Second year in a row! This was a rocking event last year, met some really cool people and got some really radical zines. This is one of the - very - few events I'll be doing solo, but I'll be there in full Displaced-Snail-Publications force. I'm going to try and hit the fest running and having issues of just about everything. Should be exciting.
DSP's getting all punked up for this event. I'll be selling a lot - a LOT - of important things from my past, including old band t-shirts, records from my collection, zines, old CDs from my collection, weird old trading cards, and who knows what else. I might even part with some of my beloved instruments! Every purchase over $5 gets a free zine!
Huge arts fest! Get ready for an onslaught of everything I've got: Collector's Mentality Card Game, vinyl records, zines, chapbooks, litmags, I might even bust out the sewing machine and make a bag or two to sell, it's been awhile. This is a huge and lively event with great food and great entertainment, make sure to come out to it. Just bring an extra few bucks to buy things from me so I can pay my tabling fee!
Finally, back to another zine fest! These past two years I've been working on weekends and have rarely been able to sell, though I have been creating and creative! Expect a slew of brand new things: vinyl releases from East Dark Hollow Road Records, small educational zines about Latin Roots called Tiny Robot, and some old standbys and newish releases, such as the reprint of Ghosts I Have Seen, the David Bazan Record zine, The Devil and Joseph Carlough, Trapped Rabbit 1&2, and whatever else I can make up! See you there!
Cool! I love going to the PA Ren Faire each year, but I've never tabled at one before! I'll have a specifically nerdy array of items just in time for Rutgers' Geek Week, including a Dr. Who Anthology, a brand new card game about collections, and zines about learning Latin roots. Should be a lot of fun. Come in costume!
I put out a record! Welcome to my 5" lathe cut, Worry About Your Future, featuring one song on each side, written, performed, recorded by me, and mastered//engineered by my good friend Andrew Soto. The Kickstarter is to fund the record, and, ultimately, raise enough money to put out a larger release, thus putting into motion the record label I've always dreamed of, East Dark Hollow Road Records.
I've been having an exciting year in publishing. I'll have a few new additions to the table, including a fancy pants designer version of Johnathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, a new zine about record collecting, and a few old standbys. I cannot wait for the Philly Fest. I haven't done one in two years - it feels like hometown to me now!
Yes! I haven't done a zine fest in almost a full year. Hot damn. Anyhow, this should be a really fun one, I saw some other zinesters and comiceers I know who will tabling, so Katie and I are filling up our bags and popping up to the lovely, cool lands of the northeast PA. I'll have Trapped Rabbit 2, the newer, sleeker Short Story Every Day book, What Not To Do (Advice Poetry), some Today Terrifics, a new book of poetry I've printed for a friend of mine (Andrew Chmielowiec), and tons of other things. I'm really looking forward to this event!
This new and delightful bookstore has asked me to give a workshop on bookbinding! It could possibly be a few classes long, but for now, it is just this one. We'll be focusing on tools of the trade, and I'll be teaching how to make a few different types of zines and chapbooks, along with a few simple sewing strategies. It ought to be a lot of fun!
My old professor and fantastic gent Bill Wolff invited me back to Rowan to teach his Writing, Research, and Technology class about bookbinding and self-publishing. The first day, the 18th, will be mostly a lecture about self-publishing, the business of selling your own wares, and Displaced Snail Publications. The second day, the 25th, will be a bookbinding workshop to teach the class about physical literature, and to help them along in developing their final, established, publishable works.
This lovely event run in the town next door features artists, authors, performers, musicians, and anyone creative for four hours a night, each Friday in June. It's a fantastic time, and this year I'm writing poetry on the spot for a buck. Come check it out, lots of new good items, like Short Story Every Day 40 story books, and new It Lies in States book covers. It's just a fun time.
Expect. Everything. issues of Modicum. Dark Nature. It Lies in States. Come!
For whatever reason, they wanted me back to talk about myself, and read some work, alongside some of Rowan's other graduated finest. Come! Come! Listen to me spin yarns. I'll be reading from recent issues of Modicum, I may read Dark Nature in its entirety, and I'll do a few poems from It Lies in States as well. Come!
YEEESSSSS!!!! This is my favorite zine fest I've been to so far, so I'm super excited to be going back. This should be an exciting year, there are always good people and good crowds in Philly, and I've got some great new zines to display. This year I'll be bringing: Animal Poems and Animal Colors, Wrenfield's Abominations, Alvessi's Orphans (A new ghost story!), Short Story Every Day, and a new collaborative project between myself and Katie Haegele! Woot! Be excited!
This should be an amazing event! A lot of fantastic South Jersey musicians/poets/performers! There will be a flea market, music all day, and admission just costs some school supplies for needy kids in Camden! If you come to one of my events this year, come to this one. Pretty please?
This should be a nifty little sell! It's been quite awhile since the NJ zine fest, the last I attended, so this will be fun to get to. It's in NYC, so let's face it, we should all go. Isn't NYC fun?
This lovely event run in the town next door features artists, authors, performers, musicians, and anyone creative for four hours a night, each Friday in June. It's a fantastic time, I'm on the planning committee, and we're currently looking for more musicians and artists to be a part of this. More details to come as I get'em.
Featuring the finest in crafts and print by the upper middle central East coast tristate area artists, writers, and crafters, this event, taking place on the roof of a Whole Foods in Philly, should just be absolutely lovely! Pray for warm sunshine and warm attitudes, and come out and see an array of just beauty. Just. Beauty.
Should be a wildly fun show! I'm performing, singing, reading, poeting, and talking, amidst the wonderful likes of The Squeegees, It Ends with G, Boy with Robot, Brian Gille, and Safe Travels! It should be a raucous night of fun music and fun people. It's also painfully free, so come and get it.
The second installment of my proverbial stomping grounds. NJ Zine Fest 2010 will see the newest issue of TT with Marguerite Dabaie, and maybe even an issue done by the illustrious wanderer Thomas Partyka. Regardless, you'll see everything I've done so far, in a beautiful display, along with a few copies of Candy or Medicine Issue 9 and Hello World Issue 1. Representing some fantastic people!
This two day venture will see everything I have accomplished so far, on sale in one convenient, and, from what I hear, beautiful gallery.
I'm tabling here, selling some light crafts, Today Terrific Box and Pouch sets, and coloring books, Animal Poems and Animal Colors. You can see most of the stuff available at My Etsy
Great friend and ex-roommate of mine Tom Partyka played out often, and sometimes we mix, I opening for him, he opening for me, sometimes we'd intermix, poem, song, story, song, collaboration...we had a lot of fun. This was his farewell tour, retiring some old songs, and marking the last time either of us have played at Progressive Coffee House. Rumor has it there's a CD floating around with recordings from this event, but how to find them? Hmm?
My first zine fest, I tabled with good friend and talented comic artist Mike Jasorka. We sold a zine he pioneered, HelloWorld, which I had contributed to. This was also the first time that people who weren't just friends at my university had a chance to get their hands on Today Terrific, and I haven't looked back yet. Fantastic event, can't wait to be there again.
What a day this was! I participated in the Avant Magazine Open Mic, was asked to read during the Creative Writing Invitational Reading, and then read various poems and ended the entire event with a sea shanty during the ArtBash! Interdisciplinary Arts Festival. This marked one of my favorite days of readings, being able to participate and ham it up for literally hours a day.
This was a fantastic reading in a cozy coffeehouse to about 25 people. It was lovely and intimate and the good people at Progressive Coffee House have invited me back many times since. If you're in the area, stop by this place, it's great. Oh, and the link is from an article Rowan University student and dear friend Justin Davis wrote about the experience. It includes a great slideshow of snapshots from the event.
My first major reading alone, I set this up at the local library. I got about 20 guests, varied from family members, old friends, and new faces. I read I Need a Bike and a large selection of poetry, and this marked the first time I was featured in a newspaper.
This issue hits harder and a little close to home, and focuses on a brutal murder of a man who lived just a few houses down from me. It has completely changed the way I think about home, the way I think about security, safety, the protectiveness of my parents and the suburbs, and mortality in general. It was terrifying. I really, really recommend you get this book.
Have you heard this guy's music? It's absolutely brutal, and beautiful, and funny and severe and just - hot damn! This stuff's good. This book is a review of all of vinyl records, the process of collecting them, and the how I love their sound, told through a series of personal essays chronicling my life at the time. It's music, it's personal, it's heavy-handed on the design. This is one of my best zines to date, if I may.
A collection of short stories, 40 written in 40 days, between 7/25/10 and 9/2/10. Formatted to fit in a 100+ page book, made to have an extremely handmade feeling, Short Story Every Day is just what you need if you have a short attention span, but love to read. These short stories run approximately 800 words each, and so each should take just a few minutes to read, a great book to keep on the night table.
This is the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, told in a darker fashion. I wrote it for a fairytale anthology, and it was accepted, but as seems to be the path with print-on-demand-anthology-promoters, the project was quickly squashed due to a lack of funding. Luckily, I can print and bind all by myself. Spooky story, so glad to have it out there, and in color.
A tiny little book of poorly constructed advice, served as 5-20 word epigrams. What more could you ask for? Things Not To Do is a collection of poems I wrote all in one night - rather, I wrote about 150 of them that night, and picked the best and the worst to include in this tiny book. It's one of my best.
The Devil and Joseph Carlough is a story I wrote in one sitting to celebrate a gift from me to me, a beautiful new inkjet printer. The story is black and white, with certain words playfully in color - the Devil in red, fire in orange, satyr in green, and so on, and so forth. It was a ton of fun to put together, and I am incredibly excited to begin my printing adventures in color!
Katie and I embarked on the 24 hour zine challenge in 2012. We didn't think we'd do anything for it, then came up with our own ideas, then scrapped those and did these four recipes together, based very loosely on a recipe my dad told me about that morning. We did no research, burned ourselves badly on habanero peppers, and ate like royalty that evening. The zines are cute and the recipes are great!
This book of poetry is about 70 pages, 50 poems (one for each state!), and around 30 illustrations by the fantastic Alyssa San Valentin. This is possibly the greatest looking project I have complete up to date. Each cover is an old placemat, some are old quilts, scarves, any heavy fabric I can find, and stamped and such. They're bound with nuts and bolts.
Retired from Printing! Available on special request.
What's the Weather Like? is a cute little zine comic series I just finished, containing tiny 8 page comics on Rain, Sunshine, Windy, and Snow. They're little tales of ghosts, and gods, and tattoos and trees. They're expertly drawn, I studied art and hand-drawing for over 16 years now (which is a complete lie). They still look pretty cute, though!
My family has been going to Cape May, NJ at least once a year for the past 30 or so years. It's my mother's favorite place to be, it's the most beautiful place in the wintertime, and shoot, the most beautiful in the summer, too. The beaches are old, and the dunegrasses whisper from the ghosts who still strut the promenade. If you haven't been, I strongly suggest making the trip.
APAC consists of neat looking animals and delightfully fun children's poetry, it's 20 pages of pure waiting-to-be-colored fun! It features my own writings, a few scenes by me, some partying animals by Joanna Drzaszcz, and a few pages of a comic by children's book illustrator Kerry Dennehy.
Retired from Printing! Available on special request.
Trapped Rabbit is an essay about moving back home after college, and how depressing it is to be in the suburbs, after knowing the lovely efficiency of city life and the inclusive warmth of a college campus. Well, no - it's more about one night, and how things have changed. Hum.
Have you ever wondered why the woods go so silent, just how, in an ecosystem filled with species of flora and fauna? There can still be nothing but a tepid, silent dearth. This is an attempt to explain this phenomenon, an account of the woods as a sentient being, more than just a collection or ecosystem; but the tree, the earth, all one force.
Joseph Carlough is a real sweet gentleman, who enjoys to write, but is pretty sure he likes formatting and printing even more. He's been in the zine game for the past 5 years. He'll format your book for you, sometimes even for free. What he likes even more, though, are collaborations - oh ho, he'll rarely turn them down! He's won a few minor awards and had a few publications across the interweb and the real-live lifeweb, but who's interested in reading a long list of braggy achievements? Email him, he'll definitely email you back.
