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How to Turn Your Zine Into a Video Game

Zinester and programmer v buckenham discusses Downpour, their latest creation, as well as flatgames, toolmaking and where indie games overlap with the zine scene.

One Last Trip Down Taddle Creek

Founded by Conan Tobias in 1997, Taddle Creek has flooded Canadians with fiction, features, comics and poetry. After 25 years the magazine is hanging up its beret.

Nick Zedd’s Lovely Life of Scum

One of the most important and least accessible figures of the No Wave milieu, Nick Zedd’s films taught the important lesson that compelling art is unbound by any rules of aesthetics or taste.

Bitch Magazine Ends

On April 12, Bitch Media, the digital enterprise born out of the Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture zine, announced […]

The Annals of DC Punk

Washington, DC, was ground zero for the punk scene in the movement’s early years, and the influence of The District’s […]

Valium, Unforgettable

I lived with cartoonist Billy Mavreas in Montreal for a spell in the mid-90s. He brought home wild comics with […]

No Sleep Till Beta

Global Game Jam   For 48 hours at the end of January, about 1,600 people spread across 53 cities in […]

Fun or Else!

A chat with Portland’s twee-pop quartet Together, Kathy Foster, Jen Sbragia, Kim Baxter and Ari Douangpanya make up the fun […]

Meditation with Loud Noises

Hailing from the small town of Fergus, Ontario where he was introduced to electronic music via his father’s homemade rack-mod […]

A Tale of Two Distros

By Alex Gurnham One’s from out west, the other resides in Southern Ontario. One lives its life online while the other […]