SHORT RUN: How to Pizza Night, Biome I
Seattle Adventure Map, How Change Happens, and Raccoon comics
Whew, we made five (5!!) risograph print publications to release at Short Run! Seattle people, if you can, come say hi to us TOMORROW (Saturday Nov 5) and see these new buddies! There also links below if you want to get them in the mail.
How To Pizza Night
This zine is about making pizzas with friends at home. It stretches to 24 pages, over 6,000 words and a lot of illustrations: Adam and I really tried to fit in everything we’ve learned from making pizzas with friends regularly for the last almost-15 years. How to invite everyone, get ready, make the pizzas, and make it a party. There are recipes and instructions for making the dough and the sauce, along with detailed advice on how to get started making your very first pizzas, and how to keep it inexpensive. It gets into event planning and talks about how pizza nights can be a way to regularly get together and have fun with friends.
The cover is a picture of a pesto-tomato-caramelized-onion pizza we made at a pizza night this summer. Did the color separations and imposition in Spectrolite for all of these zines of course — this one is yellow, blue, bright red and black inks.
Biome I nurture/melt
ice, earth, futures, feelings, blooms, beliefs, grief, seeds, effort, chance, change, lives
Collaged USGS aerial photography, glacial digital elevation models from Elizabeth's research, found botanical imagery from the 1500s to early 1900s, and a written meditation on the climate crisis. A collaboration with Elizabeth Case.
The Stranger called it “pretty” and featured it on their Short Run Shopping List. And Elizabeth’s therapist called it “beautiful and anguished” which, ok, accurate!
Printed in fluorescent pink, bright red, blue, yellow, grass green, and black risograph inks.
Seattle Adventure Map
One of my favorite things to do is to bike or take transit to a neighborhood for city day adventure, solo or with Adam or a friend. Usually you want food or tea or coffee at some point, so there are lots of cafes on the map (prioritizing ones with patios or outdoor seating, because I’m still avoiding being unmasked in indoor public spaces). For all the rainy dark days, there are bookstores, museums, libraries, and art spaces—to find a new book, read the magazine section at the library, wander a museum. We marked the farmers markets, the big city parks, and put a tiny sprout icon on all the p-patch community gardens.
There are interesting shops to browse, and art supply & plant stores to inspire creative ideas. The city pools are marked, and outdoor places to swim in the summer. And we made the streets with bike infrastructure a more vibrant pink (de-emphasizing the unpleasant major car roads), and marked the bike paths and light rail stops. Hopefully this map helps you find some places to go have adventures!
How Change Happens: Reading Recs
How do we make change? What might changes in the future look like? This zine, edited by Adam, collects 50+ books that have shifted the way he's thought about that.
The books and the stories within them are a mix of history of past changes, our current pressures and problems, and some positive visions of the future. If there is any single source of change, it is the imagination. Hopefully this reading list can help you also to expand your horizons and imagine a wider set of possibilities for the future.
Raccoon Fantasy
Haunted lodges in the forest, raccoon professors, raccoons on Mars, raccoon roommates: this special issue of Mundane Fantasy is all raccoons, on every page.
Thrilled to feature comics from distinguished raccoon experts including Rain Sissel, Dena Zilber , Ezra Jane Landsman, Elizabeth Case, Jackson Barnes, Jane Johnson, Erica McIntyre, Winifred Harrison, Zack Lydon, Maryann Cole, Sarah Maloney, Alex Barsky, Sarah Romano Diehl. And I made a comic too, about the time Adam was biking one evening in the hills south of San Francisco, and met some raccoons on a lonely road…
A new All Well print
Coincidentally, Amy and I just released something new for All Well, after a long quiet time of focus on the How to Sew Clothes book. It’s a flat bias binding print in violet ink, an illustrated summary of the method featured in the All Well Box Top, for repeat sewists to have as a reference for sewing necklines or other curved bindings.
I’m bringing the All Well prints to Short Run, including some half-priced ‘seconds’ copies of the newest print! If you’re into sewing or want to be, come say hello & mention sewing! Sewing my own clothes (and bags and stuff for home) an essential part of my “art practice”, and also just practical, and I love to talk about it!
Also, did you know All Well has a newsletter?! Here’s the latest issue, and we’ll have another soon about the next All Well zine, about making Patchwork Alphabet.
See ya!
Here’s the Short Run exhibitor map — we’re table 47, row H.
Short Run is masked and checking proof of vax, and running the HVAC on high, and taking other precautions. And they’re asking people to aim to arrive at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, or 5 pm to help manage traffic flow. The Stranger article has a good rundown of all the details, and here’s a 2015 article with tips on going to a the festival.
See you tomorrow! Or see you online! Or via the postal service!
-Amelia
(Adam says hi too!)
P.S. — All the new short run zines and the Seattle Adventure Map also come in a bundle if you want a copy of everything in the mail. (We’ll also have special bundle deals IRL at Short Run, with new prints and other not-available-online things!)
P.P.S. — Don’t forget to vote in the midterms, things are dire! As usual I’m referencing the Stranger endorsements for local races. ALSO related to midterms, I have a postcard in Lara Kaminoff and Marie Bouassi’s Aid and Abet set of pro-abortion-rights postcards designed by a bunch of different artists, which you can also get at Short Run, at Lara’s table. Funds go to Northwest Abortion Access Fund.