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25/07/2025

Now at WGTN Zinefest "Trade Wars" Market, at the School of Design on Vivian St, come on down...

05/07/2025

HEY AUCKLAND! We're at the Auckland Zinefest, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki today until 4pm, come and get those Dean Ballinger books or zines or badges you've been meaning to acquire...

25/04/2025

Today we're at Ages of Pages at Claudelands Event Centre, until 4pm, come on down and get Dean Ballinger's books, zines and badges!

07/04/2025

Dirk Thrust has a new album out... at link in comments

"Lumière was the project where Dean Ballinger (recording as Louis Lumière) combined his love of esoterica, poetry and electronic disco. And where he and I indulged a shared interest in the tiny subgenre of records with live drums but everything else is synths.

The first, self-titled, album was heavily themed around accounts of alien encounters, while this second, shorter album, draws upon more broadly esoteric themes, such as the 1913 silent horror film Der Sudent von Prag, wherein an impoverished student sells his mirror image to a sorcerer.

Several songs on the first album are named for aliens which various folk claimed to have met, and Meeno Peluce seems to fit this convention perfectly. Except Meeno Peluce is a real person, the child actor from The Amityville Horror.

Lumière 2 was again recorded and facilitated (and more recently mixed) by myself - whom Dean named as Auguste Lumière, considering me a member of the group for my contributions."

Read more and buy the record at link in comments.

4 track album

06/04/2025

We'll be at KHZ, spread the word!

Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest

Zinester Profile #8

Hurry Up! Ow! Press

Kirikiriroa / Hamilton

Dean Ballinger made many zines from the mid-1990s until he died after enduring Motor Neuron Disease in 2022.

A group of his family and friends have now published two books of Dean comix, and Mark Servian and others from the team will be holding a zinefest stall of his stuff.

The Dean Ballinger Anthology bring together his comic strips and graphic tales in a double-ended volume - The Art of Puster and The Tower.

OHU is Dean's full colour graphic novel, completed by Aaron Christiansen after he died.

We'll also have zines and badges featuring Dean's art, plus some other goodies from the Tron underground.

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01/04/2025

See you at the KHZ!

Launch of the Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest poster by Kirikiriroa's own Nina Harper. Equally awesome After Party poster to follow. (Stall-holder applications @ https://forms.gle/rsQMTGMFNKHmHoZq9)

16/03/2025

After learning about its existence at a recent zinefest, have now updated the Dean Ballinger page on the Neglect Comics Wiki on Fandom, check it out, what would you add?

Link in comments if not below

Dean Ballinger (1974-2022) was a comic artist, illustrator, and anthology editor based in Kirikiriroa-Hamilton. Dean, who died at age 48 in 2022 after enduring Motor Neuron Disease, produced many cartoon strips and comic zines from the late 1990s, ranging in style from imaginative new mythology and....