As zine creators who oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza, we have chosen not to support or take part in Canzine.
Why?
Hal Niedzviecki, one of the two co-publishers of Broken Pencil Magazine and Canzine's founder, is a vocal supporter of the state of Israel and Israeli military action, and has denied that a genocide is taking place in Gaza, contributing to misinformation and hate.
Check out the links below to support creators who oppose genocide and support Palestinian liberation.
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NEW: Can't Zine Events!
Can't Zine as a movement belongs to all of us.
Ottawa: September 22
Friends of Can't Zine in Ottawa are hosting an in-person zine event at the North Gloucester Public Library on September 22 from 11:30am-3:30pm.
Wheelchair accessible, masking highly encouraged.
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Wyrdsmyth Press
Queer run micropress specializing in linocut prints and poetry.
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Maybe Mag
montreal lit mag. online + in print. submissions open til oct 1st: [email protected] dm 4 backcopies, or if ur a playwright, or if u have a big house.
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Raven and Ram
Zine creation duo, Parker A.M. Johnston and Novis Musica
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calvin prowse
calvin is a zinester, peer worker, futurist, and recovering academic based in Hamilton. they write zines about peer support, community, futurity, utopia, and dreams, and make stickers & cyanotypes.
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Meegan Lim
Meegan Lim is an illustrator based in Brampton, Ontario, known for her detailed illustrations focusing on food and cultural identity.
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Colour Code Printing
Colour Code is a small press and artist friendly printing service based in Toronto, ON. We specialize in Risograph and Screen printing to make artist books, prints and zines.
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Payton the Raccoon
Comics about the Outdoors, Activism, and low-brow Magic!
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liurae
rae is a queer illustrator + designer into bright colours and the mundane
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kitschygma
Kris is a queer zinester and fiber artist. Zines are inspired by all things kitschy, frogs, and niche experiences.
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Dayna Moth
Dayna Moth (they/she) is a zinester, art-maker, writer, volunteer KC Zine Con organizer, and a facilitator for the Zine Club at neither/nor zine library.
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Valentine Zines
Disabled queer couple in Minneapolis, MN who write perzines, horror fiction, erotica, and more.
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Zine Bakery Homemade Zines (Amanda Wyatt Visconti)
Zine Bakery collects, researches, and makes free zines at the intersection of tech, culture, and social justice. Currently homemade zines are focused on making and crafting tutorials.
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bocchi projects
bocchi projects is a Canada-based self-publishing project specialising in small run, custom artist books and printed matter, featuring self-published works by collaborators and independent artists.
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SHAPESHIFTER ZINE
SHAPESHIFTER is a monthly-ish diy zine/newsletter based in Tkaronto, spotlighting new QTBIPOC music, and some of the scene in the city!
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Jackie Reynolds
Jackie is a non-binary, mixed race comic artist and illustrator. They create found footage horror comics, and zines about dead polar explorers.
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Sonali Menezes
Sonali Menezes has been making and distributing zines for over a decade. Her most popular zine is Depression Cooking. She is currently on a zine hiatus while she turns Depression Cooking into a book.
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Pretty/Gross
A disabled bisexual artist living and working in the GTA. Loves zines; making and reading compulsively about people's lived experiences but also; horror, pink and glitter.
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Bit_form
Printed glitch art, stickers, and Zines about DIY tech maintenance, zines as directions for creative activities, and semi autobiographical. Low tech low life.
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Sam's Studios (Samuel Edme)
Samuel Edme is a Haitian-American cartoonist, editor, and creator of the ongoing comic strip The Shapes. When he's not cartooning, you can find him hoarding books.
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Elliott Dunstan
Elliott Dunstan is a writer and publisher of horror, surrealism and poetry, as well as handmade upcycled art and jewellery.
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Von Allan
Writer/Artist focusing on comics and graphic novels
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Reflex Editions
Reflex Editions is a Toronto-based DIY publishing collective. We make small edition artist books, zines, and ephemera that function as a creative space for experimentation and collaboration.
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subsomatic
zines // rugs // prints // stickers
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sid drmay
sid drmay is a nonbinary trans queer zinester who makes zine about growing up online, who loves textiles, cyberpunk and snails. They run KW Zinetopia and the Hamont Zine Machine.
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Notabeanie
chronically ill trans fairy prince "living" (dying) in the welfare system.
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bat cities
bat cities is a transmasc hāfu illustrator and zinester who finds joy in energetic linework, found texture, and reportage-informed processes.
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UNFOLD Zines and Art
Justine Veras is a queer Dominican American zine maker and artist. Her work plays with the boundaries between cute and dark.
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Crow And Moon Press
Queer+Occult+SciFi+MentalHealth DIY×ZINES×ART Always Forward Never Under Lainh & Rin
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Walang Hiya Zine Distro
WALANG HIYA DISTRO is a distro project that focuses on sharing, promoting and distributing zines, comics and art made by Filipina/o/x creators from the homeland and the diaspora at large.
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Garbutch Vagaybond
Transgenderqueer homelessness survivor, anarchist and art school dropout who makes zines, buttons, and rambles.
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Charles Agopsowicz | withthesetwohands
Charles Agopsowicz | withthesetwohands is a creator in Calgary / Mohkinstsis Treaty 7 whose work focuses mostly on Canadian history, labour history, challenging Canadian identity, and reconciliation.
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Sharon Pink
Queer witch making zines and aspiring to be in ways that are anti-white supremacy, fat liberatory, gender affirming, leatherQueer celebratory, Elder & crone honoring and sex worker positive.
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craft or diy
Queer art junk for sensitive punks since 2011. Illustrated zines, buttons, stickers & more made by Elliott Giannini (they/them).
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San Press
San Press publishes zines, chapbooks, experimental print objects, and hybrid art forms, working in material and minor configurations of literary and visual art.
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Feels
Feels is a zine about feelings. We strive to create a safe space for radical vulnerability and foster an open dialogue about our most sensitive emotions.
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Cole Pauls
Tahltan Comic Artist, Illustrator & Printmaker
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Crooked Fagazine
Crooked Fagazine is an independent print magazine for shameless confessional storytelling, written by and for gaylords.
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Salem Paige
Salem Paige (they/them) is a queer, transgender poet, designer, and multidisciplinary artist.
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cherubimscloud
cherubim is a 28 year old white settler living along the Wolastoq, they spend the majority of their time pursuing random artistic endeavours and hanging out with their cat, Almond
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jefferydraws
jefferydraws is a nonbinary Toronto artist whom creates meaningful art around queerness, mental health, and fun.
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Emmanuelle Chateauneuf
A gender-fluid first-gen Filipino-French prolific cartoonist, Emmanuelle’s work twists the Hero’s Journey, focusing on unglorified social awareness and self-development. Dark, yet wholesome.
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James Rose N.C.
James Rose is a comic artist and illustrator with a passion for tattoos, kewpie dolls, dog motifs, and making playlists.
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Brandon Lim // Black Belt Cinema // Fatal Stasis // Film Fvckers
Brandon Lim is a film programmer (BLACK BELT CINEMA), graphic designer (FATAL STASIS APPAREL), and editor of the zine FILM FVCKERS.
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Steel Transplants
Steel Transplants (they/them) is created by a queer, trans, fat and disabled white settler on unceded Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq territory. They have prints, zines, collage and jewelry on a PWYC scale.
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Rulito
Making comics/zines that feature anthropomorphic animals dealing with capitalism through humor
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Sheer Spite Press
Sheer Spite Press publishes and distributes beautiful, affordable, useful, generous, political, funny, heart-filled books and zines about survival, resistance, community, and solidarity.
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Potato Brains Distro
Hand drawn and collage zines using found and vintage images about queerness, chronic illness, and the weird world around us.
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twelveohtwo zine distro
twelveohtwo was a tabling-mostly distro based in tkaronto/toronto & then amiskwaciwâskahikan/edmonton from approximately 2005-2017.
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Bug Cru
Illustrator, Artist and Tattooer
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FANE
A subculture mag with a focus on the TLGBQIA2S+ community. We cover art, photography, music (especially Industrial, Noise, Drone, Sludge, Metal, etc.), poetry, and more. Free PDFs & Music Downloads!!!
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Partizanka Press
A zine distro and imprint by long-time zinester Tara Bursey focusing on art, punk, politics, and beyond
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Maranda Elizabeth
Telegram, Edith, & Little Acorns zines. Mad, sick, & disabled imaginaries and crip-psychogeography. Queer trans novels. Tarot for misfits. Poverty, friendship, & crip resistance.
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BIPAN Mag
BIPAN Magazine is a series of digital magazines made by and for the queer community. We feature art, zine culture, education, liberation practices, and resources from across Turtle Island.
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Liminal States Distro
The work of Liminal States Distro hinges on hope and the tenants of a softer future, focusing on unlearning harmful narratives, loving ourselves, and building strong communities in the process.
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A-S-C (Anti-Subscription Catalogue)
The Anti-Subscription Catalogue unites 109+ non-subscription, free, and 1x fee software in 15 categories on the web & in print. A-S-C Press publishes zines, FAQs, and satire that critiques power.
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ash hernandez-o’gorman
ash is a queer and disabled zinester and ceramic artist of filipinx/irish ancestry
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Tales From Behind the Counter
Tales From Behind the Counter (TBC) is an independent creative publication whose goal is to build solidarity and community in the city of Ottawa.
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Kirstendo
Queer chronically ill clown making zines
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QT Fatties NB
A grassroots collective by and for 2SLGBTQ+ fat folks in so-called New Brunswick. We have collaborative art/poetry zines and fat liberation info zines.
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ZOOT
ZOOT is an 18+ comic artist and illustrator with a focus on queer intimacy and humour.
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oralmenace
comics, illustrations, and zines. 18+
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Rebelle Zine
We are an independent multi-platform publication based in Toronto, fostering a community centered around promoting the success of women and queer folks in creative and business avenues.
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Monastiraki / Billy Mavreas
Ephemeral Curiosity Shop Since 1998 / Maker of Obscure Zines Since 1989
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Pom Machine
Pom Machine is a queer writer, zinester, and D&D performer based in Eugene, Oregon. Their work is focused in short fiction, poetry, DIY, and TTRPG.
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artbyrachels
Trans (they/them) Cartoonist & Illustrator - silly and important art and zines
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Julie Setele
Free downloads of zines about women's soccer, romance novels, Medusa, abortion, Ani DiFranco, library stuff, and feelings.
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Small Sword Press
Fine purveyor of zines, prints & comix.
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B&D Press
B&D Press is a queer and micropress and art project based in Tiotià:ke / Montréal.
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dusk studios
a modern day roadside stall, of sorts. by mags, a part-time poet with a penchant for zines and stickers.
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Publication Studio Guelph (PS Guelph)
PS Guelph is a micro-publisher of original books distributing through a global network (of Publication Studios).
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Gynoid Distribution
Gynoid Distribution is a micropress run by Helen Chazan dedicated to small press comics, transsexual propaganda, pro-slut arts, and generally esoteric acts of zinemaking.
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The Cryptid Fiddle - The Elvish Fiddler, LaraCryptid, ourladyofcoffee
Sci-fi/fantasy illustrator and cult-favourite comics gremlin The Elvish Fiddler, offbeat fantasy/horror artist LaraCryptid, poet/editor/manic pixie shonen protagonist ourladyofcoffee (Elaine Marilyse)
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David Widgington
Artist, zinester, anti-zionist
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Laughing Radish Zines
Zines for sale to support our 1000sqft garden initiative and food/garden programming in Ottawa
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Bug Tourmaline
Writer, zinester, collage-er. Poetry and witchcraft.
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Whess Harman
Creates art and zines about being trans and Indigenous in the hellscape, hating cops and sticking together in the face of oppression.
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