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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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Indie Events: Aug 4-10

Jonathan Valelly

Zine Dream 7 is this weekend!  Wednesday, August 6 TORONTO The Trouble With Brunch Launch, 6pm, Handlebar, 159 Augusta Ave, […]

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Author of the insanely popular Scott Pilgrim launches his new graphic novel this Wednesday at The Bloor! Monday, July 28 TORONTO […]

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Okay guys, often we find crowdfunding pages from the Great Wheresoever— sometimes they’re people we know, sometimes they’re people we […]

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Small Talk #3 will include weird people, weird ideas, awkward timing Monday July 21 TORONTO Readings at the Common: July […]

Indie Events: July 13-20

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Attention kids, comix people, woodland Canadians— Through The Woods launches in Toronto on Tuesday!  Tuesday, July 15 TORONTO Rudy Comix and […]

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Dream Whip: The Pedal Powered Movie Tour Zine, Bill Brown, issue 15, Microcosm Publishing, microcosmpublishing.com, $10.95US. “I vaguely remember some […]