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Farewell and thank you from BCZF!

After 8 brilliant years of Bristol Comic & Zine Fair, we have decided to call it a day.

Thank you to everyone who has been involved over the years – Organisers, volunteers, exhibitors, attendees and venues.

Bristol Comic & Zine Fair has been a blast, and we’re really proud of it, but we’re busy working on other things now, so no longer have the time to devote to organising it. The comic & zine community is thriving right now, and it feels right to call time on BCZF while there are plenty of other things going on (see links below). Hopefully we’ll see you all at other events soon.

Team BCZF xxx

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Farewell from BCZF Farewell and thank you from BCZF! After 8 brilliant years of Bristol Comic & Zine Fair, we have decided to call it a day.

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BCZF 2018 Thank You

BCZF 2018 Thank You

Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2018. We hope you had a great day.
After the success of BCZF 2017, we decided to stick with our new format: hiring the dual venue of The Station and The Kitchen. The whole ground floor was buzzing from the moment we opened the doors. Accessible Hour, from 11am started the event with a friendly atmosphere, and proved necessary as from 12pm on the dot, punters flooded in…

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BCZF Floor Plans

Main hall
The Kitchen
Navigate Bristol Comic & Zine Fair using the floor plans. Exhibitors will be revealing their table numbers throughout the day, and there will be lists next to wall-mounted plans at the venue.

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Workshop at BCZF 2018 Make your own zine at #bczf on Saturday! With @lizemeddings (@theofficialsadghostclub), @choirmole (@notnowstudio) and @hannah_k_chapman(@comicbookslumberparty). The workshop is free and materials are provided. No advance bookings- just show up on the day! ❤️✏️🖍💛

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We are delighted to announce that our first guest speaker at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2018 will be Hamja Ahsan!

Hamja is known for Shy Radicals / Free Talha campaign / Other Asias

He is also one of the curators of the excellent festival DIY Cultures:

DIY Cultures is an annual day festival exploring intersections of art and activism, running since 2013. The programme consists of a zine fair, exhibitions, workshops, contemporary craft, panel discussions, comic illustration, video art and digital animation exploring DIY practice. The event has established itself as a leading national forum for artists-run initiatives and alternative publishing. The event distinguishes itself by by its commitment to Black and people of colour empowerment and centralising marginalised histories and subcultures such as decolonalising initiatives, diaspora stories, prisoner solidarity, radical mental health and Muslim communities under the War on terror The festival programme has expanded into an accompanying extended exhibition and commissions programme.

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Hamja will be speaking at BCZF on Saturday 6th October in the 2nd floor Dance Studio between 4.30-5pm: “Presenting DIY Cultures”

Hamja Ahsan with Saffiyah Khan

DIY Cultures 2017

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Hamja Ahsan at BCZF 2018 We are delighted to announce that our first guest speaker at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2018 will be Hamja Ahsan!

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Fundraiser for BCZF 2018

Fundraiser for BCZF 2018

It’s time for the annual Bristol Comic and Zine Fair Fundraiser!!!
We’ll have LIVE MUSIC! We’ll have LIVE ART! We’ll have OTHER STUFF – PROBABLY ALSO LIVE!
Wednesday 5th September Cafe Kino 6-10pm (first band on at 7pm) £4 on the door Bring your nan
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The Perverts:
A noisy-punky-glitchy upbeat mess of sonic joy. A bit like The Slits meet Soronprfbs. Inspired by 80s video games and…

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Curation of BCZF 2018

Curation of BCZF 2018

This year’s BCZF application process has been the most difficult so far. We have been inundated with excellent applications, and we are very sorry that we couldn’t offer out more spaces.
We have received 235 applications requesting 311 tables. We only have 80 spaces available, using the whole ground floor of The Station. To cram more tables in would create a more crowded environment, with narrow…

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2018 Applications

Applications for Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2018 have now closed.
Thank you to everyone who applied – there were a lot of you!
We will be reading over the applications for a couple of weeks, and will let everyone know our decisions by the end of June.

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Save the date! We'll be back at The Station @Creative_Youth and @StationKitchen on Saturday 6th October. Applications will open next month! #BCZF

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Thank You

BCZF 2017 Thank You What an incredible day! BCZF 2017 was, hands down, our biggest and best year yet. We returned to The Station as usual, but this time took over The Kitchen, opening up the whole of the ground floor for the seventh Bristol Comic & Zine Fair. With 80 exhibitor tables hosting more than 100 artists, it was our busiest year, but we always had room to breathe. The atmosphere was…

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BCZF Panel Discussion: COMMUNITY

BCZF Panel Discussion: COMMUNITY

We’re hosting a panel discussion at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2017 on the theme COMMUNITY. Esme Betamax will be putting questions to creators from Printhaus, No Bindings and Two-Tone Zine. 4.30pm at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair

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Spotlight: Jayde Perkin

We are expecting to see an absolutely fantastic bunch of exhibitors at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2017. As usual, there will be a good mixture of familiar faces and new names. If you love someone’s work, please make sure that you tell them so. It’s this kind of support which keeps us all going! This year we will be following our own advice, and having our first Spotlight. This is a selection of…

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Spotlight: Bethan Mure

We are expecting to see an absolutely fantastic bunch of exhibitors at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2017. As usual, there will be a good mixture of familiar faces and new names. If you love someone’s work, please make sure that you tell them so. It’s this kind of support which keeps us all going! This year we will be following our own advice, and having our first Spotlight. This is a selection of…

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Spotlight: Marianna Madriz

We are expecting to see an absolutely fantastic bunch of exhibitors at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2017. As usual, there will be a good mixture of familiar faces and new names. If you love someone’s work, please make sure that you tell them so. It’s this kind of support which keeps us all going! This year we will be following our own advice, and having our first Spotlight. This is a selection of…

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