Music Review: More by New Fries
New Fries More, Telephone Explosion, telephoneexplosion.com This Toronto quartet is all over the map, and there’s no clear indication what […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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Jordan Abel wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize
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Staff Pick: Venom #2
Meeting Venom #2 (2015) for the first time was a chance coincidence. I was supposed to meet a friend at […]
The Smell of Our Own: Parental Edition with Simon & Judy Borer
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Leading up to the Toronto Art Book Fair, June 15 – 18, we’re profiling some of our favourite exhibitors. Lido […]
Art Holes: Adam Waito
Art holes is a column where artists diagram their work spaces. This issue, artist Adam Waito gives us a look. […]
Letters From Moose Jaw, SK
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Toronto Art Book Fair Preview: Milkweed Zine
Milkweed Zine is a Toronto sex-positive feminist erotica magazine that features international writers, artists, and photographers. Milkweed Zine experiments with […]