Moetown Hoedown
By Melissa Bovaird Vernon Smith doesn’t hate the term “alt country,” he is just proud to be the first to […]
Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City
In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.
The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards
Strange and lurid. Enlightening and electrifying. It only becomes truer the further down you go. The Pigskin Peter Award celebrates the best comics underground.
Review: Resist #50
Mat Resist's DIY institution, which I first encountered at a Christian alternative music festival held on a former pig farm, hits a milestone. Surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.
First the Press, Then the Streets
In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.
The Tide Turns in Time
How Michael Novick and his street action political zine Turning the Tide evolved to put radical media in the hands of the people.
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Canadian Internet Radio Take-over
Indie Love Radio By Melissa Bessey When we think of Canadian independent music, visions of unknown garage bands and seedy […]
Indie Lit Makes It Big in Hungary
By Richard Rosenbaum Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the resulting chaos across Eastern […]
Toronto Free Library
By Norah Franklin This summer, curators Maiko Tanaka and Sarah Todd will explore the familiar institution of the library within […]
Zoe Whittall
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E-Publishers
The future of printed matter is looking more and more like a computer screen, but that doesn’t necessarily mean progress […]
The Bloody Matriarch
Visual and performance artist Jesika Joy opens up about spirituality, feminism, dead animals and their relationship to her work By […]
Conceptualizing Theories In Motion
By Sam Sutherland Driven into the ground by the excess of 70s prog-rock (a grim reminder that God still hates […]
Mariko Tamaki Shows Some Skim
The author bares all in her new graphic novel By Erin Kobayashi Looking at writer Mariko Tamaki is like staring […]
Wey-hey and Up She Rises
Land-locked prairie poets bring the sea to the heartland By Andrew Wedderburn Booty, a collaborative pirate burlesque performance poem by […]
The Coolest Small Presses You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
By Richard Rosenbaum In the world of small presses, some are smaller than others; but that just means there’s room […]
Autobiographic
Graphic novels often moonlight as memoirs. David Silverberg investigates why this is, and whether it makes for compelling reading or […]