Cherry Bomb Comics

Cherry Bomb is currently on hiatus and the books are all boxed up in
storage, but if there is anything you are particularly after or want to
know, please email us and we'll do our best!

Some of Cherry Bomb's library is available at the Rainbow Youth
drop-in centre at 281 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland, so feel free
to check that out. rainbowyouth.org.nz

Some of our stock found a new home at Black Heart Infoshop just down
the road at 543 Karangahape Road. They have radical and anarchist books
and zines and are also an op shop.

Also worth visiting is Alphabet City which is an art/print space
located at 71 Mt Eden Rd, Eden Tce, Auckland (just round the corner
from Cherry Bomb's old shop). They have an extensive zine library for
your perusal. alphabetcity.org.nz

Zine Fest 2011 will be taking place next Saturday 25th June at the Women's Library, 25 Old Castle Street, London (at the London Met).  Zine Fest specifically aims to highlight feminist, queer & women's independent media projects.  There will be workshops running all day, and exhibitions too.  And it's free!  Check out more details here: http://feministmemory.wordpress.com/zinefest-2011/.   Cherry Bomb will be having a table, so if you're in London, come say hi!

Philosoflygirl, the new collection of writings, drawings & musings by Coco Solid/Jess Hansell will soon be available from Cherry Bomb Comics. Keep an eye on our shop for details. You can also buy them from her online store, along with other Coco Solid merchandise you can't do without...

Things coming up this month in Auckland:

The St Paul's St Gallery is having a Print Season, from February 25th - 30 April. Check out the Print Fair in Gallery Three on 26th - 27th March. The fair will be bringing together a variety of presses, publishing umbrella groups, galleries & print organisers, selling their wares, which will also include audio stuff as well as more traditional print material. Cherry Bomb Comics will most probably be having a stall too, so come say hi.

On 12th March, the Audio Foundation will be hosting a Listening Lounge at Alleluya Cafe on Krd, as part of White Night, presented by the Auckland Art Festival. As well as a variety of DJs for you to enjoy, there will also be music for sale, and a range of zines & comics to peruse thanks to people involved with the (both now departed)High Seas, and Space Thing.

In London, the date of the London Zine Symposium was announced last year as 17th April 2011.  Applications for stalls have now closed, so we can only wait in anticipation to see what this year brings...

UK-based zine Race Revolt will launching its 5th issue on  Thursday 27th January, 2011 at the Stuart Hall Library, London EC2A 3B.  Featuring a piece written by Hannah Ho Wai Ling, who is one of the creators of NZ zine Mellow Yellow, Race Revolt #5 continues the good work, bringing together diverse voices discussing issues of race, ethnicity and identity within DIY, queer & activist communities.

Melissa from Cherry Bomb Comics will be speaking as part of a panel discussion at the launch. The latest issue of Race Revolt will be available on the Cherry Bomb online shop very soon.

Happening on the same day, but in Auckland this time, is the launch of Coco Solid/Jessica Hansell's new book, Philosoflygirl.  This is her first formal collection of "collages, epiphanies, illustrations, obsessions, recipes, outfits and
brain-waves".  The launch is taking place at the Fresh Gallery Otara, in the Otara shopping centre.  Following this, on Saturday 29th Jan, she'll be co-running a zine workshop with Riki Anderson, which will look at the history of zine culture, and introduce the basics of making your own zine.

Wednesday 17 November, 2010. 5.30-7.30pm

Alleluya Cafe, St Kevin's Arcade, K Rd, Auckland

The long-awaited book version of the original zine, Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils is at last in print! Brought to you by PM Press of New
York and written, drawn & edited by Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective hailing from Aotearoa with their roots in Cherry Bomb Comics, Auckland.

The fabulous Newtown will be playing in the arcade and there will be book signing, wine, vittals and lively feminist conversation. All welcome!

For more info on the book click on the thumbnail on the new in stock or check out http://www.pmpress.org/

Cherrybomb is now distributing PM publications in New Zealand, feel free to peruse their online catalogue and place your order with us!

"Read You What I Wrote" is a zine reading event at the London Zine Symposium 2010, hosted by Melissa from Cherry Bomb Comics.

This event will showcase a diverse range of UK zinesters, including:

CHARLOTTE COOPER: author, zinester, fat activist & blogger on Obesity Timebomb http://www.obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com/ and Kink http://www.kinkzine.blogspot.com/

PATRICK STAFF: artist, musician and zinester who also runs London-based, queer distro "Ricochet! Ricochet!" along with Colette Rosa http://www.ricochet-ricochet.co.uk/

JOSIE LONG: world touring comedian and writer, and creator of "Drawing Moustaches in Magazines Monthly Magazine"

ISY: creator of "Morgenmuffel" comic/zine (recently published as an anthology by Last Hours) http://www.morgenmuffel.co.uk/, co-author of vegan cookbook "Another Dinner Is Possible", and cook with the Anarchist Teapot, who will be feeding the London Zine Symposium again this year!

Starts at 3.00pm!

See the LZS website http://www.londonzinesymposium.org.uk/ for details of other workshops and stalls featured on the day. It's gonna be ace. 

CHERRY BOMB WILL ALSO BE RUNNING AT STALL AT THE LZS, SO LOOK OUT FOR US!

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