Tag Archive | "Alternative Press Fair"

Upcoming: Alternative Press Fair (28th November)

Sunday, November 21, 2010

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(Flyer by Lord Hurk) Another weekend, another comic event for your perusal; the Alternative Press Fair happens again this coming Sunday 28th November at St Aloysius Social Club London NW1 1TA. A small event but full of comix, small press works, zines, self published works and all things towards the crafty end of the comics [...]

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Alternative Press DIY Workshop – 19th April

Monday, April 5, 2010

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Coming up on Saturday 17th April- the Alternative Press DIY Zine Workshop. This from Gareth Brookes of Alternative Press: “The idea is to engage surburban communities in the arts.  Anyone interested can contact Amneet at the email address (on the flyer). Small Press creators can come along and sell work at our mini-fair communal table. [...]

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The Alternative Press Fair in pictures

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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Richy Chandler’s Tempo Lush blog has pictures from the weekend’s Alternative Press Fair, which looks like it was a great gig with a decent turnout: (pic borrowed from and (c) Richy Chandler; you can also read an interiew by Ellen Lindner with Alternative Press’ Peter Lally and Jimi Gherkin on her blog)

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Multiple Comic event Valentines weekender…..

Friday, February 12, 2010

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First up it’s the Alternative Press Fair on Saturday 13th Feb: “A day of zines, comix, poetry, radical literature, printmaking and anything else self-published! Then from 6pm there will be a birthday party to celebrate our 1st year – with music, spoken work, DJ’s and open mic. So come along and be a part of [...]

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Publish You – Alternative Press

Friday, February 5, 2010

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Publish You Selected and compiled by Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally, Gareth Brookes and Saban Kazim Alternative Press With the upcoming 1st anniversary of the Alternative Press Fair just around the corner I thought it was about time to take a little look at the Publish You collection that Alternative Press put out in 2009. Publish [...]

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Alternative Press – more of those blue biros…

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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Like we mentioned last week, the first anniversary of the Alternative Press Fair is coming up on February 13th and Gareth Brookes has been collecting sketches to both flyer the event and to make a poster which will be screen printed live at the event. Here are the latest: (Daniel Locke) (Hugh Raine) (Richard Cowdry) [...]

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Alternative Press Fair – The blue biro free for all!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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The first anniversary of the Alternative Press Fair is coming up in February and Gareth Brookes writes to let us know about a cool little idea they’ve come up with to get more participation. They want artists to sketch out an idea for a flyer for the event and then these images will all be [...]

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Alternative Press Fair – Happy Birthday!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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News from Gareth Brookes of the Alternative Press Fair; First there’s the Alternative Press Hour, a  new monthly radio show on Resonance FM which started yesterday -Friday 15th January 8pm (Gareth also updated us to say he’d been telling everyone it was at 9pm and he’s very sorry!). It will be archived with links from [...]

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Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Over recent and upcoming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s [...]

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