Canzine Vendor Spotlight: Constant Yen
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet Constant Yen, whose revelries in cartoonland are a craft of their own.
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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Canzine Vendor Spotlight: Agnes Wong of Big Rat Press!
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. Kicking things off, meet Agnes Wong of Big Rat Press, who chronicle an oddly familiar mouse.
Florida Tries to Ban Book About Banned Books
As contentious book bans spread throughout America, Kim Hyun Sook’s book about her experience with book bans ended up in Clay County’s crosshairs.
Bug Milk x Canzine at The Beguiling!
The most anticipated zine fest is teaming up with the offbeat revue for a night of zine readings unlike any other!
What to Expect at Canzine 2023!
Hop on in, the water’s fine.
The Most Honest Artist in Town: Remembering Joe Matt
Joe Matt erased the line between what should and should not be shared with an audience, which in turn made the reader realize that perhaps they didn’t need to be so fearful of their own dark secrets.
Announcing the Judges for the 2023 Zine Awards!
Meet our panel of judges for this year’s exhilarating competition!
Folio: Catalina Cheng on Ceramics and Preservation of Queer Art History
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 Catalina Cheng, whose work in ceramics bridges familiar traditions, radiant pride and honouring the queer artists erased by history.
2023 Zine Awards Deadline Has Been… EXTENDED!
You now have until September 30th, 2023 to submit to the Zine Awards!
Introducing the First Two 2023 Zine Award Judges: KC Green and Gretchen Felker-Martin!
The acclaimed cartoonist and the queen of gruesome tales join our panel for this year’s competition!
Stop Saying I Look Like The Zinester American Girl Doll!
Jenn Woodall has had it up TO HERE with these cherubic luxury nostalgia-baiting mall dolls being passed off as DIY ‘girl power.’
One Day We Will All Die. Who’ll Make Comics Then? David Galliquio and Comix in Unpredictable Peru.
“People thought I was a degenerate, I did what I did only because the one underground rule was that there were no rules.” How the perilous, conservative rulership of Peru shaped its counterculture.