Review: Porn Work
Every porn scene — and there are millions — is a record of people at work. This is the premise behind Heather Berg’s fascinating account of the labour economies that form the adult entertainment industry.
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Review: All The Fortune Tellers Were Wrong
Samuel W. Grant has made sure that the collection is filled to the brim with Brad Neely-esque, single-page illustrations, each piece funnier than the last.
Review: Zine Obscura #6
The latest zine from Label Obscura covers Quebec’s heavy metal vets, maritime supergroups and glam rock in the great white north.
Review: Stone Fruit
Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit is a shifting story that explores how people grapple to stay together once they’ve reached the goal of escaping a negative environment.
Review: So Buttons #11
Baylis’ Harvey Pekar-esque writing shines throughout So Buttons. His personable and welcoming tone showing that each piece, despite the varying art styles, is thoroughly ‘his.’
Review: The Quiet Is Loud
Samantha Garner’s refreshingly original debut novel, The Quiet Is Loud, explores the grey areas between what we say and what we conceal and the stakes of keeping one’s identity hidden.
Review: Celluloid Lunch #6
Thick as a car manual, band interviews, record reviews, shorter prose and poetry make up the bulk of this Montreal fanzine.
Review: Borderline
The whimsical storytelling of Casey Harrison’s Borderline transports the reader into a world of pure fantasy that is matched by its gorgeous, ethereal illustrations.
Review: Sessile
“Sessility” describes a lack of mobility in organisms. The inability to move under their own metabolic processes. In Sessile, our narrator finds themselves unable to move on.
Review: Autonomy
A virus rampages, there’s a nuclear strike on Fargo and beer that costs $26. Autonomy is too canny to offer much hope. Some might call it cynical. But Victoria Hetherington writes with a clarity that is the mark of a truly fearless artist
Review: Good Lord My Daughter’s A Goddamn Radical!
Good Lord My Daughter’s A Goddamn Radical! is fun and sassy, mocking false green promises by corporations, the gender pay gap, and Margaret Thatcher.
Review: Hearts on Fire: Six Years That Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005
Just as Y2K preppers were disappointed, so too were big music executives who saw their profits crash back to earth thanks an artistic shockwave that found its epicentre in Canada. Hearts on Fire is a tome for anyone nostalgic for the simpler times of the early aughts.