Canzine’s Official After Party
It’s October, which means Canzine is quickly approaching. While you make your plans for the weekend of the 20th 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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Indie Events: October 1 – 7
TORONTO Monday October 1, 7pm, Raising Hell Launch, No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College Street, $5 or free […]
Found on the Internet
Zinesters Talking: I love podcasts, and there seems to be one for nearly every subject under the sun these days […]
Here Comes the 12-Hr Zine Machine!
The immersive nature of Nuit Blanche means that for one night, everyone in Toronto can be a part of the […]
From Paint to Pixels
Note: Indie game designer and educator Benjamin Rivers (featured in the story below) will be delivering an eight-minute indie talk […]
Indie Events: September 24 – 30
This week marks the giant all-night art crawl Nuit Blanche in Toronto on September 29 – 30. There’s wayyyy too […]
Q&A with Emily M. Keeler, Editor of Little Brother
Ed. Note: Emily Keeler will be speaking as part of the first-ever Broken Pencil Symposium for Indie Culture Makers on […]
Fun With Crowdfunding: Film Nerd Edition
Help The A/V Geeks Get Digitized The A/V Geeks collect and show vintage 16mm educational films. Their collection, based in […]
Broken Pencil at Word on the Street
Yep, we’re back at The Word on the Street Toronto this Sunday. From 11am – 6pm, you can come visit […]
DIY Gynecology and Radical Self-Care
by Chris Urquhart Interest in DIY gynecology — and DIY healthcare in general — has seen a recent resurgence. Folks […]
ZED.TO: Creating A City’s Apocalypse
Ed. note – Zed.to’s Elenna Mosoff will be speaking at Broken Pencil’s first-ever Canzine Symposium, taking place on Saturday October […]
Indie Events: Sept 17 – 23
TORONTO Thursday September 20, 7pm-9pm, Pope Hats #3 Launch Event, The Central (603 Markham Street) free Come on out and […]