#canzine

hey y'all!

✍️I'm participating in the online canzine festival this year! (apr 13-21)✍️

If you want a digital copy of a zine with comics about these two friends, there's going to be a new mini comic in it!

Canzine Apr 13-21

Mark your calendars! Check out https://canzine.ca from April 13-21 and get physical and digital zines from lots of amazing artists and storytellers and you can purchase from everyone, including us, at one time for one shipping cost for physical items! ~Zinnie

Are you a fan of zines? Do you love cats? Want to support an independent queer artist?

My little sister is an online vendor for Canzine 2024 -- the largest zine festival in Canada! You can purchase her zine "Cats of Toronto" on the festival website from April 13 - 21.

And if you enjoy her art style, I recommend checking out her temporary online store, where you can purchase prints and stickers from her art series "Of Divine Origin," which puts an LGBTQIA+ spin on various myths, fairy tales, and supernatural creatures.

I have several exciting events coming up this month!

2024 Spring Canzine

Where: Online!

When: April 13 to 21

Broken Pencil's virtual Canzine features creators from Canada, and around the world. I love these events because you can check out and support work from multiple indie creators, and only have to worry about one shipping fee. I'm always so impressed by the behind-the-scenes coordination that makes this possible! 

All my Now Recharging comics are going to be available at a discount from their usual prices in my online store, because everything will be in CAD instead of USD, and I'm not changing my prices! (Ah, our Canadian dollar.) Also they'll be able to ship to more countries than just Canada and the US!

(Psst, I'm also going to be running a Canzine special for my Lenormand oracle deck and my Genjimonogari art deck during the full festival time period! Stay tuned for more info when Canzine starts!)

You can see the full list of vendors here!

Momiji Spring Market April 2024

Where: 3555 Kingston Road, Scarborough Ontario

When: Saturday April 27 from 11 am to 4pm

Momiji Health Care Society is hosting a Spring Market, full of local artists, crafters, and makers! Momiji events are in a beautiful space, and always have the best food. The venue is a seniors' care centre so please aim to mask for the safety of all! 

Canzine 2024 Registrations Are OPEN!

The most exciting zine fair is returning to Toronto AND Ottawa! Register today to join this uncanny smorgasbord of zines, art, comics, discussions, workshops and surprises! [...] As was the case last year, due to limited space it will not be first-come-first-serve. Artists and vendors who focus on zines will be prioritized. If your zine is not ready or listed on the site you provided, please make clear in your application what kind of zine you expect to sell.

Ottawa Canzine will be taking place on September 22, 2024 at the Glebe Community Centre (175 Third Ave)

Toronto Canzine will be on October 27, 2024, returning to the Cecil Community Center (58 Cecil St)

Well, I absolutely did not expect it to take an entire year from exp. 2600 to the next issue, but such is life, honestly. Either way I'm terrifically pleased to announce that exp. 2601 will be debuting this weekend as part of Spring Online Canzine 2024, Canada's premiere zine festival running April 13th to 21st. 

This issue covers the eleven games released for the Atari 2600 in 1978, with essays on Space Invaders and the year 1978 to provide context. Even if you're not particularly interested in the Atari 2600, I think there's a lot in here for anyone interested in video games and their history, so I hope you'll check it out.

As with the first issue, exp. 2601 is being published in a signed, numbered limited edition of 52 and I'm also making it available as a PDF and ebook for people who don't want a little object, but still want something to read on an iPad or a Kindle with a bit more focus than they'd give to a webpage.

I am opening pre-orders here today, in advance of Canzine, so I can announce the issue with enough time to ensure subscribers know about it and are aware that they automatically receive 35% off in our ko-fi shop (including on new issues.) It's just $1 per month to become a subscriber, and you'll also get new articles a week early (as well as regular exclusive articles.) Physical copies will be sent out in the last week of April, with digital copies arriving as soon as Canzine begins.

In addition, and not to bury the lede here, for the first time since 2020 my ebook collecting the best of the original run of exp., exp. negatives, is also available for pre-order today, and will be on sale during, and only during, Spring Online Canzine 2024 (to reiterate: April 13th-21st).

If you don't have any of my available digital publications (exp. 2600, 2601, and negatives) I have also made a bundle of all three available for pre-order with a $2 discount for all (and if you're a subscriber, that stacks with your discount!)

(A better formatted version lol!)

Hi all!

Super excited to debut my zine with @notaclevernamer on October 24! It comes with super cute lil stickers and talks about some of the following, all geared towards trans men!

- Safe sex and STIs

- healthy relationships

- prosthetics for trans men

- your body and boundaries!

And whatever else we could cram into 36 pages!

It’ll be debuting at Canzine this year for $15 CAD per copy (including stickers) and afterwards we will be making it available as a PDF if there is demand!

Thank you lovelies and have a great day!

EDIT 10/29/2020: 📣📣📣📣📣