Bookbinding: Basics & Beyond
• 2pm - 3:45pm
Ready to take your zines beyond the staple? Would you like to learn how to create blank journals or other small books? We will cover a variety of useful bookbinding techniques, including single-sheet folded books, single & double signature pamphlet stitch, stab binding, and more. Something for all skill levels! Materials included.
-Aaron Cohick & Rick Kitagawa
Q + A with Cindy Crabb
• 4pm - 4:45pm
Join the creator of the long-running and highly influential Doris zine as she discusses her life and work. Cindy has been self-publishing Doris since 1991, exploring diverse subjects, from the simple pleasures of daily life to serious matters of social change, sexuality, and abuse. She has developed one of the most distinctive and well-known voices in the DIY community. Her latest zine, Doris #26, will be premiering at the SF Zine Fest! Audience Q + A to follow.
Q + A with Vanessa Davis
• 5pm - 5:45pm
The creator of the beloved Spaniel Rage comic, Vanessa has achieved mainstream success (working for the likes of the New York Times and more) while keeping her feet firmly planted in the world of self-publishing. Her comics are witty, effusive, and revealing; drawn in a distinctive free form style that is wholly her own. A slide show of her work and an audience Q + A will be included.
-in conversation with Jesse Reklaw
Watercolor Illustration
• 6pm - 7pm
An informal skill share about using watercolor in illustration, especially as a way to add color to pen and ink drawings. Jesse will demonstrate the basic techniques--including flat washes, graded washes, wet into wet, lost and found edges, dry brush, lifting, modeling, and glazing--while chattering about brushes, paper, pigments, and color theory. Brushes, paint, and paper will be provided so you can play along (or bring your own if you've got favorites).
-Jesse Reklaw
2008 Workshops & Panels - Sunday
Nature Walk
• 10am - 11am
Join us for a (semi) early morning nature walk in the Arboritum, right next door to the SF County Fair Building! We'll check out our diverse local bird population, walk amongst California Redwoods, and spend some time sketching and writing about what we see and hear. Inspiring for anyone who wants to create work about the natural world, or anyone who wants to enjoy a leisurely stroll in a beautiful outdoor environment.
B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Binoculars)!
Meets outside of the County Fair Building.
-Jeanne Marie Acceturo & François Vigneault
DIY Screenprinting
• 1:30pm - 3pm
Always a Zine Fest favorite! Learn the basics of screenprinting in this hands-on workshop. Students will cut stencils out of mylar and print your own designs (bring clothes, paper, or any flat surface you would like the screenprint onto)! Several screens with pre-burned designs will also be available for printing. Discussion will include printing, screen construction, screen mesh, squeegee hardness, types of ink, emulsion coating and removal, and exposure of positive image. All inks, squeegees, and screens will be provided.
-John Isaacson
Film Screening: Grrlyshow
• 3pm - 3:45pm
Grrlyshow examines the girly Zine revolution through a combination of interviews with influential zine creators (including the makers of Bust, Bamboo Girl, Bitch, and Java Turtle) clips from the zines and 1950's television-esque vignettes. The result is an 18-minute explosion of fringe feminism and print media, a powerful and rebellious message from new voices often left unheard. A Q + A session with filmmaker Kara Herold will follow the screening.
Family Reunion
• 4pm - 4:45pm
In early 2004, eleven diverse friends created "Family Style Jamboree," a bizarre collaborative zine: Each issue focused on one of the founding members, with each contributor expressing themselves as they saw fit, whether the verdict was kind or cruel. In the following years Family Style managed to release 7 issues, throw some lavish release parties, and put some serious strain on their relationships!
Please join the original members of Family Style as they get together for the first time in years to discuss the glories and pitfalls of collaborative creation, share excerpts from previous issues, and generally talk trash... Potentially inspiring to others who want to embark on a collaborative, community-based project; and definitely entertaining for all! Slide show, including pages from the never-released eighth issue!
-moderated by Jaan Shenberger
Kickball Game
• 5pm - 6pm
Take a break and head to the softball diamond across from the County Fair Building for a rolicking, informal game of kickball! Fun for everyone, there may even be a little sunshine!
Offsite Events
Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival
• July 16-July 20 - Various Venues - Free-$15
SFZF is proud to be partnering with Mission Creek as they present their 12th year of independent music and art! Dozens of great bands will be playing at venues both big and small throughout the city all week long. This is an amazing chance to see up-and-coming performers from the Bay Area and beyond! Please check out their website for show schedules, artist bios, and much more.
Bookhunter at the Library
• Thursday, July 17 - Oakland Public Library
125 14th Street OAKLAND - Free!
Join Sparkplug Comics for a very special reading from Bookhunter, the Eisner Award nominated graphic novel by Jason Shiga, in the actual setting of his hilarious and action-packed police procedural! Also reading will be fellow Sparkplug creators Trevor Alixopulos and Hellen Jo.
Cheap City... The Show
• Thursday, July 17 8pm - The Dark Room
2263 Mission Street between 18th and 19th - $10
Based around Michael Capozzola's weekly San Francisco Chronicle cartoon "Cheap City," the show includes creative problem-solving for social ills and cheap solutions and quick fixes for life and city living. And who can't use THAT these days? For more information go to www.Capozzola.com.
From the Horse's Mouth: Comics Read by their Creators
• Friday, July 18 7 p.m. to 9 p.m - Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission St between 3rd and New Montgomery
$5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Visit the Cartoon Art Museum for an evening of live readings, with an all-star line-up: Andy Hartzell, Calvin Wong, Lark Pien, Joey Sayers, Justin Hall, MariNaomi, Minty Lewis, Peter Conrad, Rina Ayuyang and Renee French!
All Known Metal Bands
• Saturday, July 19 7pm - Rowan Morrison Gallery and Artist's Bookstore
330 40th Street, OAKLAND - Free
All Known Metal Bands is a remarkably dense, poetic, and fascinating 300-page tome listing (in alphabetical order) every metal band name author Dan Nelson was able to discover over the course of a year and a half of research (more than 50,000!). Come out to the Rowan Morrison Gallery to see the author read selections from his favorite letter. Food, Drinks, & Metal, all brought to us by our friends at McSweeney's!
