Hb Pencil

SATURDAY 27 JULY

HB Pencil is a collaboration with two queer friends. It initially started as a passion project with zines and grew to create multi-media products. Our zines outline our experiences with our queer-ness and gender expression from a traditional poc/immigrant household. Brandon has an ongoing series called 'Homo' that outlines his experiences in dating as a gay man and his home life. It is a personal piece with humorous anecdotes. Hara has a series called Buds which is a comic zine about three queer friends and the silly mundane things that they deal with in their everyday life. Brainworms is a nonsense zine that is full of doodles and what is currently occupying Hara’s headspace.

This year we each have two new zine series we are currently working on and a collaborative zine we continue bi-annually called 'HB notepad' which is a collage zine with a theme for each issue and made compiling our favourite memes and moments. We have a good intersection between deep introspection and silly doodling of expression. Our main mantra is to have fun and create art.

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