Marisa Kelly

Jun 4, 2024 | brokenpencil.com | Marisa Kelly

everyday oil: energy infrastructures and places that have yet to become strangeInfozine, Anne Pasek, 10 pgs, heliotropejournal.netIf you haven’t had the chance to read Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton’s Ducks then Pasek’s everyday oil is a perfect prologue. If you have read Ducks, then Pasek’s brief comic is a great place to fluff up your Alberta tar sands knowledge and realize just how much of Edmonton is dominated by its relationship with oil.

Mar 5, 2024 | brokenpencil.com | Marisa Kelly

In 2022, a dear friend of mine traveled to Edinburgh in search of something for herself. When she returned home she carried with her two things: an application for her U.K. citizenship and a zine from Analog Sea. I met it with curiosity, excitement and admittedly, after reading their editorial vision, some sadness. Analog Sea is a publication devoted to maintaining a small community of writers who wish to live offline in the digital age.

Feb 12, 2024 | brokenpencil.com | Marisa Kelly

Bones Comic, Stephanie Kenzie, 8 pgs, stephaniekenzie.com, FreeBones is a joyful, seafoam coloured zine covered in skulls, 70s orange flowers, beautiful brown vines, and white specks of dust. Immediately I meet a witchy-like, maternal woman in her forest home with her three blob-like pets. All of which have adorable hairstyles of either mushrooms, flowers or messy fur.

May 24, 2023 | brokenpencil.com | Marisa Kelly

If you catch yourself meandering around Toronto’s Annex area or have been dragged to El Furniture Warehouse, maybe a change in scenery would be up your alley? Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays from 6— 8 PM, all are welcome to hang out and exercise their brain with a bit of zine perusing at the reopened Toronto Zine Library, organized on the second floor of the Tranzac located at 292 Brunswick Avenue.