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The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards
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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.
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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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