August 11–13 Portland, Oregon. Emily Horne of A Softer World, her no-good-roadie-of-a-boyfriend Jeremy and Mike Lecky will be loading up their newly aquired Loose Teeth tour van on August 10th and heading down to Portland for the Portland Zine Symposium (http://pdxzines.com/) for 3 days of workshops, readings, selling things, and drinking Sparks (for those who don't know it's like Colt 45 + Red Bull + Tang - http://www.sparks.com/ ).  Go and visit their table, it'll be the one with the big slime green tooth. For directions, information, et al, click here.

 

September 9–10 San Francisco, California. There are vague plans for this to be an intense 14 day bike-from-Vancouver-to-San Francisco type event, but since we *just* got our poor little red minivan last week we'll probably end up driving it just so it doesn't feel lonely. This is a two day zine fair, taking place at CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, in the Mission). For directions, information, et al, click here.

Through a combination of reading all the pamphlets available at the Broadway and Commercial CP kiosk, clever packaging, and a general distaste for paying for things, Loose Teeth have managed to cut the cost on a lot of theirbooks on the online store by reducing the shipping costs.  The Legitimate Art comic book is now $7 cheaper in the US and Canada, and $4 cheaper over seas.

 

Finally, for the Internet's 100th anniversary this summer, we've redone our website with a charming little illustration from a girl named Megan Fildes who lives in Halifax, NS, and goes to the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. She works at the casino and lives in a house painted yellow and leaves the door open even in the winter time in -30 weather, because you never know when a cat or posse of fauxbos (fake hobos) is going to come crashing in and make a scene in the kitchen (front doors should always lead into the kitchen).

 

Visit http://www.looseteeth.ca and buy any old thing and get some stickers with drawings by Megan on them for free.

 

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