Taddle Creek

The Gallery

A Very Comic Christmas

For nearly a decade, James McNee, a Toronto-based communications consultant, has hired local cartoonists to draw his family’s annual holiday card.

The Kitch

Comfort Food, Canada Style

Taddle Creek’s resident caker cook whips up a lasagna so strong and free, two out of two nonnas deem it serviceable.

The Ephemera

The Features

In January, 1968, eleven black students integrated Mount Greenwood Elementary School, on Chicago’s Southwest Side. In this excerpt from a memoir of her family’s civil-rights activities, Terry Murray, a white Mount Greenwood teen at the time, recalls the turmoil of the anti-integration protests that followed.

by Terry Murray

The Comix

Wendy Makes Sculpture

by Walter Scott

The Gallery

Life in a (Tiny) Northern Town

Eric Veillette, the chief planner of Spruce Mills, is taking city building to new heights.

by Conan Tobias

The Fiction

Worry

by Jessica Westhead

“After the Red River Rebellion of 1869 / Louis Riel went crazy, he ran off and hid”

“When Louis Riel Went Crazy” by Katherena Vermette

Now On Sale

The Podcast

Episode 59: “Subtitles,” Stuart Ross’s Annual Poem for the New Year
Episode 58: Terry Murray, in Conversation with Bee Quammie, Live at the 41st Taddle Creek Happening
Episode 57: Jessica Westhead, Live at the 41st Taddle Creek Happening

“Maybe we'll be around long enough to see if a print revival pans out.”

“Ontario” by David Collier

The Features

Footprints in the Sand

Richard Kelly Kemick wasn’t sure why he wanted to spend an entire summer in the Alberta badlands acting in a play about the death of Jesus Christ. In this excerpt from a work-in-progress, the Christian-turned-agnostic discovers he’s not the only one with questions.