Comix Reader event to open International Alternative Press Festival

This Friday (3rd August) sees the launch of The Comix Reader Issue #4 at Gosh! London. 

The free event, which starts at 7.00pm, includes an exhibition of original artwork from the issue and you can chat with some of the many talented artists involved. The exhibition will run from the night the of the launch until August 9th, giving you plenty of time to see some original work.

The Comix Reader (www.thecomixreader.com) is an alternative comics newspaper that attempts to reignite the free spirit of the underground press. It presents a unique blend of established talent, new discoveries, outsider art and unsung heroes of the art form. 

Its contributors are a rogues gallery of the UK’s funniest, edgiest and weirdest cartoonists.

The event will also be the opening party for the International Alternative Press Festival, a weekend comics festival happening here in London! 

• Gosh! is at 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR, Open Daily from 10.30am - 7.00pm and online at: www.goshlondon.com

• Find out all the details at: http://www.alternativepress.org.uk/

International Alternative Press Festival returns to London

A quick reminder that the 2nd International Alternative Press Festival begins on 20th July, featuring an inspired assortment of creative events in London. The festival events lead up to the 4th-5th August weekend Small Press Fair in Holborn’s Conway Hall.

Alternative Press is a group of artists concerned with promoting creativity through the mediums of comix, zines, book arts, screen printing, poetry and other forms of self publishing. Organising events since 2008, last year, produced the first International Alternative Press Festival, which attracted over 1,000 visitors. Alternative Press is building upon the success of last year’s festival to establish an annual programme.

From the 22nd July - 5th August, a parade of 11 venues on Lambs Conduit St and Great Ormond Street will host artwork by a broad and exciting selection of international comic artists.

GOSH! Comics and Orbital Comics stores are hosting related exhibitions as part of the festival. This includes the work of Private Eye cartoonist Dave Ziggy Greene at Orbital Comics and the launch of the new issue of The Comix Reader, an alternative comics newspaper that attempts to reignite the free spirit of the underground press, at Gosh!

- The 2nd International Alternative Press Festival, 21st July 2012 at 6.00pm to 5th August 2012, London. More info: www.alternativepress.org.uk


 

Alternative Press Festival plans exhibtions and other lead-in events

Preparations are now in full swing for this year's International Alternative Press Festival on 4th-5th August 2012 at the Conway Hall, London.


The second International Alternative Press Festival will bring together UK and European small press comix, zines, book arts and print and after the success of last year’s IAPF the organisers have hired an extra room this year for even more small press goodness.

Leading up to the main fair there wil be two weeks of exhibitions at London's Orbital Comics including Dave Ziggy Greene, who draws for Private Eye and is published by French small press publisher Editions Meme Pas Mal.

Ten independent shops along Lamb's Conduit Street in Holborn will also be exhibiting Comix artists work, including Kevin Ward, Hurk and Tobias Tak, and Comix Reader Issue 4 will launch as part of the festival with an exhibition at GOSH! Comics.

All this will culminate in the main fair at the Conway Hall on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th August where there'll be over 100 artists selling comix, zines, book arts, print and other self published work.

Also planned are workshops including a really cool Book Binding class with WeMakeBooks, while in the Bertrand Russell Room there will be a weekend of spoken word and poetry with Vintage Poison, ReadHorse Zine, Structo Magazine and the Camden School of Enlightnement.

• If you're Self Publisher there are still  spaces available and the orgaisers will be doing a second round of table allocations soon. Click here to apply on the Aternative Press Festival web site

International Alternative Press Festival announces final events line up, benefit gig

Here's the full, final rundown of events at the International Alternative Press Festival in London, which begins at the end of  May. We've mentioned some of this before but the project deserves as many plugs as it can get...

The Festival opens on Friday 27th May at the Miller in London Bridge for a live draw/music/spoken word performance with Resonance FM's Radio Orchestra.

On Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May the Main Fair will take place at London's Conway Hall; two days showcasing Comix, Comics, Zines, Artist's Books, Print- Making and Radical Literature, as well as screen printing and DIY fashion workshops, talks and  lots more from home and abroad.

There will be three gallery exhibitions:

• “Stripburger - a taste of the premier Slovene Comics Zine” At Orbital Comics, London from Saturday 28th May to Sunday 12th June.

• “The Swedish Collection: An exhibition of students from the Malmo Comic Art School” Featuring the work of ten artists from the Comic School in the South of Sweden, at The New Gallery, London, from 30th May to 5th June.

• "Visions of the Walworth Jumpers" a mural painted over a week at the Sassoon Gallery, London, in a collaboration between street art, comix and fine arts, between 30th May - 5th June.

There will be a Benefit Gig on 22nd April to raise money for the International Alternative Press Festival, featuring Vets In Hong Kong, Dead Sea Navigators, Cineplexx,  Extradition Order and Baaneex.

The Gig is at the The Miller Pub (www.themiller.co.uk), 96 Snowsfields Road, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS and if you're a zine maker, bring your zines to sell, and have some fun! Tickets are available now from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112349 for £5, and will be £6 on the night. Check it out on Facebook and invite your friends.

• Get involved:  http://alternativepress.org.uk