The Brand New Planet, also known as BNP, was a youth newspaper

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 affiliated with the Toronto Star

Toronto Star

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. Once distributed in hard copyvia with 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 kids 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

Steve Manale is a Canadian comic artist and illustrator. He is occasionally credited as Steven Charles Manale.- Superslackers :Manale is the creator of the web comic . The comic is described by Manale as "mostly about a group of kids who tease and torment each other all in the name of fun. They're...

. The comic was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2005 in the category of Best Online Comic.