Announcing the Judges for the 2023 Zine Awards!
Meet our panel of judges for this year’s exhilarating competition!
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Meet our panel of judges for this year's exhilarating competition!
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Catalina Cheng, whose work in ceramics bridges familiar traditions, radiant pride and honouring the queer artists erased by history.
Visually distinct with a whimsical, costume-ish quality to character designs, there’s a comfortable tone of strangeness throughout Blind Alley that would feel at home in EarthBound or Twin Peaks.
Jenn Woodall has had it up TO HERE with these cherubic luxury nostalgia-baiting mall dolls being passed off as DIY 'girl power.'
Hark! Adventurers! Join us in this magical, magazine quest as Broken Pencil guides you through the weird and wonderful realm of indie tabletop roleplaying games!
Submissions In honour of the solstice, the theme is OVER THE THRESHOLD. Send your stories and poems of planetary […]
View all Calls for SubmissionsMeet our panel of judges for this year’s exhilarating competition!
You now have until September 30th, 2023 to submit to the Zine Awards!
The acclaimed cartoonist and the queen of gruesome tales join our panel for this year’s competition!
“People thought I was a degenerate, I did what I did only because the one underground rule was that there were no rules.” How the perilous, conservative rulership of Peru shaped its counterculture.
Toronto Canzine is BACK and we want YOU to be a part of it! Register before September 5th to be part of the most delightful zine fest in town!
In 1974, Vancouver artist Vincent Trasov ran for mayor of Vancouver. Or, at least, Vincent Trasov dressed as Mr. Peanut ran for mayor of Vancouver. Nearly 50 years later, documentary filmmaker Andrew Muir brought the performance piece back into the spotlight with Peanut For Mayor.
“It’s been strange taking inventory of all this, I feel like a spoiled brat. And worse yet, an embarrassed spoiled brat.” From gas stations to animation, Kreal shows us where the magic is made.
“What I want to do is use this exaggeration to point out contradictions and to point out ironies and skip over large swaths of theory and just smack it in your face. That’s the usefulness to me.” The activist, musician and director tells us how to speak to a world that’s gotten strange.
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The loss of local voices goes beyond arts scenes and progressive op-eds as trusted legacy publications become propaganda for your city’s worst actors.
Celebrating zine excellence since 2017, it’s the sixth annual Broken Pencil Zine Awards! You have between now and September 15th, 2023 to enter!
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Olivia Mae Sinclair, a textile artist binding books and zines with frayed fabrics, exploring a textured meaning of the text within.