Big zine fest coming to Kansas City later this summer

We like zines. We even write about zine people sometimes! Now here we are writing about them again because we recently caught wind that a big zine convention is planned in Kansas City later this summer. 

Kansas City Zine Con #1 is set to be held in the Valentine Room at the Uptown Theater Saturday, August 29, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It’ll be, according to its organizers — more about them here — a “regional exhibition for independent publishers, small press distributors, and individual creators of zines, comix, chapbooks, newspapers, anthologies, tracts, pamphlets, and DIY radical readables of many forms.” 

We’re passing this along two months out from the event because there’s currently an Indiegogo campaign under way to defray some of the costs of putting on the event. They’re about a third of the way to their goal of $3,500, which will help cover renting “a prime space in Midtown Kansas City on a Saturday; payments for local and regional featured zinesters, contributors, and artists; affordable tabling prices for participants, and free attendance for the public.”

Organizers add: “With a strong start, we hope to make KC Zine Con an institution in the area’s arts and zine communities at large.”

Hit up the Indiegogo here; it goes for another two weeks. Organizers say there’ll likely be some kickoff parties and afterparties associated with this inaugural zine gathering, and we’ll update with that information as we get closer to the date of the event.