The Good Work Art Market Puts Accessibility At The Heart of Craft
Broken Pencil alumn Anisa Rawhani talks to us about the invisible barriers to participating in art, the upcoming market at the AGO and how their cat Bubba is doing.
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For every successful foray into Hollywood there’s 100 cash-strapped nightmares making use of ingenuity and offal. The rogue visionaries with a passion for film so strong that no empty pocket could ever prevent them from sharing their goopy artistry.
In the grand Oulipo tradition, Considerations sees Montreal’s Fortner Anderson undertake a constrained writing project: 1,000 numbered sentences, each with only one verb. Treat it like a daily Far Side calendar, serving yourself to a gag or observation when you feel like it.
A lifetime of alienation from my peers and reluctant obsession with death had turned me into some kind of stoic mutant, able to see in the metaphorical dark. It felt good to say that I had been preparing for this my whole life, whether or not it was true.
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Bridget Moser about the uncanny, the unsettling, ‘cursed images’ and a hair covered skeleton of her creation that got under people’s skin.
Vera Drew has gone through many transformations in her life, no vat of acid required. The filmmaker fought to create The People’s Joker and continues to fight to bring the people their Joker.
Submissions “Free Our Mamas” is looking for submissions from BIPOC (including currently and formerly incarcerated mothers of colour), related […]
View all Calls for SubmissionsBroken Pencil alumn Anisa Rawhani talks to us about the invisible barriers to participating in art, the upcoming market at the AGO and how their cat Bubba is doing.
All information about the 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards Bash in one place.
The moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Here are your nominees for the 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards!
“How can we quantify all that’s been stolen from us? How can we forgive the failures of our governments and our economic system whose callousness, greed, and jingoistic competitiveness made this all so much worse than it could have been?”
Lurking beneath Famous Monsters and Fangoria, a brood of horror zines rose from the ink and grime. Learn the history of Psychotronic Video, Sleazoid Express and the Gore Gazette within… THE HALL OF HORROR ZINES!
A new book theorizes that the infamous Zodiac Killer was determined to spill more ink than blood.
We chat with Jay Stephens about small town mysteries, the gruesome side of Casper and their Doug Wright Award winning horror series Dwellings.
The event of the year has finally arrived! Come honour the best of the best in zines and comics with the Broken Pencil team.
Zinester and programmer v buckenham discusses Downpour, their latest creation, as well as flatgames, toolmaking and where indie games overlap with the zine scene.
The twisting of bone. The teasing of flesh. Gretchen Felker-Martin, the author responsible for Manhunt, finds reprieve in gore. How could we resist putting her on the cover of our horror issue?
Check out the programs, workshops and panels at this year’s Canzine Toronto on October 1st!
DIY Methods look to the past to design an environmentally friendly conference for the future.