Today I went to Zine Fest at the Polish Falcon. This is the second or third year I've gone, and it's about the same every year, with the same set up and familiar faces. Groups of friends get a table and sell their homemade, unpublished paper zines. I appreciate when people make the extra effort to really decorate their covers and make their tables fun to go to. One if my favorites is this middle-aged man who has a table with odd junk-drawer items that you can try and guess what they are. Things like a piano key, computer mouse case, bubble wand, and a poster tube top. There's a lot of far left political books and art work mixed in, but it's surprisingly usually some of the most expensive items. While I don't make zines myself, I love that almost all of the vendors list their prices in addition with a note saying that they will trade. So for the vendors, it's a great way to walk out with an armful of free zines from everyone else.
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