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On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
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.
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
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.
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
View all Calls for SubmissionsCelebrating zine excellence since 2017, it’s the seventh annual Broken Pencil Zine Awards! You have between now and the end of September to enter!
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here’s how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
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“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.
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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.
“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.
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.
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?
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.
Scales, claws, fangs and (controversially) feathers. Meet the paleoartists and zines who believe the vision of dinosaurs belong to everyone who survived their extinction.
Their award-winning zine may have begun as a lighthearted family activity, but parents Pann and Claire Lim are attempting to present Rubbish Famzine as something more enduring to their children: an heirloom.