childhood

My best friend growing up was a boy named Seth who lived across the street from me. We were both in the same kindergarten class and hung out after school…

Woman, Running Late, In a Dress by Dallas Woodburn Yellow Flag Press, 2018 178 pages / Yellow Flag   It’s confounding to have the ghost of your seven year old sister haunt…

Image credit: Jennifer Pagliaro / Toronto Star Writers André Babyn and Jess Taylor became friends in Toronto, Ontario, but are originally both from Caledon, Ontario, a rural area known for…

The brown townhouse is smaller than I remember. It sits back further from the road than the other townhouses attached to it, flinching into the shadows. Emerald shrubs under the…

When I was ten years old I tried to teach myself to speak and write Cantonese, using an old Chinese schoolbook I had found in the closet. At that age,…

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That may not be “smart” in the normal sense of the word, but I don’t really care. Kiddiepunk is almost like a big art project to me, and I’ve never used my art as a money-making source. It keeps things pure that way because I just do what I want and I only publish things that I love. There’s no pressure on any particular release to “succeed” on a financial level. It’s a punk mentality that is just kind of ingrained in my head. But it’s great these days because you can do these things relatively affordably and sell them directly to the people who are interested. You don’t need distribution, ISBNs, any of that stuff. You just need to put your energy into making something great. In the not-so-distant past, before the internet, before high quality digital printing, you really couldn’t do what I do now, so it’s cool.

I was a sullen, stubborn child. I once held a single grape in my mouth for over 6 hours, including through naptime. It was a wonder I didn’t choke on…

Our world view is constructed by personal circumstances and experiences, as well as the myths that justify events or things that we cannot explain to ourselves within our knowledge or…