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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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Meet Our New Assistant Editor!

Jonathan Valelly

Welcome to our brand new assistant editor Jonathan Valelly! He is a writer, zinester, community artist and performer. His zine releases […]

TCAF Recaf!

Jonathan Valelly

Hey! New Assistant Editor Jonathan here! Any of you who were following the Broken Pencil Instagram or Twitter (both @brokenpencilmag) this weekend […]

Indie Events: May 12 – May 18

Alison Lang (Moderator)

Don’t cry wolf! Get your friends to help with Simpsons trivia this Tuesday in TO. Monday May 12 TORONTO ECW […]

Six Questions with Vivek Shraya

Alison Lang

Vivek Shraya is a Toronto-based writer, musician, filmmaker, activist, educator and visual artist. This past April, his first book of short […]

Sharpener: The Life of Rudy

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Twenty years ago, Mark Connery’s Rudy started as an eight-page mini comic. Today it continues in exactly the same way, and […]

Indie Events: May 5 – May 11

Alison Lang (Moderator)

Monday May 5  TORONTO Trampoline Hall, 7:40pm, The Garrison, 1197 Dundas West, buy tickets at door (6:30pm) All of the lecturers […]

Dreams and Small Towns in Ontario

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    Woke up on my second day in Cobourg from dreams of taking down ninjas in Vancouver. Elsewhere in […]