Just Me and My Urine Jug
By Joshua M. Bernstein One chilly morning in early March, I carried a urine-filled jug around New York City. You […]
It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024
It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
BP is Closed, But You Can Still Access Our Archives
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
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."
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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Almost Famous
By Heidi Chapson My first brush with a major celebrity came rather late in life. It was back in April […]
Keepin’ It Fake
By Terence Dick In a recent column from the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh takes a retrospective look at the […]
Friday’s Internet Round-Up: Found this Week!
Get a read on what we were reading this week: The Gothamist in NYC gets “a little nostalgic for the […]
Broken Pencil at Expozine 2011
Broken Pencil took a road trip to Montreal this past weekend to table at the 10th annual Expozine. Over the years […]
Indie Events: Nov 28-Dec 4
Black Friday is over and this means the craziness of the holidays is fast approaching. Just look at our indie […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
A short-list of what Broken Pencil was reading this week: Montreal editorial cartoonist Dave Rosen releases the Stephen Harper Colouring […]
Error State
When Microsoft launched the Kinect on November 4, 2010, they brought a device to the gamer market designed to take […]
We Are All Animals by Sylvain Cotte
Sylvain Cotte is a French artist working in collage and cyanotype. Through his collages, Cotte transports us into an […]
Indie Events: Nov 20-27
This week is all about this weekend’s Expozine but if you’re not in Montreal, no worries, we’ve found some other […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
An ever-so-brief round-up of what we were reading on the internet this week: In the wake of no-less than three […]
Good-bye Canzine West!
This past Sunday, some 70 tablers turned up to show off their wares at Vancouver’s Ukrainian Hall for Canzine West. […]