Anti-mask zine hits mailboxes in Finland
This issue explores how zines, often championed as a force for good, can also be used for harm. Our […]
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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Finally, the retro rotary club. Meet Kathryn Calder, the current artist in residence for the city of Victoria. Calder […]
From Vice to Violence: How the Nineties Invented the Alt-Right
Before it was a billion-dollar infotainment empire, Vice was an emerging Montreal-based monthly tabloid known for in-your-face, balls-out, no-regrets […]
The Prophecy by Claire Legendre
The Prophecy Excerpted from The Lily Pad and the Spider, written by Claire Legendre, translated by David Homel It […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: Grey Injustice by Anastasia Jill
Illustration by Cindy Rose // The night I decided to leave my home, I hacked my hair off with […]
The Hams Will Save Us by Anarchist Radio Relay League
THE HAMS WILL SAVE US We continue our series of features advocating for a political practice of analog liberation in […]
Moratorium by Matt Peake
“I’m going to have to ask you to open the trunk, son.” “The trunk?” “Pop the trunk and stay seated, […]
Dreams and Other Stories by Heather Nolan
You were kissing me when I fell down the stairs. All I got was a bruise; you were the […]
The Most Uncrackable Codes: One-Time Pads
ARE YOUR MESSAGES SECURE? You might have used encrypted communication apps like Signal, and these handy tools have become […]
Cut Out: Colonization Catcher
Cootie catchers are an old pen-and-paper game, usually used amongst young friends at sleepovers to learn more about each […]
Follow Me Now, You Will Not Regret
No one could remember afterward whose idea it had been to start a fire. We were at the cottage; having […]
We have a NEW U.S Mailing Address!
Guess what? We now have a new U.S mailing address! So if you want to send us stuff please send […]