Festivals, bookstores and presses: the holy trinity of indie comics. TCAF co-founder and Beguiling owner Peter Birkemoe can now claim a hand in all thre...
STACEY BRU
So how does an artist actually pull a profit when producing pins, patches and other swag inevitably requires a bit investment? You charm people into...
In February of 2018, I joined a small but lively band of lunch hour protestors surrounding the door of the Ministry of the Attorney General’s building on Bay St...
Leaving Richard’s Valley
Michael Deforge, 479 pgs, Koyama Press, koyamapress.com, $39.95
The world of comics has evolved far beyond the tradition of syndica...
Podcast art by Eric Kostiuk Williams
Attention, science fiction writers! Maggie MacDonald wants you to pick up the mic.
With both the podcast boom and th...
I have to strike a tricky balance as I assign, manage, and edit the work found in each issue of Broken Pencil.
On the one hand, it’s important to reach o...
Some big, deeply rooted zine festivals settle in, becoming destination events for zinesters far and wide. Others, like Chicago’s ZINEmercado, pave winding p...
How do you know when art is working?
Maybe that’s a weird question. But I don’t see art as simply a product of its creator or context, reflecting bac...
Kalup Linzy straddles unexpected genres, media, and spaces.
The Florida-born video and performance artist garnered considerable acclaim in the New York City ...
For the second year in a row, Broken Pencil is sponsoring the one-of-a-kind, too-weird-for-TIFF underground film extravaganza, the What the Film Festival!
Th...
On Being a Fucking Slut
Zine, Anonymous, 36 pgs, lookmumzinedistro.blogspot.com
I picked up this beauty at the Hamilton Zineposium, where it was being dist...
