During the weekend several of us attended the Leeds Zine fair. I found the stark contrast compared to larger events was quite palpable. While at Thoughtbubble the majority of work was regurgitated popular culture references, the zine fair had a strong contingent of politically motivated practitioners. I was most surprised to see genuine subculture representation from active vegans, punks and mild anarchists. I most enjoyed a short publication called 'Fuck Steampunk' as it re-affirmed my disillusionment with such subcultures (the fixation with commodity festishism in place of actual ideals).
We also contributed to a collaborative zine created using a risograph machine, which was a fantastic piece of kit, meaning that any attendee could have their designs next to practitioners such as Kristyna Baczynski.
My contribution was a single zombified skull because I had the unfortunate luck of only having a single battered brush pen with me.
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