''Brand New Planet'', also known as ''BNP'', was a youth

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

affiliated with the ''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...

''. It was published between 2003 and 2007.

History and profile

''Brand New Planet'' was founded in 2003. Once distributed in hard copy, via the Thursday edition of the ''Star'', it was later published solely as an online paper. Subscriptions were offered free of charge at its ''Toronto Star''-hosted website. The paper was delivered an email notification on Thursdays in PDF. It was directed at children between the ages of 9–14. ''Brand New Planet'' shut down permanently in June 2007 due to lack of advertising. Between 2003 and 2007, ''Brand New Planet'' printed the comic Superslackers by artist

Steve Manale Steve Manale is a Canadian comic artist and illustrator. He is occasionally credited as Steven Charles Manale. He created the web comic ''Superslackers'' and contributed artwork to the comic book series Scott Pilgrim. He curated an exhibition in To ...

. The comic was nominated for an

Ignatz Award The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...

in 2005 in the category of Best Online Comic.

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