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From Vice to Violence: How the Nineties Invented the Alt-Right

Apr 22, 2021
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Death in the Small Press

Jun 4, 2020
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To trump Trump, make zines, not war

Jan 10, 2017
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Hal’s Pick: Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves

Sep 27, 2016
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Staff Pick: Kuntalini

Jun 29, 2016
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Zine Review: Facts About the Weather…and why my whore wife left me

Jun 27, 2016
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Hal’s Pick: Kingdom of Dog

Apr 19, 2016
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Are We Really Depressed?

Jul 11, 2013
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Growing up Catholic

May 2, 2012
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Picture Postcard

Apr 30, 2012
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How To Put Out Twenty Issues of Broken Pencil

Jan 2, 2012
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Weighing the Web

Jul 12, 2011
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The Halbot 3000

Jul 11, 2011
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Ron Hawkins – 10 Kinds of Lonely

Jul 10, 2011
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Picastro – Become Secret

Jul 10, 2011
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Escaping Sonja Ahlers

Jul 5, 2011
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From Vice to Violence: How the Nineties Invented the Alt-Right

Before it was a billion-dollar infotainment empire, Vice was an emerging Montreal-based monthly...

Apr 22, 2021
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Death in the Small Press

“I have come close to dying more than once. Incidents range from a happenstance beatdown in a...

Jun 4, 2020
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To trump Trump, make zines, not war

image from Anxiety Dream Zine by Alana Mohamed by Hal Niedzviecki Among the most ridiculous...

Jan 10, 2017
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Hal’s Pick: Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves

Lost in the media feeding frenzy over what celebrity was quaffing champagne where during the course...

Sep 27, 2016
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Staff Pick: Kuntalini

Kundalini is some kind of yogic term for the primal energy that supposedly lives in the base of...

Jun 29, 2016
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Zine Review: Facts About the Weather…and why my whore wife left me

Facts About the Weather…and why my whore wife left me Zine, Steve Steiner,...

Jun 27, 2016
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Hal’s Pick: Kingdom of Dog

Kingdom of Dog! This self published comic won the Canzine festival’s one-two punch book pitch back...

Apr 19, 2016
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Are We Really Depressed?

Non-fiction depression literature is a pretty lame genre filled with personal accounts, self-help...

Jul 11, 2013
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Growing up Catholic

Kicking the Habit cartoons about the catholic church by Rina Piccolo $9.00, Laugh Lines Press PO...

May 2, 2012
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Picture Postcard

Sightings Postcard Series by Germain Koh $1 for 1, $5 for 8 (postage included) Box 20032, Ottawa,...

Apr 30, 2012
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How To Put Out Twenty Issues of Broken Pencil

1. Volunteer at an obscure literary magazine and watch it head into a steady decline you can do...

Jan 2, 2012
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Weighing the Web

Two Broken Pencil staff members debate the benefits of the Internet as a cultural tool By Hal...

Jul 12, 2011
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The Halbot 3000

Looking for someone to keep you company at zine fairs? Look no further than the companionship of a...

Jul 11, 2011
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Ron Hawkins – 10 Kinds of Lonely

This series of interrelated songs sketches an evocative portrait of small town loneliness. “Why...

Jul 10, 2011
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Picastro – Become Secret

The fourth album from longstanding Toronto-based folk innovators Picastro is a sonically...

Jul 10, 2011
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Escaping Sonja Ahlers

Canada’s collage queen hides out in the Yukon and finds her selves Sonja Ahlers is currently hiding...

Jul 5, 2011
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