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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Flesh and Roaches
illustration by Luke Ramsey by Shelly Drummond At age six, his brother told him roaches crawled over his eyelids […]
Indie Events: August 26 – September 1
It’s September this week…oh man, guys. Where’d the summer go? There’s only one recourse….get crazy this week. You gotta. TORONTO […]
Found on the Internet
Hey you guys. Long time no see. Sorry, it was summer and we were sleeping/on vacation. Now our plucky interns […]
A Death Greatly Exaggerated: a small press exhibit
Working in a rare book library and watching the rise of e-books, John Shoesmith was getting tired of hearing people […]
Creative Politics: A Positive Review of A Negative Review
by Guillaume Morrissette When it comes to book reviews, I tend to feel that a full spectrum of opinions is […]
Indie Events: Aug 19 – Aug 25
HALIFAX Saturday August 24-Sunday August 25, 24-Hour Zine Challenge, Roberts Street Social Centre, 2084 Creighton Street The Roberts Street Social […]
Riot Fest Ticket Giveaway!!
Hey guys guess what. We have a pair of two-day passes to RIOT FEST, the punk party at Fort […]
Indie Events: August 12 – 18
Photo: “The Wild Party” by Marina Molares TORONTO Saturday August 17, 8pm, Fan Fiction The Show: Batman, Black Swan, 154 […]
RIP Zev Asher
We just got word that on Wednesday August 7th, filmmaker, musician, writer and former Broken Pencil film section editor, Zev […]
24-hr Drawing Party
Tomorrow, for a full 24-hours, Vancouver’s Project Space (22 E Georgia Street) will be holding a 24-hour Drawing Party. Everyone is […]