Attention, science fiction writers! Maggie MacDonald wants you to pick up the mic. With the podcast boom in full swing, she says audio is a key tool for dev...
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...
Iambic Marrow #1 and #2
Perzines, Marin Doyle, 28 pgs and 20 pgs, etsy.com/shop/marinboyle
I picked up lots of awesome zines at the Hamilton Zineposium thi...
Shoes Fanzine #8
Zine, Nate, 72 pgs, $3 (free to prisoners), [email protected]
I’m a sucker for a good old punk political zine. The first zines I en...
The Hamilton Sub Register
Zine, Ben Needham and Tara Bursey, 16 pgs, [email protected]
Have you ever read a zine and just a few pages in had the feeli...
Every day I wake up and I feel this funny mixture of emotions. It’s part dread and part anxiety; that kind of knot in your stomach. But it’s also a weir...
A Western World
Michael Deforge, 156 pgs, Koyama Press
koyamapresss.com, $22.95
Michael Deforge’s work has always been as political as it is absurdist, ge...
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