Cherry Bomb Comics

Cherry Bomb Comics will be distro-ing our usual stripped back, Australasian/Pacific only, UK specific zine collection at the Brighton Zine Fest this weekend.  The Zine Fest itself is on Saturday 20th from 1.30pm-5.30pm, at the Hanover Community  Centre, but there are plenty of things going on all weekend to keep you entertained.  Check out www.brightonzinefest.co.uk for more information.

We've got tons of new zines to showcase this weekend, including "Bip Bip" by GCR (NZ), a personal, self published comic about dealing with depression & daily life, the new Dylan Horrocks comic "Pikelet", and "Work Funnies" by Contance (not strictly speaking from NZ...) which is a self published comic documenting the trials and tribulations of being an auto-mechanic & a stripper.

A new Cherry Bomb UK/Europe-specific orders page will be included on this website in the future, so keep an eye out.

See you by the sea!   

  Cherrybomb will be having stalls at these two fabulous upcoming events!

Wellington Zinefest will be held at Mighty Mighty this year, on Sat 21 Nov from 12-5pm. There will be stallholders from far and wide across NZ converging on Wellington with heaps of great new zines to peruse. Word on the street says there will be an after-party too. For more info wellingtonzinefest.blogspot.com

Ladyfest Wellington is upcoming too, set for the weekend 4-6 Dec. International acts Kevin Blechdom and
Barrnwave have confirmed to play at the evening shows plus a bunch of other outstanding,
upstanding and amazin' bands from around the country.  There will also be an exhibition opening on the 3rd at DAF106 Gallery and a Zine and Craft Fair at The Cross from 1 til 5pm on the Saturday, as well as the first NZ Intercity Roller Derby at The TSB Arena early that evening! For more info www.myspace.com/ladyfest_wellington

Sister Spit is coming to London!  Led by the amazing Michelle Tea, (author of "Valencia" - a crazy, high energy novel about queer punk girls in San Francisco  & the graphic novel "Rent Girl" among others), Sister Spit : the Next Generation is a group of queers and grrrls from the US who perform spoken word and cause general literary mayhem! 
 
Featured in the current line up are: Cristy Road (zinester & illustrator extraordinaire, author of Indestructible and Bad Habits), Rhiannon Argo (author of the queer tour-de-force, Creamsickle),  Kat Marie Yoas (working class performer), and the UKs own Em Ledger, who runs riot grrrl collective Lola and the Cartwheels. 
 
Expect an in-yr-face, queer/feminist/punk rock book-based adventure! 
 
Followed by DJ Rockit & more!  Also, zine distros - Marching Stars, 56a, Ricochet!Ricochet! & food!
 
Saturday 5th September, rampART social centre, 15-17 Rampart Street E1 2LA
8pm, entry by donation
 
For more info, check out:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105518268373&ref=share

This Saturday 15 August, Cross
Street Studios will host Auckland Zinefest. 

Zinefest will feature
talks, workshops and documentary screenings, along with a range of stalls
and attractions. Cherry Bomb will be having a stall so come and check it out! It will be the first Auckland zinefest since Small Print in 2005 so there should be heaps of great new local zines on offer plus some guests up from Wellington and also some international zine-stars. Workshop Timetable as follows:

12:00 intro with our lovely mc, miss bridget walsh

12:15 talk with bryce galloway
- his experiences making 'incredibly hot sex with hideous people' over the years

1:00 workshop with dane taylor
- creating new publications from existing publications (cut and paste)

1:45 talk with liam bowen
- sequential art theory

2:30 film screening: '$100 and a t shirt'
- a new edit of the documentary about zines in the mid-north west of america by microcosm publishing

3:30 workshop with kylie buck
- binding workshops

4:15 talk from alex mitcalfe
- zines as freedom of expression

5:00 zine of the year award is presented by mikel krumins

They've also organized a cool after party, koha entry also at Cross St Studios, 27 Cross St, just off K'rd, starting at 10pm with bands:

smoking hot bitch fight
fanucman (wgtn)
little big hitters
bridget walsh
the hairdoos
hissyfit

for more info contact:

Tessa Stubbing  at  Cross Street Studios  027 362 8845

56a Infoshop in Elephant & Castle, London, has an amazingly vast collection of zines, going back to the 80s.  For the better part of a year, I've been working on re-organising them with some friends, putting them into new and easier to use categories, and just generally making the space nice.  To relaunch the library we are holding a weekend long event!

Saturday 25th July @ The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road SW9 - GIG! w/ Jean Genet, Husbands & Candy Panic Attack, also zine distros from Cherry Bomb Comics, Improper Fraction, Ricochet! Ricochet!, 56a and more.  7.30pm  £4

Sunday 26th July @ 56a Infoshop, Crampton Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17  - Vegan pancake breakfast from 12pm, followed by workshops/discussions - Practical Squatting (resources 56a offers), Radical Self-Published Comix (feat. Isy Morgenmuffel, Melissa Cherry Bomb, Edd Last Hours, Melanie Colouring Outside the Lines), Bike Maintenance, Zine Librarian networking and more. Free!

There are still lots of zines to sort & categorise so feel free to come along and get involved with some DIY librarian-ism, or just come and browse! www.56a.org.uk

Cherry Bomb Comics is currently on a summer holiday as both of us are in Europe!  Tui will be back in New Zealand in late July, so we won't be filling any orders until after that.  Please feel free to still email us with your orders, but just remember they won't be sent out to you til later.

Auckland Zine Fest 09 is currently taking submissions for stalls and workshops, check out their blog http://akzinefest.blogspot.com/ for more information!

Ok, our next stall is gonna be at this gig on thursday! Fresh in Aotearoa for the first time are the fabulous filmmaker Katrina del Mar and her fabulous rockstar girlfriend Sarah Greenwood. It really says it all on the poster, come early if you wanna buy any comix, like 7pm, fiilms start at 8. At the Wine Cellar of course, where would we be without you?

This year's anarcha-feminist weekend will be held in Swanson at Karanga Camp, from the evening of Friday 10th of April to  midday Monday 13th of April. This
hui
will be a mixture of discussions and workshops related to
anarcha-feminism. Workshops include menstrual extraction; street medic;
state repression; stencilling; pregnancy; massage; strategising; and
bike maintenace and discussion forums on queer activism; climate camp
Aotearoa; patriarchy and power and challenging
oppressive behaviour among ourselves; plus other open discussions.
Saturday night there will be a party with some hot music
to dance to from DJs Jen and Luca, and a film screening on Sunday
night. Registration is on Saturaday morning from 10am and the cost of
the conference is $40/$30 for the weekend. There will be a conference
reader and vegan food and childcare available. For more details email
feministmafia@gmail.com

In January, Melissa from Cherry  Bomb Comics was part of a panel of speakers at the London Zine Fest @ the Women's Library. The panel, which was about Women's Media Collectives, included women from Outwrite, See Red & RAG and was hosted by Debi Withers.  A link to the discussion can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/ZineFest09.

Also! on Thursday 19th March, Londoners can have another opportunity to check out some New Zealand zines at the  Cherry Bomb Comics stall which will be running during the Feminist Cafe, which is to be held at RampART, on Rampart St (off Commercial Road), from 7pm-11pm and will include feminist films, vegan food, cakes and drinks (£5 entry incl food).  This is being organised by FemAdLib Kolektiv, which is  a group intent on creating space for explicitly political feminist art, acting as a challenge to sexist, heteronormative art/artists/collectors and curators.  You can find out more about this group on their blog here: http://femadlibkolektiv.blogspot.com.

And finally, http://dandizette.net/ is an online gazette about deviant media and all its forms.  Recently Dandizette included comments from Melissa in an article about zines. 

Oh wait, definitely finally: check out http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net, a new website put together by Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl (from the Grrrlzine network), with the intention of providing "a transnational community platform ad living history archive".  There's tons of stuff on here, including interviews with New Zealand woman Rayna who makes Hoopla craft zine, and Ladyfest organisers from around the world.

On Saturday Feb 14th Cherry Bomb Comics will be running a stall from 2-7pm at the Cross St Carnival www.crossstreetcarnival.com (just off k'rd, auckland city) so come along and touch our actual zines and graphic novels in the real!

We are also running an undercover zine-making booth for International Literature Conspiracy Week - check out www.stickyinstitute.com for more details of events hosted by the Federation of Independent Thinking slated for this worldwide festival of indie book and zine shops...

The booth is going to be a site for making a collaborative
conspiratorial zine (open to any member of the public who is game to
enter!) and will be kitted out with gloves, tweezers, magnifying glass,
scissors and paste, and lots of found printed material (text & images) to piece together a purely anonymous zine
in the style of a kidnapper's note or a postmodern fridge-poem.