So the Alternative Press Expo
So the Alternative Press Expo was a bit less than expected–about 90% underground comics and maybe one or two zine booths. Not how it was advertized but let the buyer beware, I suppose. Didn’t stop me from picking up an armload of wild stuff including “Mac Afro” which looks like Shaft crossed with Battlestar Galatica, a hand-drawn pamphlet on the history of amusement parks and a very cheap copy of So I Married an Earthling a hilarious novel about a futuristic love story between a scienist and an intergalactic hairdresser. I saw the author Alvin Orloff read some months ago at Dog Eared Books and laughed myself weak.
Also I saw a flyer for something called the Portland Zine Symposium in July which I think is a bit more what I had in mind. And I’ve never been to Portland…