Festivals, bookstores and presses: the holy trinity of indie comics. TCAF co-founder and Beguiling owner Peter Birkemoe can now claim a hand in all thre...
In February of 2018, I joined a small but lively band of lunch hour protestors surrounding the door of the Ministry of the Attorney General’s building on Bay St...
Urban centres are known to be hubs of safety and culture for LGBTQ+ people.
But what about those people under the rainbow umbrella who can’t, or don’t ...
Podcast art by Eric Kostiuk Williams
Attention, science fiction writers! Maggie MacDonald wants you to pick up the mic.
With both the podcast boom and th...
Way back in 1976, David Greenberger created The Duplex Planet, a zine inspired by conversations with seniors in the nursing home where he worked. It wasn’t ...
Some big, deeply rooted zine festivals settle in, becoming destination events for zinesters far and wide. Others, like Chicago’s ZINEmercado, pave winding p...
In the midst of a “21st century tech gold rush,” Nick Marzano is more interested in what’s happening in the shadows of Silicon Valley. In 2016, Marzano was host...
“Zines are traditionally an outsider’s medium, free of gatekeepers and gatekeeping,” says zine artist and curator Tara Bursey. “Now, with the internet exposing...
After achieving cult acclaim through his self-published and micro-published comics, The Follies of Richard Wadsworth is Maandag’s debut book. His mechanical, af...
I WAS ON a bus, heading to Fort St. John, to visit the only good thing in my life – the man I’d abandoned there. Sixteen hours south through the mountains. From...
