The Suitcase
When people asked me who; my parents were, I always said “Robert and Mary Smith.” Some people would laugh and […]
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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The Beach
We were on a beach. There were a lot of people there. Also a fenced off area, with grass and […]
E C Press Release Brussels, Belgium
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC (now officially the European Union or EU), the European Parliament […]
Beer: What Are You Leaving Behind?
You buy it, drink it, and return the empties. Pretty simple, except for the fact that empty beer bottles may […]
Are We Really Depressed?
Non-fiction depression literature is a pretty lame genre filled with personal accounts, self-help programs, inflammatory warnings, and many many patronizing […]
Public Sex
Gypsy Times Halifax zinester, Chris Yorke, was convicted in January 1997 and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service […]
The Glorious Return of Coach House
Coach House Press is dead. But Coach House the printer which got out of the book publishing business when it […]
US needs help selling mags in Canada
If nothing else, reports that the World Trade Organization has concluded that Canada is unfairly protecting its magazines at the […]
Heil Allanis!
Rumour, and this is only rumour, pits Alanis Morissette’s record company against three kids who were running their very own […]
Chapters magazine Snafu
Seen your favourite magazine at Canada’s chain of super-size bookstores? The answer is probably not. Chapters, obviously enjoying their monopoly […]
Vancouver Small Press Centre
According to Tom Synders, editor of Vancouver I it-listings mag Verb and member of the obscure but virulent Small Press […]
Fish Piss
An incredible compendium of artists, writer s and the kind of people who you wouldn’ t condescend to label. First […]