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Broken Pencil
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from January 2008
Last Number: April 2010
ISSN 1201-8996
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Evans profiles Rosemary Travale, a Hamilton, Ontario-based artist, participating in this year's upcoming Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Travale has a style that combines quirk, cuteness and color to create characters that she describes as "weirdos .. with the best personalities." Her influences come from 1950s-era children's books, as well as the work of other comic artists.
Publishing Gets Mobile with Microcosm's Zine Trike
In a digital world, when print feels like it's going the way of the dinosaur, Microcosm Publishing decided to get crafty -- and mobile. Inspired by the desire to reduce set up time at events, founder Joe Biel purchased a tricycle frame from a friend and built a mobile display case to house Microcosm's catalogue of zines. The invention of the Zine Trike cut set-up time by half - not to mention that the uniqueness of the display case is a conversation starter.
In Toronto, several brave new writing workshops are offered by bookstores and publishers. These workshops will help talented, aspiring, and established writers.
Black Bile Is Anything but Precious
Matthew Firth's Black Bile Press and its chapbook series puts together stories by past contributors of Firth's other editorial project: the longstanding and positively heroic litmag, Front&Centre. Firth's approach to design craft, something which is often so important to micro press publishers, is to create chapbooks that are simple, clean, error-free, and that have a unique feel--something that sucks the reader in right off the bat. Other details of Firth's Black Bile Press are presented.
Rosenbaum reviews Remorsecapade by Woodhands.
Niedzviecki reviews Become Secret by Picastro.
Niedzviecki reviews Tumbling Into Light by Flying Bulgars.
Niedzviecki reviews 10 Kinds of Lonely by Ron Hawkins.
Deeming talks about Broken Pencil's use of a quick response (QR) code. The code will allow readers to link their cellular phone to the magazine's newly revamped Web site. He says in the age where majority of people are already online, QR code allows indie media folk an opportunity to disseminate information to a savvy and sophisticated audience.
Steinberg talks about her hat and her feelings towards her roommate Cindy. She lost her favorite hat and Cindy already has a boyfriend.
Talk Show Night at Juicebox Manor is a three-year-old Toronto-based Web series featuring musicians outside their usual element. The Juicebox Manor crew filmed 90-minutes of footage and edited it down and later to be broadcast online. Here, Silverberg favors the potential of web TV where there is the possibility of having thousands of shows all playing when and where you want them but Silverberg also states that in practice this seem daunting to the people aspiring to actually attract an audie...
Niedzviecki features Sonja Ahlers, the talented but at times frustratingly insular zinester-turned-collage artist. Ahlers is now with a startling new work of grahica poised to take her career to new levels. Niedzviecki also states that Ahlers, now an artist, utterly reject the typical Canadian idea of kitsch locality and refuse to allow herself or her work to fall into the trap of being associated by proxy.
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Three Dudes, Some Drugs, and a Bear
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Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond, 1977-1981
An excerpt from TREAT ME LIKE DIRT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK IN TORONTO AND BEYOND, 1977-1981 by Liz Worth is presented. the book discusses the challenges in getting one's record out of the world.
An excerpt from SOMNAMBULIST by Martha Grover. Here, Grover narrates her experience living with her parents for one full year.
Trees reviews Feedback, a well-written music zine about the noise scene in Canada. The zine highlights interviews with Kylie Minoise and Sex Negatives.
Pinder reviews 1234V, a zine about vaginas. The zine's highlights include "Never Nair Down There," a piece that will leave one wincing at the thought of chemical hair removal, and "Bush Control," which gives suggestions for new names people can use for vagina that are less overtly gendered.
Absent-Cause #3: Literary Supplement
Tau reviews Cracks in the Concrete, a zine about anarchy. The zine highlights substantial testaments to the fact that anarchy is alive and well.