Posted by nullthread on Dec 14, 2021
If there's anything I miss the most of pre-pandemic times, it's collective making or drawing with perfect strangers turned perfect friends. There are many flavors of them too - either with cartoonist and zine makers, or animators and video game artists, or fine artists and figure drawing. Having just visited Texas, a state with no pandemic restrictions, I realized many events are back. In Seattle, they are slowly coming back, one foot at a time. The pandemic did one unexpected thing: the return of intimate and intentional events. Perhaps that is the problem of gentrified cities - everything must be either highly subsidized or highly profitable. There is no in between.
Along with a friend, I'm hosting a work party where zine makers or zine curious people can come by and create together at Pipsqueak Gallery a sober, all ages, anti-capitalist and anti-authoriatarian space in the Central District. Here are the basic supplies we'll have for your use:
‣ copy paper (letter and tabloid)
‣ scissors
‣ gluestick
‣ tape
‣ pencils
‣ colorpencils
‣ pens
‣ markers
‣ erasers & white out
‣ rulers
‣ sliding scale copier (black and white)
‣ example zines
If you're local - see you there!