My Abdication From the House of Windsor
By Shawn Micallef It’s hard to write about your hometown after you’ve left. It’s especially hard if you’ve moved to the […]
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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Blog Blog Revolution
By Michelle Kasprzak A personal publishing revolution is growing larger every day, and it might be one you are a part […]
Zine Philosophy
My first foray into zine-making was when I was thirteen, under the advisory of a very talented punk rock friend […]
Deleted Zines
In his January 6th blog update, former Verbicide Magazine columnist Mark Huddle wrote, “I loved writing for Verbicide. I am […]
Error State
In 1971 John T. Draper came into possession of a whistle. A magic whistle. A plastic toy whistle that came […]
The Thing I Was Doing or Not Doing
In my last note, I promised that I would try to be more optimistic. In fact, I promised to become […]
Editor’s Note
My mother always told me that nobody likes their job. This statement made me even more determined not to fit […]