Reviews

The Butcher zine excels in its use of collage, especially imagery

Kyle FlemmerAugust 29, 2018

The Butcher Zine, The Butcher (Rozali Telbis), 10 pgs, butcherzine@gmail.com, $3 The inaugural issue of The Butcher, an eponymous, full-colour zine based ou...

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Gary is just a guy stumbling through life like the rest of us

A.G. PasquellaAugust 28, 2018

Gary:King of The Pickup Artists Alexandre Simard & Luc Bossé, 151 pgs, Pow Pow Press, powpowpress.com, $22.95 Don’t let the title throw you — the hero o...

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Welcome to the Daily Life of Tabistacs is an open invitation to revisit the ordinary

Jean MathewAugust 27, 2018

Welcome to the Daily Life of Tabistacs Comic zine, Stacy Lee Daily life is far from monotonous in Stacy Lee’s Welcome to the Daily Life of Tabistacs. Stacy ...

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Waiting Without Waiting may not technically be a zine, but it’s still worth a look

Joel W VaughanAugust 22, 2018

Waiting Without Waiting Art Zine, Josh Brien, 10 pgs,joshuabrien.com Josh Brien’s work is produced on a small scale, and difficult to find even if you’re l...

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To read From Lone Mountain is to slow down, breathe, and take a break from a hyper-digitized world

A.G. PasquellaAugust 21, 2018

From Lone Mountain John Porcellino, 240 pgs,Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com,$22.95 USD/$24.95 CDN Ah, a new King-Cat collection! Reading King-C...

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Peach Fuzz undoubtedly has an aesthetic

Joel W VaughanAugust 20, 2018

Peach Fuzz Zine Art Zine, Chelsea O’Byrne, Marika Vandekraats & Sarah Ellis Clark, 12 pgs, Moniker Press, monikerpress.ca, $5 Risograph printed on copy ...

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Fir Valley is basically Twin Peaks with a Canadian twist

Nick PearceAugust 16, 2018

Fir Valley Jason Turner, 171 pgs, Cloudscape Comics, cloudscapecomics.com, $25 The murder rate of idyllic small towns nestled in the woods must be of...

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Panting zine is far from the traditionally published comics

Jean MathewAugust 15, 2018

Panting Hayley Dawn Muir, 75 pgs, DDOOGG, shop.ddoogg.ca, $25 From the textless front cover to the textless back cover, Hayley Dawn Muir’s Panting is a dis...

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HYPERMANCER is unquestionably well-produced for a DIY recording

Scott BrysonAugust 14, 2018

HYPERMANCER Oumuamua: Eternal Light No Homes In Peace nohomesinpeace.bandcamp.com We’re deep in conspiracy territory. “My laptop was seized by Homeland Se...

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The Empty Bed may help you feel a little less alone

Anisa RawhaniAugust 13, 2018

The Empty Bed Robert Dayton, Impulse,impulse-b.com, $20 Maybe it’s because I read this less than two weeks after a break up, but Robert Dayton’s post-break...

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The OK Kermit zine will charm your heart

Jason LutherJuly 31, 2018

OK Kermit Comic, Gart Darley, Rotten Variety! Zines, 16 pgs, gartdarley.com This follow up to Gart Darley’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Kermit zine im...

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While well researched, Unsettling the Commons can be unsympathetic at times

Joel W VaughanJuly 30, 2018

Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism Craig Fortier, 125 pgs, ARP Books, arpbooks.org, $14.95 In keeping ...

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