My pick this week is the American Psycho newspaper-zine from Benjamin Marra. I was hearing about this artist left, right, and centre at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival so it is no surprise that this book is so good! Rendering choice scenes from the film, Marra has a heavily-inked …..

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Zine Dream 5 – Call for Exhibitors!

You better get to the printers, because the 5th annual small press art fair, ZINE DREAM, is fast approaching—and they’re looking for exhibitors! ZINE DREAM is a fair that celebrates small press and creativity in books, comics, zones, music, crafts, and prints. This year, it promises to be bigger and …..

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Adrian Tomine’s 32 Stories

My absolute favorite thing in the store right now is Adrian Tomine’s box set special edition of 32 Stories. I fell in love with his comics years ago but always wished I could get my hands on some of his original ‘zines. This boxed edition of 32 Stories is his …..

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Jesse Jacob’s By This Shall You Know Him

My staff pick is a new zine released through Koyama Press called By This Shall You Know Him. This beautiful full colour comic was penned by artist and illustrator Jesse Jacobs and released at this year’s Toronto Comics Arts Festival. By restraining his use of any sort of text or …..

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Return of the Repressed from PictureBox

My favourite book right now is Return of the Repressed, a compendium of drawings and collages from the 70′s art rock band that includes both Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, two of my favorite artists. I have always pretty much loved anything published by Picturebox but this sticks out as …..

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