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THE BLOG AT THE CROSSROADS
London’s first International Alternative Press Festival
Posted: May 24, 2011
Spring has sprung! Those enterprising zinesters Peter Lally and Jimi Gherkin and a host of helpers over at Alternative Press have organised the first International Alternative Press Festival, an exciting London celebration of self-publishing empowerment and the biggest ever alternative comics event in the UK. Why not come along to their opening party this Friday night May 27th at The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London Bridge, London, SE1, then a whole weekend of wonders, from a huge fair to panels, workshops, talks and more at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, near Holborn tube, admission just £2. This includes a special IAPF discussion which I am hosting on Saturday May 28th, 1.30pm, entitled ‘From Angoulême With Love!: International Alternative Comics’. In a passionate conversation, French publisher of Editions PLG, writer, curator and expert Philippe Morin discusses with me the growth over the last thirty years of fanzines, small press and independent labels around the world and notably as a vital part of France’s International Comics Festival. How have alternative comics evolved and where are they heading next?
On Saturday night, Orbital Comics Gallery one block from Leicester Square tube open the UK’s first ever exhibition of Slovenian comics, spotlighting the stirling anthology Stripburger and there’s an afterparty at The Crown Pub, 51 New Oxford Street, WC1, venue for The Comix Reader‘s monthly meet-ups (and whose issue 2 is due out!). Founded in 1992 in Ljudmila, Stripburger is a constantly innovative magazine which won the Angoulême Alternative BD prize and for nineteen years has been a unifying force in European and global comics, expanding the possibilities of the medium. Artist Gasper Rus will be over for IAPF and he’ll be at Orbital chatting with me and some UK contributors to Stripburger, including Nobrow artiste extraordinaire Jon McNaught, about ‘The Slovene Scene’, free on Monday June 6th, from 7-9pm. There’s a kaboodle of other Stripburger talks at Orbital and events elsewhere, all mistress-minded by Ellen Lindner and running through till June 11th. Get along to as much as you can!
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