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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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Latest Reviews

Review: Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

The human brain and its capacity to love have never been simple. Jade Wallace’s poetry incites a lot of introspection into how we are connected to our environments in intimate ways, but not necessarily made loving by them.

Review: Feminism for a Genderqueer Generation

The way Melendez mixes theory with personal anecdotes is a graceful way to deliver intellectual critique with relatable humour. This is a strong, accessible read that even someone who might be hearing about “agender” for the first time can understand.

Review: People Collide

Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.
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Latest Posts

Canzine Portraits: Anne Emberline

Steve Locke

With Canzine West fast approaching (this Sunday!), Broken Pencil wants to squeeze in a few more introductions before the festivities […]

An Indie Recession

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By Laura Trethewey Across Canada, writers, illustrators, craftsters and zinesters are feeling the pinch (or throttle) of the recession. But […]

Canzine West Portrait: Aaron Read

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Meet Aaron Read, artist extraordinaire from Burnaby B.C., who created this year’s Canzine West poster (above) along with Jaz Halloran. […]

Indie Events: November 7-14

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Clocks went back an hour, meaning more time to check out some awesome events! TORONTO  November 7, Book Launch: Groundwork […]

Canzine West Portraits: Kevin Chong

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Reading at this year’s Canzine West, Broken Pencil brings you the widely published Vancouver writer, Kevin Chong. Author of Baroque-a-Nova […]

International Press Watch

Lindsay

EXAMINING SMALL PRESSES OUTSIDE OF CANADA This issue, our correspondent visits the zany and enterprising duo behind Chicago’s FEATHERPROOF BOOKS […]