Stinkyhead and the Dean
By Elise Moser Stinkyhead toys with the idea of getting “Stink” tattooed on the back of his scalp, as a sort […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
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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Excerpts from Suburbia
By Noya Kohari Small Eternity I’ve got pictures of another place passing by me now and I think, how pretty they […]
She Was Debbie Gibson…I Was Martika
By Angie Neatby We had a song: Drugs, drugs, drugs Some are good, some are bad Drugs, drugs, drugs We get […]
The Barmitzvah Brothers Are Our Future
By Terence Dick Many rock musicians claim to be “doing it for the kids,” but only a select few are kids […]
Maxims for Markham
By Nicole Cohen I. In July, the National Post ran a story about Julie Bureau, the 17-year-old Quebec runaway who resurfaced […]
How To Be a Boy (Some Tips for Girls and Others)
By Ivan E. Coyote 1. Never allow lack of knowledge, experience, insight, directions or a map stop you from approaching a […]
How To Be a Girl (for Boys)
By Miss Cookie LaWhore 1. Wear anything. Wear a Budweiser bathing suit, discarded underwear cut into a halter top, or sheer […]
One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa
By Etgar Keret For a minute, I got uptight. But she told me to take it easy, I had no reason. […]
Sissy Fists
By Jon Paul Fiorentino “Behind the hill — four o’ clock. Be there!” This was the socially accepted way to declare […]
Not About A Dog
By Ken Foster The neighbour boy has been having a problem with hairballs. He won’t stop licking the cat. They’ve tried […]
I Was a Can.Lit Sex Slave
By Emily Schultz I don’t like talking about my time spent as a sex slave for Canadian literature. But it does […]
The Majesty of Mock
By Jason Dickson Definition of the Mockropera: 1) The cumulative and exaggerated musical exposition resulting from a ridiculous love of standard and […]