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Short Run Small Press Fest Recap!

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.

28 Aug 2011, 12:17am
Submission Calls: art black and white color comics illustrations Portland submissions calls writing zines
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Issue #20: Secrets

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

19 Aug 2011, 10:16pm
Events: Aaron Brassea art Art in the Park comics community Everett Patterson fun parks parties Portland sun Tom Eichacker Tonya Jones writing zines
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New Zine at Art in the Park!

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

12 Aug 2011, 7:16pm
Oganizers: anthologies comics editors events organizers writing zines
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Stumptown Underground Is Looking for a Couple More Organizers!

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!

26 Apr 2011, 11:41pm
Issue Previews Photos: art comics covers Everett Patterson illustrations images Katy Ellis O'Brien Max Karl Key Robnoxious writing zines
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“Heartbreak” and “Peas in a Pod” Special Previews!

The SU Editors/Organizers are wrapping up putting together our “Heartbreak” and “Peas in a Pod” issues, debuting tomorrow night at The Saratoga with a special music show. So, we wanted to take a last minute opportunity to get you all excited for these two new issues with a special preview!