Toronto Craft Alert

Self-published book In My Baba’s Kitchen by Monique Motut-Firth, courtesy of the Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative 5 website.

The Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative is an exhibition of zines and small works that happens every two years at Eyelevel Gallery, a fantastic artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Zinesters and self-publishers, take heed! Register online, and send your work in by the end of the month!

ERI 5 is an exhibition and sale of artist books, zines, multiples and other kinds of artist-made [...]

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This just in from the amazing Shannon Gerard: YYZ Artist’s Outlet will be hosting a book launch for her graphic novel Unspent Love this Friday night. See below for all the details– not to be missed!

UNSPENT LOVE, or, Things I Wish I Told You
Shannon Gerard

Whoa! Conundrum Press is bustin out a paperback version of UNSPENT LOVE!

YYZ is holding a launch to celebrate it on NOV 11 (11 11 11— make a wish!)

FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER, 2011
7-10 PM
@ YYZ ARTIST’S [...]

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Heads up to  zine & chapbook makers, writers, artists, comic creators and general grassroots crafty types that registration is now open for Canzine 2011.   At $15/table (which comes with a 1 year subscription to Broken Pencil) this is a pretty dang risk free way for you to share your pubs with the zine-loving masses.  If you happen to be reading from Vancouver, details on the Van edition below!

Also, Broken Pencil is looking for artists who are interested [...]

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I have long been a fan of the Monkey’s Paw and its collection of eclectic, obscure and sometimes downright bizarre printed matter. After all, in what other book store would you find a biography of “Honest” Ed Mirvish next to a lushly-illustrated book on Hawaiian coconut shell crafts from the 1950s? I recently spotted the following listing for a staff-curated exhibition of some of MP’s more notable titles, due to happen later on this month. [...]

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I just came across these incredible embroidered book covers by Canadian illustrator Jillian Tamaki thanks to a link on Broken Pencil’s website. Tamaki illustrated the acclaimed graphic novel Skim, written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki in 2008, and her practice as an artist spans comics, editorial illustrations and much more. She also has had collections of drawings published by Drawn and Quarterly and Conundrum Press.

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Artwork by Leah Buckareff

This is coming pretty last-minute (apologies) but erstwhile Toronto craft maven, Leah Buckareff, is calling for zines for an upcoming instalment of her newest project, The Wundrkabinet, in Berlin. Leah is looking both for donated and loaned reading copies of zines as well as stock to offer for sale. Multi-lingual and non-English zines are a plus! If you are doing anything like that in Toronto, I’d like to know just out of curiosity, too. Feel free [...]

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