A day long event celebrating some of the UK's hottest small press and DIY talent! Hosted on both floors of the Nerd Hutch venue (Travelling Man comic shop on Grainger Street), featuring a comics and zine fair, workshops, interactive art installations, talks, film screenings, live music and vegan cakes!
Schedule
- 11:00 - 4:00: Stalls and live art downstairs, workshops upstairs.
- 5:00 - 6:00: Talk and Q&A with Julia Scheele and Sarah Broadhurst, editors of Double Dare Ya: A Riot Grrrl Inspired Super Zine. (downstairs)
- 7:00 - 8:30: Film screening (TBA) (downstairs)
- 9:00 - 11:00: Live music (Bands TBC) (upstairs)
Guests
- Kristyna Baczynski
(A Measure Of Space, Vantage, The Stool Pigeon)
- Gary Bainbridge
(Sugar Glider, Grainger Street, Nightbus)
- Sarah Broadhurst
(One Beat Zines, Double Dare Ya editor)
- Jack Fallows
(Axolotl, Costume Party - sad asexual emo comics)
- Gill Hatcher
(The Beginner's Guide To Being Outside, Team Girl Comic founder)
- Left Leg Gallery
(art questions, art confusion, retinal force to be reckoned with)
- Euan Lynn
(Trash, Rad - music and skating megaforce)
- Erin McGrath
(Illustrator or the likes of Paws, Withered Hand and Holy Mountain)
- Paper Jam Comics Collective
(Local non-profit group dedicated to opening comics doors to all)
- John Pearson
(Prolific illustrator and live artist, Beast Wagon forthcoming)
- CJ Reay
(Black Lodge Press, Anxious & Worrying)
- Julia Scheele
(VICE, The Guardian, Solipsistic Pop, Double Dare Ya editor)
- Jef Sinclair
(Team Girl Comic, sweet comix with a feminist undercurrent)
- Neil Slorance
(SICBA award winning artist - Dungeon Fun, Doctor Who and The Amateur Astronomer's Journal)
- Phoebe Stella Garrick Summers
(DIY punk drawings and paintings of sadness and fire)
- Andrew Waugh
(BOO! Horror Comic for Kids, A Bunch of Amateurs, beards)
- Lydia Wysocki
(Trails, Celebrity Homes, Asteroid Belter editor in chief, Applied Comics Etc)
