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Also, the Zine Fest Compilation is now on sale at Domy!

A nice picture of the Zine Fest Houston Compilation cover (illustrated by Gabriel Dieter) appears in Robert Boyd’s review of Nighthawks at the Last Supper. Nighthawks at the Last Supper was a minature convention organized as a performance piece within the UH MFA Thesis Exhibition at DiverseWorks.

Closson, who created a graphic novel called Lorica for his thesis and serialized it in self published booklets, was an exhibitor at last year’s Zine Fest. Several Zine Fest veterans (including Jarrod Perez, Gabriel Dieter, shane patrick boyle, Edwin Johston Mark Nasso and Jason Poland) participated as exhibitors in Closson’s performance piece. Christopher Cascio, who did the centerfold for the Zine Fest compilation, was also in attendance.

Join us on Saturday, April 14th, from 11-5, at the Menil for this year’s Houston Indie Book Fest. We’ll be debuting our compilation and selling zines from Zine Fest Houston participants.

Gabriel Dieter is designing art for the 2012 Zine Fest Houston. Check out our new header that he designed. Our theme will be monsters and zines this year. Stay tuned for more updates about the fest & details about the compilation zine.

Zine Fest Houston 2012 is in the planning stages. We’ve decided the fall is a better time for outdoor afternoon activities; expect ZFH 2012 to be in October.

Meanwhile, we’ll have a table at the Houston Indie Book Fest on April 14th. If you’re interested in selling zines at our table, let us know through email or our facebook page. We are still planning on creating a Zine Fest Houston compilation/sampler, and are hoping to secure funding for printing costs.

Keep making your zines and keep being awesome.

Dedicated volunteer, Patricia B, watches the Zine Fest Houston table

We’ll be posting photos and things later. For now, read the rave reviews by Jason Poland (Robbie and Bobby), ArmzRace, and Buttersword.

Yay Zine Fest Houston!

Below is an interview with Jason Poland, one of the many exhibitors at the 2011 Zine Fest Houston.

What is your favorite part of ZineFest?

It’s a party! If comic festivals were like Ninja Turtles, ZineFest would be Michaelangelo. 

What are your favorite zines/minicomics?

My favorite self published books are all comics: Austin Bedell’s Skweegie Island, Zach Taylor’s Bear Quest, and Chris Sweet’s mini books are all very polished examples of independently printed books.

What will be at your table at this years ZineFest?

At my table you’ll find the Robbie and Bobby mini books, and some really cool hand screened t-shirts. I’ll have a special ZineFest discount on the shirts! I’m also sharing half my table with Film Monitor! It’s good to have a buddy at these things.

What other creative ventures do you have besides creating zines?

I post Robbie and Bobby comics five days a week online, and I’ve recently gotten into silk screening. I plan to print more shirts and some posters soon!

What new projects are you working on this year?

I’m working on a collaborative comic book  with Chris Sweet, and I’m drawing a three page comic for the next issue of NANO Fiction.  They’re bigger than anything I’ve worked on before! Very exciting and challenging stuff.

In case you haven’t heard, a California based preacher has predicted the rapture will occur at 6pm on Saturday, May 21 (just like in 1988). If he means California time, then it is 8pm our time. Either way, though, the rapture will, if this prediction is correct, occur during Zine Fest Houston. Is it just a coincidence or is Zine Fest Houston the reason for the end of the world? Either way, this is where the cool kids will be spending the end of the world, because Zine Fest is happening come hellfire or highwater, rain or rapture.

And if you do get raptured, being on the roof of Khon’s will put you closer to your destination. Just think how cool you will look when your body is taken up and all that is left behind is your shoes, pants and a Zine Fest Houston t-shirt.

However in the case of rain, hellfire or other severe weather, the festivities may be moved down below. No, not that far down below. We will move to a vacant space in the shopping center or on the sidewalk under the awning. But keep your fingers crossed (or pray) that it won’t rain, because being on the roof would be so much more fun, especially if the rapture does occur and we can watch people flying into the sky.

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel zine.