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Weekly update 5/11/09

Hello

Not lots this week. First A Cheap Affair Christmas, the deadline for proposals is this Sunday so anyone who is interested should get on to us quick! email:

[email protected]

For anyone on flickr we have now made the Cheap social uploading network platform group to act as an online gallery open to anyone and everyone (as not everyone can fit into one bi-monthly zine!!) Go here to join or browse:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/cheap-zine/

In other news our good and very talented friend Anthony T W Myers has just released his first zine Honest which you can get a copy of here:

http://honest.bigcartel.com/

There’s a fair few things going on/releasing this week too, tomorrow (Friday 6th) Bazar Tremulo 4: Nowhere comes out and you can view this online here (for any English-only speakers you may be better searching Bazar Tremulo on google and pressing the translate button!):

http://www.bazartremulo.com/

Saturday this week is a big day, firstly Dario Molinaro’s first solo exhibition is opening which will be amazing!! If you’re in Benevento, Italy pop in and say hi from us! Also on Saturday is Manchester Artists’ Book Fair which will be a good, fun, interesting day. One person who will just happen to be there is Abi Whitehouse and her wonderful new issue of Doodlezine which will include… Nikki Marie Jackson!! You can also grab a copy here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Doodlezine

Good times, good times,

Speak to you next week people!

Tommy and Nikki

ps. we’ve just found it’s real funny if you copy and paste the bulletin into a word document and make your computer read it to you :)

Weekly Bulletin 29/10/09

Hello

Good week? Us too. So first things first, there’s only one copy left of Michel Dhillon’s The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke to giveaway so first come, first served.

Right on to business, We’re still looking for people to be involved in our fair this Christmas at Islington Mill in Salford, it’s on Sunday 6th December and it’s going to be great, we already have about 20 stalls so get on it! Give us an email for more details or just tell us what you make/sell if you want to get involved:

[email protected]

As we’ve mentioned Cheap will be changing and expanding in the next few months so we can now let you know there’s an interview with inkygoodness in the pipeworks so watch out!!

Also Cheap zine is going to go through drastic changes, we can’t let you know yet but we can give you the line-up for issue 9 which will be released on the 11th November:

Mario Kolaric (part two!!)
George Mitchell
Brett Manning
Ashley Fauguel
Billy Anderson Barnes
Laura Skilbeck
Sakura
David Procter
Claudio Parentela
and the first of a two parter from Steve Tillotson!!

In other news our Tommy Eugene Higson has had his first set of bags approved and are now on sale on envelop so check out:

http://www.envelop.eu/shop/designers/p/detail/tomm…

We have also recently met and befriended Zine Friendly so head on over here for all your latest zine news and events info:

http://zinefriendly.wordpress.com/news/

We’d also like to mention a couple of issue 9 artists, first Brett Manning who has just expanded her already beautiful range of tees on etsy and Red Bubble and secondly Billy Anderson Barnes who has a very cool range of prints available from his online shop, head to their respective sites to shop:

http://brettisagirl.com/

and

http://sumocloud.com/

Aaand finally! if you’re in Manchester this Saturday pop down to Islington Mill in Salford, there’s and exhibition opening of new work from Rob Treen, Liam Harrion, Polly Steiner and Nelson Ferryman 6-9 and a live drawing and sound performance collaboration between Rachel Goodyear and Lee Paterson 7.30-9.30!! For more info:

http://www.concretehermitnetwork.com/events/event/…

and

http://www.islingtonmill.com/events.php

And that’s all for this week, thanks for listening!!

Tommy and Nikki

Weekly bulletin 21/10/09

Hello all,

Hope everyone’s had a good week, so, straight into it. If you’ve not already read or don’t already know the inkygoodness 3: Wonderland review is now up on our myspace blog as is our review for Michael Dhillon’s The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke (there’s still a couple of copies up for grabs so get on it!)

Also if you check out our various sites and myspace things are pretty up-to-date, there’s preview images of all the issues for sale on the shop at concrete hermit as well as in our images folder on myspace. Also from the myspace blogs links to the artists sites are working so you can check them out a bit more. Link buttons to a history of Cheap and our blog are now also up and running which can also be found here:

www.a-n.co.uk/p/569256

and here:

The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke paints a fictitious reality lived by thousands of artists, the romantic; drinking, whoring, seclusion and strife to change the world. Very real current issues are raised pertaining to the purpose and functionality of art and its omnipotence, the importance of artist popularity and misinterpretation, the brutality of sensationalism and the violence of revolution via extremes akin to that of Watchmen or V for Vendetta. Michael Dhillon’s adventure excites and grips as it unfolds and tangles you in its complexity of issues, what should an artist be? what will someone do to be remembered? how complicated is morality? -Tommy Eugene Higson

Weekly Bulletin 12/10/09 Fair Info

Hello all,

Today we put up the inkygoodness 3: Wonderland review to the blog and the blog space on myspace so check it out if you haven’t already! Review of Michael Dhillon’s The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke will be up on Wednesday, an addictive read and we still have a few copies left to giveaway with issue 8 of Cheap Zine so get yours whilst you can!!

http://cheapzine.bigcartel.com/

Also Tommy Eugene Higson’s first zine is now on sale:

http://tommyeugenehigson.bigcartel.com/

In more news A Cheap Affair our creative fair at Islington Mill in Salford is to be a monthly event, taking place on the first Sunday of every month (apart from January which will be the second) times tbc.

So we are looking for people to be involved for the first new event (6th December). We ask for proposals no more than one side of a4 and a few images or a web link so we can see your work. We don’t want intense essays we just want to know what you do. We want designers, illustrators, artists, clothes makers etc. we want a wide variety! We will let you know if you are successful either way. The deadline is 8th November and if you are successful you will be alloted a 2m x 2m space for your stall, you must bring you own table (we simply do not have supply) and will have to pay £5 for use of your space (you keep all your profits). For more info see the blog or blog space on myspace or give us a shout!

And finally, as always, we want your work to show the world :) We’re after doodles, paintings, writings or any other images/visuals. black and white a5 portrait please and send us at least two images, you get two pages but we like choice (and there is still space in November’s issue so if you send us something by Friday 16th October you may well be in the next issue!!)

Email: [email protected]

Also if you want anything promoting, anything you are involved in or doing or making give us a shout and we will do our very best to help.

So until next weekish,

Have fun!

Tommy and Nikki