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

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.

“People don’t recognize that Houston is a very important cultural center, both mainstream and underground.”-shane patrick boyle

Check out this Houston Press article about the Houston Indie Book Fest. It features a few words with Zine Fest Houston founder shane patrick boyle.

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.

Check out our spotlight on the Houston Indie Book Fest website!  We’re looking forward to this awesome event. If you’d like to sell zines with us (or have us sell your zines for you), please email us  at our info address.

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.

Zine Fest Houston 2011 may have been the best Zine Fest Houston ever.  We had a great venue, a good turn out, stellar live music, and plenty of interesting zines.

The event started off with a zine reading by Kirk Loftin of CatBat.  The Grass Skirts played next, followed by  Organ Failure.

The discussion panel, featuring Lindsey Simard of Weak Highlights, Jason Poland of Robbie & Bobby, and Francisco Lo of Film Monitor, talked about DIY, promoting, the advantages and disadvantages of Houston, and pitfalls they’ve encountered.

Muzak John started off the second set of live performances:

Carlos Pozo played next.

Infant Mortality Rate & Rotten Piece followed. At the very end of the fest, Carlos Pozo, Infant Mortality Rate, and Rotten Piece played an impromptu battle set together. The battle set is available as a free download here.

Thank you to everyone who attended the fest and helped with the fest! Special thanks to Khon’s, Khon, Super Happy Funland, Copydotcom, all of the musicians, all of the volunteers, all of the panelists, all of the tablers, and our emcee.  We couldn’t have done it without you.

We’re looking forward to next year’s Zine Fest Houston. In the meantime, continue to work on your zines. We’re planning to release the Zine Fest Houston compilation in 2012.  If you’re interested in contributing, please send us an email at our info address.

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!