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Folio: Bridget Moser on the Uncanny and that Skeleton with Hair
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Bridget Moser about the uncanny, the unsettling, ‘cursed images’ and a hair covered skeleton of her creation that got under people’s skin.
No Cure In Sight: Grant Ionatán on COVID, Isolation, Disability and Against Forgetting It.
A lifetime of alienation from my peers and reluctant obsession with death had turned me into some kind of stoic mutant, able to see in the metaphorical dark. It felt good to say that I had been preparing for this my whole life, whether or not it was true.
Review: Maria
In just a handful of words, Andromeda skillfully sketches Maria as a brash teenager, in a Puerto Rican family in New York City, and then as an equally brash ghost haunting the halls of their old apartment.
PEOW Ends Print Run After 10 Years
Beginning with risographed books and fanzines made internally, PEOW would go on to publish a vast assortment of contemporary, international cartoonists, such as Thu Tran, Jane Mai, Linnea Sterte and Ville Kallio.
Introducing Our 2023 Winter Issue: Your Own Personal Joker
Vera Drew has gone through many transformations in her life, no vat of acid required. The filmmaker fought to create The People’s Joker and continues to fight to bring the people their Joker.
Call for Submissions: FRIENDS OF RUBY
Submissions Friends of Ruby is now welcoming and inviting all 2SLGBTQIA+ creatives to submit any form of writing or art […]
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The 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards Nominees
The moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Here are your nominees for the 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards!
Maximillian Alvarez on The Work of Living, COVID and The Unfathomable Loss of One Million Lives
“How can we quantify all that’s been stolen from us? How can we forgive the failures of our governments and our economic system whose callousness, greed, and jingoistic competitiveness made this all so much worse than it could have been?”
The Hall of Horror Zines
Lurking beneath Famous Monsters and Fangoria, a brood of horror zines rose from the ink and grime. Learn the history of Psychotronic Video, Sleazoid Express and the Gore Gazette within… THE HALL OF HORROR ZINES!
Was The Zodiac Killer A… ZINESTER?!?
A new book theorizes that the infamous Zodiac Killer was determined to spill more ink than blood.
Jay Stephens On Their Creepy, Quirky, Demonic Comic Dwellings
We chat with Jay Stephens about small town mysteries, the gruesome side of Casper and their Doug Wright Award winning horror series Dwellings.
YOU’RE INVITED! Broken Pencil Zine Awards Bash 2022
The event of the year has finally arrived! Come honour the best of the best in zines and comics with the Broken Pencil team.
How to Turn Your Zine Into a Video Game
Zinester and programmer v buckenham discusses Downpour, their latest creation, as well as flatgames, toolmaking and where indie games overlap with the zine scene.
Introducing Our Fall Horror Issue: Bloody Bits
The twisting of bone. The teasing of flesh. Gretchen Felker-Martin, the author responsible for Manhunt, finds reprieve in gore. How could we resist putting her on the cover of our horror issue?
Toronto Canzine 2022 Event Schedule
Check out the programs, workshops and panels at this year’s Canzine Toronto on October 1st!
Low Carbon Methods are Greening Academia with Zines
DIY Methods look to the past to design an environmentally friendly conference for the future.
Exploring the Menopausal Multiverse
Laraine Herring and Omisade Burney-Scott demystify menopause and embrace the crone in projects that span zines, podcasts, protests, generations and dimensions.