Zines . Art . Prints
A Printed Matter Book Fest :
Zines, Art prints, Chapbooks, Broadsides, Hand-printed books, and Comics
Contois Auditorium (in the Burlington, Vermont City Hall!)
December 16th, 2023, from 5-7pm.
Mark your calendars! Interested in participating? Email me breadandjamforfrances@gmail.com
Great news: BOTTLECAP PRESS based in LA has published my new poetry chapbook, Sagittaria. Order your copy of Sagittaria at Bottlecap Press
I combed through a dozen of my sketchbooks, scanned my drawings, and created a coloring book. You can see Harriet in action, coloring the pages enthusiastically.
One of my favorite art mediums is relief printmaking, either woodcuts or linocuts. Up until this month, I had not yet thought to create a block-print-zine, and by Jove, it worked out swimmingly!
SEABA, or the South End Arts and Business Association of Burlington, VT, awarded me a mini-grant to create an installation for the annual South End Art Hop on Pine Street. I painted this tall illuminated poetry scroll in ink.
The Ladybroad Ledger is a free femme Alt Comics newspaper in Vermont. They produce an annual publication to promote comics by femme and nonbinary Vermont cartoonists. What could be better? I’m a frequent contributor, and I’m pleased to have been included in the most recent issue, which you can find paper copies of around coffee shops, libraries, and bookstores around VT. Here are the comics of mine that they published in this recent issue:
I’m delighted to have been included in Isele Magazine’s ‘Queer Joy’ themed issue. Read the issue here, and here are my three poems. The Isele ‘Best Of’ Anthology will be published in print this fall, keep your eyes peeled! I will have an essay about teaching in the anthology.
I recently sorted through some of my old silkscreen prints and block-prints, and I found a handful of great pieces!
FRANKY FRANCES CANNON 