Why Fish Piss Matters Charles R. Smith Jr. Set in Beirut

Set in Beirut

in the form of anxiety and depression

“From the endpapers

confront their own poor decisions as young people in the grungy 1990s

Why Fish Piss Matters Charles R. Smith Jr. Set in BeirutBy Andy Brown. Published by Vehicule Press Conundrum Press. Softcover, 180 pages, Prose w Colour Illustrations, 2025. Called Canada s most influential zine, Fish Piss ran for 11 issues, from 1996 to 2006. It began as a bilingual mash up of the Montreal anglophone spoken word scene and the comics scene. Edited by Montrealer Louis Rastelli, and rooted in the DIY punk ethos, Fish Piss was a contact zone of literary material, comics, essays, interviews,