Canzine 918 Bathurst Centre (map) Sunday October 23, 1–7 p.m. $5 entry (includes the fall issue of Broken Pencil) With an all-time high of 193 vendors, a brand new space, and even a mini Toronto Underground Market (TUM), this year’s Canzine—the popular zine fair and alternative culture fest, organized by Broken Pencil magazine—is promising to [...]

This weekend: Ghost Jail returns, Nerdgasm gets funny, John Waters talks sadism in film, puppets do battle, crowds do karaoke, and zombies march (and slowdance!).

Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of people who were way cooler than Torontoist came out to the Gladstone Hotel to see the 175 independent publishers, artists, and writers at Canzine, Canada’s largest zine fair and festival of alternative culture. The day-long event was organized by Broken Pencil, the quarterly magazine dedicated to all things underground culture and [...]

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Hey you with the hat and the self-screened t-shirt, whatchoo up to, say, this Sunday? Wouldn’t happen to be Broken Pencil‘s Canzine would it? Canada’s Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture is hitting the Gladstone again this weekend, this time with the always dangerous theme of “comedy.” Seriously, with that pie in the [...]