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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books
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Great Worm specializes in selling well-written zines, books by zinesters, with a focus on first-person narratives (perzines).

Secondary focus on selling books about the Kurdish freedom struggle.

Operating since 1999, for over 25 years!
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I've tried to capture the size of the Expozine #ZineFair in Montreal. I'm still missing a third of the fair in this frame. #DIYzines #Zines
A large hall with 7 rows of tables, filled with exhibitors and visitors. There are large pillars along the longitudinal walls.
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The air quality at Expozine #ZineFair in Montreal. La qualité de l'air à Expozine. (Dehors: 420ppm) Anything over 1200ppm is pretty bad, and about 2% of the crowd protects themselves. Mask up, folks! Get your flu and COVID boosters!
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Hoping people who see this try to make this same face
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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ZINE DUMP is a new #zinefair in Toronto, happening NOW! #zines #DIYzines
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This is good advice:

« A big part of reading is visiting other worlds, and you can’t visit another world if you’re constantly distracted by this one.

If you’re going to read on your phone or e-reader, switch it to airplane mode so you’re not even tempted to go online
1/2
"3. Turn on Airplane mode" written in felt marker.
September 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I'm tabling at the Bookworm Market in Toronto today! Come say hi and grab a zine! It's at 183 Geary avenue.
Comrade Zinester sitting behind his table full of zines. Behind him, a banner that says "Great Worm Express Distro" is hanging on the wall. An overhead photo of all the zines and books I'm selling today.
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair

10am-5pm, Saturday September 27, 2025

Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
51 Stuart Street

Books! Zines! Art Workshops! Free Admission - Free Childcare - Free Lunch from Food Not Bombs

http;//HAMILTONANARCHISTBOOKFAIR.NOBLOGS.ORG
Image: An astronaut sitting on a red sand dune, likely on Mars, reading a book with the night sky behind. THE HAMILTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 10AM-5PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 WORKERS ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE 51 STUART STREET BOOKS! ZINES! ART! WORKSHOPS! FREE ADMISSION - FREE CHILDCARE - FREE LUNCH FROM FOOD NOT BOMBS HAMILTONANARCHISTBOOKFAIR.NOBLOGS.ORG
September 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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#DIYzines
The image shows a black and white image of a paper guillotine. Above the bladed handle it reads: "If this is the only guillotine you have - use it." Below the handle it reads: "MAKE ZINES"
August 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Goddamn that's an amazing manicure. And also...
Photo of my hand holding my black frame with silver pattern front glasses. My nails have a black manicure with spikes on the annular finger.
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Screenshot of Spongebob Squarepants with tired eyes, getting up from his chair.

Text overlay:
The moment I have a thought or emotion

IGHT IMMA make a zine

#zinesdiy
Screenshot of Spongebob Squarepants with tired eyes, getting up from his chair. Text overlay: The moment I have a thought or emotion IGHT IMMA make a zine
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.

The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.

Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy
Photo of a photocopied flyer: ZINEDUMP New Toronto Zine Fair (then the same information as in the post) Apply more and learn more: www.zinedump.fyi IG: @zinedump.fyi
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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. @kawaishen.bsky.social's monthly update is out!

kawaishen.neocities.org/antisubstack...
Screenshot of a part of the update. Image: photo of the inside of an art gallery. Text: "Brief Thoughts - DON'T SCRIMP ON BEAUTY: Interior of Cooper Cole art gallery, large industrial space with white walls showcasing colourful paintings and sculptures. I've been exploring Toronto's smaller art galleries lately even though I'm not well versed in contemporary art. I'm pretty much down for anything which has meant checking out a lot of shows I don't really connect with or don't understand at first. I don't mind; there are worse ways to spend an hour or two than seeing another exhibit. I figure there's no short cut to training oneself in new ways of perceiving/understanding art and simply wading through the slush. I'm..."
August 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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ZINE DREAM 15!
Saturday August 16th
11am-5pm
Parkdale Hall 1605 Queen St. W.

Check out their Instagram: www.instagram.com/zine___dream

...and visit the fair!

#diyzine #zinefair #zines #Toronto

A new zine fair will also be announced there!
A psychedelic poster drawing with many supernatural animals posing as the letters ZINE DREAM. A document in the drawing says: Small Press Zines Comics Multiples More
August 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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I discovered something super interesting today. At the St. Volodymyr Institute Library in Toronto, they have started what is possibly the world's first Ukrainian zine library/collection.

www.stvolodymyr.org/ukrainian-zi...

It has a small collection, but maybe you could add to it? #DIYzine
Collage of a black square with "Ukrainian zine library" written on a black square, with transparencies in blue and yellow (colours of the Ukrainian flag) of traditional Ukrainian fabric patterns, and pages of zines.
August 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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The 2025 Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair will be hosted at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre at 51 Stuart street, Hamilton, on September 27, from 10am to 5pm. There will be books, zines and workshops! Free admission! Free childcare! Free lunch! Check it out: hamiltonanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org
Drawing of an astronaut sitting on the moon, with the earth on fire in the sky, feeling their head as if recovering from a shock. In a bold font, "The HAMILTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR".
August 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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At New Friends fest, pockets full of zines, where are my 🍄??
August 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I'm glad that the Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair has a Corsi-Rosenthal box, because holy cow the CO2 level (usually a good proxy measure of potential viral spread) is through the roof. It's also a fully masked fair.
Photo of a Corsi-Rosenthal box Photo of my Vitalight CO2 monitor, showing a 4688ppm reading.
June 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It was raining ropes earlier!!!
May 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Une super belle affiche pour le festival anarchiste @constellationfest.bsky.social à Montréal à la mi-mai!
CONSTELLATION, un festival anarchiste à Montréal Du 15 au 21 mai 2025, gratuit et pour tous les âges Salon du livres, skill faire, dance party Zines, musique, art, bouffe, ateliers et plus. Le poster est un dessin dans le style de l'art nouveau, avec un•e anarchiste portant un balaclava et une robe (?) qui a été tirée vers le bas du torse. La figure est penchée de façon séductrice sur une petite table ronde et invite le spectateur à être silencieux avec un doigt posé sur ses lèvres. Dans l'arrière-fond, il y a une végétation généreuse dans le style luxueux pour lequel l'art nouveau est populaire.
March 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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What a beautiful poster for the @constellationfest.bsky.social anarchist festival in Montreal!
Poster: CONSTELLATION, an anarchist festival in Montréal May 15-21 2025, Free and All-Ages Bookfair, skill faire, dance party Zines, music, workshops, food, art and more. The poster is a drawing in the style of art nouveau, with a fairie-like anarchist figure wearing a balaclava, no top and a dress which has been pulled down the chest. The figure is leaning seductively on a small round table and beckoning the viewer to silence with a finger on their lips. In the background, there is luscious vegetation in the luxurious style which art nouveau is popular for.
March 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Throwback to the time when I ordered a laptop case and it came in a fairly large box and wrapped in a 22 foot long strip of Kraft paper.
The poster is standing straight, his body completely wrapped in a single wide strip of Kraft paper.
March 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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What's up, new* mini zine format has dropped.

*: century old
Screenshot from @loversquarrell on Twitter, I guess. Text: "Love letter from 1913 that opens up to form an art gallery" Photo: You can see a sheet of paper with handwriting on one side, which has fold-outs showing tiny little paintings on the other side. The sheet is folded out to stand as two little gallery rooms.
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM