“Even Monsters Are Growing” addresses real issues for fake creatures
Even Monsters Are Growing Art zine, Roy Luo, 20 pgs, Instagram: @RoyLuoArt A wee bit of “I’m OK. You’re OK” […]
Reviews
Photo zine ‘Hey! You!’ steeped in intimacy and some ickiness
Hey! You! Zine, Blake Lewis, $5 plus postage, 24 pgs, [email protected], blakelewisphoto.com A menacing point. Some shadows. Blurriness. Confinement. Confusion… And […]
Slice-of-life series ‘Almost Summer’ worth a binge read
Almost Summer (Vol. 1-4) Sophie Bédard, Pow Pow Press, powpowpress.com, $22.95 ea, four volumes It’s a webcomic fan’s dream to […]
‘100 Days in Uranium City’ gives bleak look at lonely life of miners
100 Days in Uranium City Ariane Dénommé, 144 pgs, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $18 This book presents a bleak tale of […]
‘We All Need to Eat’ covers suicide, Jewish identity and queerness
We All Need to Eat Alex Leslie, Book*hug, bookthug.ca, $20 We All Need to Eat is a collection of nine […]
Drama-filled ‘Through Different Eyes’ is a page-turner
Through Different Eyes Karen Charleson, 226 pgs, Signature Editions, signature-editions.com, $19.95 Love triangles, teenage pregnancy, (not so) secret affairs, a […]
Q2Q an engaging snapshot of Canadian queer theatre
Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts Dickinson, Gatchalian, Oliver & Singh, eds., 312 pgs, Playwrights Canada Press, playwrightscanada.com, $29.95 Anthologizing seven […]
Infinite Gradation an invaluable source of consolation and clarity
Infinite Gradation Anne Michaels, 88 pgs, Exile Editions, exileeditions.com, $19.95 Confident that “morality is a muscle,” and that the mystery […]
279: playful on the outside, real talk inside
279 Art zine, Alecia Gatlin, 8 pgs, AleciaGatlin.com Firstly, the format of 279 is super foldy and very cute. It’s […]
The Vent 2.0 prison zine is harsh, heartbreaking, and joyful all at once
The VENT 2.0 Zine, Edited by Piankhi Squabblez, ACB Zine Distro, PO Box 721, Homewood, IL, 60430, USA, betweenthebars.org The […]
On Being a Fucking Slut tackles rape and sexuality brilliantly
On Being a Fucking Slut Zine, Anonymous, 36 pgs, lookmumzinedistro.blogspot.com I picked up this beauty at the Hamilton Zineposium, where […]
National Teen Set Outsider #35 is insolent, funny and heartfelt
National Teen Set Outsider #35 Fanzine, edited by Will Carroll, 32 Edmonds St. #1, Rochester, NY, 14607 Rochester cut-and-paste punks […]