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Strangers. February.

Drawings from the cottage, but not of those at the cottage.

Zines saved my life.

Just for fun, I'm posting a few pages from my first zine, Benjurmire. I made it with a couple of friends, so I'm no longer sure who wrote what, but it amuses and impresses me what we came up with when we were fifteen!

Coincidentally, I went for a drive with a friend last night (as I found myself in the suburbs at the same time as she, both of us visiting family) and one of our stops was our old high school. Despite that time being a regular shitty/weird high school experience, it is where I was first exposed to zines and when I began making my own.

Regardless, I shook my fist at the building and she took a photo to commemorate the moment.

narrowed torso

2007.

Very Small Selection from U.K. Notebook... + Tom

While I was in Scotland. I fell upon Analogue Books...


where I surprisingly discovered a book made by my friend Tom Cops!...


Of course I bought it, and finally met the guy several days later, for real, in person for the first time ever, after being zine penpals for over a decade!

DRAWN IN

Recently completed reading/perusing Drawn In: A Peek into the Inspiring Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Cartoonists. A project by Julia Rothman.

Below are a couple of the artists who really stood out for me:

Isaac Tobin:






Leif Parsons:

drawing, man.

sourcebook 2007

Vulgar! Inappropriate!

I took it upon myself to create a display at work for this year's Freedom to Read week (Feb. 20-26) and with the assistance of two helpful and talented co-workers, came up with this:

More images here.





And for some further reading on the subject, but in no way a complete list:

Challenged books and magazine from the Freedom to Read website.

Read the Ontario Library Association's Statement on the Intellectual Rights of the Individual here.

Judy Blume discusses censorship and challenges to her own work here and here.

A Small Sampling of Publications Seized or Detained by Canada Customs (updated in 1997)

Article from the Toronto Star: "Vampire series tops list of ‘challenged’ books in Canada"

while bored at work...

sourcebook misc. #2