Canzine Portraits: Anne Emberline
With Canzine West fast approaching (this Sunday!), Broken Pencil wants to squeeze in a few more introductions before the festivities […]
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 Great Piracy Experiment: Ghostbusters Edition
At this year’s Toronto Canzine, we brought together an illustrator, a poet and a zinester for an event that, admittedly, […]
An Indie Recession
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
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
Clocks went back an hour, meaning more time to check out some awesome events! TORONTO November 7, Book Launch: Groundwork […]
Friday’s Internet Round-Up: Found this Week
After a pleasurable hour scrolling through the internet, we have returned with some goodies for this week’s round-up. So come, […]
Canzine West Portraits: Kevin Chong
Reading at this year’s Canzine West, Broken Pencil brings you the widely published Vancouver writer, Kevin Chong. Author of Baroque-a-Nova […]
Indie Events: October 31-November 7
Before you pack up your costumes for the year, come to one of the many spooky indie events happening across […]
Broken Pencil and Joyland Reading Night This Thursday
Arsenal Pulp, Joyland and Broken Pencil present Kevin Chong, Hal Niedzviecki, Kathryn Mockler at Type Books, 883 Queen Street West […]
International Press Watch
EXAMINING SMALL PRESSES OUTSIDE OF CANADA This issue, our correspondent visits the zany and enterprising duo behind Chicago’s FEATHERPROOF BOOKS […]
Friday’s Internet Round-up: Found this Week
Just like we have a weekly round-up of indie events each Monday, we’re now introducing a end-of-week round-up of things […]
Zine Philosophy
This summer the Purple Thistle Centre — a youth-run community centre for arts and activism in Vancouver — hosted a […]