Fantasy Beards
“FANTASY BEARDS” is a continuation of Robert Dayton’s recent series of “New Beard Archetypes”, a collection of pen and ink […]
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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Hold Your Hand
Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2009 Have you ever walked in a busy mall and suddenly a kid is walking beside […]
Isn’t He Fantastic
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There are Two i’s in Wii
Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Champion 2009 “I fucked your mother.” It’s what a lot of people say as a mean joke. […]
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Where Have All the Placentas Gone?
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Friday’s Internet Round-Up: Found this Week
A short(er) list of what we were reading this week: Long-ago zinester Adee Robinson gets excited about zines all over […]
The Deathmatch Returns!
Broken Pencil’s annual short story contest is back for blood! Every year we receive hundreds of submissions for the Indie […]
No Sleep Till Beta
Global Game Jam For 48 hours at the end of January, about 1,600 people spread across 53 cities in […]
Fun or Else!
A chat with Portland’s twee-pop quartet Together, Kathy Foster, Jen Sbragia, Kim Baxter and Ari Douangpanya make up the fun […]