‘Always Brave, Sometimes Kind’ is an ode to community that is warm, gritty and utterly complicated
Always Brave, Sometimes Kind Katie Bickell, 272 pgs, Touchwood Editions, touchwoodeditions.com, $22 Reading Katie Bickell’s debut novel is a […]
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Get lectured by a vegan dog in ‘The Dog Who Ate the Vegetable Garden and Helped Save the Planet’
The Dog Who Ate the Vegetable Garden and Helped Save the Planet Margaret Hurley, 106 pgs, Guernica Editions, guernicaeditions.com, […]
See photography through a dance of memory-laden vignettes in ‘Your Eye: On Photography’
Your Eye: On Photography Litzine, Alix Hawley, 24 pgs, Woodbridge Farm Books, thewoodbridgefarm.com, $10 Alix Hawley’s zine Your Eye […]
What free speech does or doesn’t mean in ‘PC Warrior Presents: Death of Free Speech’
PC Warrior Presents: Death of Free Speech Comic zine, Jill ‘Zine Fiends’ Clair, [email protected], Trade So-called “PC culture” and […]
Meet Mr. Fuzzypants in ‘Squishy Freak Frolic Monster Society Newsletter #1-3’
Squishy Freak Frolic Monster Society Newsletter #1-3 Comic zine, Mr. Fuzzypants aka Squishy Sheik, 8 pgs, eyesorecinema.com, $2 2020 […]
Super-Yum-O is a true hidden gem
Super-Yum-O Comic zine, Ruth Tait, Talking Pictures, 28 pgs, artbyrt.com There’s no easy solution to world hunger. While the […]
‘The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside’ deep dives into the work of comics’ most iconic lesbian creator
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In Edited by Janine Utell, 282 pgs, University Press of Mississippi, […]
‘Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty’ is good companion for a young adult going out into the world
Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty Hana Shafi, 165 pgs, Book*hug Press, bookhugpress.ca, $25 Like reading a live journal […]
Humour and humanity bleeds through every page in ‘Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink’
Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink Ralph Steadman, 320 pgs, Chronicle Chroma, chroniclebooks.com, $77 Ralph Steadman has been developing […]
‘A Diary in the Age of Water: A Novel’ is a book of genuine power
A Diary in the Age of Water: A Novel Nina Munteanu, 328 pgs, Inanna Publications, inanna.ca, $23 Bdelloid rotifers, […]
‘The Dripping Boat’ resembles a Saturday morning cartoon with an older audience in mind
The Dripping Boat Julian Lawrence, 64 pgs, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $12 An odd little man with a water droplet […]
‘Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy’ is like pure Pop Rocks candy
Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy Christian McPherson, 278 pgs, At Bay Press, atbaypress.com, $25 You know those […]