SLC Punk Rock Flea: My lineup
My eyelid is twitching someone help
As I mentioned in my last post, I have been hastily preparing for SLC Punk Rock Flea Market. Here’s what that’s been looking like:
Seeing this photo, you can only imagine what my room looks like; a fucking rats nest... My eye has been twitching for the past few days and I feel like a prehistoric man (I’ve literally been hunched over on the floor grunting over my printer).
Otherwise, life is good.
I thought I would share some of my progress on my recent projects that I intend on selling at Punk Rock Flea.
While none of them are available on my shop yet, you can purchase zines from past events here:
Introducing my first comic zine: Desktop Wizards!
If you were ever a fan of Scrumple Street Biweekly (immortalized here), you’d probably like this a lot. It’s a play on the idea of a computer wizard; a program meant to help with installations and troubleshooting. In that same spirit, Desktop Wizards is a series in which five wizards work together to show you how to do hard things like wish your existential and elderly friend a happy birthday.
This first issue will come with a special bookmark.
The cover will include linocut stamp art and sparkles. Yipeee! I think I will have fifteen issues of this available to start.
Also shoutout to my best pal BD <3 for letting me boss him around on Discord while he organized the panels for me because I’m too broke to pay for photoshop. Yayyyyy everybody give it up for bd!
I’ve always wanted cute packaging with the little cardstock thing stapled on top of the plastic sleeve…. that’s a terrible description so just reference the photo. I’m gonna do some cute graphics on the cardstock that are reminiscent of clown stuff. btw I love clowns and I want this sooooo bad.
I will be creating puzzles out of my art prints. I am still contemplating adding a board game element to it, but I only have so much time and energy. We will see what I end up with. Part of me sort of hates this idea because the prints will look super frankensteen once you glue all the pieces down, but then again everything I make is pretty frankensteen coded so nvm.
I will include one mystery zine.
I am posting the reference photos here for the puzzles to save paper. Did I just make you read through half of a blog post to see what the puzzle is supposed to look like? Yes. Is this the whole reason I made this post initially? Yes. Am I annoying? To most people, yes.
I put a lot of heart into this one, and a lot of people really liked it at Grid Zine Fest. In this DIY collage zine, I provide thirteen questions exploring metamorphosis. I am including some magazine clippings, as well as some homemade stickers. The instructions are pretty vague and it’s meant for you to do as you please with what I have provided. Inside, you’ll find thirteen photo prints of my neighborhood in SLC, where I’ve undergone a huge metamorphosis myself. Initially, it was meant as a zine that answered the common small talk question “So, what brings you here to Utah” (which I hate). My answer to that question ended up being really snarky and bitter, so I just took myself out of the equation entirely. This is a zine that you can get here, right now. You should check it out.
Candles?^(&(*&
I will also be selling candles lol.
My very best friends mom gave me some candle-making supplies, and I figured I’d better put them to use.
I didn’t know that candles needed so many candle-specific things to make them safe to burn but I guess it makes sense. I’ve ordered scents, as well as dyes, and a cute little silicon mold meant to make little wax butterflies to embed in the candles. I’ve also decoupaged the outsides of the candles to make them sexier.
LONG SIGH
I know a lot of this ended up being wordy and hard to read but that’s too bad for you.
Ok, I love you.
Signing out,
T.H