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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.

Call for Submissions: Slut Cake #18

The Love & Crushes issue!

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Equal parts Cronenberg and Ballard, the Toronto of Andrew F. Sullivan’s satirical horror is most effectively unnerving when rendered from the vantage point of foundation pits, damp parking garages, fortress-like backyards and underground tunnels.

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Our perspective on a past event can change over time given someone else’s account or our desires creeping in. Nestor Kok’s photozine encapsulates our warped perspective through Chicago’s infamous Bean.

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Every good ghost story should make you feel like we live in a haunted world. Writer Margaret Killjoy can accomplish this chilling effect without relying on any ghosts.

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