Make the Soup
by Sean Johnston You build the factory. You make the soup the workers eat. You build a house about 20 […]
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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Infidelity
Infidelity, Stacey May Fowles, 227 pgs, ECW press, www.ecwpress.com, $18.95 If nearly anyone told me they’ve had an affair, I’d […]
Creative Politics: The Project of Asking
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Help Make the Bookmobile Book!
From 2001-2005, a group of pals drove “a six-wheeled rig with books in tow” across the U.S. and Canada. They […]
Indie Events – Feb 3 – Feb 9
MONTREAL Saturday February 8, 2:30pm, Silent Disco Dance Squad, location and time TBA Dust off or Create your own silly […]
Deathmatch Round 3!
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The Idiot without a Coat On
by Craig Calhoun I know, Lord, that Your judgements are just and that You have afflicted me fairly. – […]