A Splinter In Her Head
White boxes of text buried in black coffin shaped pages. Scratched photographs of nothing. Floating stick girls. Ostensibly, this is […]
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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Free Fixin’s
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The Mike Harris Voodoo Doll (complete with pins)
Mike Harris, Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario, might well be the most loathed political figure in Canada. He’s made a […]
Infiltration
When I was in university I took this course dedicated to the writing of the early explorers of Canada. It […]
Interference
Call it Collateral Damage, call it Scourge, call it Interference, it doesn’t matter what you call it, Hamish is making […]
Alberta Uber Alles
A hefty and impressive repudiation of Ralph Klein’s conservative war against the people of Alberta, this is a convincing and […]
The Rough Sketch of a Pew
“Count to four, breathe deep, visualize perfect silk lungs, plentiful oxygen…” So told herself Constanze. In the midst of her […]
Who can ya trust nowadays?
It used to be that “lo-fi” was something you just had to put up with for necessity’s sake, like listening […]
Fringe Festivals
Fringe Festivals Splattered against the summer landscape of Canada, when zine folks don’t spend quite as much time in their […]
Today’s Zine Review: Cramhole #2
We’re printing a zine review a day as part of International Zine Month. Today’s review was originally published in Issue […]
Folding Parties and Other Gap Horror Stories
from Unified Conception name: Elana Schachter age: 19 job description: part-time salesperson at “The Gap” favourite piece of gap clothing: […]
Kraftg Jonestauin across the Gobi
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