ISSUE #2

Issue Two is totally under way already and we've got some of our favourite artists lined up to interview and feature work from.. Here's a taste of what to expect..

This great illustration is by the very talented Henrietta Harris, Nicola and I went to a solo show of her work at Satellite Gallery a few months ago and were in awe.. she has her fingers in alot of pies doing everything from painting to poster designs. 

Joy Kampia O'Shell is now officially my favourite crochet artist ever, she has produced the most amazing, intricate meals, one-off dresses and an assortment of other domestic items all hand crocheted! 

Natasha Cantwell has been one of my favourite photographers ever since I stumbled across her work at EA Gallery a few years ago. I am so excited to be featuring her work!

This time around 'The Catalogue' (that seriously needs a better name!) will be put together in association with toggle, I've asked Esther Lamb who runs the site with Shelley to name her three favourite artists whose work features on their site. Trixie Delicious will be featured - here are some of her vintage bone china plates with hand-painted text that have gained alot of great publicity!

CBB's second Kraftbomb

Once again another very sweet location! Same basic set up as last time except instead of a fitted bed sheet we went for a duvet cover.. The zines went down well once again, it's pretty exciting having people pay to read something you've put together!

The fan out of zines experienced a bit of an upgrade!

The one thing that was lacking last time was a sign so we had to make this one, an enlargement of ones we've been sending out to stockists.

Kraftbomb was totally awesome in the new (and bigger) space this time, so many more stall holders all selling great stuff!

Cherry Bomb and Zinefest

CBB is now officially stocked with Cherry Bomb Comics!! They don't have a physical address anymore but still sell through their online shop so check it out if you'd like to purchase CBB or any of the other great zines the ladies stock.

Tui from Cherry Bomb is kindly taking our zine to Zine Fest down in Wellington, (I'll post the poster as soon as I get sent it!) so this leaves Nicola and I free to go on an all expenses paid (by us!) business/research trip to Wellington to spend up large on zines.

It's going to be an awesome day (November 15th) with the event being held at Wesley Church Hall, 75 Taranaki Street from 11-3pm. There will be heaps of zines for sale, even Wellington City Library will be there with their collection, talks, workshops, food and t-shirts and badges for sale! Come and check it out if you're in Wellington, if you're not - get there somehow! 

October Kraftbomb

October Kraftbomb is set to be bigger and better than ever and CBB will be there with bells on!

It's to be held at the new time of 11am-2pm and in a bigger room too..

Our friend from art school Vicki will be a new addition to the list of stall holders - check out her home-made marmalade! mmm

Also, Jess (CBB's computer lady and blog reviewer) and Olivia (who awesomely brought two copies last time..) will be there selling their cute little things once again..

CAN'T WAIT!!

more stockists

Here are our zines all packaged up and ready to be taken into Iko Iko and Conch where they are now officially stored! We've also made up some signs with a little blurb about us on them to accompany zines to stores and they're tres cute.

Down in Wellington you will soon be able to find CBB stocked at Eyeball Kicks, Manky Chops Gallery, Offbeat Originals cafe and Madame Fancy Pants, all on or around Cuba Street and all thanks to Mel. And of course Swonderful and Iko Iko.

Nicola is also sending some away this weekend to an awesome zine store in Melbourne called Sticky Institute just so we can say we're international! 

a busy few days..

Nicola and I have had a pretty hectic few days sorting out stockists now that CBB is finally published - turns out we're not the only people that think our zine is kinda cool!
Some of the awesome places that have agreed to stock CBB include St Paul St Gallery (thanks Leonhard!) Iko Iko (up here AND down in Wellington) Conch Records on Ponsonby Road, and Swonderful boutique in Wellington too.. It's all been pretty exciting - everything is happening so fast!

Our friend Mel who has the good fortune to live down in Wellington has been approaching stores there for CBB too.. as much as I wish I lived in the coolest city in NZ I don't so thanks Mel for doing that for us! Watch this space.. two stores have been confirmed but we haven't heard names yet..

We have officially finished the first run of zines - the re-print is scheduled for Monday! Yuss.

p.s. the drawing is one of Nicola's very own, to be featured on our signs that will accompany zines to stores!

Our First Outing

What we can probably call the Cardboard Box Launch happened at Kraftbomb this afternoon... we are very stoked with the response to our hard work, some sort of sign would have gone down well but apart from that we are SO happy with how well our little zine went.

Here's Nicola at our stall - maximum air flow was great! Thanks Karla and City for our prime location!

And of course thanks to everyone who purchased a copy - ENJOY.

We had A3 sheets of 10 of our spreads on the table, on top of a very last minute fitted bed sheet that I had to sprint home and get when we realised the paper wouldn't cover the entire surface! 

As well as the two piles of the zine we also sold a few brooches each. Check out our stall at Kraftbomb next month - Nicola's promised an addition of Birthday Cards!

Kraftbomb!

This is a bit late considering Kraftbomb is tommorrow but here's the sweet little flyer for it! We've got a table in the middle.. So excited!

Issue One

This incredibly well taped up box contains the first run of 100 zines!! 

Thanks SO MUCH to Blair who totally suprised us by not just printing the entire run but collating, trimming, saddle stitching and trimming down the brown paper cover, staying on at work into the early hours of the morning that also happened to be his birthday!

Some of the interviews you can look forward to reading are with Lisa Black, Marita Hewitt, Linden Simmons, Elliot Collins, Jennifer Mayer, Karla and City from Kraftbomb and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Thanks to all these people as well as those of you who sent us images, articles and reviews, Issue One would not be looking as amazing as it does without you!

The zine so far..

With Issue One pretty much published already (it's getting printed in 2 days!) it's probably about time something was actually put on our blog..
We have been busily working away on our layouts, hassling late contributors and learning a thing or two about computers along the way - thank god for Jess!
Nicola and I always intended for our little zine to be very cut and paste for the very reason that neither of us (especially me) are any good at computers, so here are a few of our layouts ready to be scanned - literally cut with scissors and pasted with glue sticks.



We put an ad on The Big Idea for contributions and Lisa Black was one amazing artist who got back to us, she creates what she calls 'Fixed Animals' - real taxidermy animals that she then inserts mechanical parts into. We were a bit shocked at first having never seen anything like it but her work is very powerful.



My buddy Jen is studying in her final year of photography at AUT where Nicola and I also studied, she is making some pretty great work so of course I had to interview her. In the foreground there is a wee ad that'll be featured about an Art Swap - anyone interested - contact us!




I interviewed the lovely ladies behind Kraftbomb about what goes into organising one of the best craft fairs to hit Auckland recently.. Issue One will be on sale there this Sunday - Grey Lynn Community Centre, 1-4pm.


Ah.. the sweet hook ups of working at a printing factory - the first run of our zine is only going to set us back 2 dozen beers - excellent!