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 [...]

Karen Correia Da Silva. Photo by Matthew Filipowich Do you remember when you were seventeen and you thought about being young, and urban, and an artist? Maybe you imagined whitewashed loft spaces with a low-key reek of depravity and beautiful people with their improbable haircuts. And maybe there were poetry readings, and everything was a [...]

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 [...]

Photo by Siue Moffat. If you’re into DIY culture, hate prickly thieves, and can appreciate a well-intentioned fundraiser, then this is the post for you. The Toronto Zine Library—known best for providing you with good times and thousands of genre- and decade-spanning zines for your perusal out of the Tranzac—were recently broken into and burgled [...]

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 [...]