Review: Family Band’s Grace & Lies
Grace & Lies, the second album from husband-and-wife team Family Band, paints a picture of small-scale yearning and despair that…
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Book review: The Graphic Canon Vol. 1
The first volume of The Graphic Canon – graphic-novel adaptations of classic literature "from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare…
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Book review: Hark! A Vagrant
Even if you’ve never heard of Kate Beaton, you’ve probably seen her work. Beaton, a Nova Scotian cartoonist and webmistress…
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Zine Scene: Bill Brown’s Dreamwhip
For some, travel is almost a compulsion; being grounded takes on a new meaning in the context of highways, and…
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Zine Scene: Ryan Cecil Smith’s SF Supplementary File
Space-age mystery, kitschy thrills, and futuristic adventure — what more could the discerning zine reader want? SF Supplementary File is…
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Zine Scene: Abner Smith’s The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting
With The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, author Abner Smith sought to craft a zine that eschewed self-induglence in favor…
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Zine Scene: J Gerlach’s Simple History Series
J Gerlach: Simple History Series (Microcosm Publishing) The history textbook might seem like an odd choice to adapt to a…
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Zine Scene: Jason Viola’s Herman the Manatee, Rabbit Shadows, and Who is Amy Amoeba?
Jason Viola: Herman the Manatee (Manatee Power, 1/25/12) Jason Viola’s comics might look simple at first. Herman the Manatee, Rabbit…
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Zine Scene: Al Burian’s Burn Collector
Al Burian: Burn Collector #15 (Microcosm Publishing, 3/1/11) For a purported personal zine, Al Burian’s Burn Collector is strangely outward-looking.…
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Zine Scene: Adam Gnade’s Hey Hey Lonesome and The Heat and the Hot Earth
Adam Gnade: Hey Hey Lonesome and The Heat and the Hot Earth (Punch Drunk Press, August and December 2011) When…
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Zine Scene: Phase 7
Alec Longstreth: Phase 7 The personal zine or “perzine” genre is one of the most popular in independent publishing (we’ve…
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Zine Scene: The Toucan Magazine
Liz Baudler & Laura Rynberg: The Toucan Magazine It seems that all we hear about these days is how much…
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