I don’t know about you guys but had a zine filled weekend. The Brooklyn Zine Fest was in town and thanks to Wizard Skull and Killer Acid there was another fest to take place the same weekend called Zine Friends at Cotton Candy Machine in Brooklyn.

I went to Zine Friends Saturday and the Brooklyn Zine Fest Sunday. The plan was to shoot them both for a Village Voice story that my partner in crime Pinky Guest was working on but I was honestly more excited about the Brooklyn Zine Fest because I collect primarily photo books and zines and Zine Friends was mostly cartoonists and illustrators. That being said it featured a bunch of artist that I really dig like Wizard Skull, Matt Crabe, Jennifer Calandra and my buddy Nick Gazin’s talented sister Penelope.

It ended up being infinitely better than the Brooklyn Zine Fest which was a depressing collection of overly earnest political zines including zines about how make your zine more sensitive when dealing with race/gender issues. There were about five tables with Black Lives Matter signs on them but I think the only actual black person I saw was running the black lesbian zine table. I saw about 7 zines about menstruation from all different authors. Not that all these things don’t have a place in the world, I just didn’t trek all the way out Brooklyn Heights to get lectured.

So in the end I only ended up shooting Zine Friends and I got zines from Wizard Skull, Matt Crabe and a split zine from Penelope Gazin and Tuesday Bassen. I also picked up a pretty cool zine at the Brooklyn Zine fest called Corroded about acid etched graffiti.

In related news you should buy one of MY zines! I only have a couple copies of Fuck LA left and Food Tattoos and Dinner With Igor both have less than 50 copies remaining. Get stuff now!

Now click here to see some photos from Zine Friends at Cotton Candy Machine!

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