Celebrate 100 Issues of Broken Pencil at the Zine Awards on January 25th!
Celebrate 100 issues of Broken Pencil and see the Zine Awards at See-Scape during an evening you won’t forget!
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!
Online Canzine 2024 Vendors
Prepare to enter... THE ZINE ZONE! Meet the vendors coming to this year's online Canzine!
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!
Introducing Broken Pencil 101: Poster Boy
The internet is dying. Let's give a toast. In our latest issue, we speak to online's baddest boy: Dril. Learn about art, philosophy, logging off, all that garbage. Plus floods, rugs, Stooges and the winners of the Zine Awards!
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Need Holiday Activities? Make Your Yuletide DIY With These Zinester’s Toolkits!
Shrinky Dinks! Tarot cards! Need some crafts and activities to keep the friends and family smiling this yuletide season? Here’s a collection of Broken Pencil’s DIY Toolkits worth gathering around for.
TOOLKIT: Make Your Own Tabletop RPG
If you want help making your scrappy little art game full of weird characters and personal opinions and you think nerding out about systems to help enable your dream kind of play sounds like fun, let’s roll.
Win $200 Worth of Broken Pencil Goodies
Share, subscribe and / or tune into Justin Decloux’s annual Holiday Movie Mind Melter to enter for your chance to win books, merch and zines!
Folio: Lonesome Bill Walker on Puppetry and Pee-wee
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 Lonesome Bill Walker, whose woodwork and puppetry explore queerness and its rich strings throughout pop culture.
Announcing the 2023 Zine Awards Nominees!
Behold! Here are the nominees for Best Artzine, Best Litzine, Best Comic, Best Political Zine, Best Infozine, Best Perzine and Best Fanzine of 2023!
Overtime and Improv Classes: Aisha Franz on Work-Life Balance and Berlin’s Tech Culture Clash
Berlin is now home to more than 600 startups, modeling themselves after successful American businesses, many tried to import American workplace culture. Cartoonist Aisha Franz’ latest book is a satire of the calamity that ensued.
Give the Gift of Zines With the Broken Pencil Holiday Sale!
I’m afraid to say it, but, ’tis the season. Save 35% off our print and digital subscriptions AND nab a Broken Pencil-themed colouring book!
Art Holes: Boss Nass KFC Drink Topper
Cartoonist Alexander Laird gives us a tour of his goblin den, laying in wait for the right opportunity to watch Kevin Costner’s Waterworld.
Journeys, on Paper: Jeeyon Shim and the Personal Resonance of Tabletop RPGs
“You can’t force the grain. If you can’t work with your own currents, you’re just fighting yourself.” Amid illness, foraging and introspection, Shim has become one of the most prolific creators in an indie tabletop gaming boom.
Working the Nightshift
“A board game is something that can reach people well beyond my existing community, who are already mostly very accepting of this line of work.” Australian artist and former dancer Exotic Cancer talks to us about her strip club roleplaying game.
Get Your Halloween Creeps on Broken Pencil!
Ghouls, ghosts, witches, vamps, werewolves, monsters and most terrifying of all… ZINESTERS! Here’s a one stop shop for all kinds of creepy affairs found within the Broken Pencil archives.