It was a great time at the Milwaukee Zine Fest.
Participating were a great variety of zinesters, writers, and artists from Wisconsin, Chicago, and beyond.
The Junk Drawer table featured drawers of zines, and one drawer of junk that was featured in a zine. There was also the name the odds and ends game. It got people involved in guessing and figuring out what the items were. It was fun to watch.
People were really nice, and I enjoyed hearing about other people’s junk drawers. One man told me how he’d inherited his father’s house, and it came complete with all kinds of tools and mechanical items he had saved. It was kind of like a junk drawer being passed along in the family.
A woman told me about a found object game, where you go through the alphabet. You start by looking for something that begins with a letter “A,” just lying around on the street, or wherever. The game is completed when you’ve collected found objects from A to Z.
Thanks to everyone who came out in support of independent creativeness. Thanks especially to the great folks who organized the zine fest. Milwaukee is super cool, and I hope be back soon.
