WHAT DOES IT MEAN to create a space for learning where queer and trans artists can thrive?This is a complex question, one that touches on both systemic barr...
LEMONADE STANDS and car washes be damned, Mangoshake wants something new and better from the street-side adolescent hustle — and from the coming-of-age narrativ...
We are excited to announce the judges of the Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2018! We couldn’t ask for a better line up of creators from across the zine making spectr...
The Customer is Always Wrong
Mimi Pond, 448 pgs, Drawn and Quarterly,drawnandquarterly.com, $29.95
Mimi Pond is something of legend in cartooning an...
Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger?
Brontez Purnell, 200 pgs, Feminist Press, feministpress.org, $17.95
As a teenager, I was constantly hungry ...
Those of us who live in large urban centres might take zine fairs for granted. Sometimes it can feel like there is no end to the opportunities for DIY creators ...
Lemonade stands and car washes be damned, Mangoshake wants something new and better from the street-side adolescent hustle — and from the coming-of-age narr...
It's back!
Broken Pencil Magazine is excited to announce that we will once more be rewarding the best of the best in zine culture with the Broken Pencil Zi...
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival recently announced that this year's festival will include their first ever zine fair, Zineland Terrace! As the name suggests, th...
What does it mean to create a space for learning where queer and trans artists can thrive?
For so many reasons, this is a complex question, one which touches...
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