Canzine 2024 Registrations Are OPEN! EXTENDED TIL 31ST!

The most exciting zine fair is returning to Toronto AND Ottawa! Register today to join this uncanny smorgasbord of zines, art, comics, discussions, workshops and surprises!

Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind

There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.

Zines Killed the Video Star

“I figure, if I have to be forced to live in this modern, cold and digital world, I can at least point to the physical objects that I love." Musician Mike Adams foregoes the 'lyric video' for a more analogue approach.

In the World of Trina Robbins

To read a Trina Robbins comic is to enter an alternate history: one in which the legions of women who entered the industry as writers, artists, and editors during the war years of the 1940s were never driven back out.

Review: at the 7/11 outside Club Q

A deeply personal zine rendering moments of grief and joy, cartoonist and science illustrator Annabel Driussi reflects on the aftermath of the shooting that occurred at Colorado Springs’ Club Q in November, 2022.

Call for Submissions: FiiLTHY GLO ZiNE ISSUE 3

THEME:: TRANSPiRE DEADLINE:: August 18, 2024 FG headquarters encourages you to hit us with some fiilth ((art)). We value new-fangled […]

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Latest Reviews

Review: Nothing Without Us Too

With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.

Review: The Novice

In Sean McCarthy’s The Novice, a strolling snail-man is consumed, only to survive and meet worse horrors in the gullet of the beast. Things are not always what they appear to be. Both within and without this whimsy world.

Review: Her Body Among Animals

There is seemingly no situation a Ferrante narrator will not relate to a point of arcane science trivia. When metaphor becomes the primary vehicle for storytelling, the device soon feels forced.

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Latest Posts

A Guide to Your First Canzine

Olea Kim

New to Canzine? Maybe you’re forgetful? Never fear, a Broken Pencil editor is here! Whether you’re an enterprising zinester or […]

Canzine 2024 Registrations Are OPEN! EXTENDED TIL 31ST!

Broken Pencil

The most exciting zine fair is returning to Toronto AND Ottawa! Register today to join this uncanny smorgasbord of zines, art, comics, discussions, workshops and surprises!

Art Holes: Rawdog

Lawrence "Rawdog" Hubbard

“I’m working on a big project I can crash for a few hours and then keep on banging out pages.” Real Deal Comix’ Lawrence Hubbard gives us a tour of his spartan digs.

A Day with Matt Farley, The World’s Most Prolific Artist

Will Sloan

I admire Matt Farley and what he represents. I predict that he will one day be recognized as one of the emblematic creatives of his era. For this reason, I travelled to Peabody, Massachusetts for the Motern Extravaganza, an annual concert and fan event Farley holds in his own honour.

Larry Gaudet on Blurred Realities and Cultural Coding

Lauren Dibenedetto

What if somebody felt that digital culture was evil or destructive, on the level that maybe a young anti-war activist would have thought that the Vietnam War was?

Thunderous Feminism: The Legacy of the Northern Woman Journal

Shivaun Hoad

On printing day of the famed Thunder Bay feminist publication, one woman would type on an electric typewriter while volunteers spread the issue’s pages on the counters and stools of what was formerly a Finnish restaurant — still smelling of the fryer oil.