Uncovering the Book
Consensual dissent is the future of publishing as Canada’s newest group of publishers do everything they can to get their […]
It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024
It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
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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“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 […]
Calling Angel Chen at the Candid Call Centre
For the period of Angel Chen’s installation, Toronto’s Whippersnapper Gallery is transformed into the Candid Call Centre, a corporate-style office […]
A Day at the Brooklyn Zine Fest
In a one-day-only DIY bonanza, the first annual Brooklyn Zine Fest substantiated the mighty charge that print is not dead. […]
Indie Events: April 16 – April 22
KINGSTON Tuesday April 17, Mansfield Press Launch, The Grad Club, 162 Barrie Street 7:30 pm. This event features four exciting […]
Q&A: Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots?
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a writer, artist, filmmaker and self-described troublemaker. Currently based in Seattle, the author of two novels […]
Guelph’s Kazoo Zine Fair: Today
Guelph, Ontario’s 5th annual Kazoo Festival is currently in full swing, featuring music, films, multi-media and zines. At 11am today […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
This video will pull at your DIY heartstrings: a 9-year-old boy in East LA built his own arcade out of […]
Wolf Maiden Book Tour: a conversation with Tamara Faith Berger
Ahead of Saturday’s kick-off to the Wolf Maiden Book Tour (the launch of Tamara Faith Berger’s Maidenhead and Daniel Allen […]
HouseCat Magazine
HouseCat Magazine Leftist is the first word that comes to mind when reading this zine _ not that there is […]