Cork Zine Fest: Irish fanzine culture well-represented at Shandon St event
L-R: Cork Zine Fest co-ordinator Mo Odling and assistant; the cover of Laurie Shaw's 'Classic Cigar Shape' comic-strip zine
Cork is a city with a history in fanzines, the self-made missives with roots in counter-culture and self-publishing - see the importance of zines to Leeside music, soccer and left-wing politics in the Eighties and Nineties. They heyday may have past, but it's a scene that still survives, as underlined by Cork Zine Fest, founded as ‘Doppelganger’ in 2018.
“This team, apart from (co-curator) Annie Forester, who's the baton handed over to her from (founder) Oriane Duboz, it's really four people, and none of us knew each other before the beginning of this year - we had not crossed paths before,” says co-ordinator Mo Odling, who works with a team of three other people to run the event.
