Announcing the Judges for the 2023 Zine Awards!
Meet our panel of judges for this year’s exhilarating competition!
Announcing the Judges for the 2023 Zine Awards!
Meet our panel of judges for this year's exhilarating competition!
Folio: Catalina Cheng on Ceramics and Preservation of Queer Art History
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Catalina Cheng, whose work in ceramics bridges familiar traditions, radiant pride and honouring the queer artists erased by history.
Review: Blind Alley: The First Year
Visually distinct with a whimsical, costume-ish quality to character designs, there’s a comfortable tone of strangeness throughout Blind Alley that would feel at home in EarthBound or Twin Peaks.
Stop Saying I Look Like The Zinester American Girl Doll!
Jenn Woodall has had it up TO HERE with these cherubic luxury nostalgia-baiting mall dolls being passed off as DIY 'girl power.'
Introducing Our Summer Issue: Fun & Games
Hark! Adventurers! Join us in this magical, magazine quest as Broken Pencil guides you through the weird and wonderful realm of indie tabletop roleplaying games!
Call for Submissions: HOCUS OVER THE THRESHOLD
Submissions In honour of the solstice, the theme is OVER THE THRESHOLD. Send your stories and poems of planetary […]
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2023 Zine Awards Deadline Has Been… EXTENDED!
You now have until September 30th, 2023 to submit to the Zine Awards!
Introducing the First Two 2023 Zine Award Judges: KC Green and Gretchen Felker-Martin!
The acclaimed cartoonist and the queen of gruesome tales join our panel for this year’s competition!
One Day We Will All Die. Who’ll Make Comics Then? David Galliquio and Comix in Unpredictable Peru.
“People thought I was a degenerate, I did what I did only because the one underground rule was that there were no rules.” How the perilous, conservative rulership of Peru shaped its counterculture.
Registrations for Canzine Toronto 2023 are now OPEN!
Toronto Canzine is BACK and we want YOU to be a part of it! Register before September 5th to be part of the most delightful zine fest in town!
Politics is for the Nuts
In 1974, Vancouver artist Vincent Trasov ran for mayor of Vancouver. Or, at least, Vincent Trasov dressed as Mr. Peanut ran for mayor of Vancouver. Nearly 50 years later, documentary filmmaker Andrew Muir brought the performance piece back into the spotlight with Peanut For Mayor.
Art Holes: Kreal’s Cartoon-Zone
“It’s been strange taking inventory of all this, I feel like a spoiled brat. And worse yet, an embarrassed spoiled brat.” From gas stations to animation, Kreal shows us where the magic is made.
Walking Tall: Boots Riley on the Utility of Absurd Art
“What I want to do is use this exaggeration to point out contradictions and to point out ironies and skip over large swaths of theory and just smack it in your face. That’s the usefulness to me.” The activist, musician and director tells us how to speak to a world that’s gotten strange.
A Beginner’s Guide To The Broken Pencil Zine Awards
To settle all of your Broken Pencil Zine Awards questions, big and small, please refer to this handy-dandy Q&A right here.
NOW What: Is There a Future for the Alt-Weekly?
The loss of local voices goes beyond arts scenes and progressive op-eds as trusted legacy publications become propaganda for your city’s worst actors.
Submissions for the 2023 Broken Pencil Zine Awards are now OPEN!
Celebrating zine excellence since 2017, it’s the sixth annual Broken Pencil Zine Awards! You have between now and September 15th, 2023 to enter!
Folio: Olivia Mae Sinclair on Text, Textiles and The Neverending Story
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Olivia Mae Sinclair, a textile artist binding books and zines with frayed fabrics, exploring a textured meaning of the text within.