YOU’RE INVITED! Broken Pencil Zine Awards Bash 2022
The event of the year has finally arrived! Come honour the best of the best in zines and comics with the Broken Pencil team.
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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How to Turn Your Zine Into a Video Game
Zinester and programmer v buckenham discusses Downpour, their latest creation, as well as flatgames, toolmaking and where indie games overlap with the zine scene.
Introducing Our Fall Horror Issue: Bloody Bits
The twisting of bone. The teasing of flesh. Gretchen Felker-Martin, the author responsible for Manhunt, finds reprieve in gore. How could we resist putting her on the cover of our horror issue?
Toronto Canzine 2022 Event Schedule
Check out the programs, workshops and panels at this year’s Canzine Toronto on October 1st!
Low Carbon Methods are Greening Academia with Zines
DIY Methods look to the past to design an environmentally friendly conference for the future.
Exploring the Menopausal Multiverse
Laraine Herring and Omisade Burney-Scott demystify menopause and embrace the crone in projects that span zines, podcasts, protests, generations and dimensions.
Art Holes: The Realities of an Amazon Worker
The magic trick of Amazon is we never think about what happens between that one click and the package arriving on our doorstep. We’ve been happy to ignore the various corporate cruelties because we didn’t want to see them.
Victoria Hetherington on Falling in Love With an Algorithm
We spoke with writer Victoria Hetherington about her dystopian novel Autonomy, chatroom romance and how the future got rigged.
A Zine For Your Local Package Thief
Eve Harms was frustrated by frequent visits from a porch pirate. So she took the only logical next step: Making a zine about it.
One Last Trip Down Taddle Creek
Founded by Conan Tobias in 1997, Taddle Creek has flooded Canadians with fiction, features, comics and poetry. After 25 years the magazine is hanging up its beret.
Nick Zedd’s Lovely Life of Scum
One of the most important and least accessible figures of the No Wave milieu, Nick Zedd’s films taught the important lesson that compelling art is unbound by any rules of aesthetics or taste.
Slacker Uprising: The Long Tradition of Anti-Work
A Reddit-driven rejection of labour surged during the pandemic, but it stems from a long tradition. An overlooked history of the anti-work movement and where it fits with modern organizing.