What’s a zine? A zine is a self-produced booklet that contains photocopied images and text. It’s likely to be inexpensive to make and produced in limited printed editions. Good ones are real gems and are sought by collectors. It’s gaining in popularity especially in creative fields because they can serve as practical self-promotion items due to its inexpensive up-front costs to make. This year, there were new faces to the zine world and they included a few of my advanced illustration students from Pasadena City College and they had a great booth with their works. Eric Nakamura from the classic Giant Robot store and gallery in West Los Angeles was there too. Good job all around!