What's going on at Cherry Bomb... Friday 29th August 2008 The two halves of Cherry Bomb now live on opposite sides of the planet (Auckland and London), and on Saturday 30th August Melissa will be taking a small selection of Cherry Bomb's New Zealand zines up to the Manchester Zinefest which is being held at Urbis, 12-6pm. Melissa will also be part of a panel discussion regarding zines and their connections with radical politics, which will run from 5-6pm and will feature Melanie from Colouring Outside the Lines/Reassess Your Weapons, Humaira from Race Revolt and Marion who is one of the organisers of the zinefest. So if you happen to be in that part of the world, go say hi! If you're in the UK you can now buy a few Cherry Bomb zines from the 56a info shop in Elephant & Castle, London, or just check out our online catalogue on this website and emails us with your orders! (New Zealand residents can order through the online shop). Tuesday 1st July 2008 Bands are starting early (like around 8ish) on Friday 4th for the Cherry Bomb party, so come early,and if you want to buy some things, come even earlier, as the Cherry Bomb comix table will be operating inside the bar from 6-8pm only !! (bring cash). Get a free bag of stuff when you arrive and be treated to some aerial performances right abov e the bar See you there!!!!!! Monday 9 June 2008 Cherry Bomb's 4th birthday party is happening Friday 4th July @ the Wine Cellar on Krd. Comix & zines will be for sale from 6-8pm, followed by bands Tank Black, Newtown & the Windups from Wellington!!!! There's gonna be giveaways and STUFF. And of course meanwhile, don't forget to check out our brand new online store, which you can order stuff from (payment's by bank transfer, not credit card). If you're curious about the kinds of comix & zines Cherry Bomb sells, have a look at our links page and be sure to let us know if you discover any other comix & zines creators you think should be added to this list of ladies, queers, punx & dissidents... Some of the newest items to appear on our online shop include: Wellington art & culture zine, White Fungus #9, You Are What You Say, a feminist zine made by a group of Waikato women, some comix by John Porcellino and Israeli graphic novel Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan. Monday 5 May 2008 Cherry Bomb has been out and about the last couple of weekends doing stalls, ANZAC weekend was the Kahikitea eco festival up in Albany, and last weekend was Craftwerk which was held at Te Tuhi gallery in Pakuranga. It was cool to be able to bring our comix and zines out into the light of day, after being locked away in boxes since Ladyfest in February!! Recently we've received a new shipment of comix, so we now have the graphic novel Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki which was previously published as a comic by Kiss Machine, but has now been expanded to a full length book, as well as Daddy's Girl, Debbie Dreschler's prequel to Summer of Nowhere. Also included was Dame Darcy's Meatcake #16, Leah Hayes' Funeral of the Heart and Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom. These titles and more can be found on our brand new, fully functional online shop. Cherry Bomb has a couple more events in the works before our 4th birthday in July, so keep an eye out for those... Tuesday 25th March 2008 Oh my goodness! It's finally happened! Cherry Bomb's online shop is now UP AND RUNNING!! Click on the Catalogue button which will take you to our new shop...So far we've put on about half the stuff we had on the shelves at our old New North Road store...the rest is coming, so if there's something you expected to see that's not there, well, yeah, it's probably still coming! New Zealand customers can buy directly through the shop using either the bank deposit method, or there is also a pick up option where you can save on postage if you email us and we devise a not-so-secret location for you to come and pick up your items (probably only handy for Auckland customers really!). International customers will still need to email us with their orders and we'll sort something out. Bet you never thought it'd happen huh;) Sunday 17th February 2008 SPECIAL LADYFEST BULLETIN!!! Cherry Bomb Comics & Ladyfest Auckland 2008 had a stall at Craftwerk during the Cross St Carnival yesterday. This was Cherry Bomb's first outing since the shop closed last year. It was awesome to see so many friends of CB there, and so many supporters of Ladyfest buying the raffle tix etc!! And now it's one more week until LADYFEST!! What Cherry Bomb had at the Cross St Carnival yesterday was just a small fraction of what we'll be bringing along to the Zine Fair to be held during Ladyfest next weekend. The Zine Fair will be held inside the Cross Street Studios, (on Cross St, behind K Rd in Newton) on Saturday 23rd from 11am-4.30pm. Cherry Bomb will be setting up two tables worth of our wares, as well as part of our reading library (currently tucked away in boxes in the garage since we closed our New North Road shop last year!). We'll also be showing a couple of zine & comix related films, and there will be other zinesters there selling their stuff, such as Pinktricity, Radical Youth, Moonrocket Distro, Instant Intensity, Sweet Valley 69 and more... As well as the Zine Fair, workshops will also be running alongside. These workshops are free and open to anyone. The timetable for the workshops is as follows: 11.30am: Cherry Bomb Comix talks to Wellington's Space Thing about DIY social spaces 12.15pm: Moira from Moonrocket zine distro - zine structures, binding methods, pagination and more 1.00pm: Worse than Queer - women and queers of colour talk about "race" in alternative scenes 2.30pm: Self Defense 3.15pm: Guitar with Brenda from Stood Up (playing at Ladyfest on Saturday 23rd!) 4.00pm: Djing workshop with Bridget All workshops will be held in the Cross Street Studios, in the library area (the Cross Street library soon to be revealed!) and outside. Thanx to everyone who has supported Ladyfest Auckland 2008 so far by providing stuff for the garage sales, coming along to the benefit nights and buying raffle tix! Oh oh and speaking of raffle tix, there are still more available, the draw will be on Saturday 23rd at the Winchester Ladyfest event. Prizes include: a date with the mysterious Trixie, $100 tattoo voucher from Two Hands Tattoo on Symonds Street, $250 professional photography voucher from Voltage Photography, a DVice package and more! Raffle tickets are $5 each, and you can buy them at any Ladyfest event leading up to the night of the 23rd. Ok, so now you're excited and wanna know the whole Ladyfest programme right? Well here it is: LADYFEST AUCKLAND 2008!!!!! Friday 22nd February, 8pm @ Cross Street Studios, Cross Street: Glitches in Fantasyland - a theatrical presentation of dance, aerialism and live film featuring Eve Gordon, Sarah Houbolt (Brisbane), Alexa Wilson & Tahi Mapp-Borren ($10 - All ages) Friday 22nd Feburary, 10pm @ the Winchester, St Benedicts St: Bands! Blood & Laughter (Ak), Newtown (Wgt) & Punchbowl (Wgt) ($10 - R18) Saturday 23rd February, 11am-4.30pm @ Cross Street Studios, Cross Street: Zine Fair & Workshops day - see timetable above (Free - All ages) Saturday 23rd February, 9pm @ the Winchester, St Benedicts St: Bands + DJs! Oojah and the Trash (Ak), Stood Up (Ak), The Wrongdoings (Wgt), Mean St (Ak), Moron Says What?!?(Ak) ($10 - R18) Sunday 24th February, 2pm @ Te Karanga Gallery, Karangahape Rd: Film screening of riot grrrl/queercore films, including "Don't Need you: a herstory of riot grrrl", directed by Kerri Koch (Free - All ages). $20 Weekend Passes are available at any of the Friday night events For more information, or to get in touch go to myspace.com/ladyfestauckland, or email ladyfestauckland[at]gmail.com. Otherwise, see you there! Sunday 10th February 2008 Cherry Bomb is going on its first outing since the closing of our shop on New North Road! Come and see us at the Cross Street Carnival, Saturday 16th February, 2-7pm, Cross Street, Newton (behind Krd). Our stall will be part of Craftwerk, which is running during the Carnival. From what we've heard there's gonna be stilt walkers, aerial performers, food, drink, music and heaps of other craziness going on too... Ladyfest Auckland 2008 will be having a table at the Carnival too, so you can find out more about the festival (coming up in 2 weeks!), and maybe buy a raffle ticket, and be in to win $100 tattoo voucher from Two Hands Tattoo, and $250 voucher for a professional photograph from Voltage photography (not to mention help support the ladyfest funds). I wanna go to the Carnival! Monday 12th November 2007 Cherry Bomb Comics officially closed the doors at 41 New North Road for the last time on on Sat 3rd November. Thanx to everyone who came along on the day, and also to people who have been friends of Cherry Bomb throughout the 3 or so years we have been in this space!! Never fear though, because even though we've moved out, we haven't closed down! As we've said before, we will still be in existence online (here, and also www.myspace.com/cherrybombcomics), until we find a new physical space (hopefully sometime earlyish 2008). So if you want to buy our wares, you still can, firstly by checking out the catalogue on this website and emailing us your order, and very very soon (I know we keep saying it, but it's true!) on a proper online shop which will hopefully be up and running by the end of the year. We will also be turning up to various events to do stalls and things...so keep an eye out. Please do still send us your comics, zines and other small press. We will soon have a PO Box set up, but til we post the address online, just email us info@cherrybombcomics.co.nz, and we'll let you know where to send stuff. Oh yeah, and check out the updated photos of our Gala day on the photos page. Monday 29th October 2007 Yep, that's it for us at New North Road...Cherry Bomb will be moving out of our current shop space after Saturday 3rd November. As yet, we don't have a new physical premises, so over summer 07/08 we'll be selling online (our online shop should be up and running by the end of the year, and until then, email us your orders, using our PDF catalogue as a guide to what we have), and we'll be doing stalls and hosting events, so never fear, we're still around, so also still send us your comics and zines to sell (our new postal address will be up on this website after the weekend, so you can post us your things there). And hopefully (when we find some more $$!!), we'll be reopening in a new location next year. We've been running out of our New North Road shop for 3 1/2 years now, and the place is pretty full of memories, lots of people have contributed to the look and feel of it and we will be really sad when we paint the walls white and call it a day. But to celebrate these early years of Cherry Bomb, we will be having a Gala day on Saturday 3rd Nov, our last day, from 11am-4pm. There'll be a sale, a raffle, vegan bbq, music, mixtape & clothes swap (bring some to swap!) and Cherry Bomb tshirts. So come along, this is your last chance! Thanks to all our friends and supporters who've made the last 3 1/2 years so great, we couldn't have done it without you. Wednesday 24th October 2007 Still reeling from the police raids and arrest of peace, eco and tino rangatiratanga activists on October 15. It is absurd but also extremely messed up that dissent, even to the extent of trying to save an endangered snail, makes you a terrorist! Our solidarity is with those being detained, and with the people of 128 and the Necropolis who got raided. We are frankly surprised they didn't come and raid us feminazis at cherrybomb for purveying anarchist material...(!) See you at the demo this Saturday 27th Oct, 12 noon in Aotea Square For more info www.indymedia.org.nz Thursday 11th October 2007 New stock has arrived! Included in our latest package is: A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman by Sharon Rudahl, Percy Gloom by Cathy Malkasian, Juicy Mother 2: How they Met edited by Jennifer Camper, Goodnight, Irene by Carol Lay, Grenuord 1 by Francesca Ghermandi and Macedonia by Harvey Pekar, Heather Roberson & Ed Piskor. We've also restocked I love Led Zeppelin by Ellen Forney, Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi, Damen Dramen by Anna Sommer, and we now have the latest issues of Bitch and Bust. Thursday 4th October 2007 We've just done another couple of orders for new comics and zines, so they should be here in the next two weeks. Yay! Cherry Bomb Comics' time on New North Road is winding to a close, so if you haven't been in to visit the store yet (and I mean, come on dude, it's been over 3 years!), then you should quick smart! Further details to follow though... Meanwhile, we should be getting the new issue of Sydney based Slit magazine soon, in which we have been interviewed! Unfortunately, we had to have a DIY photo shoot (being in a different country to Slit 'n all) to accompany the article, and I'll be putting up some of the hilarious results on this website in the next couple of days!! To check out the real thing though, come browse in our reading library, we have collected all the issues of Slit just for you! We've just got in another shipment of badge parts, so if you need to make any 1 1/4" badges, we have the means! It costs $1 a badge, so just come in any time during the shop's opening hours and just ask us to bring out the badge maker! Ok, that's all for now! Tuesday 11th September 2007 Thanks to the organisers of Wellington Zinefest! We had a totally great time, and it was cool to meet some of the Wellington people that up until now we've only known through email. If you want to see pictures of the event, check out www.myspace.com/zinefest07. It was really encouraging to see so that so many people are making great zines and comix, and that the zine library at Wellington Central Library is all catalouged and ready to go! We managed to bring up a few more new NZ comic to add to our stock, including Lonely by Jess Johnson and Attitude Problem by Tim Bollinger, so come check them out. We are starting to sell some items on Trade Me now, so if you live in New Zealand and are feeling lazy you can now use the internet to buy things! We'll only be putting a few items up at a time, but check out what we have so far... Our main online store will be up and running in a couple of months, and that will have everything on it. Don't forget to come along to Craftwerk in St Kevin's Arcade, Thursday 13th Sept from 6-9pm! Saturday 1st September 2007 Ok! If you're in Wellington on September 8th, don't forget to come to Wellington Zinefest 07!, 10am-4pm, Wesley Church Hall, Taranaki Street. Cherry Bomb's having a stall, and we'll also be doing a small talk about what we're all about and showing off some of what we consider to be the best zines and comics in our store. Also, the following Thursday, 13th September we'll be having a table at the Auckland Craftwerk. Plenty of opportunities to come check out what we've got. Also a great incentive for you to finish off that zine or comic you've been working on for ages, so that you can drop it in to the shop this week and we can sell it on for you at one or both of these events! You'll soon be able to buy from Cherry Bomb Comics on Trade Me, we'll let you know when that is up and running, it should be in the next couple of weeks. And of course our online shop is still in the works, but won't be ready for a wee while still. Of course the greatest news on earth right now is that The Gossip are finally coming to NZ!! December seems so far away... Wednesday 8th August 2007 Hey everyone! Finally out-smarted our linux problems and are back up and running! Wow, haven't mananged to update this since before our birthday party... It was awesome!! Thanks to everyone who helped out and came and partied, especially the bands, the djs, antonio for the pa, justine for the beautiful cherry cake! Photos soon... Among our recent media forays (btw, thanks laydee aidee for interviewing us on alt tv in june, love ya), we were interviewed by Shirley Horrocks for her doco on comics in NZ which recently screened at the film fest, called 'The Comics Show'. If you missed it there, it will also be showing on TV ONE as part of Artsville on Sunday September the 2nd at 10.30pm. Also mark Sept 8th in your calendars for the upcoming Wellington ZineFest! Stalls are free, thanks to the Wellington Public Library Zine Collection! For more info email: wellingtonzinefest@gmail.com Friday 8th June 2007 Check out the flyer for our Third Birthday Party! Saturday 23rd June, 9pm on. Bands P.U.S.H, Stood Up and more, plus cake and dancing courtesy of some of the notorious Slumber Party Djs! BYO! Everyone welcome! Thursday 7th June 2007 Cherry Bomb was recently interviewed by the Grrrl Zine Network. Check out the interview here. The women who run the Grrrl Zine Network were recently involved in The Riot Project Archive Meeting, and Lost and Found at Shedhalle in Zurich. I highly recommend you check out the programme for both of these events! Tuesday 5th June 2007 Haven't updated for a while! Whoops! Cherry Bomb now has a myspace: www.myspace.com/cherrybombcomics, so come be our friend! It's a pretty simple myspace page, because of course we'd prefer it if people came and looked at this website, but I guess myspace has its uses. Anyway, apart from that, we now have 2 functioning typewriters plus a brand new hand press badge maker, that makes 1 1/4" badges. All of this stuff can be found in our new zine-making area in the shop, and can be used by you to make your stuff (the zine making equipment for a koha, and the badge maker for a set price that we haven't quite worked out yet, but will let you know...). We missed out on having a stall at the "Underpants on the Outside" comic book swap meet, but by all accounts it went very well! And we've been hearing rumours of a zine festival to be held in Wellington later this year... Cherry Bomb's 3rd birthday is coming up very soon, and to celebrate we will be having a gig in the shop, and a party! The flyer for this will be put up here very soon, but the basic details so far are: Saturday 23rd June, 9pm onwards, all welcome! P.U.S.H & Stood Up will be playing, and maybe some other secret bands. Some new stock came in not long ago, we now have Aline Kominsky-Crumb's beautiful collection Need More Love, and award winning manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno, which is about the effects of the Hiroshima bomb on the next generation. A recent addition to the Cherry Bomb library that we are really excited about is Seven Miles a Second the autobiographical comic by David Wojnarowicz which he began, but which was eventually completed after his death in the mid 90s. I've been looking for this comic for a while, so it's great to finally have it in the library. I think that's about it for now...Keep bringing in your zines and comix for us to sell! Thursday 26th April 2007 Another Craftwerk is on its way - Thursday 3rd May, in St Kevin's Arcade, Krd, go look if you haven't before! Also coming up is "Underpants on the Outside", a comic book and sci-fi swap meet to be held @ the Grey Lynn Library Hall on Saturday 2nd June. Cherry Bomb Comics will hopefully be having a stall at it. We recieved a new shipment last week, with titles including The Magic Bottle, which is Camille Rose Garcia's picturebook, and Damen Dramen, a german silent comic by Anna Sommer. We also received the new Maggie the Mechanic and Heartbreak Soup Love and Rockets collections, Miss Lasko-Gross's first graphic novel Escape from Special, and the new issue of Venus Magazine. Cherry Bomb is also selling a lot of the zines left over from Moonrocket Zine Distro, which closed down a while ago. Moira gave us tons of zines to sell, so all is not lost for anyone who missed out buying stuff from Moonrocket. On that note, don't forget to bring in your zines and comics to sell thru Cherry Bomb. We sell on consignment, and have a dedicated space especially for NZ-made stuff. Look out for the next Mixtape Club meets Zinester Night, should be coming up very soon. We'll keep you posted on this site. Also, in case you hadn't heard, Wellington City Libraries are starting up a zine collection!!! It hasn't been launched yet, but check out the link to see where they are up to... Saturday 7th April 2007 Thanks to everyone who took part in the stencil workshop last week, and to Elianna for running it! This Tuesday we are starting up a semi-monthly event: Mixtape Club meets Zinester Night!! This is an informal workshop for mixmakers, zinesters and the people who love them. Bring along zines in progress, mixes to decorate and trade, ideas and food to share. Cherry Bomb has a photocopier that will do one off smallish pictures reasonably well, two typewriters and a long armed stapler that you can use, and there is also a stereo which can be used to make mixtapes. So come along to Cherry Bomb Comics: Tuesday 10th April from 6.30pm on...Click here for the flyer! Sunday 18th March 2007 Woah! So this website hasn't been updated in a while! It's cos we were saving all the news up of course (not cos I'm lazy, no not at all!). Well this weekend was pretty exciting what with the Slits show and all (check www.fasthearts.com for a review of the show). And of course Craftwerk was on Saturday, held in the famous Speigeltent which made for quite a different Craftwerk to usual. It was good to see that there were quite a lot of new zines and comix for sale at people's tables! Speaking of new comix, keep your eye out for the all-girl, all-local anthology Boy Crazy that should be coming out soon. There will be copies available at Cherry Bomb, so we'll let you know when they've arrived. In the meanwhile, come and check out another NZ publication that recently arrived on CBC's doorstep - Pictozine, also an anthology, featuring the likes of Dylan Horrocks, Robyn Kenealy and heaps more. We've also got a few new NZ zines, spurred on by the recent Craftwerk, and a bunch of new comix in the reading library. The first Cherry Bomb event of the year is also coming up - it's a Stencil Workshop, to be held on Saturday 31st March from 3pm on. This is being organised by a new friend of Cherry Bomb, all the way from Bremen in Germany. There will be a short overview of the history of stencilling and some info on a few well known and more underground artists from around and abouts, and then the opportunity to make some stencils and try them out. Participation is free, but just BYO spraypaint, craft knives, cardboard or acetate and maybe some (vegan) food to share. No doubt there will be plenty of resources to share so just bring what you can, the main thing is enthusiasm! All are welcome. Click here for the exciting flyer! Another thing in the works is the aforementioned zine-making area, which is pretty much going to be running from next week on. At this point we are fairly limited in what we have, but it will grow. So how does it work? Simple! You can use our space to make your zine! We currently have a (pretty bung to be honest) typewriter, long-armed stapler, and some bits and bobs, so probably at this point the zine-making space is more of a zine-binding space until we start building up what we've got. But you can come in and use the bench space and the stuff for a koha whenever the shop is open (Wed-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4). And if you have stuff to donate, it'll be greatly appreciated. Particularly wanted are typewriters and an A4 sized guillotine. Along with this space we are also going to start running monthly zine/comix meetings where people can come along and make their zine or comic using our equipment, swap ideas with other people working on their own projects,and test out their writing and drawings on an appreciative and DIY-supportive crowd! Hopefully this'll start up in April, we'll let ya know! If you are interested in crafting collaboratively, there is a new craft group that's started up at the Auckland Women's Centre, on Warnock Street in Grey Lynn. It's called Craft Grannies, and is on the last Wednesday of every month 7.30-9.30pm (women only). In comix gossip: apparently the Persepolis movie will be released (in France??) in a couple of months, you can check out the blog to be kept up-to-date with this. And Ariel Schrag has a website, is this new? I dunno! I guess so cos we've never seen it before. Anyway, her graphic novel Potential is also being made into a film. More info about it on her site, obviously. Okay, maybe that'll do for now.... Thursday 8th February 2007 Okay, we got that massive order in last week, this is some of what we got: (click on the title to go to Last Gasp's review of the book) Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez, Interiorae #1 & 2 by Gabriella Giandelli, The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, illustrated by Dame Darcy, Elle-Humour by Julie Doucet, Baby Remember My Name: An anthology of queer girl writing edited by Michelle Tea, Lucky by Gabrielle Bell, Jokes and the Unconscious by Daphne Gottlieb, illustrated by Diane DiMassa, Meatcake #15 by Dame Darcy. Plus, we've got the latest Bitch and Venus magazines and a whole bunch more stuff that I'm too lazy to list... Last week we also did our first stock take ever! So I've updated the catalogue page so you can check that out too. Bear in mind our 2 most recent shipments will not be on this catalogue as we hadn't entered them in yet! Also, patches, badges & art is not listed on the catalogue and neither are our library items. You'll have to wait for our amazing new catalogue for that! (hopefully to come later in the year). Cherry Bomb will be having a stall at the next Craftwerk, which is on March 17th and is part of the AK07 festival. Especially exciting is the fact that it'll be held inside the The Famous Spielgeltent!! I think that's all for now! Thursday 1st February 2007 The Slits are coming!! Buy your tickets from Fast & Loose (with cash) or Real Groovy. This is one of those once in a lifetime shows (for New Zealand) by a band that was instrumental in forming both the punk and the postpunk movements, and inspiring riot grrrl and other bands that Cherry Bomb loves!...and they are still going today! The show is March 16th, so not too long to wait. In the meantime, come visit us at Cherry Bomb and check out our library which is currently bursting at the seams with comix, graphic novels, books, magazines and zines. We also just received a new shipment which included the brand new amazing and wonderful Moomin:The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book One. This is very exciting for anyone who has read the Moomin children's books (the whole set is in the Cherry Bomb reading library if you ever want to check them out), but is also a good place to start for new readers, because while the characters seem slightly different from how they are in the books, Tove Jansson's art portrays the same sense of dreamy melancholy, magical mundaneity and weird atmosphere that you get from the books. Tove Jansson was raised by artist parents in Finland and spent most of her childhood summers adventuring on small islands and being by the sea. As an adult, she and her partner Tuulikki Pietila (a graphic artist, and on whom the philosopher woman "Tooticky" in the Moomintroll books was based on) made art together, and Tove's Moomin characters became a cultural treasure for Finland. She died in 2001. We have an enormous new shipment on the way, it should arrive next week. I'll update you with what we have when it arrives. Hopefully, Cherry Bomb is going to have an online ordering system in the next few months, so you will be able to access our catalogue. Until then, you might just have to come and visit! Thursday 11th January 2007 Happy new year from Cherry Bomb!!! okay so if you've wandered up to New North Rd so far this year you probably noticed that the shop has been kinda intermittently open cos we've been on holiday. From today the shop should be open preeettty normal hours, but if you come and see the door closed with the note saying "ring the bell" then please do, don't be shy! We are probably home but most likely are hanging out in the sun in the back yard and will quite happily open the door for you to come have a look around the store. Cherry Bomb's doing a stall down at the Kings Arms on Saturday 13th, where there's gonna be an afternoon festivally type thing to celebrate the second issue of local magazine Makeshift. Then the Saturday after (20th) we'll be doing another stall at the Radical Youth conference which will be held @ the Latin American Cultural Centre, 37 Selwyn Street, Onehunga. You can check here for more details on this (this website hasn't been updated with the new Onehunga venue yet, so don't show up to the Trades Hall as listed on the site). Thanx to everyone who supported Cherry Bomb and bought xmas presents from our store! (But maybe we can all work together and ban xmas this year?) We will be doing another big order this month so our shelves will be fully stocked again very soon. Look out for the Cherry Bomb book club starting up again, and hopefully our zine-making space, and bring in your mix-tapes to swap and your COMIX and ZINES to sell!!! Wednesday 14th December 2006 Thanx to the Welly girls who organised Ladyfest!!! It was an awesome weekend with cool bands and people to meet. Now we've only got 10 days til xmas and summer holidays ahead!! Cherry Bomb will be open the usual hours until 23rd December, and then we'll probably have holiday hours only for the first coupla weeks of January, but we'll post those on this site when we've worked them out! Cherry Bomb is in the process of creating a small-press/zine making space which people can use during shop hours. We are currently looking for donated items for this, in particular a desk photocopier (haha, yeah I know, dreams are free), guillotine, typewriters, letter stamps and all sorts of stationery supplies. So if you've got anything like that lying around at home then drop it off to the shop next time you're in the neighbourhood! Much appreciated! And don't forget to bring your mixtapes in to swap in our mixtape basekt! Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Chicks on Speed tomorrow night at the Kings Arms in Auckland! And Erase Errata the very next night at the Schooner Tavern! How lucky are we? It's gonna be crazy! If you live in Auckland and want to get your very own Ladyfest Wellington program, Cherry Bomb has very (and I mean very) limited numbers, so come in and pick one up! You can always check out www.myspace.com/ladyfest_wellington if you don't get a zine though...The line-up looks awesome, plenty of girl-centric bands from NZ, plus of course Partyline & Sarah Dougher from the States. Cherry Bomb will be heading down to Wellington to have a stall at the craft & zine fair on the Saturday, which is being held at the Southern Cross Tavern. So come check us out, we're looking forward to meeting some of the Wellington people we've been emailing over the past 2 years of Cherry Bomb's life! If you're from Auckland and you can't make it down to Ladyfest Wellington, all is not lost, as Partyline are playing at the Underground Bar in Auckland on the Thursday before Ladyfest with the Coolies, Psychic Frequencies (ex-CatCatCat/Fake Purr)& Tolrance. And then Sarah Dougher will be playing in Auckland on Sunday 3rd. Plus, hurrah! there will be another Craftwerk Auckland on Thursday 7th @ Alleluya. Cherry Bomb is also gonna be hauling our stuff out to Craftwerk, so maybe we'll see you there. Okay, on to comix...we have almost received all of our shipments for this year, we still have one from AK Press on the way, but in the mean time you can amuse yourself with The Ghost of Hoppers, that's right, it's Jaime Hernandez's latest Maggie & Hopey story since Locas, and if you aren't crying by the time you've finished reading it, well you're probably not human (or else you just haven't read Locas yet, in which case - what are you doing reading the last book in the series!). We've got Alison Bechdel's Fun Home back in stock, as well as Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner and How Loathsome by Tristan Crane, which have been out of stock for a while. Also new is Linda Medley's Castle Waiting collection and The Adventuress by Audrey Nifenegger who did The Three Incestous Sisters. Cherry Bomb's mixtape basket is slowing filling, so bring your tapes in to to swap or put in the basket, or make them at the shop using the stereo in the reading library. The stereo's got a record, tape and CD player, so you can't go far wrong. And finally, if you live in central Auckland (and some parts of Welly) tune into Fleet FM on Tuesday nights 11pm-1am for a good does of Girl: punk, riot, electro, postpunk, indie and a bit of this and that. Think that's about it for now...Dare I say if you HAVE to buy various people xmas presents why not support DIY and independent stores in your neighbourhood. Bomb the mall! Tuesday 7th Novemer 2006 Cherry Bomb now stocks the new Marjane Satrapi graphic novel Chicken with Plums, as well as a whole bunch of stuff we've never had before, including most of the Foo Swee Chin back catalogue, The Ninth Gland by Renee French, the brand new Julie Doucet graphic novel My Most Secret Desire, and lots more that I can't remember, so you should probably just come in and have a look. Not only that, but we are now stocking Shimmy, which is a burlesque magazine, and Blood and Thunder a magazine about all-girl roller derby. Wednesday 25th October 2006 We just got a new shipment from Microcosm Publishing today, so that means more zines! On Saturday 28th October, the Auckland Anarcha-Feminist group is hosting another Take Back the Night march. It will be from 7pm, starting in Aotea Square, and will end with a workshop in Myers Park. These marches have been happening more or less annually in Auckland for a very long time. The purpose is to raise awareness about violence against women, and to make a statement about the unspoken rules society has in place for what women can and cannot do. Men are welcome on the march, but it is a woman-directed event. Last year there were heaps of people who showed up for it, so hopefully this year there are just as many! AND! Here is the link to Ladyfest Wellington!! They are currently putting together a Ladyfest Annual (in the style of those old girl annuals), and are looking for submissions around the theme of Dreams - and that includes, fantasies, crushes, wishlists etc. They are looking for reviews, pin ups, comics, music, trivia, photos - all the usual zine-y goodness, centered around their theme. The deadline is Monday 13th November, and you can send submissions to: Ladyfest Dream Annual P.O Box 14562 Kilbirnie Wellington 6241 AND! Cherry Bomb has heard word of an all-girl anthology of NZ comix coming out in the near future, going by the name of Boy Crazy. They are also looking for submissions, which need to be a minimum of 2 pages and maximum of 8 (this is flexible). You also need to include a bio of yourself and a self-portrait. The deadline is Friday 1st December, and you can send submissions to: Boy Crazy PO Box 78367 Grey Lynn Auckland or email: boycrazycomics@gmail.com Phew, girls gettin' busy in NZ... Sunday 8th October 2006 Check out the stills from the Persepolis film which is due to be out next year. The film is based on the graphic novel Persepolis, written and drawn by Iranian Marjane Satrapi. It documents her childhood as the country underwent revolution in the 80s. Tuesday 3rd October 2006 Cherry Bomb's gonna have a table at Craftwerk on Thursday, we'll be selling zines + patches mostly... Did you hear that Sarah Dougher is also going to be playing at Ladyfest Wellington? Hooray! The first mixtape club was on last week, so don't forget to check the myspace page for details of the next one. Sunday 24th September 2006 Cherry Bomb has just placed another order, pretty much due to the demand for Alison Bechel's new comic Fun Home, an autobiography and her first departure from Dykes to Watch Out For, so we are expecting that to come in in the next coupla weeks. Also due in that order is a new Love and Rockets title, The Ghost of Hoppers, which is Jaime Hernandez's first Maggie story following on from the Locas collection. Last night you might have gone to the launch of that new magazine "grow up" that's being put out in Auckland. We had a sneak preview of it and noticed the witty commentary made about the poster for the Grrrlz DIY Day that Cherry Bomb put on last year in association with the Auckland Women's Centre. Carter, is your magazine's intention to pick apart people who are actually doing stuff in Auckland? Off our own backs, with no financial backing or gain but just cos we want to do something, and we want to have fun, and we want to contribute? Was your intention for us to be embarrassed at our own naiveity, our own "right on-ness"? Believe me, you are by no means the first guy to regurgitate that kind of out-dated criticsm of what we're doing. But, way to crush any girl's burgeoning thoughts of actually creating something of her own, horror! she may just be mocked with clever sarcasm in that shiny glossy new magazine everyone's reading! Maybe you should just quit the backlash and focus on the things you obviously do well, like, you know just doing that thing, er, that you, um, do? I just thought I'd mention that. Thursday 14th September 2006 Ok, the mixtape club is now on 28th September, not 14th...But keep checking the myspace page for further updates. Friday 1st September 2006 Mixtape-arama at Cherry Bomb! Brand new and starting on Thursday 14th September is the Mixtape Club! Meetings will occur once a month. Here is the myspace page: www.myspace.com/mixtapeclub, and here is the flyer. If you can't make it to the mixtape club, you can still come into the shop and do a swap from our mixtape basket: make a tape to take a tape! Thursday 24th August 2006 Erase Errata are coming!! Wednesday 23rd August 2006 We got in some brand new stock last week. Some highlights include The Ticking which is a beautiful new cloth bound book by Renee French of The Soap Lady fame, the La Perdida graphic novel, The Squirrel Mother Stories by Megan Kelso and lots more! Plus we have new zines by some local laydees, plus patches and STUFF! Stitch 'n' Bitch has come to an end at Cherry Bomb for now. It's been running for over 2 years, so we're just giving it a bit of a break. However...there is some talk of someone else starting one up at the shop later in the year, so I'll let you know if that happens. In the meantime, there's a mix-tape club starting up here very soon, I'll post the myspace webpage for it up here as soon as I know it. Also! The very excellent Craftwerk is happening in Auckland again on Thursday 5th October by the Alleluya Cafe, St Kevins Arcade, Krd, so if you didn't make it last time, now you can! www.myspace.com/craftwerk_akl Um, comix rule! Thursday 10th August 2006 Cherry Bomb Comics turned 2 years old at the beginning of August! Not bad for a not-for-profit feminist comic bookshop, huh! The shop started out as an idea that the two of us had coincidently both been thinking about, and through a bit of luck, including finding the right location and landlords who didn't mind us being as creative as we liked, it all worked out, hooray! So hopefully we'll be around for a little while longer. Over the next year we plan to have some sort of web-shop, so those who don't live in Auckland will be able to order stuff from us, but this may take a little while to organise... Meanwhile, for everyone who does live in Auckland, come and visit us! We are not very far away you know! To get to Cherry Bomb from Krd (no doubt the point of origin for most of our customers), walk up Symonds Street (all the way to the top). Take the right fork in the road (the left one is Mt Eden Road) and you are on New North Road. We are near the top of New North. At the moment we have a 2nd hand comix and zines box (thanks Tim and Indira!), also our library is beginning to burst at the seams, plus of course we have lots of lovely things to buy. Friday 28th July 2006 It turns out that rumours of LadyFest Wellington 2006 are true! It's due to hit Wellington over the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of December, brought to you by a non-profit collective of laydees contactable at ladyfestwellington@hotmail.com. It'll be held mostly at The San francisco Bathhouse (ex-Indigo) with the two live pm shows held there and another all-ages daytime show and craft fair near-by in Glover Park. Kicking off the whole she-bang there will be an exhibition, crammed with local lady talent and the opening on the Thursday eve will launch not only Ladyfest but also their very own Ladyfest Lager - Home brew extraordinaire!!! Exciting international guests confirmed are the wonderful PARTYLINE (ex-Bratmobile & Hawnay Troof) coming to Wellington via Ladyfest Brisbane!!! They're headlining the Saturday night party and are sure to leave a dent... So get in touch if you would like to get involved! All lady performers, illustrators, artists, soundies, promoters and organisers, stage crew, stall-holders etc are welcome! Send demos, artwork, fanmail etc to LadyFest Wellington, P.O. Box 16036, Wellington South. Just a reminder about Craftwerk this coming Thursday! All set to roll with heaps of stalls confirmed selling illustration, crocheted and knitted toys, soft sculpture, mini comics, music, embroidery, bags, tshirts, laser cutjewellery, beaded jewellery, zines, screen printed stationery, chocolates,paintings, neckerchiefs and much more, including the Gladeyes playing a couple of sets throughout the evening! Wednesday 19th July 2006 Hey hey! Finally outsmarted the shop computer's technical hiccups and am coming to you live from cherry bomb! Just wanted to mention the upcoming Auckland arm of Craftwerk which is an arts, crafts, zines and music fair to be held at Alleluya Cafe in St Kevin's Arcade, K' rd on thurs 3rd August, 6.30 til 9.30pm. Cherry Bomb will be having a zine stall there, so come and check it out! New to our shelves are the leftover copies of My Soiled Sample the Oats compilation of NZ and Aussie comix, each one beautifully hard-bound in the covers of withdrawn library books. We will bring these down to Craftwerk too, and also a box of awesome 2nd hand zines and indie comics, thanks Tim! Cherry Bomb's 2nd birthday is fast approaching, no doubt we will have some kind of shin-dig to celebrate... Watch this space! Friday 30th June 2006 Hello! This is my first time updating the cherrybomb website so be nice to me... Just wanted to say that the cakehole zine is now finished and in the shop! At $3 a pop, it is full of the poetical and gastronomical delights sampled at the event with luscious wallpaper backgrounds. By the way, if you contributed something and I haven't got your postal address, just send us an email and I'll stick one in the post for you... Greetings to all our wonderful peops who have defied winter and absconded to other parts of the world. We miss you! Tuesday 13th June 2006 Thanx to everyone who came to Cake Hole on Sunday! Particularly everyone who made vegan cakes and to our poets/performers: Tui, Heather, Fiona, Karishma, Eve, Constance, Karlo, Willa, Zoe. Given how successful it was, we may do another one another time. I have some pictures of the cakes and stuff which I will (eventually) put on this website. We just got in some new zines from Microcosm Publishing, including Indestructible by Cristy Road and also her latest Greenzine, as well as Emergency by Ammi and Flying Lesson #10 by Ali Haimson, also Figure 8 by Krissy, and heaps more. Plus we have the latest (free) zine from Coco and Pritika - This is Not a Comic, and MsFit, an anarcha-feminist zine produced by Auckland anarcha-feminists! Don't forget to go to the launch of My Soiled Sample on Friday 16th June @ Wine Cellar. It is an anthology of Australasian Comix people, and there will be performances from bands like the Biscuits and Pumice. By the way, Happy 2nd Birthday Wine Cellar! Um, I messed up the dates for our Stitch 'n' Bitches and Book Club this month on our events page - sorry! I think I've set them right now, but please feel free to email us if you are confused. Chances are, I will upload something when I am drunk or something and probably need to be told to fix it anyway. Anyway, that's probably about it for now. I'm going overseas for 6 weeks, so you'll be having someone else writing this website for a while. bye! Wednesday 31st May 2006 Cakehole! Another event brought to you by Cherry Bomb Comics....This spoken word night was inspired by our visit to Sydney's Sheilafest. Their spoken word night "Literal Clitoral" was the first event we attended. I guess I was vaguely apprehensive, cos often spoken word nights can go horribly wrong, and end with the audience cringing in a corner wishing they were somewhere else. But this was awesome! There were fine-tuned political-themed poems/rants, personal stories accompanied by experimental electric-guitar playing, pirate stories, beat boxing, impromtu mc-ing, and we left feeling inspired to do one of our own. So here is Cakehole! Sunday 11th June @ 7pm, Cherry Bomb Comix, 41 New North Road, Eden Terrace. We have poets Will Christie and Karlo Mila headlining the evening, but there will also be other laydees reading AND a vegan cake-baking competition, which anyone can enter (men included). If you wanna bring a cake along to the event, write yr recipe on paper and it'll be included in a zine that will be made after the event. Otherwise, just come along and enjoy an evening of Laydee's spoken word, and cake eating... Click on the flyer for a bigger one! (Thanx to Will for the name by the way). Monday 8th May 2006 Tuesday 2nd May 2006 We got some new stock in last week, some of the titles we received are: The Saddest Place on Earth by Camille Rose Garcia, Interiorae by Gabriella Giandelli, Lenore: Cooties by Roman Dirge, Late Bloomer by Carol Tyler, Papercutter 2 feat. Becca Taylor, Paul Tobin, Colleen Coover & Liz Prince, Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg and another copy of Locas: the Maggie and Hopey Stories (Love and Rockets) by Jaime Hernandez. So yeah! Come visit us and while away the autumn days in our reading library! If some of you have come in recently and wondered where our promised zines are from the Misfit Theatre, we are just painting up the shelves so they should be out in the next week or so...They'll keep you going for a while, let me tell you! Oh yeah, and our next Stitch 'n' Bitch meeting will be on Tuesday 9th May, and the next Book Club meeting on Tuesday 16th May. We've been slightly distracted by stuff like going to Sydney, so we should be getting stuck into stuff again really soon, and have some other events on the horizon. Our swap meet unfortunately never quite happened, but it's a summer type event, so we might have to put it off til next year. Oh well, plenty more to do until then! Thursday 27th April 2006 We got back from Sheilafest on Tuesday! I know you're all jealous. We had a great time and wanna say a huge !thanx! to Meredith and Domino for looking after us so well in Sydney. There are some pretty inspiring laydees across the ditch. Cherry Bomb was involved in a workshop on Radical social centres, culture and feminism which was held in the marvellous women's library in Newtown. We met lots of women who'd been involved in all kinds of political spaces, and it was so good to talk about our experiences and some of the obstacles and to swap ideas! It was also awesome to meet Farida who writes the zine Queer Revolutionary Disco, and we've managed to bring back a couple of issues to have for sale in the shop. We hope the protest against the anti-civil unions politicians in Canberra goes well next weekend, Farida. Speaking of protests, there will be one in Auckland starting @ QE2 square (or where it used to be), and going up Queen Street to Aotea Square on Sunday 30th April @ 2pm. This protest is entitled "Not above the Law, We Support Louise Nicholas", referring to the recent case in which a woman accused the assistant Police Commissioner and 2 ex-police of rape, and they were all found not guilty. There will be speakers from Rape Crisis and the Auckland Sexual Abuse Help Foundation. This also marks the beginning of Rape Awareness Week which is from 1st-7th May, which certain "upholders of the law" and those who work for mainstream media would do well to maybe pick up a pamphlet at, so they can learn what the rest of us already know, that non-consensual sex is rape. s Wednesday 29th March 2006 I found out at the Cherry Bomb Comics book club last week that sadly Octavia Butler died. We have one of her books in our library if you would like to check her out. On the weekend Cherry Bomb got a bit of a face-lift! We have added a shelf (donated by the Misfit Theatre - thanx!), and just generally rearranged stuff. In April Cherry Bomb is going to Sydney for the Sheilafest. We're gonna be on a panel discussion talking about feminist spaces, which will be a really interesting discussion I think. um, that's about all for now... Monday 20th March 2006 Gina Birch is coming to NZ! She's playing a gig on Thursday 13th April @ the Odeon w/ Chris Knox. Very exciting!! Thanks to everyone who came for the Cherry Bomb Comics International Women's Day film screening the weekend before last. Hopefully we'll do more of that kind of stuff in the future. Hmm, what else? Book Club tomorrow! Weird War on Friday...Michelle Mae... Monday 6th March 2006 To celebrate International Women's Day, Cherry Bomb Comics is hosting a free film screening on Saturday 11th March @ 4pm. We will be showing the NZ documentary "Sheilas" directed by Dawn Hutchesson and Annie Goldson, and "Confession: A Film about Ariel Schrag". Ariel Schrag is a young cartoonist from the US who has completed 3 graphic novels and is working on a fourth documenting her experiences coming out in high school. There will also be a 3rd, and perhaps a 4th documentary - but you'll have to come along to find out what they are! The screening is free - first come, first get a cushion, until the shop fills up (women get priority). There will also be speakers, music and discussion on International Women's Day, Wednesday 8th March, @ Trades Hall Bar, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn organised by the Auckland International Women's Day Committee. So go along and support! Thursday 23rd February 2006 Our AK Press order arrived yesterday! So we now have some Slingshot Organisers for you to plan your next escapades in, plus a whole heap of books including Valencia, The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruptions of One Girl in America and The Beautiful by Michelle Tea, That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for resisting assimilation by Mattilda, Support,the new zine edited by Cindy Crabb about sexual abuse, Radical Cheerleader Handbook #3 and plenty more! Our shelves are looking well stocked again, and our library is growing everyday. There's a Stitch 'n' Bitch on Tuesday 28th February @ 6.30pm, and Cherry Bomb Comics will also be holding a film screening around the time of International Women's Day, which is on March 8th. I'll post when exactly and what films will be shown later on this week. This will be a free event. There are some new photos up on this site, and hopefully I'll be more up to date with putting them up from now on! Oh yeah, by the way...in case you haven't heard, Auckland is sadly losing both Moonrocket zine distro and the Misfit Theatre this year. Moonrocket has been run online for about 6 years, and the Misfit Theatre out of their Great North Road shop for 4. They'll both be really missed, as they supported, created and inspired the DIY, zine and punk/indie scene in Auckland for such a long time. But, THANX! to everyone who was involved in both Moonrocket and the Misfit Theatre and good luck in whatever you plan to do next. Bring on the next generation of people starting up zine distros and DIY shops! Cherry Bomb Comics will have a selection of zines from the Misfit Theatre in our reading library so you can still come and check some of them out. Wednesday 8th February 2006 So last weekend was the benefit fest for the Auckland anarcha-feminist zine which is currently being worked on. Previous incarnations of this zine include MsFit and Shakti, made by the Wellington and Dunedin anarcha-feminist groups respectively. Shakti was the first national anarcha-feminist zine in 7 years after the demise of Sehkmet. Cherry Bomb is selling copes of both Shakti and MsFit, and there are copies of Sehkmet in the library if you want to check them out. We are looking forward to what the Auckland Anarcha-Feminist's produce! The benefit was really great, thanks to the women who organised it. Pity about noise control turning up after the Quims had only played one song though! Monday 23rd January 2006 The first Cherry Bomb Book Club of the year is on tomorrow (Tuesday 24th January) from 6.30-8pm. The Book Club is open to anyone and basically involves people bringing along their favourite books/zines/comics/articles and other stuff they've read to swap with other people or just rave on about. Plus, every book club involves one person volunteering to bring in an interesting (usually feminist based) article for everyone to read so we have all read something in common... Stitch 'n' Bitch begins again the week after Book Club, on Tuesday 31st January...again, this is open to anyone (you don't even have to know how to knit!), and will run from 6.30-8pm. So don't be shy! We'll see you there... (get off the internet...I'll meet you in the street) Wednesday 18th January 2006 Hey! We are open again! Don't forget to come and visit us if you are up in Auckland for the Sleater-Kinney gig, we'll be open at the usual time 11am-6pm Wed-Fri and 11am-4pm on Saturday. We've got lots of ideas buzzing about in our heads for events etc this year, I"ll keep you posted on this site anyway, but till we have stuff confirmed I've got two words for you: Swap Meet. I'll say no more for now.... Wednesday 28th December 2005 Cherry Bomb Comics is closed for the holidays, we'll be back open again on Wednesday 18th January. If you really wanna get a comic before then though, or you are only in Auckland for a little while and want to check out the shop, give our door bell a go and if someone's home you are most welcome to have a look around and/or buy something if you want. Otherwise, see you next year...the day before the Sleater Kinney show hooray! Thanx to everyone who got involved in the various Cherry Bomb events, parties and what not this year, we really appreciate your enthusiasm! Monday 19th December 2005 Cherry Bomb Comics now sells that lip balm with a difference: Pussy Pucker Pots! Check out the link to see what they are! Thursday 15th December 2005 The Grrrlz DIY Day last weekend was really awesome, thanx to everyone who came and helped out and held workshops and stuff! There are some photos on the "Photos" page...we are thinking of having some kind of swap-meet type thing at Cherry Bomb later in the summer - do you think that is a good idea? Don't forget, if you've been guilted into participating in the capitalist ruse known commonly as "Christmas", there are plenty of independent shops to buy from so you can avoid buying sweatshop etc. The Quims are playing at the Dogs Bollix on Thursday 22nd December w/ Chris Knox and Jonnie Rose, so check them out, it's their last show of the year. Think that's about it... Saturday 3rd December 2005 The Grrrlz DIY Day is on next Saturday, 10th December from 10am. It will be held at the Auckland Women's Centre, 4 Warnock Street, Grey Lynn (just off Great North Road, near Harvest Wholefoods). It will be a day of skill sharing and workshops, and there will also be some stalls. The DIY Day is open to all women (the Auckland Women's Centre is a women's only space), no booking necessary. Entry is by koha, or bring about $5 for a vegan lunch. Here is the timetable so far, or click here for the flyer...hope to see you there! 10am: Book Binding 10.30am: Bike Tyre Punkture repair 11am: Basic Sewing Machine Skillz (bring cloth to make into a tshirt) 11.30am: Juggling and Physical Confidence 12pm: Zinemaking (bring pictures etc you wanna put in) 1-2pm: LUNCH 2pm: Activism Ideas (bring slogan ideas for posters) 2.30pm: Basic Using a Powerdrill 3pm: Basic DJ-ing (bring your most fun record/CD, ipod etc) All Day: Badgemaking (bring 1, 1.25 or 1.75 inch pictures), screenprinting (bring pale cloth to print), basic knitting. Wednesday 16th November 2005 The magic of airmail! We just received another shipment yesterday (definitely beats waiting for 3 months for stuff to be sent surface!). Still no Potential by Ariel Schrag though, and apparantely Awkward (her first graphic novel) is Out of Print! Luckily we've got copies of both in the reading library. Some of the new stuff we've got include: Please Feed Me: a Punk Vegan cookbook, Pure Trance by Junko Mizuno, Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis, RPM comics, plus straight out of the 70s - two of the first all-female comix compilations: Wimmen's Comix #7 and Tits & Clits #3. The new copy of Bitch magazine has arrived, and we've also got one off copies of Maximum RocknRoll, Venus Zine, Found magazine and Punk Planet. I think I also forgot to mention that we received a shipment from AK Press a few weeks ago as well. So now we've got lost of lovely anarchist and politcal material, including the amazing Anarchist's Cookbook: recipies for disaster, Spread magazine: illuminating the sex industry (cover photo of Michelle Tea!), and The Great Women Cartoonists by Trina Robbins. As usual we have some great DIY stuff, including some handmade, washable menstrual pads made with awesome cloth with skull and cross bones and comix prints which were made by a woman from Hamilton, and also Edgy Zine #16 & #17 (Cherry Bomb gets a special mention in the last one!), which is made by Star from the US. The Grrrlz DIY day is coming up very soon. We've had some new workshops added to the list, so at the moment the full list is: book binding, sewing, screen printing, zine making, bike tyre puncture repair, using a power drill, basic dj-ing, knitting and feminist activism. It's gonna be happening on Saturday 10th December from 10am-4pm @ the Auckland Women's Centre. Entry is by koha or bring $5 for vegan lunch. This event is for women only as the Auckland Women's Centre is a women's only space. Very exciting that Jean Grae is coming to the BDO! Also the amazing Go!Team, and of course Sleater Kinney. But I'm personally heart broken that M.I.A is only doing the Australian Big Day Outs!! What's up with that?!? Speaking of bands, if you missed the Quims at the Wine Cellar you should go along to their next gig at the PR bar on Thursday 24th November. They're playing with Don Julio and the Hispanic Mechanic, and also DJ Jo Segarmastersystem. Saturday 22nd October 2005 Ok, you can check out Cheese On Toast for photos of The Quims gig that was held at Cherry Bomb on Monday night. Thanx to everyone who came, we hope you enjoyed the soup, and thanks to The Quims!!! They are playing again at the Wine Cellar in St Kevins Arcade, K. road on November 5th, so check them out. We recieved some brand new stock this week, so we now have more Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, A Child's Life and Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner, Definition and Likewise by Ariel Schrag (unfortunately, Potential was still out-of-stock), Locas - the Maggie and Hopey stories by Los Bros Hernandez and Cinderalla by Junko Mizuno. Some new titles include Queens Day by Leela Corman, Lady Pep and My New York Diary by Julie Doucet, Chi and the Little Scrowlie TPB by Jennifer Feinberg, The Good Times are Killing Me by Lynda Barry and Cathedral Child: Texas Steampunk by Lea Hernandez. We also got some more patches and badges from Microcosm Publishing, such as Food not Bombs and Critical Mass, plus the Doris Anthology, Days of War, Nights of Love, The Flow Chronicles by the Urban Hermitt and Mine #2. Now is probably a good time to mention that on Saturday 10th December, Cherry Bomb Comics and the Auckland Women's Centre will be running a Grrrlz DIY Day. We will be having screen printing, book binding, zine making, knitting, sewing, bike tyre puncture repair, feminist activism, badgemaking and more. This is open to all women and will run all day. I will put the final line-up of workshops on this website later. And finally, there will be a Reclaim the Night March on Friday 28th October @ 7pm in Aotea Square, Auckland. There will be a lantern making workshop, or else bring your own, plus banners and noise makers. Check out Indymedia for more information. Thursday 6th October 2005 You are invited to the debut gig of The Quims on Monday 17th October @ 7pm!!! They'll be playing at Cherry Bomb Comics, and there will also be a soup kitchen running, so bring a bowl and a spoon! See you there for some riot grrrly goodness. Wednesday 5th October 2005 Sleater Kinney are coming to NZ!!! It feels like not so long ago that we were getting all hot under the collar at the thought of Le Tigre coming to the big day out, and now it's SK giving us extra reasons to be impatient about summer! Other great stuff to be happy about: Daylight Savings, a left wing government, oh yeah, and apparently 200 or so people showed up to the "Support the Poor, Stop the War" march on the 24th. And, as an off shoot of her vegan knitting site, Moira's made a great resource for vegan yarn, which all our Stitch 'n' Bitch people should check out here! And don't forget to check out Broad Spectrum tomorrow: it's an exhibition of all-female graffiti and street artists @ The Disrupt Gallery on Krd, followed by an afterparty with Aotearoa's top female hip hop artists @ the Rising Sun from 9pm! Well, that's quite enough excitement for today. We had a good book club meeting last night, so I guess we'll be having another one next month! Monday 3rd October 2005 The mural on the outside of our wall is all done...I'll put some photos of it on this site soon. It looks great! Thanx to Anya for that. We're still waiting on our comics shipment, and when it arrives hopefully it will mean we can restock some of the stuff you have been asking for (like Ariel Schrag). Sometimes it's a bit of a gamble though, we're never 100% sure our order will turn out as we planned! We've got a few great new NZ zines at the shop now. The newest (for us) is Kerry Ann Lee's West Star Land. Kerry also is the creator of Help, my Snowman's Burning among others, and used to run Red Letter Zine Distro in Wellington. We also have Tim Danko's Beer Trilogy, and Indira Neville's I am a Comic . What else...Oh yeah! we sell Cherry Bomb gift vouchers now, just in case you're tryna buy a gift, but are not quite sure what sort of comic the receiver will like. Sunday 25th September 2005 If you come past Cherry Bomb in the next coupla weeks you might see the mural in the process of getting painted on the outside of the shop. A friend of ours, Anya, is doing it for us and it looks great! We're pretty lucky... Cherry Bomb's got a couple of pots of Manic Panic hair dye for sale now...Manic Panic is this New York company that was started by a couple of women who used to be in the original Blondie line up back in the 70s. They make bright, punky coloured hair dye and the best part is that it's not tested on animals. We've got bright red and bright pink for sale. We've also just got in the new Bitch magazine (#29), and some Freelaxes imported all the way from France, which are plastic spatula-like devices women can use so that they can stand up to pee! Great for outdoor concerts and writing your name in the snow. Good to see the work of sometime local zine-star Liz Matthews appreciated in the latest Real Groove magazine! Thursday 15th September 2005 We've just put in an order for AK Press, and we are getting quite a few books on topics like DIY culture and women in the punk/indie scene. One book I'm pretty excited about is called Homocore and it's full of interviews and stuff with queer rock bands like The Butchies and Tribe 8!. I'm not sure when that order will come in, probably in about a month because it's coming by sea mail... There seems to be a lot of street activism going on at the moment, with billboard beautification and political statements on walls and fences all around the city. Keep up the good work! Will Brash get smashed? Will the troops get out of Iraq? Will people vote for love and not Destiny's Church? I guess it remains to be seen, but it is certainly a good way for you to feel connected with people when you're walking around the city. Apparently Radical Youth are doing Food not Bombs down at Aotea Square on Saturdays as well. You like stripy socks right? Check out this link to a website by a NZ woman who is the stripy sock Queen!! You can win a pair if you enter her competition...Stripy Sock Studio. Monday 5th September 2005 After a really really long break, the Cherry Bomb Comics book club is back up and running! It will be on Tuesday 6th September from 6.30pm. What we normally do, for people who've never been before, is bring along a book we like to swap with other people, and also one person photocopies an article to distribute...but really it's all pretty open to suggestion. So even if you don't have a book to swap, or haven't read one in a while but are interested in coming along just to check it out, you are more then welcome! The book club will be once a month. stitch 'n' Bitch will be on Tuesday 13th September at 6.30pm. Monday 29th August 2005 There's a Stitch 'n' Bitch on Tuesday 30th August at 6.30pm...ummm. I can't think of anything else right now. Oh! we have a new catalogue (which is not working right now - but it will be really soon!). Saturday 13th August 2005 You can check out some photos from Cherry Bomb's history if you click here. Wednesday 10th August 2005 Yesterday we received a new shipment! We now have the new Marjane Satrapi comic, Embroderies (she is also the author of Persepolis). The story focusses on one afternoon when Marjane and the women in her family are having tea together and discussing sex, love, and male/female relations in Iran. It's funny and insightful, but it has a darker edge - the "embroderies" of the title refer to a medical operation some women undergo to reconstruct their virginity. We've also received more copies of the Hothead Paisan collection, and some brand new issues of Meat Cake by Dame Darcy (yay!) and Love and Rockets. A second shipment will be on it's way shortly (hopefully), which will have more stuff...I'll let you know when it's in. We can go *phew* now that we've got more stuff, because our shelves have been looking pretty empty since the Small Print Zine fest! Oh yeah, and we received a surprise package from Kersplebedeb Distribution from Montreal, Canada. They distribute books, buttons and tshirts focussing on radical politics: www.kersplebedeb.com . They gave us a copy of Jailbreak out of History - a rebiography of Harriet Tubman and The Military strategy of Women and Children both by Butch Lee. Thanx Kersplebedeb! We will be putting these books in the reading library. We like getting presents of radical feminism!! I am still working out the whole "photos on the website" thing...as you can see, webdesign is not really my forte, but hopefully one day I'll get around to doing all the things I meant to do on this site a year ago! Wednesday 3rd August 2005 Thanks to everyone who made it along to our first birthday! I will maybe post some pictures up here later... Wednesday 27th July 2005 Come along to Cherry Bomb Comics on Saturday 30th July and help us celebrate our first birthday! The theme is Gurlesque, Bearded Ladies and Drag, so there are plenty of reasons to come in costume. We are having a vegan birthday cake and a couple of performances too, which I guess will happen around 9pm. The party starts at 6pm partly because there are lots of things going on that Saturday night...Click here to check out the flyer We won't be selling comics and stuff on Saturday night, but the shop will be open as usual on the day from 11-4. It's been a whole year!!!! Hope you can come. Thursday 14th July 2005 This hasn't been updated for a while cos we were re-vamping the whole website. There are still some bung bits on it though that I need to fix...(like I left off the whole Events page, ooops) Quite a lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. The main thing was Small Print of course, which was on earlier in July. It was a full day event, held at the Grey Lynn Community Library hall. There were all sorts of people with tables of comics, zines, patches, badges, political info and other stuff. There was also delicious, homemade, fully vegan food being sold, and workshops on comics, bookbinding and zine layout. There was a collaborative zine being made, and a reading corner. It was a really good day. Thanks to everyone who helped out on the Cherry Bomb table, and sorry to anyone who showed up at Cherry Bomb on Sunday because I told them we would be open. I was going to open specially on Sunday for zine fest weekend, but I got sick so didn't. The day after zine fest there was a film screening in the lovely wine cellar. The first film was on Small Print 2003, the second one on Tim Bollinger (a Wellington comic book artist), the third one was sponsored by Cherry Bomb and was a doco on the wonderous Ariel Schrag, and the fourth one was from Microcosm Publishing, and was all about zines! It was really nice to be packed into the cosy back room of the wine cellar with everyone watching films about - zines and comics!! of all things! Thanks to the organisers of Small Print, you did a great job!! There is an exhibition of comics down at a gallery on Customs Street at the moment, I think it is on til July 22nd...will verify that when I fix up our poor Events page! There is a Stitch 'n' Bitch on this Tuesday 19th July at 6.30pm, and we are going to be having more book clubs and music appreciation nights soon. Also, there will be monthly play readings at Cherry Bomb from 1st August. It will be on the first Monday of every month. The start time will be 7pm, but more details on that later. Only a couple more weeks before Cherry Bomb's first birthday! Wednesday 22nd June 2005 Ok, another new shipment, this time with a few old favourites. We now have Persepolis #1 back in stock, plus Finder vols 1, 2, and 3. Also exciting is La Perdida #5 which is the very last installment, How Loathsome by Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh, which is about Catherine, a transgender denizen of the underground San Fransisco scene, and Juicy Mother which is a collection of comix for "discerning homosexuals, uppity ladies, fierce people of colour and all their friends". There's only a couple more weeks to Small Print zine fest...I hope you're all nearly finished making your zines to sell at the festival! There is a Small Print exhibition of zine-y type things at the Canary Gallery on Krd at the moment...so go check it out! Also, word on the street is the Ariel Schrag documentary that will be shown the following day at the film screening is excellent. This week is the last week for the Alleluya Noise Fest as well. We've put info about what's on on our Events page... Sonja Davies passed away last week, on 13th June. She was an inspiring feminist, union worker and advocate for equal rights in New Zealand. Here is a link to a tribute to Sonja Davies by Carol Beaumont who is the secretary of the NZ Council of Trade Unions www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00203.htm. Wednesday 8th June 2005 We got in our shipment of Microcosm stuff last week. So now Cherry Bomb has copies of the zines Mine: an anthology of women's choices which has personal stories and information about abortion (from a US perspective), What the Ladies Have to Say which has inteviews with activists in Palastine and the Philipines, Green Zine, a personal zine by Cristy Road who we have a link to on our links page, Doris: an anthology which collects # 1-22 of Doris zine, With Heart in Mouth, a personal zine by a woman of mixed race, filled with musings on identity and political outrage, and we also have a DIY guide to sex toys and gender bending devices. Yeah, I thought I'd leave that one til last. Plus, we got a bunch of patches... We had a Stitch 'n' Bitch last night, so the next one will be on Tuesday 21st June @ 6.30pm. The book club is on holiday at the moment, as lots of people involved are going overseas. I'll let you know when it's back up and running. Don't forget to go to the Small Press benefit gig at the Odeon Lounge (at the top of Symonds St, Akl) on Friday 10th June. Chris Knox, Jonnie Rose and Pumice will be playing and all proceeds go to making Small Print totally awesome. Have fun in the UK Justine! Monday 23rd May 2005 Last Tuesday was the launch of two new zines: The Sad Sound , which is a beautifully illustrated book by Tree, and Para Ser de la Tierra, a zine by Tui, inspired by her time spent in South America. Thanks to everyone who came along to the launch, despite the fact it was such a rainy night - and a Tuesday too! There are still copies of both zines at Cherry Bomb if you missed out last week, plus some new jewellery by Tree. I was in Wellington over the weekend with some friends and was totally excited by all the comixy, ziney, political stuff going on down there. It was good to visit the newly-moved Freedom Shop, which for those of you who don't know, is a political info shop with anarchist and feminist leanings. If you went to the old one, and don't know where the new one is, I can't remember the exact number of the building, but it's still on Cuba Street, but further down, I think it was sort of opposite Slowboat Records, but definitely next door to Spacesuit. The shop front has "The Cakeshop" written on it, and is an internet cafe. The Freedom Shop is at the back of that, and is still filled to the brim with lots of political texts, zines, patches, badges, free stuff, pamphlets, info and friendly people! So next time you are in Wellington you must must must check it out. It's really cool that even though they had to move due to the evil bypass going thru their old building they managed to find a new place and seem to be thriving! Other cool places in Wellington that were a little bit like Cherry Bomb were Dandylion and 91 Aro Street. Dandylion is off Cuba Street, and sells zines and clothes and things. 91 Aro Street supports independent art, comics, zines, badges, music and all sorts of lovely things. I think people from there will be coming up to Auckland for the Small Print Zine fest in July. They have a website too: www.aroarts.org.nz. It's been said before, but I'll say it again: people in Wellington are so friendly!! And there are great places to eat vegan and vegetarian food as well...plus, quite a lot of political graffiti and stencilling around the city...sigh, oh wellington.... BUT....Auckland is great too, and don't you forget it! The Out Takes Gay and Lesbian film fest is coming up soon, plus the Small Print zine fest (check out our events page to find links for those). Wednesday 11th May 2005 On Tuesday 17th May from 6-9pm, Cherry Bomb Comics will be hosting First Seed, which is a zine launch for Tui and Tree. Click here to check out the flyer. This is open to anyone, so come along! Also, Cherry Bomb Comics is sponsoring the screening of Confessions: a film about Ariel Schrag which will be showing at the Small Print 2005 Zine Fest documentary screening, on Sunday 3rd July. There will be more details to come about this film screening, as there are still documentaries to be confirmed, but apparently $100 and a T-Shirt, which was created by the Microcosm Publishing people, will also be showing. Friday 22nd April 2005 Cherry Bomb has just placed an order with Microcosm Publishing, who put out things like Stolen Sharpie Revolution and other political, punk and DIY material. So we should be getting a nice big order of zines and patches from them soon! The next Stitch 'n' Bitch will be on Tuesday 26th April from 6.30-8pm. All are welcome. A couple of non-Cherry Bomb things to put in your diary: On May 1st there is a May Day March calling for all foreign troops to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. This march will also be about defending the right to protest, as there have been a lot of incidents involving police heavy-handedness, such as on the March 20th anti-war protest in Auckland. I also heard that at the broiler chicken conference protest last week, people were apparently arrested for whistling, which was considered a disturbance of the peace. Hmmm. The May Day March is from 12pm, and begins at the bottom of Queen Street, Auckland. Check out www.gpja.pl.net for more information. The second thing is, there is a young women's forum taking place at the Auckland Women's Centre, 4 Warnock Street, Grey Lynn, on Wednesday 11th May 2005. This will run from 6-8pm, and will give young women the opportunity to meet other young women interested in women's issues, find out what the Women's Centre has to offer young women (they have an awesome library which is really helpful if you're doing women's stuides at uni!), and also share ideas about future events. The Women's Centre has hosted some great events for young women in the past, such as Go Girl! Women's Music festival, plus all sorts of workshops such as DJing, zine-making and self-defence. The two of us from Cherry Bomb Comics will be there too, to spread the word about what we do here. It should be a really good evening! If you want any more info you can contact Anna on 376-3227, or email her. Last but not least, RIP Andrea Dworkin - for all the controversy surrounding you, your ideas and bravery inspired a lot of feminists of my generation, to be, at the very least, unafraid of pissing off the boys. If you are interested in reading about Andrea Dworkin, you can go to her website www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/, or read a blog by pro-sex feminist Susie Bright, who I reckon has written one of the most respectful and insightful pieces about Andrea Dworkin I have ever read. Wednesday 13th April 2005 Flour and water makes excellent glue. The Stitch 'n' Bitch meeting last night was great. One of the people there showed us all how to make lightbulb paintb0mbs - very handy for making pretty your city. We semi-decided to hold a workshop in this kind of vein at Cherry Bomb one day soon, so if any of you out there are keen to share your skills, then email us to let us know you are interested. Exciting news that I don't know if I've mentioned: Small Print is going to be held in Auckland on July 2nd!!! There is a website that you can go to for more info on it www.smallprint.org.nz. Cherry Bomb is going to have a table there selling comics and zines, plus we are also going to bring along some of our library books to have in the reading corner. Fun! I read in a magazine lately that there is a place in Wellington, 91 Aro Street, Aro Valley to be exact, that has been set up by indie artists, comic book people etc. You can go along and check out their wares, which include comics, zines, art and political texts. Sounds good! I just watched the documentary Crumb the other day. It still didn't really explain for me why R. Crumb is like the be-all, end-all for people interested in independant comics. Obviously he is a good artist, but so are millions of people who don't draw mutilated women being raped. And as for the fact it is all confessional and blah blah, well why do we care about his sick fantasies? I could just read the Herald everyday if I wanted to read stories about mysoginistic men. Anyway, there were plenty of confessional-stlye comix in publications like Wimmen's Comix and Twisted Sisters at the time R. Crumb was just getting famous. R. Crumb has written introductions for Phoebe Gloekner's A Child's Life, in which he basically said that he wished he was brave enough to abuse her when she was a teenager like other men in her life did, and Eve Gilbert's Tits, Ass and Real Estate, where he says pretty much that her art sux, and that he was only asked to do the intro so they could put a famous name on her comic. Why do these talented women want R. Crumb's words in their books? I don't get it, and I can't stand it when a particular guy is deified into some sort of guru who everyone has to run their work by to check if it is okay by him. I hated the fact that in the Crumb doco he doesn't even try to address the hard-core racism in his comix. All he says is..."ahh, I was on drugs...?". Well, thanks for that R. Crumb, really insightful, and it explains everything, totally. Basically you're just another guy that gets away with everything because by some serendiptious course of events people have decided you're a genius. Actually, you're totally lame and I like Eve Gilbert a lot better. Saturday 2nd April 2005 Our new shipment arrived a couple of weeks ago. We now have Potential, Likewise #2 and #3 Rent Girl and A Child's Life back in stock. Some new items include The Dori Seda Collection, Princess Mermaid by Junko Mizuno and The!Greatest!Of!Marlys! by Lynda Barry. The next Stitch 'n' Bitch is on Tuesday 12th April, and the next Book Club meeting is on Tuesday 19th April. Both are from 6.30pm-8pm, and are open to anyone and everyone. Sunday 20th March 2005 The first book club meeting of the year will be on Tuesday 22nd March @ 6.30pm . Have a look at our Events page to see what that's all about. Also, just a little public service announcement: we've noticed lately that a few of our reading library books have gone missing, and one that was missing has recently come back. At this point in time we are not lending the library books out. If you are interested in the books in the library you'll just have to read them on our comfy couches in the shop, please don't take them home. One of the main reasons for this is that we don't own all the books, some of them have been kindly donated by various people with the understanding they will remain at Cherry Bomb Comics. We want our shop to be as welcoming and laid back as ever, so it would be really cool if everyone just played along with this one tiny weeny little rule. Thank you! Saturday 12th March 2005 Last week there was a rally in Aotea Square for International Women's Day. It was pretty good. Thanks to the people who organised it, you did a really good job. I thought the speakers were mostly inspiring, and it was good to have Jonnie Rose and the Coolies play afterwards, as it sometimes seems that there aren't many bands in NZ who visibly align themselves with feminist issues any more. The only disappointing thing was that there weren't that many people who went down to support it, and those of us that did go were pretty low-key about it all. I don't really know why, whether people just weren't getting inspired about the speakers or if it was the venue and the off-putting fact that lots of people were just walking past the square, barely even looking over to see what was going on let alone joining in...Still, it was good to see that some people made the effort to go down. I didn't go on the march to the US embassy afterward but a friend who did go down said that the women's voices tended to be drowned out by a bunch of men who had their own agenda (which seemed to be forcing women to buy their newspapers - hello, wasn't the whole point of the rally to talk about the financial inequality between women and men? Who do these men think they are are making women feel guilty about not buying their newspapers on International Women's Day??). Still, I'm glad that it all happened none-the-less, and I hope people support the Global Day of Action on March 19th as well... The next Stitch 'n' Bitch meeting will be on Tuesday 15th March from 6.30pm-8.00pm, and the next book club meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd March from 6.30-8pm. See you then. Monday 28th February 2005 Apparently Destiny Church is planning another march up Queen Street on Saturday 5th March, culminating in a rally @ Myers Park. For those of you who don't know who they are, they are basically a screwed up, supposedly religious group of people led by Brian Tamaki who are homophobic to the point of violence...you can find out more info about them if you look on the internet. Anyway, luckily there is a counter-protest, albeit a peaceful one at the University of Auckland quad on the Saturday. This will feature musicians Chris Knox and Christine White, and there will be a kid's corner, face painting, stalls and speeches. So go along and support "Don't Hate, Celebrate"! You can find out more info @ www.notmydestiny.org.nz. Also, on Tuesday 8th March @ Aotea Square there will be a rally for International Women's Day. This rally happens every year and is always awesome, but it's really important that people go along and support it - I guess its the same with any political movement, but feminism is especially maligned, and not as trendy as anti-GE or anti-war...so I hope you go along if you can! There will be speeches and the Coolies will be playing. The only stink thing about it is that women who work way out in the 'burbs (like me) won't be able to get to it on time, cos it starts at 5.30pm... Word on the street is that there is a documentary that has been made about underground comic artist Ariel Schrag. It's called Confessions . Ariel Schrag is the author of Awkward, Definition, Potential and Likewise, all of which she wrote as a teenager. I wonder if it will come out at the upcoming Out Takes gay and lesbian film fest? hmmm.... Also, another vaguely geeky comic book FYI...you know the movie Ghost World starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johannson, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Daniel Clowes? If you've seen it you might remember that Enid, the main character played by Thora Birch, often draws in a sketch book. In fact, the art done in the book was actually by 19 year old Sophie Crumb, the daughter of comic book artist Aline Kominsky and the infamous mysoginist himself, R. Crumb! Sophie Crumb has her own collection of comics called Belly Button Comix, which is pretty dodgy but very cool! We have it at Cherry Bomb if you wanna check it out. Thursday 24th February 2005 Ok,the next Stitch n' Bitch is on March 1st @ 6.30pm, and I think the next book club will probably be the Tuesday after that (the 8th)...Nothing much else newsworthy at the moment, only we need more comics by nz women! Sunday 13th February 2005 Just a reminder that there is a Stitch 'n' Bitch @ Cherry Bomb on Tuesday 15th Feb. Also, some exciting news...we've just received a flyer from the Small Print crew about Small Print 2005...Some of you will remember this from 2003 when it was held at the Grey Lynn hall next to the library. Basically it is an event focussing on zines, comics and other small press. At the last one there were stalls selling zines etc, workshops, discussion groups and a collective zine was made by people who attended. Click here to see the actual flyer or go to the website www.smallprint.org.nz. Wednesday 2nd February 2005 We had a really great Stitch 'n' Bitch meeting last night, and now Cherry Bomb has some brand new cool badges for sale, plus some more zines from Moonrocket, including issues #1 & #3 of Child that Mind and also the 2nd edition of Stolen Sharpie Revolution. Another outcome of the meeting was that we will probably be hiring a badge maker for the next Stitch 'n' Bitch, so if you were thinking about coming along to the next one, bring some cut out pictures with you that you might want to put on a badge, and a gold coin or 2 to cover the hireage. Thanks to Caroline for hiring the badge maker!! We've recently sold out of a few of our really popular items like La Perdida #1 by Jessica Abel, Persepolis #1 by Marjane Satrapi, A Child's Life by Phoebe Gloeckner and Awkward, Potential and Likewise by Ariel Schrag (I'm just telling you this so you don't get mad at us when you lug yourself all the way up Symonds St to Cherry Bomb, only to find they're sold out!) BUT we have just done a reorder of all of these items, so we should be getting them in soon! Plus, most of these items are in the reading library, so you can just come up and sit on the couch and read them for free! Very excited that Cat Power and Holly Golightly are coming! Tis a good year for bands!! Monday 31st January 2005 The first Stitch 'n' Bitch of the year will be on Tuesday 1st February, from 6.30pm-8pm...to find out more about Cherry Bomb's Stitch 'n' Bitch group, click on the "Events" button. Tuesday 25th January 2005 Cherry Bomb currently has space on the wall for more paintings, so if you are an artist and would like to try to sell your work in our shop, please email us or drop in and show it to us. Our first priority is to display art by women, but we do also display art by men. The same goes with music - Cherry Bomb is available for people to who want to sell their music, the emphasis being on women who create music, but as with the art we are open to music made by all genders so long as it fits with the Cherry Bomb ethos... The latest example of sexism in the NZ media is again related to the Big Day Out (those of you who read my earlier entries will have read my rave about the useless articles on Le Tigre). Anyway, you really just have to go to www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10007573 and scroll down to the section titled BEST HAIR BUT...by Russell Baillie and Scott Kara. Basically it is a blatantly sexist, petty and uninformed review of The Donnas' performance at the Big Day Out. As it was there were only about 4 bands with women in them playing at the Big Day Out, and there were a total of like 60 bands! Every year this the case, and it is a major problem cos it sends out the message to the mainstream that there are few musicians who are women, or that women just aren't very good - which you and I know is totally totally wrong. And I find it totally enraging that some guy who is meant to be the Features Editor in one of NZ's biggest newspapers could say something as puerile as, "The Donnas' performance had the power of a portable hairdryer". The guy clearly thinks that women playing music is just a silly novelty that will go away soon, revealing his total lack of knowledge about the importance and influence of women in music. Email him and tell him what a useless reviewer he is! (Look under Contacts on the NZ Herald Page, and email the Features editor). By the way, The Donnas were totally great at the Big Day Out. Thursday 20th January 2005 Ok, I just came back from the Le Tigre show. It is 1.30am in the morning...we are all completely and utterly fulfilled. They played an awesome show, and were so lovely to the audience...it's hard to know what to say cos some of us have been waiting like 10 years to actually see Kathleen Hanna, who has inspired so many things that we do - including Cherry Bomb Comics. JD and Johanna were equally wonderful, and we hope they come back soon!!! Cherry Bomb has just received a small order from AK Press, so now we have "Fear of a Female Planet" Tshirts and others, plus a book of photographs of the worldwide day of protest against the war in Iraq - "2/15, the day the world said no to war", and Anarcha-Queer and Anarcha-Feminist star shaped pins! Hooray! Tuesday 18th January 2005 Le Tigre in only 2 more days! I couldn't believe it though: first Camilla who does the Intellectual Property "alternative music" show on C4 (one of NZ's music channels) called JD Samson a boy when she played their TKO video a coupla weeks ago, and then Russell Baillie who does music reviews in The Herald (one of NZ's biggest newspapers) did the same thing last weekend! I mean you never read the Herald if you want a decent music review anyway - anything that falls outside of the accepted mainstream-alternative seems to blow their little minds, especially if the band has women (I'm thinking mainly of their coverage of Peaches, 5678s, Chicks on Speed, and totally obliviousness to Sleater Kinney)...but you would expect their reviewer to at least get the gender of the band members right....right? The fact that he didn't realise JD Samson was a women shows that he didn't understand/care about her position as a butch lesbian, totally didn't get the excitement and the irony of the fact that she and her band are infiltrating the mainstream, and clearly didn't even listen to the album "This Island" (which he called "shrill") because there is at least one song on there talking about the visibility of feminsts, lesbians, and particularly butch lesbians in the world. It really annoys me, cos all of these people who have suddenly started talking about Le Tigre (one EP, 3 albums and 1 remix album later) act like they have just discovered something, but really they don't have a clue about their politics, which is one of the main underpinnings of the band. I've often noticed that interviewers of female musicians tend to narrow their political type questions down to "so what's it like being, like, a girl musician and stuff?", and then turn around and blow Eminem's trumpet about what a great anti-war hero he is...nevermind, all that matters is that Le Tigre are actually coming to NZ, Hooray!! OK, in other semi-related news, there is an anarcha-feminst workshop: the Anarcha-Feminist Stitch and Bitch happening on 1-4th Feb at Marama-Iti in Wanganui. This will involve workshops, skillshares and discussions on anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian feminist issues. You can email stitchnbitch@anarchism.org.nz or visit www.anarchism.org.nz. (this doesn't have anything to do with the Cherry Bomb Comics Stitch 'n' Bitch group, and Cherry Bomb isn't involved in the organisation of the event, though we whole-heartedly support it). Wednesday 12th January 2005 Cherry Bomb Comics re-opens today! Just after Xmas we received 2 more shipments of comics. Some of the best of these are: Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, which is a colour illustrated autobiographical novel about her time as a prostitute, Cinderalla and Hansel and Gretel by Junko Mizuno, which are full colour, surreal, manga, loose interpretations (and I mean loose!) of the fairy tale characters. One of them even comes with free stickers! We also received Likewise #1 which is the first comic in the new collection by Ariel Schrag, documenting her last year of high school. We also received Quiet Rumours: an Anarcha-Feminist Reader , and, for historical interest, Valerie Solanas's Scum Manifesto. We're still not quite at the point where we know when Stitch 'n' Bitch etc is on, so I won't post any dates up yet. Keep your comics and zines and clothing and art and stuff coming! Cherry Bomb is always on the lookout for new things... Wednesday 29th December 2004 Cherry Bomb Comics is closed at the moment and will open again around about 10th January 2005. We will post the dates and times for the next Stitch and Bitch, book club and music appreciation sometime soon after the 10th. We at Cherry Bomb would really like to thank everyone who has supported us and inspired us over the past 6 months that we have been open. We hope that people have got something out of Cherry Bomb Comics, perhaps a renewed interest in feminist issues, or inspiration to DIY, or maybe even just the discovery that they like reading comics! And to anyone out there who is thinking about starting up something like this, something DIY, maybe with a feminist agenda, or just something that is yours, just to let you know: it's much easier than you think!!! See you all in the new year! Wednesday 15th December 2004 Well we are all still in a fog of confusion and pining after the Dresden Dolls on Monday night. They were so exceptionally good, and not just because of the great sound or whatever other sanitised platitude certain bfm djs used to describe the show. The two on stage had some unexplained kind of voodoo electricity, causing all right-minded people to fall hopelessly and deeply in love with them. Oh god, the agony of trying to decide with your friends who (in a perfect fantasy world) would get Brian and who would get Amanda (two such previously mundane names which now possess such loaded connotations), only to always come to the same realisation that the two could never be split, they are half jack and half jill...sigh...Anyway, I should stop there. It was quite a good show. What? Oh! you actually wanted news about Cherry Bomb! Right...ok, umm. There isn't any, I just wanted to rave on about the Dresden Dolls. Oh yeah, there's a play reading in the shop on Thursday 16th @ 7pm (click on the events icon for more details about this). And the next Stitch and Bitch is on next Tuesday night at around 7pm. We should be getting a bunch of new stuff soon...perhaps by the end of the week. Thursday 2nd December 2004 I thought I'd better update this since Ben (gently) pointed out that it hadn't been done for a while... it's raining and horrid today, so I don't mind too much about sitting in our small room with no windows and tryna muddle my way through pretending to be a website designer, when really I'm just good at copying and pasting. But I'm listening to David Bowie, so that always makes everything ok, even probably a train disaster or a bad haircut. (I've only had one of these, can you guess which?) Cherry Bomb will be closed on Saturday 4th December because we are magicking our comics down to the Wine Cellar in St Kevins Arcade for the Karangahape Road Karnival. We'll be setting up our table at around 12.30pm, and we'll be there till about late afternoonish. So you can come down and read/buy comics, and taste wine with the lovely Rohan who owns the Wine Cellar. (p.s, if you are vegan and so normally don't drink wine, you should ask Rohan about vegan wines, because he has some, and he understands that vegans like to drink too..) In the evening that same day, the play "Saints and Singing" by Gertrude Stein will be performed at the Wine Cellar. This is directed by Ben Cragg and stars Eve Gordon and Brian Moore. The play is actually on from now until Saturday 4th. It starts at 8.30pm tonight and tomorrow (2nd & 3rd), and 7.30pm on th 4th. It costs $5/$10. I highly recommend you go and see it, not only because it is so well done, but also because you may never again get to see Gertrude Stein performed in Auckland. Here is a link to some info about her www.glbtq.com/literature/stein_g.html. Also exciting is that the Dresden Dolls are coming...Girl Anachronism I think is the best song of 2004. There are no words that I can think of to describe how amazing this band is. All I can say is that they embody everything that is good. They'll be here on December 13th and playing at the King's Arms. The next Stitch and Bitch will probably be on a Tuesday evening rather than a Saturday afternoon, but not quite sure what date yet. The Cherry Bomb book club we be meeting again on Tuesday 7th December @ 7pm. And two Penny Dreadfuls are in the works: one will be an intro to women-made reggae, and the other will be Riot Grrrl 101...the dates for these are still coming. ok, I think that's all for now. Thursday 18th November 2004 Cherry Bomb Comics now holds monthly book club meetings. The next one will be held on Tuesday 23rd November @ 7pm. I will be updating the events page soon with details as to what this is all about, but feel free to come along to the next meeting and check it out! Sunday 14th November 2004 Cherry Bomb has received a new shipment of comics. These included Donna Barr's Desert Peach , 3 comics by Foo Swee Chin who illustrated Nightmares and Fairytales , and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi. Wednesday 10th November 2004 Have you heard? LE TIGRE ARE COMING TO NEW ZEALAND!!!! Oh yes!! That marvellous band comprised of JD Samson, Johanna Fateman and someone else...hmm, who could that be, I'm just not sure... OH YEAH!! IT'S KATHLEEN HANNA, kids!!! They'll be here for the Big Day Out next year...playing alongside such illustrious bands as Slipknot...funny how The Donnas and Le Tigre are so far pretty much the only bands with women in them playing at the Big Day Out. Why, why do they make us pay so much to cover for bands like Slipknot so we can see Le Tigre??? Monday 8th November 2004 Cherry Bomb has hosted 4 successful music appreciation nights now. Our latest one was on Sunday. The album "appreciated" was by New Zealander Jordan Reyne...www.drkev.co.nz A reminder, there will be a Stitch and Bitch on this Saturday 13th November from 4pm on... We have just received some comics and magazines from a few laydees overseas. Mandy Ord is an Australian comic book artist/writer. Her comics Dirty Little Creep and Sensitive Creatures are now available at Cherry Bomb Comics. We have also received 2 of the comic/zine creations of Lucy Sweet from the UK. They are Unskinny and Chica ...both are very funny, and a combination of Bust magazine and Absolutely Fabulous, with a dash of Stiro...(sorry Lucy if that was a terrible comparison...it was meant to be a compliment!). We also have Whores of Mensa which is a collection of comics by Lucy Sweet, Mardou (from Stiro and Manhole fame) and Jeremy Dennis. Jeremy (a woman by the way) also sent us a whole bunch of her other comics too...so you guys should definitely come in and check them all out. Yay! Thursday 28th October 2004 You might have noticed we now have an Events page on this website...so you can find out when stuff is going on at Cherry Bomb. This is just a preliminary page, a better one will be coming soon, but for those of you who check back here regularly and keep clicking on that catalogue button, you've probably guessed I can be very slack!! Hopefully the new opening hours are suiting people a bit more...but I mean really, there can never be a wrong time to buy comics, right:) Our new shipment from the states that was promised a million years ago has been held up somewhere, so we don't really know when that's coming in, but we are still getting quite a few cool things from the UK and Australia. Some irratating things that I feel the need to list: 1. "Phantom" is this company that's suddenly put up poster boards all over buildings and walls and things where only people who pay them can stick up their posters, and if you stick your own up there, they are ripped down almost immediately...basically they are taking over what I see as the last bastion of alternative advertising, because coupled with that is the totally dumb new project where some "artist" comes along and paints pretty pictures on all those electrical boxes to deter independent posterers. Well it won't stop some of us...I saw an art magazine the other day which was all about postering in Auckland, except the photos that were in it were of corporate posters stuck up in these "Phantom" designated areas. Why do they think they can take street media over? It's not interesting or beautiful, it's just plain old capitalism! What about those of us who can't pay, or don't choose to pay? Who said they could own all this wall space and decide how our city should look?? 2. During "New Zealand Fashion Week" apparently using fur and animal skins is "in" again. Basically all those models and designers etc who were anti the use of fur and skin back in the day were just doing it for the image, and now some nameless fashion god has told them it's ok to start murdering animals again for the sake of their depraved little games. 3. This is actually a mix of good and bad things: you probably heard that the National Front was staging some sort of demonstration in Wellington in the weekend...well they got totally blown away, cos there were like 40 of them and 2000 against! It was so great that so many people turned out to support diversity in NZ and squash the right wing. But disturbing that the National Front exist in NZ at all. http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/22421/index.php

Wednesday 13th October 2004 Cherry Bomb Comics has new opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday 11am-4pm. Saturday 9th October 2004 Yay John Banks has finally gone! Let's hope that old Dick Hubbard can live up to the expectations of those who voted him in. It always sux that no matter what, you have to somewhat compromise your politics when you vote - look at the whole Bush/Kerry thing, where heaps of feminists realise that Kerry's not great, but he's soooo much better than Bush. It's kinda the same with voting for the mayor I guess. Anyway, just a reminder that Stitch and Bitch is on again on Saturday 15th October from 4-7pm. Also, there is no play reading this month, as the woman who organises them (who is the sister of one of the owners of Cherry Bomb) is in a play "Director's Cuts" which is on October 22nd @ the Drama Studio, Auckland Uni. This consists of 3 short plays, and is $15/$10...so go along and support! The monthly play readings will resume after that. By the way, if you haven't already, go along to the Misfit Theatre on Great North Rd (can't remember what number they are, but they are about a 10 min walk from the end of K-Rd, and on the right hand side). Anyway, they have a very cool zine library, as well as having patches, zines, comics, clothes, music and punk accessories for sale. It's finding places like these that actually make you think, ya know, it's actually quite fun to live in Auckland. Friday 1st October 2004 There is another Stitch and Bitch happening on Saturday 2nd October @ 4pm, so come along one and all! Last week we went to see da Hawnay Troof. Oh my god. Allison Wolfe. It was so weird to see her in the flesh. You know, it's like THE Allison Wolfe. It's like in that NZ zine Golden Opportunity I was reading last week, she says "I didn't know how to act or what to say, like when sleater-kinney came...what do you say to a genius?" I felt like that too. That song Cherry Bomb by Allison Wolfe's band Bratmobile (but orginally by THE Joan Jett) is obviously our anthem. She did shout-outs to Cherry Bomb Comics up on stage!! Ok yes I am gushing. But how often do we get actual cool people over to NZ? Never. In other news, Cherry Bomb Comics is now hosting Music appreciation nites...there are candles and wine and stuff, and last week we listened to Bjork's new album. So there is heaps of stuff happening, and it's a little hard to keep track, i know. So very soon (along with the catalogue which is still coming) I will be posting an events page up on this website so you and I can both keep track! What else...oh yeah, we will soon be having a sandwich board, which we're quite excited about. Plus we are getting copies of the feminist magazines Bitch and Bust to sell. This week some pink, hightop, vegan, 100% union made sneakers were delivered to my house. I bought the from http://nosweatapparel.com. They were cheaper than Chuck Taylors, but look very much the same. Unlike with NIKE Chucks you know that the people who made these shoes were actually paid decent wages under decent working conditions. Plus $5 from each pair of shoes goes to Code Pink, who are a feminist anti-war group. Yay! If you live in Auckland don't forget to vote out John Banks this week! Monday 20th September 2004 Cherry Bomb Comics now hosts monthly play readings! The first one (a reading of an Aphra Behn play) was held last Friday, and the next one will be on Friday 22nd October @ 5.30pm. Oh yeah, and there'll be a vegetarian pot luck dinner too! What more could you ask really. This is open to anyone... Sunday 12th September 2004 Whoops! I acutally meant that the next Stitch and Bitch is on on Saturday 18th September , not August. Tuesday 7th September 2004 We had our first Stitch and Bitch last Saturday! There were 8 of us all sitting around knitting legwarmers and embroidering cute cows and sewing on screen-printed patches... The next Stitch and Bitch will be on Saturday 18th August from 4-6pm, and anyone is welcome to join in. Thanks to Naomi who is organising it all, you are cool! By the way, you don't actually have to know about knitting and stuff to join in, as you can either learn while you are there, or just come and hang out. Very soon we will be putting our catalogue up so you can check out what sort of stuff we have in case you haven't had a chance to come in yet. We aren't doing online ordering yet, but I'm sure that will come at some point. We are still looking for local comics and zines made by women, and also accessories, clothes, music and art to have in the shop. We will sell these on for you by consignment, and depending on how much you wanna sell your item for, we will put on a minimal mark up (and I mean minimal - like $1 for zines and comics). So drop your samples in to us, or email us. The Cherry Bomb activist of the week is our friend Sara who made up flyers to give out at the opening of Westfield Style Pasifika, which is a fashion event showcasing designs by Pacific people. These flyers told people about the crappy treatment received by the designers and models involved in the show, while Westfield (of course) was made to look so pro-diversity and supportive of the Pacific designers. We hope that people who attended the event took note of Sara's flyers and will join us in condemning Westfield for exploiting Pacific people. Yay for Sara for standing up to the Corporation! For more infomation on this issue, pick up one of her flyers at Cherry Bomb Comics. Wednesday 1st September 2004 Cherry Bomb comics will be hosting a Stitch and Bitch afternoon starting this Saturday (4th Sept) at 4pm! So come along with your knitting/sewing etc...or if you don't know how to do either, just come along and find out how to! This is open to anyone, boys and girls alike (and there will be both), so come along and reclaim and subvert the lost arts! Stitch and Bitch will run every fortnight, but we will post updates on this website in case you forget or are not sure! Sunday 22nd August 2004 Our last box of comics from our order back in May has finally arrived! And yep, we've now got The Complete Hothead Paisan (the homicidal lesbian terrorist for those of you not in the know), plus heaps of others including Not For Rent which is full of interviews with political activists and squatters in the UK. Cherry Bomb Comics is available as a meeting space for feminist-type activities, so if you are interested in holding your meetings here, or maybe starting something up like a Stitch and Bitch or Feminist Action or something, just email us... Good luck to everyone going to the rally in WTG tomorrow to support the Civil Unions Bill and protest against the hate group otherwise known as the Destiny Church...The rally starts at 11.30am, Civic Square, Wellington. www.anarchism.org.nz/node/view/742 Saturday 7th August 2004 The first week of Cherry Bomb Comics is over, and it's been really cool. Not only have lots of people come to check out our wares, but also we have received some new art, badges and patches from local women. Don't forget about the Cherry Bomb reading library...you are more than welcome to hang out on our couches and read from the reading library bookcase. All reading library material at Cherry Bomb is marked with a red dot...you may even get a cup of tea thrown in! We have been assured this week that the last box of comics that we ordered back in May is on its way now, so we can look forward to receiving Scary Godmother, Hothead Paisan and The!Greatest!Of!Marlys! . By the way, to the cool girl who discovered Cherry Bomb Comics on the day she arrived in Auckland and didn't have a flat yet: you left your umbrella here... Saturday 31st July 2004 Thanx to everyone who came to the Cherry Bomb Comics opening party! It was very fun, and the shop also scored some more stuff for the library, plus art, patches, purses, zines and all sorts of stuff! We are now properly open, and you can find our opening hours on the "contact" page. We even have EFTPOS! How fancy is that! By the way, I have to apologise for the fact that for the most part this website hasn't really worked all that well, I am working on fixing up the images and stuff...but for now, at least you can read the important bits eh! Cool, see you soon at Cherry Bomb! Sunday 18th July 2004 You are invited to the opening of Cherry Bomb Comics, Thursday 29th July, 6-9pm at 41 New North Road, Eden Terrace, Auckland! We will not be selling comics at the party, as we will be too busy dancing around with glee, but we will be properly open for BUSINESS the very next day! Do come and peruse our fine collection of the feminist, the alternative and the down-right strange... Thursday 1st July 2004 I know, I know!! We're still not open! Believe me it annoys us as much as it annoys you! We are slowly receiving our stock in bits and pieces, and we expect the last of it to arrive this week, which means with any luck we'll be open in 2 weeks...but then, that's only if our stock does get here this week. We got some American comics last week...Dame Darcy's Meatcake (my all-time favourite by the way), Dykes to Watch out For, Gloom Cookie, Lenore and more... Also last week we had a Tea and Paint party at Cherry Bomb and some cool girls came over and did paintings on our walls, which you will be able to see when we finally open! Thank you to Emma, Zoe, Alice, Zoe, Justine, Sharon, Gina, Shona and Claire for all your cool paintings!! Hopefully the next news flash will be that we're open... Saturday 19th June blah blah Last week we received our UK shipment of comics and small press! These were handpicked for Cherry Bomb by Debra Boyask who is a comic book writer/artist from Aotearoa living in the UK. Thanx Debra! So far my favourite comic is "Stiro" by Fortenski and Mardou...check out their link, I just added it. "Stiro" is really funny, and I like the whole boy/girl duo thing of "Fortenski and Mardou". We're gonna be posting up reviews of some of our favourite comics and zines soon, and we'll be having special guest star reviewers too, so you can get an idea as to the kinds of comics and zines Cherry Bomb will stock... Have you been to the Gay League website yet? I guess you could say the Gay League is a bit like the Justice League (but only if the Justice League was actually a fan site for gay comic readers and creators, instead of being a lame comic about braindead superheroes, which is closer to the truth). When you check out the Gay League website, look up Bevis Musson, the creater of "Queen of Diamonds"...we've got "Queen of Diamonds" 1-4 thanx to Debra, and it is a BRILLIANT comic about...wait for it....a superhero...but nothing like Justice League, I promise!! Monday 7th June 2004 Hello! Thanx for visiting the Cherry Bomb Comics website! It's not much at the moment but we're getting there (this is my first website, so be nice to me;) Anyway, if you've walked past our shop lately you would have noticed that we aren't open yet, even tho we said we would be by June...oops! Sorry bout that...right now a lot of our stock is on a slow boat to Aotearoa, so hopefully it will get here soon! Meanwhile keep sending us your comix/zines/art/clothing and STUFF. We are going to be selling most NZ stuff on commission, just cos that's easiest right now, and we are very excited about the stuff we have been receiving so far! You've probably already guessed by now that we aren't interested in stocking anything that's sexist, homophobic, racist or generally dumb. We are pretty specific about the things we will stock because we are sick of the malestream world of comics...it's so boring!! Our favourite things are comics that have kool female characters and which push the boundaries and have something interesting to say! Pretty soon we'll be adding stuff to this website which will give a bit of an insight into what Cherry Bomb Comics is all about, but till then have fun looking at the links we've put up! In the immortal words of Sleater Kinney...we're here to join the conversation, and we're here to raise the stakes!