Dream of sunnier days with the new Cat City comic
Cat Comics is a quarterly comic in Broken Pencil. Victor Martins is a cartoonist and illustrator living just outside of […]
Issue 85
‘Feels Zine #08’ is a mixed bag of promising prose and plenty of poems
Zine, Hannah Browne & Sarah Vardy, 60 pgs, feelszine.com, $18 As I sat down at a bar to write this […]
‘Every Straight Dude on Bumble’ confronts toxic masculinity on dating apps
Every Straight Dude on Bumble Zine, Shivaun Hoad, shivaunhoad.ca, 14 pgs, contact to buy or trade The online dating experience […]
Pin shows, zine fairs, and the new DIY marketplace
What exactly are pin and patch shows? Pin and patch shows are held all over the continent, with one of […]
Culture War zine encourages you to rethink and resist assimilation
Culture War, Part One: Assimilation Zine, The Wheelhouse, 14 pgs, whdistro.tumblr.com, $3 There’s a line in Arabelle Sicardi’s The Year […]
Juicy zine joins collage and contemplation, however evasive
Juicy Zine, Ariel Bader-Shamai, 10 pgs, arielbadershamai.ca Ariel Bader-Shamai’s zine Juicy is a visually compelling selection of illustrations and prose […]
Folio: “These Threads Hold Memory” honours Indigenous knowledge via digital motifs
In each issue, Broken Pencil asks an artist or curator to host Folio — a section bridging the printed page […]
Vinyldyke is a bombshell of a rock ‘n’ roll fanzine debut
Vinyldyke #1 and #b-side Zine, Vinyldyke, 42 pgs, 19 pgs, [email protected], €2.50 Vinyldyke’s eponymous zine debut is a two volume […]
Amidst overdose crisis, survival is an art
Written by Declan Keogh • Photography by Declan Keogh and Jeff Bierk A few years ago, Les William Harper did […]
Letter from Anisa: Zines, urgency & optimism in strange times
I’m writing this the night before our fall issue goes to print — I know, risky Tom Cruise business — […]
Beena Mistry’s zine uses modern lyrics to unpack Dante and Virgil’s bond
The Love That Moves the Sun and All the Stars Comic zine, Beena Mistry, 14 pgs, beenamistry.com Brampton-based illustrator and […]
The trees in this zine will kill you before you know it
Arboreal Nightmares Zine Mer, 6 pgs, [email protected], $2 The grace and beauty of trees is but a clever ruse in […]