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impending

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The first annual Chicago Zinefest is almost here! To celebrate this momentous occasion there are two new zines available: Skate Trips From Hell by Lou Shields and Desperate But Not Serious by Nicholas Peterson. You can purchase them online or come down to the fest and pick them up in person on Saturday.

Parking Block Publishing - BookMarks

Learn a bit more about Parking Block on Chicago Subtext.

There’s been a number of additions and updates to the Artist page.

Jason Leisge sent over out a few pictures from his zine.

Jason Leisge - Art Zine Images

Look for it later this spring.

Jason Leisge - Art Zine Images

Lots of new developments developing for the rest of 2010. Pick up the early releases before they’re gone.

recompression vs. decompression

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The next round of zines featuring work by Alex Cohen and Ricky Cozzolino will be available next week. Prepare for astounding sights that will change your life.

If you are in San Jose you can check out the first four publications at Anno Domino’s Art of Zine show opening this Friday, February 5. Music, zine merchants and a pretty serious collection of xerox wizardry this will be a first rate event.

Shawn Hebrank did the cover artwork and has a feature in the latest issue of I Want Your Skull.

Dominique Holmes is a part of the collaborative Torn Pages show opening February 13th at OhNo! Doom Gallery.

The Beerics gave us a nice little shout out last week. Hopefully will be stirring up some trouble together soon.

chicago winter

Parking Block will be at Chicago Zine Fest – March 12-13. Please plan accordingly.

begin again

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

The holidays are finished, it’s a New Year and the next round of publications are coming together quite nicely. Look for a new batch of zines in the beginning of February.

An artist biography for Ricardo Cozzolino has been added to the artist page.

Issac McKay-Randoozi has a nice interview up on CaliberSF.

Christopher Smith will be showing at Antenna Gallery. There will be a companion publication for this show available in the near future. The show opens Friday February 19, from 6pm-10pm and runs until March 29, 2010.

Jay Croft is part of the Skate and Create show at the Columbia Museum of Art. If you happen to travel through South Carolina please stop and take some pictures.

Shawn Hebrank has been adventuring in Japan. You can follow along at his blog.

chicago winter

I’d like to thank everyone who supported this new undertaking in 2009. In 2010 look for more releases and wider availablity as well as collaborations with some like-minded collectives. It’s going to be a good year.

moon patrolling

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Jay and Dominique’s zines have been selling well. All of our zines make top notch gifts for the holiday season. Pick up one or two for your best friends.

Photographer Isaac McKay-Randozzi sent over this postcard. Look for his zine in 2010.

Isaac McKay-Randozzi half frame postcard

Chris Smith’s been hard at work. His gallery has recently been receiving numerous accolades and high fives. Most recently the Medicine Cabinet was named the “Best Gallery Space Located in a Bathroom” by New City. His zine “Inland Architect” should be finished soon. Here’s how he describes it. “Taking its title from a century old Chicago based architecture journal,Inland Architect is a story of cast off materials told through a haunted tutorial for survival where isometric descriptions of their absurd assembly drift between vignettes of decimated landscapes then back to rigid design proposals.”

Inland Architect

Alex Cohen stopped by to drop off art work and put the finishing touches on his zine. It should be coming out in January. You can read his updated bio on the artist page.

Alex Cohen drawing