2016
Gluestick poster ŠJacob Gardner, an Indianapolis-based graphic designer and eclectic musician.
Gluestick Schedule of Events
1:00-2:00 pm 3:00-4:00 pm 2:00-3:00 pm 4:00-5:00 pm
10 Johnson
Rad Grrls Comics Workshop “Wave One” Rad Grrls Comics Workshop “Wave Two” Ayun Zine Workshop “Wave One” Ayun Zine Workshop “Wave Two”
On the Platform
1:00-1:30 pm Open stage for poetry reading and musical performance 1:30-1:50 pm Rachel Dupont 2:00-2:20 pm Krustal 2:30-2:50 pm Cher Guevara 3:30-ish pm Brian Marshall Memorial Award Ceremony (Kelsey will say a few words, then present the Golden Stapler to Ananaia O’Leary)
Inside Irvington Vinyl
12:00 pm-5:00 pm Gluestick Library Chairs will be available for those wanting to read pieces at their leisure. Not all publications will be available to look through due to age and fragility. Zines can be donated the day of the fest, and there will be a designated box for those donations.
Gluestick 2016 brought to you by: Management and Visionary Kelsey Simpson Press Coordinator Elsy Benitez Sponsorship Coordinator Clark Giles Social Media Specialist S. Jane Mills Workshop Coordinator Bree Jo’ann Infographic Specialist Claude Bell Department of Public Words Team Dave & Holly Nice Greg Wolfe and the staff of 10 Johnson Perfect Impressions Printing, Indianapolis, IN. Support local business! For a PDF of this program, contact Claude @ claude6bell@gmail.com.
Freedom Indiana
Freedom Indiana is a statewide grassroots campaign working to update Indiana’s civil rights law to protect gay and transgender Hoosiers from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. Make sure you’re registered to vote! They will be near to the platform next to 10 Johnson Ave. ready to help you become a voter, or perhaps just talk about how we can make Indiana a loving place for everyone.
Boneshaker Books
Boneshaker’s base is Minneapolis, Minnesota. Maggie Ludlow will be returning to the Hoosier state with a strong selection of materials for purchase. Boneshaker is a community supported, collectively organized, and volunteer run bookstore. Their mission is to provide a welcoming space that promotes social justice and movements through books, education, and activism. They offer progressive and radical literature and a place to spark conversation, inform, and inspire.
Vouched Books
Vouched Books was established in 2010, as a champion for small publishers everywhere. The Indianapolis branch is represented here today. “Whether we’re reviewing work on our website, hosting a reading, or selling small press books at one of our guerrilla bookstores, the heart of Vouched Books is this: we love small press literature. Vouched Books.com is where we rally to support the small press authors, publishers, and journals that we believe in.”
Ayun Halliday
Ayun’s life can be loosely chronicled by her varied published output. After founding the East Village Inky (then and now written and illustrated completely by hand), she
chronicles family and work life through The Big Rumpus, No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, Job Hopper, Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste, the children’s book Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo, Zinester’s Guide to NYC, and the recent graphic novel Peanut. Her husband and partner in adventure Greg Kotis also wrote Urinetown! The Musical.
Heartland Underground/ Sybilla Bryson
Sybilla grew up hearing about her dad’s punk rock fanzine The Naked Edge and quickly became fond of the music and culture herself. The scene in Anderson was nonexistent, so she began to organize shows and at fourteen started the zine Youth Culture Killed My Dog with some kindred spirits she met online.YCKMD grew to eight issues, with some of the zines reaching Germany and a nod in Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll magazine’s best ten independent zines of 2006. Besides the the local punk scene, her new project The Heartland Underground features politics, creative writing, DIY guides (dumpster diving, bicycle commuting, hitchhiking, gardening, communal living and foraging) and creating awareness of opportunities for local activism, local projects and community events. heartlandunderground@gmail.com.
Jason C. Neuman
“I’ve been a writer for a long time and only been sharing my writings publicly for a few years at readings. I’ve always seen zines as something anyone can do. It’s an easy and cheap and fast way to print anything you want. It was a way for me to get my stuff out and not charge people very much for it. It also feels like it’s a way for me to put an end to some of my writings and move on to something else . . . I take photos and
write. My work is pulled from my travels and journals. It’s a small collection of the way I see the world.” Jason’s published work can be found at General Public Collective in Fountain Square and Luna Records in Broad Ripple.
Cher Guevara
Cher chose the independent/underground route for several reasons; she was part of a fiercely underground garage rock band, and her p0etry performances push boundaries that the mainstream dare not approach. Her books are her “studio albums” and her performances are the live experience. “Yes you can dig what I do by reading one of my books, but it’s even better to see it live.” She is a regular at the 10 Johnson Avenue Coffee House in Indianapolis and the Third Thursday Poetry Asylum in Terre Haute. You can also see her perform with Transylvanian Lip Treatment at the Irving Theater in Indianapolis. While many of her books are out of print, you can still purchase Last Tent City Blues through Drafty Attic Press and Menthol Slim One-Twenty Blues and Red Ink Sludge through Writing Knights Press.
Rachel Dupont
“Publication of some kind has always been my intent, but the purpose of this particular compilation was actually my senior project for my undergrad in creative writing . . . it helps me see what my own work is grappling with, and subsequently, what I’m grappling with. But it also is good to have something to hold in my hands and feel like it’s finished, which I think is a rare and important feeling for writers. It gives me a chance to hand it to someone else, say ‘I did this thing,’ and be proud of it.” She does local readings at Indy Reads and Thirsty Scholar, and occasional events at IUPUI.
Kelsey Simpson
Kelsey also began the zine life withYouth Culture Killed My Dog. “It was confused and young writing about our beliefs and passions, and we made it to eight issues. We treated it like a major publication, once attempting to get backstage at a music festival with ‘credentials’.” She continued with Negative Trend, covering local art, music, and activism, and then The Positive Artichoke and two art zines, Reasonable Aesthetic and Sushi Gluestick, and a CBGB special, I’m Not Here To Be Young. Her work was recently featured in Patti Smith fanzine Pissing in a River and her latest is a pop art study called Popular Icons. She is also Co-Editor of Vulcher and lately played drums, guitar and bass with The Gizmos at the Atlanta Mess Around Fest.
Vulcher
This new zine was created by Eddie Flowers of The Gizmos, Crawlspace, and an original Gulcher magazine editor. Contributors for issue #1 include Kenne Highland (The Gizmos, The Afrika Korps, pre-punk fanzine editor), Jymn Parrett (editor of legendary Denim Delinquent pre-punk fanzine), Chris Stigliano (Black To Comm fanzine, Blog To Comm), David Laing (Grown Up Wrong! Records & Dog Meat Records in Australia), Todd Novak (HoZac Records, Horizontal Action magazine), Rick Wilkerson (Hardly Music), Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things contributor, Got Kinda Lost Records), Ed Pittman (Toxic Reasons, New Regrets), John Bialas (editor of pre-punk fanzine Boogie), Steve Krakow (Plastic Crimewave, Galactic Zoo Dossier editor), Gary Pig Gold (The Pig Paper), Lindsay Hutton (editor of The Next Big Thing in Scotland 70s-90s), and Bruce Mowat (The Mole fanzine in the 80s; released Simply Saucer’s first LP).
Bailey Jean Hillis
Though relatively new to the medium. Bailey has already produced coffee shop erotica zines featuring her watercolor paintings, and a couple zines of photography. “To me, zines are all about acceptance. I don’t believe in censorship in any form. You won’t get a rejection letter from a publisher or sit down and hear horrible interpretations of your work. Just do it!” Her zines are for sale at Quimby’s, Luna, and General Public Collective.
Mike Rippy
Rippy is a master at collecting whether it be records, toys, or zines spanning decades and a dizzying array of subjects. You may know him as Aztec Kotex, lead villain/ singer in The Dockers. He is also a contributor to Vulcher. “I’ll be there with boxes of zines to sell from Xeroxes to newsstand stuff. All genres from poetry to blasphemy.” Explore his offerings, but keep in mind they might not be suitable for kids.
Brent Bultemeier
Gluestick celebrates paper-based artists and even those whho may not typically work with booklets. One such artist is Brent Bultemeier, who normally works in oil paint. His favorite paper is cotton-based, but he will draw on anything. He has put together a zine of doodles just for Gluestick, and will also have some of his music available.
General Public Collective
“General Public is an artist-run project space and concept shop dedicated to sharing ideas through exhibitions, performances and original works of art.” GPC has been in Fountain Square for some time, now hosting all kinds of different art and music. They’re also one of the few places in Indy one can go to find zines for sale. Erin
K. Drew and Rachel Peacock will represent GPC at Gluestick.
Rad Grrls/Bree Jo’Ann
Bree Jo’ann joined the Gluestick team early on as the Workshop Coordinator. She is an advocate for zine culture in Indianapolis, as well as a supporter of women doing amazing things. All those attending Gluestick are invited to take part in a “Draw Yourself As A Cartoon Character” workshop with Bree, as well as learning how to draw your own four-panel comic.
Magnetic South
While Bloomington-based Magnetic South isn’t a zine or book publisher, Gluestick tabler John Dawson wanted to share a couple relevant points about the label that place it in the context of the zine world: “We currently do not hire publicists. It’s not necessarily a hardline ethical stance, but as of right now we tend to not follow what has become a mass media practice. We value and have benefitted from journalism rooted in fanzine culture. We’ve been written about by Marc Masters, Doug Mosurock, Byron Coley, Maximum Rock n Roll, Terminal Boredom, and Ptolemaic Terrascope. We choose not to hire publicists and seek more social media-oriented music journalism even though it influences consumer behavior, because we value music writing. The approach to production in the studio probably parallels that of self-published zines, and the underlying philosophy about autonomous media is the same, we work with language and images, it’s just that the language is in the form of audio, not text. The handmade nature of Seth Mahern (aka Xerox The Kidd)’s art is relevant to zine culture.” John will be across the street at Irvington Vinyl.
Irvington Vinyl
Irvington Vinyl offers the finest selection of used, rare and collectible vinyl records in the Indianapolis area. With more than 20,000 quality LP’s and 45’s, carefully organized by genre and artist and a listening station to preview items, you’ll be hard pressed to walk out empty-handed if vinyl is your media. Used CD’s, tapes, turntables, record collecting supplies, 78’s and vintage posters are also on hand. They also stock new releases and reissue LPs and 45s. They are located inside Bookmamas at 9 Johnson Avenue, just around the corner from The Irving Theater. This partnership means that you can enjoy both books and records in one location. As an added bonus, both Bookmamas and Irvington Vinyl specialize in Indiana artists and authors. They have a very deep selection of Indiana records, both old and new.
Department of Public Words
“Positive words empowering people through art and education.” DPW uses the power of positive words to build, sustain, and empower community through strategic arts partnerships, mentorships, events, and education.They strive to engage the community through art, educate youth in the hope of positive living, inspire adults to reach their life potential, and “repeat as needed.”
Musical Family Tree
Musical Family Tree is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the mission of Spreading Indiana Music. By serving Indiana’s music communities, MFT aims to help build a more sustainable and world-recognized music scene in Indiana. They accomplish this by preserving, documenting, and promoting Indiana music, past and present. This includes digital archives, quality blog
content, curated shows, videos, physical releases, exclusive recording projects, a print zine, and more. They also provide resources to Indiana’s underserved musicians, like paying gigs, all-ages shows, sponsored tours, and promotional content to share with their fans. “In everything we do, we believe that Indiana music is unique and underrated, and we want more people to know about it.”
Girls Rock Indy
“It’s about learning to work together, to be a part of something more. By teaching these things, we can help girls develop—musically, mentally, and emotionally—toward their own ideas of who and what they want to be” says Executive Director Twinkle VanWinkle. Girls Rock! Indianapolis Rock and Roll Summer Camp is a day camp for kids who identify as female, ages 8-16. Girls come for a week-long crash course in playing an instrument, songwriting, zine making, self-defense and more. At the end of the week, campers get to perform their original song with their band in a live setting. Prior music experience is not required, and instruments will be provided. Financial aid is available for those who qualify.
The Brian Marshall Award
This award is named for Noises From The Garage editor, Brian Marshall who contributed to the rock and roll zine world through his publication and his deep appreciation for rock culture. Zines from his personal collection on are on display inside Irvington Vinyl at the Gluestick library and in Brian’s memory, Gluestick mastermind Kelsey Simpson will pass along the “Golden Stapler” to an individual outstanding both on paper and in life. The presentation is scheduled for 3:30 pm(ish) on the platform next to 10 Johnson.
Susan Fleckenstein/ Microcosm Publishing
Microcosm Publishing empowers readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them, emphasizing skill-building, hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and bookettes about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice. The then-distro and record label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom in 1996 and is now the oldest commercial publisher in Portland, OR. “Microcosm has lived in milk crates, in closets, in a mud room, in a windowless basement, in a church, and under a desk at a major credit card company. We’ve brought our brightly colored books to infoshops, zine fests, media summits, bicycle conferences, parks, street corners, house shows, dirty bars, allnight coffeeshops, art museums, and every corner of the mainstream where we can clear away a little space to set up shop. We set out to save ourselves from not caring, but out there in the margins we’ve found communities worth always doing it better for. Now we have contracts instead of handshakes, a warehouse instead of a fanny pack full of zines. We have a staff, we have relationships in the industry that send our books to places we wouldn’t have dreamed we could walk into ourselves. We’re not as drunk or dirty as we used to be. But still, at heart, we’ve got this milk crate strapped to the back of a bike and we’re riding wildly across town to hand you the book that might just be the one that saves your life.” Microcosm is distributed worldwide by Legato / Perseus Books Group and by Turnaround in the UK.
S. Jane Mills/Rebel Doll
Rebel Doll is a photocopied, cut-and-paste, collection of art and music in Indianapolis by people from Indianapolis: comics, drawings, interviews with bands, reviews, and
more. Jane’s other works include art- and comic-based collections like Inktober 2015 and her latest, Sehnsucht, a space-themed short story with lavish illustrations. Like many other zinesters, Jane is also a musician with Indy’s The Lickers. http://sjanemills.bigcartel.com
John Drawdoer
Though not interested in the usual music-based zines, John was intrigued by “people making very strange, stylized comics stories for an audience on the web, and then printing them up in books for shows like SPX or CAKE. I started making stuff to have something to trade with people who do that, and eventually became one of them. The whole point for me is actual human connection.” The result is “Homemade queer art comics. Psychological, literary, autobio with abstract, colorful, psychedelic drawings and simple, literal writing. There’s usually some stuff about magical ritual, mindfulness meditation practice, or grief—sometimes overt and sometimes not.” drawdoer.bigcartel.com, and http://drawdoer5000.tumblr.com
Maria Iqbal
“Well, I’ve ventured out of my comfort zone a little and have mostly been using inks and gouache. And of course, cut paper. I’ll be bringing some smaller zines that I made during the summer, as well as a doodle zine of all the spooky ink drawings I did last year for Inktober. And just for fun, I’ll be doodling some stickers to give out because who doesn’t love free silly things? I don’t think I could be an artist without paper. So, it might be a little weird or obnoxious to say, but I love paper! Um, aside from paper arts, I’m also big into puppetry! I’m in the process of learning how to make my own, and hope to be popping some of those out soon.”
Ed Blair
An article in the New Yorker criticizing American black metal as a rip-off of avant-garde classical music lit the fire of Black Metal of the Americas. “We started writing BMA to try and showcase a vibrant scene that had been consistently producing interesting and articulate work. Pro Wrestling Feelings was born after reading a wonderful piece on a friend’s tumblr about the impact women wrestling in Japan had on her life, and I wanted to make a home for more writing in that vein.” The rest of Ed’s work continues to focus on the appeal of niche entertainment through personal essays, interviews, and other types of writing. metaloftheamericas.com, and holydemonarmy.storenvy.com
Grant Lewandowski
Photo zines by Jeremy Tubbs and Ed Templeton that captured and documented the spirit of youth were Grant’s inspiration to document his own experiences in the same fashion. “My own personal photo zines consist of my work that I’ve acquired from walking around the streets of NYC to being among friends and capturing youth. I’ve also published other people’s work through zines, such as poetry and drawings . . . If you like photography I’d recommend looking up Hamburger Eyes, Dead Beat Club, and also Zinekong.com has some really great zines from really great dudes for sale.” oldmanmeandog.bigcartel.com and www. grant-lewandowski.com
Elsy Benitez
After years of contributing to other zines in L.A. and England, Elsy was inspired by this festival to finally create her own. “What I’m hoping for is to create a zine that bring a variety of artists, musicians, poets, photo- graphers, etc., to think about a concept as a way of creating a dialogue between
many different mediums. The first issue is about intimacy and how to communicate that through a creative language. I’m very curious about intimacy and how we define, identify, and acknowledge it. To me, this has been an investigation that goes beyond romantic relations and speaks to all manner of human interactions.”
Darcy Stricker
Darcy’s first zine was a collaboration with her cousin, I Want . . . “It was a big list we created of (usually ridiculous) things we wanted.” Since then, she creates them “as a way to stay motivated and stay on a task that I believe positively influences other aspects of my life. When I am working on a zine it means I have to keep my journaling consistent, it means I need to stay observant of what is around me, it means I have to stay introspective. I am inspired by vulnerability and honesty and the ways shared narratives can affect our perspectives and empathy. I am inspired by storytelling. I am inspired by creating platforms where women, queers, and weirdos can be heard.” She also creates perzines every year on her birthday to share cartoons, poems, short stories, lists, photographs, or dreams from the past year, and has inspired friends to do the same. darcystri@gmail
Historic Irvington Irvington was among the first planned suburbs of Indianapolis and is important for its Victorian Romantic winding street pattern, the varied architectural styles and types, and for its cultural and educational role in the city. Sylvester Johnson and Jacob Julian, prominent abolitionist lawyers from Centerville, Indiana, bought the site in 1870 and hired surveyor and friend Robert Howard to lay out the winding street pattern. Johnson recommended using the design of Glendale, Ohio, as a model. Irvington included a public park, proposed educational site, and deed restrictions against “vicious” land uses. A town board formed and incorporated the area in 1873. In the early 1870s, Northwestern Christian University announced a competition for a new site. Irvington won, and by 1875, the school had completed a Main Building and opened its doors, soon changing its name to Butler University in honor of its founder Ovid Butler. Its policy of admitting any person regardless of race or gender was highly unusual, reflecting the Quaker abolitionist background of the town’s leaders. Butler University remained in Irvington until it moved in 1928 to its present north side location. In 1900, the Indianapolis & Greenfield Rapid Transit Company laid tracks down the center of Washington Street and followed the National Road to Greenfield and beyond, giving Irvington efficient light rail service. Soon Citizen's Street Railway moved its new electric trolley line up to Washington Street. Taking advantage of this dramatic change in transportation routes, business owners quickly built commercial blocks on Washington Street. Developers filled lots with new houses during the first decades of the twentieth century. George Edward Kessler completed the final planning stages of the community with his 1909 Park and Boulevard System plan. Ellenberger Park and the Pleasant Run Parkway were finished much as he intended in the ‘teens and ‘twenties. In the early 1900s, Irvington became a favorite haunt of the city’s best fine artists and writers including Kin Hubbard, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon Abe Martin. An art colony gave the community a namesake art
movement, the Irvington Group. Led by noted Indiana painters William Forsyth, Dorothy Morlan, Clifton and Hilah Wheeler, and others, the group drew national attention in the 1920s and 30s. Pleasant Run Creek was a favorite plein air site for the artists. Architecture in the district displays a variety of late 19th and early 20th century styles. These include the French Empire Benton House at 312 S. Downey, the brick Italianate George W. Julian House at 115 S. Audubon, the outstanding Victorian Gothic Eudorus Johnson House at 5631 University, and the fine Arts & Crafts home of State Librarian Demarcus Brown at 251 Audubon. The Benton House is best remembered for its association with Silence Benton, who served as president of Butler University for several terms in the 19th century. The Julian House was the home of George Washington Julian, who relocated from Centerville, Indiana, in 1873, to follow his brother Jacob, a co-founder of Irvington. Julian won two terms in Congress in the late 1840s and 1860s, and he also ran unsuccessfully for vice president of the United States on the Free Soil ticket in 1852. Famous for his abolitionist stance, Julian welcomed Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to his Irvington home. His daughter, Grace Julian Clarke, a lifelong resident, was a statewide leader of the Indiana suffrage movement and the first female columnist for the Indianapolis Star.
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There is much more in the area to discover, but this should get you started. If you want to look for anything specific on your device of choice, the zip code here is 46219. 1 10 Johnson (you are here) 2 Irvington Vinyl 3 Bookmama’s 4 Bitter Sweet 5 World of Vapor 6 The Legend Classic Irvington Cafe 7 Collector’s Paradise (comics and memorabilia) 8 Black Sheep Gifts 9 Black Acre Brewing 10 Guitar Town
11 Jockamo Pizza 12 Huntington Bank (ATM) 13 CVS Pharmacy (6005 E Washington) 14 Antique Mall 15 Family Dollar 16 Jordan’s Fish & Chicken 17 Speedway (ATM) 18 BP (ATM) 19 Cardtronics (ATM) 20 Blue Indy charging station (at the library)