How to Have Civic Pride Without Seeming Lame
By Derek Murr 1. Don’t worry about sounding lame. Didn’t you get the memo? Enthusiasm is the new ironic detachment. Your […]
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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The Southwest Rapist
By Leanna McLennan The Southwest Rapist parks his brown van in the Canadian Tire parking lot between me and the school. […]
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On Being a Jew
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Thieves
By Lesley Buxton Here is a list of things I have stolen for Clare: a brand new tube of scarlet, Chanel […]
This Is Your Hometown
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Profile: Friendly Rich
By broken pencil Richard Marsella (best known as Friendly Rich) is the hardest working artist in Brampton. Over the past ten […]
Ninety-nine!
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How Zines Saved My Life
By Michele Collins I remember the first time I picked up a zine. I had just turned 16. With my brand-new […]
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Record Companies are Dead!
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