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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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Latest Reviews

Review: Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

The human brain and its capacity to love have never been simple. Jade Wallace’s poetry incites a lot of introspection into how we are connected to our environments in intimate ways, but not necessarily made loving by them.

Review: Feminism for a Genderqueer Generation

The way Melendez mixes theory with personal anecdotes is a graceful way to deliver intellectual critique with relatable humour. This is a strong, accessible read that even someone who might be hearing about “agender” for the first time can understand.

Review: People Collide

Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.
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Poetry Review: Ghost Sick

Alison Lang (Moderator)

Emily Pohl-Weary, 106 pgs, Tightrope Books, tightropebooks.com, $19.95 Subtitled “a poetry of witness,” this latest book from author, arts educator […]

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Alison Lang (Moderator)

Kat Verhoeven, 164 pages, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $15 Everything that arises passes away. We live under the guise of permanency, […]

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Jillian Tamaki, 280 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $22.95  Governor General Literary Award-winner Jillian Tamaki’s SuperMutant Magic Academy is absurd, […]

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Alison Lang (Moderator)

  From Canzine 2014: Kat Verhoeven and Jason Bradshaw! MEET YOUR 2015 VENDORS! See all these great folks at Canzine […]

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Alison Lang (Moderator)

Jeanne Randolph, 135 pages, ARP Books, arpbooks.org, $14.95 In examining the various “Christianisms” depicted by consumerism in North American society, […]

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Alison Lang (Moderator)

In the summer of 2014, photographers Erich Deleeuw, Andrew Savery-Whiteway and Matthew Volpe came together to form the DAYTRIP collective. […]

Indie Events October 6 – 13

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Celebrate the future because it doesn’t exist! BP founder Hal and pal tell you why the world is ending in […]