This is a great little zine. It’s got a bit of everything — politics, art, poetry, prose, comics, social static. In particular some of the poetry is very good, as are the political “cut and paste” notes. Maggie seems to favour a very personal kind of narrative in the writings she presents. That is appropriate, even though individual pieces are definitely overshadowed by the force of Maggie’s own off-kilter, fun loving and righteous personality. The longest piece in this issue of Crash was Steve Hayward’s flippant short-story My Grandfather’s Beautiful Hair. Hayward is better known as the author of the Bouche, a column that runs in the Gargoyle, the University of Toronto University College newspaper. Crash also features some perfect little illustrations that function well to break up text and still leave the reader enough white-space to think in. The feeling is international, as in that global village thing, and it works. This is probably because Maggie is currently spending time in the U.K. The comic could have been better, but otherwise, a great litzine.
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