Saturday was the Raw Print zine fair at the Hopkinson Gallery where Fucking Wonderful sold its first issue. It was a lovely day of friends, family, zine buying and swapping.
Here are some photos from the day,
Photo of the entrance before opening hours
Fucking Wonderful’s little set up.
Alice looking extremely excited..
Andddd the makers, Alice and I
Alice again, looking pro
And then next are photos of friends and others zines.
All in all, we had a great day and can’t wait to sell again!
Bring on summer and the next issue of Fucking Wonderful. http://www.fuckingwonderful.co.uk
Yesterday Fucking Wonderful promoted the Raw Print zine fair, which will be taking place at the Hopkinson Gallery on Saturday. This is where FW’s first issue will be sold so make sure you get down there to buy a copy.
For more information about the zine fair go to http://nottinghamzinefair.wordpress.com
Look at the happy smiles.
Take a sneak peak of Fucking Wonderful’s preview of issue one. Hope you like it!
Here is one of our contributors to the first issue. She has beautiful watercolour illustrations that we just adore!
http://hollyexley.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/hollyexley
You can buy here prints here too:
Fuchsia is contributing a beautiful poem to the first issue.
Here’s a sneak peek at what you are in store for!
War and Peace
I asked him what War and Peace was about
whilst he was talking in his sleep
and he muttered something to do with a rocking horse
and a bear.
I took this as proof he hadn’t read it
and cited it in an argument years later.
He said that was preposterous
and that he had read it,
he just didn’t remember what happened,
and how dare I take advantage of him
in that vulnerable state.
She is also in the process of creating a poetry zine too. Check her out!
http://corvuscorvax.tumblr.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/fuchsiav
We have another illustrator on board for our online content, Thomas Key!
Here are some bits that love.
He is also a fellow zine maker! You can find his work through the links!
http://www.thomaskeyillustration.com/
We are featuring the gorgeous Princess Nikki and her My Little Pony Collection in the first issue.
Here are a couple of the photos we took of her one Wednesday afternoon…
You’ll have to buy the first issue to get the naughty shots!
The extremely talented Hayley Louisa Brown is also contributing to our zine!
However for our first issue Hayley has contributed something a little bit special… you’ll have to wait and see!
Do go check the lady out though!
One of our lovely contributors, Fuchsia, told us about this interesting BBC Radio discussion with historian Juliette Barker looking at people collecting hair and why. Have a listen.
John Alfred makes origami! Not just any old origami either, but beautiful creations from small Japanese paper.
He took us to Aubrey’s Traditional Creperie to begin with where he told us about his hobby and showed us some work.
He leaves his pieces behind at cafes and restaurants as a thank you to the people who have served him. A lovely idea that brightens unsuspecting recipients days. This is always done as an anonymous gift, with John quickly leaving without a chance to be thanked himself.
This was what he left Meg the waitress, it was turned over so she couldn’t see it as this would ruin the surprise.
We then went to The Old Malt Cross for a lesson in origami making.
He asked us to pick out our favourite colour paper which we then swapped between ourselves so that we would make one for each other.
This is what we ended up with!
John’s way of remembering each person he meets and creates with is to name and date each piece which he keeps in a jar along with hundreds of others. He picks out a random selection every once in a while to remember that specific meeting.
Hopefully our evening with him will be remembered for a long time too.
An interview and reasoning behind this beautiful hobby will be up on the website soon and we are also keeping some of his truly special pieces for issue one of the zine so make sure you get a copy!
