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Photo by Asia Morris from the inaugural LBZF<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Congratulations, you did it! You\u2019ve made the wise-beyond-your-years choice of attending the 2017 Long Beach Zine Fest. You read up\u00a0<\/a>about the whole shebang, and now you\u2019re ironing your socks in preparation for this fun and free event. But wait\u2014there\u2019s like a zillion zinesters! Egad! Who to check out? Worry not, my sweet friend, for here is a handy list of zinesters you should check out, handpicked by this writer.<\/p>\n DAVE VAN PATTEN<\/a> JASON KEAM<\/a> SPLATTERGIRLS<\/a> DAVE BAKER<\/a> NICOLE GOUX<\/a> RELATED<\/small> <\/p>\n The Long Beach Zine Fest <\/a>will take place at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) on Sunday, August 6 from 11:00AM to 5:00PM. Admission is FREE. For more information, visit the website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n MOLAA is located at 628 Alamitos Avenue.<\/em><\/p>\n {FG_GEOMAP [33.7744158,-118.1798784] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations, you did it! You\u2019ve made the wise-beyond-your-years choice of attending the 2017 Long Beach Zine Fest.\u00a0Worry not, for here is a handy list of zinesters you should check out, handpicked by this writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[296],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-long-beach-zine-fest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A local stalwart of the Long Beach art scene, there\u2019s no way you\u2019ve lived here and haven\u2019t seen his work. The new mural on the side of Alex\u2019s Bar, a magazine cover for indie imprint The Edge, even the freakin\u2019 fonts at Portfolio Coffee. Dave Van Patten is Long Beach. Currently working on a graphic novel, Van Patten will be at LBZF to share his zines that detail \u201ccomic compilations with themes of societal absurdity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Keam is on the verge of exploding. Not in the spontaneous combustion kinda way (ew), but as in his star is set to supernova (sorry for the metaphors!). Keam\u2019s fingers have been in the pies (metaphors!) of commercials, art galleries, animation, even partnering up with local ice cream spot Long Beach Creamery. Keam\u2019s zines this year feature archives of his cartoony paintings and sketches.<\/p>\n
Splattergirls are making their maiden voyage to LBZF all the way from good ol\u2019 Bakersfield (say that in the slowest Southern drawl you can muster for maximum effect). The collective\u2019s work focuses on \u201cthe female experience translated through our eyes and written down as poems, raps, and stories.\u201d These pieces confront subject matter ranging from pro-immigration to surveys asking, \u201cWhat does gender mean to you?\u201d Maybe Bakersfield ain\u2019t so bad after all.<\/p>\n
From the LA scene of comics is Dave Baker. Dave\u2019s relatively small in stature but HUGE in ideas and concepts. For instance, his comic ACTION HOSPITAL. Here\u2019s just the back blurb: \u201cACTION HOSPITAL chronicles the exploits of the employees of the eponymous Action Hospital. Within this tome you\u2019ll discover super-intelligent plant people, were-koalas, four-armed gondolier assassins, and gay mermaid hunters.You\u2019ll also witness plenty of existential angst and heartbreak.\u201d Existentialism and angst *on top* of were-koalas? If this doesn\u2019t interest you in the slightest, I truly hope you can one day experience joy and love in your life as it is clearly absent.<\/p>\n
Nicole Goux is an art wunderkind. Surreal, subtle, \u2014there\u2019s nothing Goux hasn\u2019t turned to gold with her talents, even Seinfeld. This year, Goux will be bringing comics and zines, some of which will feature the diverse likes of mini horror stories, gay skater girls, and road trips.
PRO TIP: There\u2019s a scene in Nicole Goux and Dave Baker\u2019s TEENAGE SWITCHBLADE (A Fuck Off Squad Story) that is so goddamn relatable you\u2019ll audibly guffaw when you see it.<\/p>\n
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