#2

Yuss!!

Our first review!

Sarah Gauntlett from Nzgirl.com popped by our stall at the last Kraftbomb to pick up a copy of Issue One to review..

The review is now up as part of The Art's Insider: November and we have the pleasure of featuring alongside other fellow Kraftbombers. I love how inclusive calling us nzgirls is! Follow this to check it out..

Thanks Sarah!

Neighbour Cats!

Neighbour Cats one of the awesome zines Nicola and I brought at Zinefest.. It is basically exactly what the title would suggest, with every cat in the neighbourhood of the writer getting a portrait of themselves, an in depth character description, notes on colouring (both making spotting them easier if you were to say, go looking for them as I am severely tempted to do on my next Wellington trip!) and a friendliness rating.

Each cover features a different cat and I love the little guy on the front of mine! The zine is printed onto that great refill paper that little kids use to learn to write on - the triple thickness lines with a dotted line through the middle.

This is a map giving exact cat locations, each cat corresponding with a letter.

Jobbles (A.) is undoubtedly my fave, he comes first in the zine and is followed by his neighbours including Gate-Face, who in desperate attempts for affection tries to squeese himself through his gate, Dogloo Cat, who lives in an igloo shaped doghouse and apparently isn't too friendly and Lexi who unfortunately has no hair.

Awesome! 

November Kraftbomb

This Kraftbomb will be especially exciting for us because it will be the launch of the much anticipated (by us anyway!) Issue Two! We've put together all the pages, designed a great cover to rival the success of the brown paper of Issue One and are all ready to go except it needs to be laid up by our super computer lady Jess and then printed.. minor details..

Our All Expenses Paid Business Trip

CBB loves Wellington! And to be completely honest that works the other way too - our trip was such a positive experience, our zine has been so well received down there, it was quite overwhelming.. 

We spent the weekend visiting stockists and even adding another one to our list - Good as Gold on Victoria St - such a great store! We had a great brainstorm/diagram drawing session while scoffing cinnamon gelato on the waterfront where we finally sorted the problematic second cover, talked about the zine every opportunity we got and placed a whole heap of business cards around the city.

Here's Iko Iko's final copy hanging out on the shelf, only found after a depressing 10mins of browsing where we thought they didn't stock it after all! We got chatting to the gals behind the counter about CBB and a zine made by a group of (I think) 5 girls down there called Flouro, we even got a 10% discount on the kick-ass necklaces we both brought!

I was so excited to check out Swonderful as I had heard good things and religiously check their blog out, also they stock a rather ludicrous number of zines for us which is awesome! If the displaying of the signs we sent down to accompany the zines was a competition Swonderful would most definately win..

Zinefest was awesome! Nicola and I combined brought epic quantities of zines, they'll make for some great reading for weeks to come. I think we can be forgiven for not going to any of the talks, severe hangovers had been coming on all day and spending up large on zines really takes it out of you. We'll try and post reviews on the zines we brought, my favourite of which I can already tell you is - 'Neighbour Cats' for 50c.

Here's CBB on Cherry Bomb's stall, Tui definately had the widest spread collection of zines and books, very impressive. 

Madame Fancy Pants is a stockist Mel approached for us so it was great to go in and meet the lovely ladies who run the shop who informed us that Wellington City Library had brought a copy off them for their permanent collection - exciting!

Some great graffiti spotted on Cuba Street!

Mintie's Market

So this weekend Nicola and I head to Wellington! We can't wait to check out all our stockists, hit up Zinefest (I've just designed some cute business cards to be on hand for networking purposes!) and now we've been told by our awesome friend Mel that we may just have a stall at the newly set-up Mintie's Market on the Sunday! Even if we don't end up with a stall we will still be there with bells on.. oh to live in Wellington..