Larry Gaudet on Blurred Realities and Cultural Coding
What if somebody felt that digital culture was evil or destructive, on the level that maybe a young anti-war activist would have thought that the Vietnam War was?
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 […]
BP is Closed, But You Can Still Access Our Archives
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
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."
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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Thunderous Feminism: The Legacy of the Northern Woman Journal
On printing day of the famed Thunder Bay feminist publication, one woman would type on an electric typewriter while volunteers spread the issue’s pages on the counters and stools of what was formerly a Finnish restaurant — still smelling of the fryer oil.
Paleontology For You And For Me: The Outsider Scientists Redrawing the Dinosaur
Scales, claws, fangs and (controversially) feathers. Meet the paleoartists and zines who believe the vision of dinosaurs belong to everyone who survived their extinction.
Trash and Treasure: The Holycrap Family on Zinemaking and Keepsaking
Their award-winning zine may have begun as a lighthearted family activity, but parents Pann and Claire Lim are attempting to present Rubbish Famzine as something more enduring to their children: an heirloom.
Folio: Hannah Epstein on Rug Hooking and Art Churches
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 Hannah Epstein, whose rug-hooking manifests the madness of the digital world into fiber.
Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City
In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.
The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards
Strange and lurid. Enlightening and electrifying. It only becomes truer the further down you go. The Pigskin Peter Award celebrates the best comics underground.
First the Press, Then the Streets
In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.
Spring Canzine 2024 is ALIVE! ALIVE!!!
It’s time to enter the ZINE ZONE. From April 13th to the 21st, support independent artists and zinesters at the biggest online zine fest across all time and space!
Doc Saddlestitch is Lost in the Zine Zone!! Find Him and Win Big!!
Famous mad zine scientist Doc Saddlestich has entered the Zine Zone with prize packs and Canzine discount codes. Track him down and they can all be yours!
Bug Milk Brings Online Canzine Offline at The Beguiling
Comics, comedy and prizes! Come on down for our IRL launch party of our URL zine fest!
Who is the REAL Psycho Goreman?
Despite only recently encountering Earth and its cultures, the medium of comics hasn’t been lost on the “Arch-Duke of Nightmares.” We speak with Psycho Goreman’s caretakers about his new graphic adventures.