MISUNDERSTANDINGS Magazine final issue Launch!

After 7 1/2 years of publishing, Toronto’s Misunderstandings Magazine is ceasing publication, as its editors move on to other projects. This little publication, which straddled the line between zine culture and Toronto’s more mainsteam literary community, positioned itself as a playful journal striving to introduce and foster emerging writers and showcase them alongside some of Canada’s best talents. Despite limited resources, MM’s editorial team of Jim Johnstone, Vicki Sloot and Ian Williams nevertheless were able

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HOWIE TSUI in CAROUSEL 27

Do you know the work of Howie Tsui? Ho Yan (Howie) Tsui is an Ottawa-based artist who works primarily with ink, pigments and mulberry paper to create scrolls of illustration; one of these scrolls, entitled Gangshi Creek (2008) was featured in CAROUSEL 27. Tsui’s more recent series ‘Horror Fables,’ probably the work he is best known for, combines traditional painterly technique with a contemporary illustrative and sometimes urban style. Perhaps what stands out most about

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LARRY EISENSTEIN in CAROUSEL 27

Do you know the work of Larry Eisenstein? Larry Eisenstein is a Toronto-based visual artist obsessed with making strange marks on paper. Through countless drawings of free-form viral shape-clusters, he compulsively exploits line and explores form. These works offer magical peeks into mutant worlds, densely rendered at small scale in high detail. A portfolio of Eisenstein’s recent work appears in CAROUSEL 27, our current issue. For our readers in Toronto, note that dozens of Eisenstein’s

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JENNIFER LINTON in CAROUSEL 27

Do you know the work of Jennifer Linton? Jennifer Linton is a Toronto-based artist who works predominantly with illustration and print media. Her work My Alphabet of Anxieties and Desires appears in CAROUSEL 27, our current issue. In her recent print-based installation, The Disobedient Dollhouse, Linton meticulously crafted her own twisted version of a traditional Victorian-style dollhouse. This contrary miniature home is plagued with infestations of insects and snakes crawling on walls and sliding out

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TCAF Small Press Exhibition 2011

Taking place during TCAF in The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon on Toronto Reference Library’s second floor, BLESS THIS PRESS features 2 days worth of avant garde comic creators, print makers and illustrators; curated by and featuring Ginette Lapalme, Chris Kuzma and Patrick Kyle of Wowee Zonk. Be sure to visit the room both days, as exhibitors will be rotating! Exhibitors on Both Days: Wowee Zonk (woweezonk.com) Michael Comeau Lala Albert (plslala.com) Closed Captioned Comics

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