Creating art from the artless: Raymond Biesinger
Raymond Biesinger is an illustrator from Edmonton who recently relocated to Montreal. Last year he contributed to Broken Pencil‘s Deathmatch […]
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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Halifax’s City Mail Responds to the Love
“City Mail is not pragmatic or competitive (as we learned during the recent postal strike). Nor does it seek to […]
Indie Events: March 19-25
A visit from the Milk Truck, book launches, readings and more in this week’s indie events. VANCOUVER Thursday, March 22. […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
For anyone who likes Hedbergian witticisms (and really, you have no joy in your life if you don’t), then you […]
Growing up Catholic
Kicking the Habit cartoons about the catholic church by Rina Piccolo $9.00, Laugh Lines Press PO Box 259, Bala Cynwyd, […]
Indie Events: March 12-18
Readings in Montreal and St. Catharines, zine launches in Toronto and an indie market in Calgary – find out more […]
Chase Baird wins this year’s Deathmatch!
The Indie Writers Deathmatch is over. Seven weeks of trash talk, vote pandering, lying, scheming, and well-articulated literary feedback have […]
Final days of the Deathmatch!
The Deathmatch is reaching it’s finally. Three days left of voting and posting till the tally switches off and we […]
In A Right and Proper Place
Trolls do not always kill and eat their victims. A woman that falls in with a troll is dragged to […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
A Betty and Veronica fashion Tumblr just for fun! This story has been making the rounds this week about a […]
Chicago Zine Fest This Weekend!
The annual Chicago Zine Fest is fast approaching, as in THIS weekend! With two days of informal panels and […]