Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore
Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore By Unknown Excerpted from Criminally Yours
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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Night Terror
Night Terror By Craven Rock and Kinoko Excerpted from Night Terror, Kinokogallery.com
Summer Ink
Summer Ink By Golda Fried & Vesna Mostovac Excerpted from Summer Ink: an illustrated book of letters, www.kissmachine.org
How to be a Nine-to-Five Zinester
By Liz Worth So maybe you’ve just recently joined the nine-to-five set on the morning commute and the daily grind […]
Location: California
Location: California By Jessie Patterson A few thoughts on hitchhiking experiences that I have had. It’s always been interesting to […]
Goldstein on Goldstein
Variations on a theme By Heather O’Neill #1 When I was little, I lived in the woods of Virginia. I […]
Zine Philosophy
Microcosm: A backbreaking labour of love By Joe Biel I have a lot of natural luck. As a result, my […]
Girls, Women, and Enjoyment of the Horror Genre
Girls, Women, and Enjoyment of the Horror Genre By Marya Diederichs Over the years I have had countless conversations about […]
The Sweet Taste of Slavery
By Christoph Meyer Little Jimmy spent too much time pondering the Human Condition. At the tender age of 10, he […]
Mop
By Dave Smulders His best friends, Batface and The German Issue, told him to go for it. Gangbusters, man, gangbusters. […]
Giraffes and Everything
By Joey Comeau George woke up and remembered that he remembered giraffes existed. It had come to him the night […]
The Popular Demographic Groceteria
By Laura Kenins Excerpted from Tales of Modern Tragedy #3, [email protected]