Hurry Up Ow Press

01/08/2026

We're set up for the Auckland Zinefest, in the Grey Gallery at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, open 10am-4pm, come and get your Dean Ballinger books, zines and badges...

30/07/2026

AUCKLANDERS, here's your chance to get the Dean books at the new lower price of $40 for the Dean Ballinger Anthology and $30 for OHU, and/or pick up some of his zines.

We'll be at the Auckland Zinefest THIS SUNDAY 10am-4pm at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki - the event is over two days and in two rooms, we'll be in the Grey Gallery and only on Sunday.

Sunday 2 August

16/07/2026

When Dean Ballinger, Greg Page and a call-in listener coined 'The Tron', they were ultimately to create a monster...

Hamilton City Council seems to have ruled out half its amalgamation options, leaving three finalists still in the game ahead of an August deadline.

05/07/2026

At the Taranaki Zinefest today, posting a bit late, as it closes at 2pm...

03/07/2026

We're go here at the Palmy ZineFest at Te Manawa Art Gallery.

29/06/2026

Kia ora koutou, we have produced a new A4 card-cover edition of Dean's 'Shelf Life; Stories from Browsers', with the sequel 'PJ & The Tiger' included. Meet a menagerie of the literate, the faces that were coming through the door in 2013.

Available from Browsers Bookshop, Auteur House and Mark One Comics in Kirikiriroa, and Graphic Comics in Whanganui o Tara, OR see us this weekend at the Palmy Zinefest on Saturday or the Taranaki Zinefest on Sunday, or the Auckland Zinefest on second day Sunday 2 August. No online sales until after that.

12/05/2026

08/05/2026

We're at Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest at the Central Library in Garden Place until 3pm, come on down!

02/05/2026

NEW SALE PRICE ON THE DEAN BALLINGER BOOKS at the Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest 2026 next Saturday, the Dean Ballinger Anthology now $40 (down from $75) and OHU now $30 (down from $55), bundle of both $60 (down from $110). SEE YOU THERE!

Zinester Profile No.45

Hurry Up Ow! Press
https://booksbydeanballinger.nz/
Kirikiriroa

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 published two books of Dean comix, and Mark Servian and others from the team will be holding a zinefest stall of his art, including zines and badges..

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.