We stopped by a small zine fest yesterday at Kelly Writers House at Penn. It was organized by Kayla Romberger, the instructor of a class called Pixel to Print, and the exhibitors were students who were sharing their zines and prints, likely for the first time. We had fun eating snacks and checking out the work on display (and left a few of our own zines to share).
Katie especially enjoyed the zine “Love,” for which creator Kepler Boonstra made symbols representing several friends and excerpted text conversations with them in which they used the word love. Another favorite is the zine “I Can’t Bake You a Cake But I Can Draw You One” by Yune Kim, which extols the wholesomeness of celebrations that involve decorating and sharing cake. In a different way, this zine is also about love. It has nifty features too, including a sheet of decorations you can cut out and add to one of the cakes, and an envelope pasted to the inside back cover for storing them.
We also love the zine “promises: blue” by annie su, and the quote from it that is photographed below. It reads:
“ok! ~ sparkles in eyes ~
we have to do our best to make every
week different so we can slow down time
as much as possible!”
Highly relatable. Love the Writers House. Great to see what these young folks are bringing to zine culture. Thanks, everybody!
