TZL Pins now available!

Just a reminder that we now have Toronto Zine Library pins for sale! They feature our lovely typewriter logo, come in light blue and light green, and are only $1 each. To get your own, drop by the library on Sunday afternoons and ask a zine librarian, or come out to an event where we are tabling or that we're holding at the library! Money from pin sales goes towards our programming costs/library expenses, so by purchasing a pin, you are helping us make the library a better one!

Michael Comeau talk at the TZL

We are pleased to announce our second in-library event...
A talk with guest speaker
Michael Comeau
Brought to you by the Toronto Zine Library

Sunday, April 29th, 2007. 1:30pm
At the TRANZAC
292 Brunswick Avenue. Toronto.

Please join us for a talk with special guest zine-maker Michael Comeau hosted by the TZL Collective at the Toronto Zine Library. In his talk, Michael will talk about his personal history with zines, and how his involvement in zine culture has informed his practice as a professional artist and screen printer.

Michael Comeau is a Toronto-based printmaker and poster artist, and a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. In addition to his work as an artist, he has been a zine-maker for many years, and was formerly the director of the Cut’N’Paste zine fair, as well as the Penny Arcade Print Shoppe and Gallery in Kensington Market. His recent projects include a solo show, Excretion Escapades, at Magic Pony and the curation of Regal Beast, a series of art anthologies.

The Toronto Zine Library is run by a collective of zine readers, zine makers and librarians who are looking to make zines more accessible in Toronto. We believe that zines are still an important medium of communication, and that they should be cherished, protected, and promoted. Our aim to do this through our public collection of zines, conducting related workshops at our physical library and abroad, and by holding events that promote zines as a method of open communication and free expression.

For more information, please contact us at torontozinelibrary@hotmail.com
Or consult our new website and online catalogue: http://www.sitekreator.com/zinelibrary

Pictured: Michael Comeau, Vazaleen poster (detail)

New additions for April 8, 2007

The Abolition of Work- Bob Black
Call & Response #1- Gianni Simone
Coverage #4- Michael J. Elvidge
The Extraordinary Life of Michael J. Elvidge- Michael J. Elvidge
Firewood #1- Sine Firewood
Future Fantasteek! #1- Jackie Batey
Hypochondria- Angela Weyran
In the Bedroom- Sara Berger
Issue Volume 1, Issue 3- James Lindsay, editor
Lickety Split #4- various
N-Body Problem- Jen Beeghly-Hills
Noncollectable #2- Alexis R.
Scam #5.5- Erick Lyle
Super Deformed #3- Michael J. Elvidge
Wavelength January 2007 - The Riptorns

New additions for April 1, 2007

The following is last of the things we're cataloguing from our big donation, as well as some mail donations.

Answer Me #3- Jim Goad, editor
Baby Sue Volume 3, Issue 1-4- Don W. Seven
Baby Sue Volume 4, Issue 1- Don W. Seven
Baby Sue Volume 4, Issue 4- Don W. Seven
Baby Sue Volume 5, Issue 1- Don W. Seven
Baby Sue Volume 6, Issue 2- Don W. Seven
Boy's Radio Adventures
Brown Rot- Dan Murphy
Calendar Girl #2- Amoona B. Squimbly
Don't Touch Me Comics Volume 1, Issue 2- Dave Howard, editor
Don't Touch Me Comics Volume 1, Issue 4- Dave Howard, editor
Good Girl Volume 1- Nikko Snyder
Headlines #21- Dave Mitchell
If Gymnastics Were Easy It Would Be Called Hockey- Amoona B. Squimbly
Mind Theatre #10- various
OPT Volume 7, Issue 6/7- Martin Avery and Stewart Ross, editors
Our Soundtrack Project #1- Josh Hamilton, editor
Psychotronic #13- Michael J. Weldon
Rocket Science Volume 1, Issue 1- Jaymie McAmmond, editor
Sparky's Night of Terror- Kit Lively
Thrift Score #9- Al Hoff
World War 3 Illlustrated #20- various
XYY #3- John Fitzgerald Kelly, editor
XYY #4- John Fitzgerald Kelly, editor

New additions for March 25, 2007

More stuff from our massive donation. Come check it out!

Blood and Aphorisms #5-15, 18, 32-33- various
The Canadian Journal of Contemporary Literary Stuff #1-3- various
Compost #9- various
Cos Equals Sin Over Tan #1- Micheal Homes and Bill Kennedy
Crash; a Litzine #3-5- Maggie Helwig, editor
Eat Me Literally Volume 2, Issue 4- Lyle MacPhallus, editor
Existere Volume 10, Issue 2-4- various
Grammelot 1.1- Soraya Peerbaye
Grammelot 1.2- Soraya Peerbaye
Grammelot 1.3- Soraya Peerbaye
Implosion #1-5- Irving Barat
Ink Magazine Volume 1, Issue 1-3- various
Jejune- various
Journal of Polymorphous Perversity Volume 4, Issue 1- various
Kiss Machine #2-4- Emily Pohl-Weary, editor
Kiss Machine #7- Emily Pohl-Weary, editor
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #15- Kelly Link, editor
Mr. Magnanimous- Norman Chadwick, editor
Next Exit #21- Eric Folsom and Judith Owen
Pan Del Muerto Volume 2- various
Pan Del Muerto Volume 3- various
Pan Del Muerto Volume 5- various
Recently Eclipsed Volume 2, Issue 1- various
Topos Topia- Dan Tarte

Magazines
Adbusters #15-23, 25, 2
Ben Is Dead #23-25, 27, 29-30, 32
Bitch Volume 3, Issue 3
Bitch #10-13
Broken Pencil #1-3, 6
Bust #6, 8-12, 15, 19
Cheap Date #1-4
Factsheet Five #28-30, 35, 38, 41
Fishwrap #1-7
Flipside #104, 121
Heeb #3-5, 7
Punk Planet #24, 26-31, 33-34, 37
Rollerderby #17, 20, 22, 25

Journals
Critique: A Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics
Turnstile

Books
About Vile- Anna Banana, editor (1983)
Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology- Chris Carelsson and Andrea Juno (1990)
The Best of Temp Slave- Jeff Kelly, editor (1997)
Duplex Planet: Everybody's Asking Who I Was- David Greenberger (1993)
The Happy Mutant Handbook- various (1995)
High Weirdness by Mail- Rev. Ivan Stang (1988)
The Journal of Irreproducible Results- George H. Scherr (1983)
Mad Monks on the Road- Michael Lane and James Crotty (1993)
Processed World #24- Chris Carelsson and Andrea Juno (1990)
Processed World #26/27- Chris Carelsson and Andrea Juno (1990)
Research #11: Pranks!- Andrea Juno and V. Vale (1987)
Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998- Andrei Codresco and Laura Rosenthal (2000)

new additions for March 18, 2007

More things catalogued from the donation we received last week.

After the End- Greg Evason, editor
Angry Thoreauan #10- Rev. Randall Tin-ear
Animal Tranquilizers Volume 1, Issue1- Elena Palozzi, editor
Apocalypso #1- various
Apocalypso #2- various
Asleep At the Wheel- P. McCallum and J. Walker
Banana Rag #21-27- Anna
The Cryptical Oyster #3- Michael
Don’t Make Trouble - Tuli Kupferberg
Dysfunctional Family #1- Pamela Stewart, editor
Eat Me Literally Volume 1, Issue 2- Lyle MacPhallus
Eat Me Literally Volume 2, Issue 3- Lyle MacPhallus
Eat Me Literally Volume 3, Issue 1- Lyle MacPhallus
Eat Me Literally Volume 3, Issue 4- Lyle MacPhallus
Grinning Idiot - Jerry Weisberger, editor
Grinning Idiot - Jerry Weisberger and Barry Levy, editors
Grinning Idiot Volume 3, Issue 1 - Jerry Weisberger and Barry Levy, editors
Hot Froggie #2 - Jane
Infocult #3 - Johnny Walsh
Inside Joke #72-80 - Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, editor
Issue 0- various
Kill Baby #3 - Steve Fentone
Kill Baby #4 - Steve Fentone
Meanie - various
MW Volume 2, Issue 4 - Brad Gillings, editor
MW Volume 3, Issue 1 - Brad Gililings, editor
MW Volume 3, Issue 2 - Brad Gillings, editor
MW Volume 3, Issue 3 - Brad Gillings, editor
MW Volume 3, Issue 4 - Brad Gillings, editor
MW Volume 4, Issue 1 - Brad Gillings, editor
MW Volume 4, Issue 2 - Brad Gillings, editor
No Duh #2 - Geoff
No Governor
Nozone - various
Nozone - various
Oversion #6 - various
Pig Paper #14 - Gary Pig
Plotz #14 - Barbara
Plotz #15 - Barbara
Red Rabbit #6 - Damien, editor
Reign of Toads Volume 2, Issue 1- Kyle Silfer, editor
Reign of Toads Volume 3, Issue 1 - Kyle Silfer, editor
Rip Off Digest - Anonymous
Saucy #2 - Maggie MacDonald
Slam #9 - Ed, editor
Slam #22 - Ed, editor
Smurfs in Hell #1- Robert Carr
Smurfs in Hell #2 - Robert Carr
Smurfs in Hell #3 - Robert Carr
Smurfs in Hell #4 - Robert Carr
Sleen #2 - John F. King
Spunk #8 - Claire
Sticky Carpet Digest #4 - Tom Deja
Sticky Carpet Digest #9-16 - Tom Deja
Trash Compactor Volume 2, Issue 3- various
Trash Compactor Volume 2, Issue 8 - various
Turbot O’Brian #6 - Turbot O’Brian
Twisted Image #3-9 - Ace Backwords, editor
Twisted Image #11 - Ace Backwords, editor
Twisted Image #18 - Ace Backwords, editor
Twisted Image #20-53- Ace Backwords, editor
The Unmentionable - Miss Kellina
Weird Flower #5 - James McMartin, editor
Weird Flower #6 - James McMartin, editor
Wingnut Volume 2 - various
Wingnut Volume 4 - various
The Zon-Tower #2 - Jan Arthur Johnson

Please note that due to some thefts that have occurred, some of the zines are only available when we are actually at the library, namely, from 1-3 on Sundays. It kind of sucks, but what sucks more is when people steal thing from a volunteer library.

Call For Submissions- She Said Boom! Window Space

Call for Submissions
She Said Boom! Window Space

She Said Boom! Window Space is a street-level, in-store, 24-hour window gallery seeking art for bi-monthly exhibitions. We are looking for engaging, contemporary sculpture/installation, video/new media and two-dimentional work for consideration. To apply, email us a short proposal, an updated CV, bio and 3-5 jpgs of recent work. For more information, contact Tara Bursey at ssbwindowspace@hotmail.com.

She Said Boom! Window Space
372 College Street, Toronto.
ssbwindowspace@hotmail.com