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By Kaie Kellough Eight a.m. CKUT radio station, Montreal. Crazy free jazz discordantly squawks out of the studio speakers. Stefan Christoff’s […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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Indie Events: April 30th – May 6th
Toronto Sunday April 29th 12pm – Thursday May 3rd at 10pm, Comics vs Games, Magic Pony, 680 Queen St W, […]
Miserable Marvelous Holiday
By Krishna Rau For most people, travel is about vacation. It’s about getting away from it all, away from work, away […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
In light of National Poetry Month, CBC’s CANADAWrites profiled BookThug’s Jenny Sampirisi, letting readers in on her creative atmosphere. On […]
Zines as Essential Resources
When asked to teach a workshop on the black bloc tactic to the Direct Action group at Occupy Boston, a […]
The Seven Dollar Website
You wanna know where I’m sitting as I write this? In the CBC Broadcast Bunker in downtown Toronto. According to […]
For the Love of it
liliane comic $1.50 PO Box 274, Succ. Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 2N8 liliane minicomic started for the same […]
It’s Hip to Buy
Driving the back-roads of Canadian culture is no easy task. Detours, dead-ends and cavernous pot-holes mark the way. But these […]
Pictorial Profile: Uganda Shop
Artwork by Andrew Foerster
What Culture is Made Of
Are you breaking the law? If you are an independent alternative publisher in Canada, the most likely answer is: Probably. […]