After careful consideration from our panel of judges, the nominees and winners of the 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards are finally here!
Below are this year’s finalists and winners of Best Artzine, Comic, Fanzine, Infozine, Perzine, Collab, Litzine, Political Zine, and Best Overall Zine of 2022. The crème de la crème of an especially talented crème.
Congratulations to our Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2022 finalists and winners! We here at BP want to send a huge thank you to every zinester who submitted their work for the Zine Awards. It is your enthusiasm, drive, and artistry that make the BP community rewarding and special.
Read about each zine and pick up a copy for yourself in our Zine Awards Shop!
Best Artzine
– mapping elsewhere by Mariana Muñoz Gomez
– Future Fantasteek by Jac Batey
– Round Trip by Theo
– Triangles by Brian Mallace
– Referent 2 by Jasmine Gui & Abby Ho
Winner of Best Art Zine 2022: Round Trip by Theo
Best Comic Zine
– Make-Believe & Wannabe by Melanie L. Yan
– The Hunt Begins by Shannon Spence
– Basil by Bridget
– Coby Alone by becca kubrick
– Summer Showers by Doze Alvarez
Winner of Best Comic Zine 2022: Make-Believe & Wannabe by Melanie L. Yan
Best Fanzine
– Dolly Pardon by Liz Yerby
– At the Con by Sammy Spilak
– House Plants in Horror Films by Paul Cooke
– The Same Rainbow’s End by Emmanuelle Princesse Chateauneuf
– GERARD TWEETS by Merlin Sabal
Winner of Best Fan Zine 2022: The Same Rainbow’s End by Emmanuelle Princesse Chateauneuf
Best Groups Zine / Collab
– Youth in Revolt by Rookies with Friends
– Sitting on Chrome by Jacqueline Valenzuela
– Delightful Garden by Miles Davitt
– Tidelines: EARTH TALK by Julia Warner
– ELFLAND: A ZINE by Lena Warnke & Martha Schnee
Winner of Best Collab Zine 2022: Sitting on Chrome by Jacqueline Valenzuela
Best Infozine/DIY
– Depression Cooking: easy recipes for when you’re depressed as fuck by Sonali Menezes
– SoundZine Zine: Issue 2 by Jenn Andrade
– Food Heritage Revolution by M/Turnpike
– What I Wish I Knew About the Pelvic Floor by Amy Wanner Jeansonne
– Calepino by Enza Apa
Winner of Best Info Zine 2022: Depression Cooking: easy recipes for when you’re depressed as fuck by Sonali Menezes
Best Litzine
– Cosmic Phallusy 1: The Pilot by Benjo Kazue
– Frightmarish Zine by Mary Rajotte
– I Know My Own Heart by Deanna Armenti
– Hide and Seek by Shelley Wallace
– Harm Done by Michelle Wirth & Austin Brady
Winner of Best Litzine 2022: Harm Done by Michelle Wirth & Austin Brady
Best Perzine
– The Love of My Life Doesn’t Use Dating Apps by Cleopatria
– The Bed Knife tm and Other Tales of Abnormal Psychosis by Jennifer Copping
– Ode to my Blackness by Kandace Coston
– Magnetic by Astrid Robertson
– Youth and Her Catharsis by Amelie Repko
Winner of Best Perzine 2022: The Bed Knife tm and Other Tales of Abnormal Psychosis by Jennifer Copping
Best Political Zine
– The Cost of Heaven by Adrean Clark
– puri [풀이] zine issue #1 Fascist Flag by Roger Kim
– Notas sobre un recorrido / Notes on a Tour: the El Paso Processing Centre by Gabriela Galíndez and published by Lois Klassen
– Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries IV by Peter Miles Bergman, Heather Link-Bergman
– An Illustrated Struggle for Housing from Canada to the Philippines by Julie Guevara
Winner of Best Political Zine 2022: Notas sobre un recorrido / Notes on a Tour: the El Paso Processing Centre by Gabriela Galíndez and published by Lois Klassen
And the winner of Best Over All Zine 2022 is…
Harm Done by Michelle Wirth & Austin Brady
Harm Done is a poetry/art zine created by a collaborative duo examining themes around gender and masculinity: living outside of binary concepts of gender, the absurdity of white midwestern-American male culture, and clashing internal and external perceptions of self. It includes call-and-response poems, poems blending phrases from both authors, Austin’s visual work paired with Michelle’s poems, and Michelle’s drawings haunting the margins of Austin’s art.
The judges agreed that Harm Done was the crème de la crème, the best of the best, the coolest of cool when it came to this year’s zines. Watch the video below to hear judge Mary Houlihan’s thoughts on Michelle Wirth & Austin Brady’s fantastic zine.