June 2022

Hello, I wanted to share a few life updates. After almost 5 years, I have decided to step down from the title of President at Canada Comics Open Library. I will still be helping out behind the scenes with running the website, Canadian Cartoonists Database, and other library projects, admin tasks, as well as remain …

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Solidarity

On recent solidarity statements, originally written May 15th, 2021 Recent and other circulating support statements for Israel, often shared through email and signed by many Synagogues and other powerful Jewish institutions, claim to speak not only for their entire congregations and individual community members, but for all members of the Jewish community in Canada. But …

Thinking about Jewish Silence

This was partly written for other Jewish people who have often been silent about their thoughts about Israel/Palestine with family and publicly, and to encourage people to have conversations. Palestinians have been urging non-Palestinians to speak out this week. I want to encourage Jewish people to listen to Palestinian people who are talking about their …

Why I spent so much time reading comics this past decade

This writing is meant to accompany a post of my favourite comics of the 2010s. I wrote this several weeks ago, but worked up the courage to make it public today. Why I spent so much time reading comics this past decade Reading comics has been a comforting and familiar ritual to me since childhood. …

My favourite comics of the 2010s

About this list I'm not suggesting that these are the best comics of the last decade (I don't think a list like that is even possible), but I would recommend them to anyone interested in comics. They are biased towards indie press and autobiography because those are the comics that generally have meant the most …

Creating an independent comics library

Canada Comics Open Library has been in our Regent Park space just about 9 months now, and we recently held a crowdfunding campaign to be able to pay rent and insurance for the next year as well as make our collection circulating. Although we did not reach all of our larger goals, we were able …

Zine Making Guides

Here are a few templates for making zines!  I prepared these images for an "introduction to zines" booklet to give away at Maker Fest this summer at the Toronto Reference Library, where I tabled with the  Toronto Zine Library. Feel free to re-post and share these images. You can also read this zine and other …