Feisty Femmes and Great Guys
Donna Laframboise Liberates Man from Feminism Donna Laframboise has been attacking feminism for years in her writing. But now, through […]
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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Fledgling Montreal Storefronts Distribute the Local Alternative
For awhile now in Montreal we’ve seen various scenes start growing again, as more and more people join the folks […]
Action for your Ezine: A Web Dick’s Guide
It was way too late on a Wednesday night and I was holed up at the House of Donuts, trying […]
Your Own Worst Enemy
In his newest zine-venture, Cygnals Scott bounces between features on schizophrenics (in pictures and in their own words) and stories […]
John Revolta (et la television)
Once again, an ingeniously different format for this one. And once again, some fine, highly original work by the Swiz […]
I Was a Teenage Masochist
My friend Karen and I had been going to this hotel lounge. It had deep loveseats and a dark interior […]
The Car Wreck Story
I’ve been walking a lot lately. When the new year came I had a notion that perhaps winter was going […]
Boo-Boo
I’ve been trying to get the details of this story for awhile now, but it’s been extremely difficult because my […]
Uncovering the Book
Consensual dissent is the future of publishing as Canada’s newest group of publishers do everything they can to get their […]
“I Killed W.O. Mitchell”
Saskatchewan’s premiere self publisher excoriates the prairie publishing establishment On July 25th, 1998, I gave a presentation at the Moose […]
From the Margins of the Insurrection
Zine Writing and the Death of Literature Okay, maybe not the death of literature. Maybe what we’re talking about is […]
Tales of a Dirty Old Zine
Why Writing for the Real Underground Press Never Goes Out of Style Back when I was fifteen or so I […]