East Coast Zine Archive
We're proud to bring you the first ever East Coast Zine Archive. These are zines that have a definitive Canadian east coast quality to them. Thanks to all the fantastic zinesters who have made this little archive possible. We can only hope it grows and grows.

If you have a zine you'd like to submit, or just want to provide some feedback you can do so by email! The address is matt at junnnktank.com or send us a letter!

Andrea's Real Life Animal Adventures by Andrea Cormier, Prince Edward Island
IInspired by the works of real-life animal adventurists such as Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf), Robert Franklin Leslie (The Bears & I) and Andy Russell (Andy Russell's Adventures with Wild Animals), Cornwall, Prince Edward Island native Andrea C decided to create a zine of her very own animal adventures from the red squirrel to the great blue heron and everything in between! In the two issues of Andrea's Real-Life Animal Adventures (the second of which will be posted right here in the near future), Andrea paints of a wonderful picture of Prince Edward Island, and Canada's often overlooked but never the less fascinating wildlife. A must read.

CLICK HERE TO READ ANDREA'S REAL LIFE ANIMAL ADVENTURES

Andrea's Real Life Animal Adventures #2 by Andrea Cormier, Prince Edward Island
Cornwall, Prince Edwad Island zinester Andrea Cormier is back with another contribution to the Maritime Zine Archive. On Thursday we brought you the first issue of Andrea's Real-Life Animal Adventures and unsurprisingly you all ate it up. Well, it's Friday and we're back with issue number two! Andrea comes back with more animal sightings and a little Q&A to boot! On the inspirational influence of Andy Russell: "I accidentally discovered him at the library. My favourite book is “Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer” which describes his life as a bronc-busting, trail-guiding, mountaineering outdoorsman in the Alberta foothills & Rocky Mountains in the early 20th century. Sigh!! He was also an advocate for protecting wildlife / natural spaces. He wrote other books about his encounters with bears, cougars, mountain goats, etc... I thought - well, I haven’t had any near-death bear encounters, but I HAVE seen some weird squirrels, funny teenage pigeons, and a seal eating an octopus - why not write about that? I actually mailed Andy Russell a copy of my first zine and wrote him a little letter about how I had read all his books. Creepy? Most definitely. I never did hear back. He died in 2005."

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Boxlor by Mike Lecky & Jonah Campbell, Prince Edward Island
Boxlor was a zine created by Mike Lecky & Jonah Campbell. But, I'll let them explain: "Why? Well, high school I guess. Boxlor was born out of (birthed from as it were) the minds of two creative and misguided teenage boys, early in the summer of the year 1999. The Adventures of Boxlor ran as an online feature (really more of an ouevre) on superfunk and aioku.com until the strip was picked up by the UPEI student newspaper, The Cadre, where the final storylines were churned out under the supervision and heavy-handed, gestapo-esque editing of Kent assface Bruyneel.

CLICK HERE TO READ BOXLOR BY MIKE LECKY & JONAH CAMPBELL

Can I Punk Mail My Heart? by Various Talented Individuals , Canada
The following is a wonderfully inspired collaborative effort linking punx across Canada from coast to coast to coast. It features stuff from a few notable Prince Edward Island residents: Story and Cud Eastbound (now residing in Halifax) and a slew of other musicians from across the country. The compilation can be downloaded for your enjoyment. DIY efforts like these is what it's all about.

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Don't Fall Asleep #4 by Christina, Prince Edward Island
Don't Fall Asleep is a brave little zine by Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island's Christina. Put together from November 2003 to March 2004 Issue #4 covers a lot of ground; from a look at long distance relationships and breaking up, getting haircuts from best friends, ice skating in Ottawa, homemade banana bread with peanut butter icing, and so much more. As usual Don't Fall Asleep is both raw, honest, endearing, inspiring, and jam packed with beautiful and perfectly selected artwork. I've always been a big fan of Christina's zines; I find they just wash over you like a good personal zine should. I can't thank her enough for submitting her work to the zine archive.

CLICK HERE TO READ DON'T FALL ASLEEP #4 BY CHRISTINA

Ivurineformation #1 by Stephan MacLeod, Prince Edward Island
Ivurinformation #1 is a loveable rough and tumble piece of work made by Stephan MacLeod (Windom Earle Fame) back in '97. This is zine really packs a punch! I recently asked Stephan a few questions about the zine: "I think I was compelled by the idea of using a photocopier and making something that resembled my favourite magazines. The idea that I could produce a physical product was almost more exciting than the content. It was liberating to feel like I was accomplishing something on very small scale - troubleshooting how the layout will work, and teaching myself very basic design. But I would never consider myself a true zine maker. I only made three."

CLICK HERE TO READ IVURINEFORMATION #1 BY STEPHAN MACLEOD

Jetplane by Mike Lecky, Prince Edward Island
This fantastic zine from Charlottetown's Mike Saturday Lecky (Loose Teeth Press) is finally available online. Jetplane made its way to me back in 2006 when my friend Christina (who had previously been taking care of it for Mike) gave me the master copy. Nearly five years later it makes its way online... sorry about the delay. This is a real treat for me to be able to put this up on the webzine. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have. Mike has made another zine and has called it Bruce Springstzine. You can preview it at www.heartofcopper.com or purchase it directly from his Vancouver based publishing company Loose Teeth Press.

CLICK HERE TO READ JETPLANE BY MIKE LECKY

The New Technology by Stephan MacLeod, Prince Edward Island
This zine comes from Charlottetown's Stephan MacLeod, perhaps better known as the charismatic frontman and founder of screw wave dance party band Windom Earle. The New Technology was also the title of an early Windom Earle release, so it should come as no surprise that both The New Technology CD + Zine were actually released together. You'll recognize some of the contributors listed in the zine; names like Kent Bruyneel (future editor of Forget Magazine), and Jeff Coll (of the Jeff Coll Five).

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Zinester Profile: Christina Prince Edward Island
Don't Fall Asleep is a brave little zine by Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island's Christina. I've always been a big fan of Christina's zines; I find they just wash over you like a good personal zine should. I can't thank her enough for submitting her work to the zine archive and agreeing to the following interview: "In the spring of 2001 after my first year of university I made my first zine, Expectations of Deterioration (EoD). It was a tiny perzine of which I made about 10 copies, enough for my group of friends at the time plus a couple penpals. After I moved to Ontario in the fall of that year, I started getting into mail-order in a huge way and had Don’t Fall Asleep distributed at a handful of distros in Canada, the US, and New Zealand. Since then I have scaled way back and make zines solely for myself, my penpals and From The Heart Distro."

CLICK HERE TO READ CHRISTINA'S ZINESTER PROFILE