Stumptown Underground

Issue #22: Science and Sci-Fi

blue — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:40:42 +0000

Issue #22 – JUNE 2012
Theme: SCIENCE and SCI-FI
Deadline: MAY 23

Can you imgagine a world where andriods are running for president? Or have you been dying to illustrate a comic explaining exactly how a rainbow is made?

Science and art are two great tastes that taste great together! Send us you science or science fiction contributions and be in the next issue of Stumptown Underground…

See our Submissions Guidelines for criteria.

Send your submissions to:
stumptownunderground@gmail.com

Memory Issue, Goodbye IPRC, and PIZZA!

blue — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:30:35 +0000

The Stumptown Underground release party for our memories/past issue will be March 14th at Sizzle Pie West!

You may have heard that the Independent Publishing Resource Center is finally moving from the its west side home, across the river (or, at least, now you have), but Stumptown Underground is inviting you to take one last opportunity to say goodbye to the old space. Appropriately enough, we’ll also be releasing our lastest issue, on the theme of memories and the past. BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE PIZZA, glorious pizza, generously donated by Sizzle Pie.

Our party will be happening March 14th, starting at 7:00pm at Sizzle Pie West (926 West Burnside, just downstairs from the old IPRC and across from Powell’s). We will be kicking off with yummy vegan pizza donated by Sizzle Pie, then, at 8pm, we will be bringing our party upstairs to the empty IPRC for sharing some of favorite IPRC memories with special guests Alex Wrekk and Nicole Georges!

We will also have a giant goodbye card everyone can sign as well as a raffle! Our raffle rewards will be an IPRC membership and Sizzle Pie Gift Certificates. We hope to see you there! Come get the newest issue of Stumptown Underground, share a final goodbye to IPRC, eat some rad pizza, and maybe win something…

Issue #21: Revised theme & deadline extension!

chainsaw — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:40:35 +0000

Issue #21 – December 2011
Theme: MEMORY & THE PAST
Deadline: FEBRUARY 23

In light of the low number of submissions on the subject of memory, we’ve decided to make our next zine a “dual-themed” issue! This means a new submissions call for work related to memory, the past, or both. We’re excited about the creative possibilities of this combination, and we plan to explore duality more in future themes. Issue #21 is now scheduled for publication in March.

As always, see our Submission Guidelines for criteria.
And send your submissions to: stumptownunderground@gmail.com

Short Run Small Press Fest Recap!

blue — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:25:39 +0000

We tabled at the first-ever Short Run Small Press Fest in Seattle this past weekend! The Short Run Small Press Fest reminded us a lot of the Portland Zine Symposium in feel, ethics and organization.

Short Run was held at The Vera Project, an all ages, non profit, music and art venue in Seattle Center. We want to give a big thank you to all the organizers who worked hard to keep tabling costs low and admission to the event free, key ingredients to any independently minded festival (as a PZS organizer, Blue can attest to this)!

I (Blue) drove up to Seattle with Emily and Virginia Paine of Sparkplug and tabled for Stumptown Underground, sharing a table with Alex Wrekk.

We met so many people, got a lot of Stumptown Underground zines and information passed out, and had a lot of fun. There were many people checking out Short Run that hadn’t even heard of zines, so it was great to be reaching out to so many new people about independent media. When I talked to organizer Kelly Froh at the end of the day, she said that their count for attendance was 820!

Thank you so much, Short Run! We will want to go again next year, so keep up the good work.

Issue #21: Memory

chainsaw — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:38:32 +0000

Issue #21 – December 2011
Theme: MEMORY
Deadline: NOVEMBER 23

Memory is the seed for many stories, but this month we’re looking for stories about memory: recalling, forgetting, nostalgia, amnesia, deja vu – all are welcome!

See our Submissions Guidelines for criteria.

Send your submissions to:
stumptownunderground@gmail.com

Top Secrets Release Party @ In Other Words!

blue — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:00:56 +0000

Stumptown Underground is excited to announce
the zine release party and reading for our newest issue!
“Top Secrets” at In Other Words

Where: In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth St.
What: Secrets and Zines!
Who: Stumptown Underground
When: Friday, October 7th
Time: 7pm-9pm

We are having a release party for our “Top Secrets” issue, centralized around the theme of secrets, this October 7th at In Other Words, from 7pm-9pm.

We are also having a little contest for anyone to submit shorter secrets online and Title Wave Used Book Store has donated 3 ten-dollar gift certificates, which we will be giving away to the best short secrets submitted and voted on. Find out more information here!

The relase party is free, all ages, and you’ll be able to meet and greet with the issue’s contributors and purchase copies of “Top Secrets” (contributors get 1 copy each) before all your friends.

“Top Secrets” is the twentieth monthly anthology from Stumptown Underground, centralized around the theme of secrets. In these issue, you’ll find comics, writing, and illustrations from the likes of Hazel Newlevant, James Michael Williams, Katy O’Brien, Lauren Waudé, Jeremy Scott Kemp and many other talented folks.

Here’s the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283905298288737

We will be getting an online preview up soon, so stay tuned!

Tell SU your short secrets!

blue — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:12:46 +0000

One of our editors, Jon Hallman, volunteers at Title Wave Used Book Store, which has graciously donated three $10 gifts certificates for us to give away in a secrets contest!

We are having a little secrets contest to go along with our upcoming secrets-themed issue. The deadline to submit art, comics, and other longer secrets to that issue is September 23rd.

In the meantime, we’ve made a handy little survey for you to fill out to submit your shorter, juicy secrets to us for a chance to win one of three $10 gift certificates to Title Wave Used Book Store.

Fill out the survey for the secrets contest here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VBDSG6J

The deadline for submitting your secrets online for the contest is also September 23rd, as we will be putting them up to be voted on then.

All submitted secrets will be put up online, without names, to be voted on by anyone. Voting starts on September 24th, online, winning secrets will be announced on October 7th at our release party!

If you do not include any contact information, however, we will be unable to award you any gift certificate. We will be awarding the three gift certificates to the top three submitted short secrets that have included a way to contact them. You are still welcome to submit your secret and have it included online… You know, just for the glory of being voted on and ranked. If you would like to give us contact information to make you eligible to win one of the Title Wave Bookstore gift certificates, please leave your number or email address within the survey.

We will also be including the top 10 submitted secrets in the printed zine. This can be anonymous or not. If you would like your little secret to not be considered for inclusion in print, please indicate that in the appropriate box within the survey. Please also indicate if you would like your name on your little secret in print. We will assume not, otherwise.

Thanks for reading, we can’t wait to see what we get!

Issue #20: Secrets

blue — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:17:48 +0000

Issue #20 – Due out October 2011
Theme: SECRETS
Deadline: SEPTEMBER 23

We all have our secrets, what’s yours? The theme we’ll be focusing on for our 20th issue will be secrets. We want to know yours. We want to know how secrets have affected you.

We’ll be doing a little secrets contest outside of the issue (think 140 characters ish), but more on that later.

See our Submissions Guidelines for criteria for submitting to the secrets-themed zine, issue #20 of Stumptown Underground.

Send your submissions to: stumptownunderground@gmail.com

New Zine at Art in the Park!

blue — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:16:52 +0000

Stumptown Underground will be debuting the new issue, a summer and ocean themed flip book, at Art in the Park on Saturday, August 20th!

With work from Everett Patterson, Tonya Jones, Aaron Brassea, Tom Eichacker, Molly Teutimez and more! We hope to see you there sometime, should be a fun day in the sun with lots of other artists.

Check out more info here: http://cherrysprout.com/?p=677
Or here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195443197186953

Stumptown Underground Is Looking for a Couple More Organizers!

blue — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:16:57 +0000

Did you know that Stumptown Underground is collectively organized? Well, it is. Each organizer/editor has a say in every decision Stumptown Underground makes, we all pitch in (as we can) to pay for publishing costs (and get reimbursed as we sell issues), we all hand out fliers, we all vote on every submission we receive for each issue, and so on! Right now, two of our organizer/editors are out of the country, we’ve had a couple editors that have moved on, and two editors get really freaking busy every year during the Portland Zine Symposium. So, right now, we’re really feeling the need for extra hands.

If you’re interested in becoming a Stumptown Underground organizer/editor, email us to try it out! All potential new organizer/editors have to be unanimously approved by the current members (we have a tightly-knit crew going on here that works well together, we want to keep it that way) and we’d love to have answers to these few questions when you inquire about joining on our organizer team…

1) What is your creative background?

2) Why does helping with Stumptown Underground appeal to you?

3) What skills/talents do you feel you particularly possess(ways in which you are awesome) that would add to our awesomeness?

We seriously need a couple more DEDICATED and PASSIONATE organizers, so even if you have little experience with zines (organizer Jon was very inexperienced when he joined, now he’s practically an expert), shoot us an email!