorts of events surrounding the small press and self publishing circles.
The next one to mark onto your social calendar is ‘Are You Zine Friendly?’
Alternative Press are hosting another awesome evening of Zines, comix, book arts and poetry at our second Zine Friendly event at the foundry, in order to promote our new project, the Zine Friendly Blog! A resource for Self Publishers far and wide, we will be listing venues, promoters, stockists and events that are all “Zine Friendly”!
What are you waiting for? Show your support by turning up and proving that you are in fact friendly towards zines.