#ozftablers2016

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: QUINN COLLARD! Zines:  Ephemera, Plaid Skirts & Converse, This Could Lead to Excellence or Serious Injury, fucktoy

What is your favorite zine of the moment?

I'm hoping to acquire some new favorites at the fest!

What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest?

This is my first time in Olympia and I'm looking forward to wandering around town taking pictures with my vintage Brownie Hawkeye camera.

What makes your zines recognizably yours?

I think the overabundance of passion I feel for my topics always comes through. And a lot of my zines deal with very personal aspects of my life and so couldn't be written by anyone but me.

What motivates you to finish a zine?

It depends on the zine. For my ones dealing with stuff like mental illness, I hope that reading them will hope other people struggling with similar things not feel alone. For my ones about more fun topics like sex or They Might Be Giants, I'm just so excited to be talking about them that I want to share my excitement with other people!

What is your weather prediction for this year's fest?

weather.com

says "mostly cloudy, a little rain."

What workshop are you the most stoked about?

A friend of mine is co-teaching the Disability and Zines workshop, and I think it's gonna be fantastic!

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: Alyssa Giannini / Craft Or DIY / one of your lovable OZF Co-Organizers! i couldn’t resist, because i love answering questions! speaking of which, if YOU have any questions at the tabling expo, i will be stationed at the OZF info table all day! ;) the info table is where you can find 2016 programs, OZF organizers’ zines, OZF merch and anything you need to know! it’ll be right next to the raffle table, where you can enter to win cool swag! Zines: anxiety & self care: a radical guide, “problem” skin zine, bookin’ it diy: a responsible guide, femmes & flowers coloring book: a celebration of diverse femmes, wanderer perzine Website: craftordiy.org Etsy: craftordiy

What is your favorite zine of the moment?

raised by wolves the internet because it is a beautiful work of art that is narrated in a dark but humorous way (everything amrit brar creates is wonderful). also i consistently reread alyssa rorke’s poetry zines (check out letters from bummer camp press & distro!).

What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest?

relaxing, so i don’t keel over! ;) true life: organizing a zine fest.

What makes your zines recognizably yours?

most of my zines have colorful, card stock covers and are bound with embroidery floss. there are my tell-tale illustrations accompanying text inside, because people like to look at the pictures, ya know?

What motivates you to finish a zine?

my unwavering sense of guilt when i fail to follow through on self-made commitments, the tiny pieces of paper lining my work area that tell me to do things, the satisfaction of creating a tangible object and sharing it with people it might resonate with.

What is your weather prediction for this year's fest?

i just hope it’s not raining yet.

What workshop are you the most stoked about?

i’m excited about all of the workshops and i hope i have it in me to make it out to at least one! don’t overthink it sounds super applicable to me.

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: M. Sabine Rear! Blind Illustratrix http://www.michaelsabine.com Zines:  Bending Spoons: A Field Guide to Ableist Microaggressions; Purses: An Object Lesson; Teen Zine What is your favorite zine of the moment? My favorite zine right now is Jillian Tamaki's issue of Frontier magazine. What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest? I've never spent time in Olympia, but I've been hearing whispers for some time now about how neat it is! So I'm looking forward to exploring. What is your weather prediction for this year's fest? I hope it'll be cold enough to get moderately bundled up in velvet and knitwear. What motivates you to finish a zine? Honestly, I sign up for zine fests partly as a way to motivate me to finish all of the projects I have floating around in piles/notebooks/around my brain. OZF has been just the motivator I needed to get some projects finished and some others cleaned up and re-printed. What workshop are you the most stoked about? I am very excited to be co-facilitating Disability & Zines because crip zine community is crucially important and devastatingly cute. I am interested in attending Keys to Writing Successful Cookzines.

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: RACHEL SCHEER!   My name is Rachel Scheer and I am the maker of Rachel Comics: autobiographical, humorous mini comics based on my life today and growing up. www.rachelcomics.com Zines: In Between Naps; By Mom, By Me: A Story of Two Childhoods; That Time I Met Bill Clinton... And He Stole My Favorite Pen!; Yoga Diary 1 What is your favorite zine of the moment?

I love reading Dune, the collaborative mini comic published monthly by Max Clotfelter. Seattle-based cartoonists meet up at Cafe Racer every third Tuesday to make an on-the-spot one-page comic. If you donate a couple bucks your comic is published and you can pick up the anthology next month! What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest?

I first visited Olympia as a teacher with my fourth grade class, on a field trip to the capitol. That was really boring and we do not do that field trip anymore. I've now been back a number of times with friends and love it! I am looking forward to eating breakfast at Darby's Cafe before the fest and sneaking out to shop at Psychic Sister. What makes your zines recognizably yours?

My simple drawing style is pretty easy to recognize, along with the name of my comics: "Rachel Comics"... Not the most creative name, but it serves its purpose. What motivates you to finish a zine?

My biggest fans are my parents and their friends (for better or for worse) and they are always asking what's next. I am also motivated by fests in the Northwest like the Olympia Zine Fest, Short Run, and the Olympia Comics Festival. What is your weather prediction for this year's fest?

Chilly. What workshop are you the most stoked about?

The Zine Writing Workshop for Youth because I'm a teacher and I think all kids should make zines and comics.

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: JES / GROWING DISTRO!

Zines:  growth, brain_flower,a love letter to you after you've experienced rape, roseanne+many more Tumblr: http://growingdistro.tumblr.com/

What is your favorite zine of the moment?

My favorite zine at the moment is called pennyroyal by someone called Zoe b. found at bluestockings bookshop in nyc. It's an awesome zine about the writers experience as an abortion doula and some pieces about the history of abortion.

What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest?

I haven't been to Olympia yet but I'm honestly excited about the local 2am food. I'm a sucker for diners and anything of the like, bring it on. I also hope that it looks a bit like the show twin peaks nearby(I'm an east coast gal).

What makes your zines recognizably yours?

What makes my Zines mine would probably be the theme of plants or pastel colors.

What motivates you to finish a zine?

What motivates me to finish a zine is definitely the deadline of a fest. I'm even trying to crank one out right now last minute here on the road.

What is your weather prediction for this year's fest?

It will almost certainly snow the day of the fest. Or maybe rain.

What workshop are you the most stoked about? 

The workshop I'm most excited for is the don't overthink it one. I often need to remind myself of the awesomeness of diy when I'm stuck and just fucking do it.

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: JULI JUMP ROPE! Zines: The Mousetrap, The California Zephyr, Zine Prompt! 2, Zine Prompt! 2 1/2 Website:  julijumprope.com What is your favorite zine of the moment? "Lower East Side Librarian Goes Downtown" by Jenna Freedman, and "Harmontown" by Miranda Harmon

What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest? I've never been, but I get to see my best friend on this trip! <3 What makes your zines recognizably yours? My zines are usually about summer fun, or a spooky murder mystery! What motivates you to finish a zine? The looming deadline of a zine fest. What is your weather prediction for this year's fest? Every time I come to the PNW is a sunny and lovely (really!), so I predict 70 degrees and sun. I'm bringing my rain jacket, though. 

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: ALEX WREKK / PORTLAND BUTTON WORKS!

Zines:  Brainscan Zine, Stolen Sharpie Revolution What is your favorite zine of the moment?

How to talk to your cat about gun safety

What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest?

Seeing my friends!

What makes your zines recognizably yours?

Maybe my photocopier art layout style and that I never seem to make one the same size or shape.

What motivates you to finish a zine?

The muses What is your weather prediction for this year's fest? Partly Cloudy What workshop are you the most stoked about? The panel I'm on about winning at zinning!

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ZINE FEST TABLER SPOTLIGHT: ALEXANDRIA VICKERY! info: alexandria vickery is a native california sunchild growing roots in olympia, wa. zines: spot the moment (☼), will you be my?, warm yellow light, the words i'm made of, we drew the first 151 pokemon from memory (group zine), and something tentatively called ~big feelings~ that will hopefully see the light of zine fests soon website: alexandriavickery.com etsy: alexandriavickery.etsy.com instagram: @unofficialmarykallem What is your favorite zine of the moment? i am forever inspired by my sweet friend rosie lockie (rosielockie.com) and will always have the biggest, warmest spot in my heart for her comic "lone pea." her work is simultaneously painful and hopeful, she breaks my heart then stitches it back together again. What do you like about Olympia, or if you've never been, what are you most looking forward to experiencing outside the fest? my most favorite part of this home of mine is how its deeply steeped in some weird, wild mythology. stop by my table if you wanna talk local secrets, i've got tales to tell about enchanted water, furniture fan clubs, dark dentistry, and fast food fallings-out. i want to hear about the weird things that have happened to you late at night in the evergreen woods. What makes your zines recognizably yours? my background in scientific illustration, my life philosophy of subversive optimism, my themes of interconnectedness, magical realism, and natural history, my big big heart wide wide open What motivates you to finish a zine? zinery is the main way people view my art, otherwise anything i draw ends up locked in a trunk in my living room. i'm motivated by my desire to share the inner workings of my mind with the people i love in easily-accessible, handheld, page-flipping form. also, friends asking, "what have you been working on?" also, anxiety. also, deadlines. What is your weather prediction for this year's fest? i'm hoping for foggy misty gray, and cool enough that people will gravitate towards the warmth of zine fest to cozy up inside with our precious bits of paper, but not so drizzly that people's zines will get wet on their walks home. What workshop are you the most stoked about? "zine writing workshop for youth: start your own revolution rebel style now" makes me just wanna stomp my feet and bang on some walls and shout out, "YES YES YES YES!!"