Please Don’t Die
UWA goes from backyard brawl to full time job By Lindsay Gibb There are people who think that wrestling is […]
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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Hell on Roller Skates By Nadja Sayej The George Bell Arena may see loutish hockey players all winter, but this […]
Tales from the TCAF
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The New Crypt
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A Month of Zinesters: Krissy Durden
Heading to the States, we visit zinester and We Make Zines creator Krissy Durden. Based in: Portland, Oregon Bio: Krissy […]
Lloyd Kaufman: True Independent
Lloyd Kaufman: True Independent By Anya Wassenberg Legendary horror meister Lloyd Kaufman’s interest in film came as a university student, […]
Diary of a DIY Horror Shoot
Diary of a DIY Horror Shoot By James King Horror thrives on the desperate, relentlessly plodding through any unnecessary emotional […]
Daughter of Horror
Daughter of Horror By Greg Woods In the fifth issue of my publication, The Eclectic Screening Room, I reviewed Kino’s […]
Getting the Most Blood for your Buck
Techniques for making a horror film on a low budget By Brandon Lim If there’s one thing that low-budget horror […]
Spook it Up!
A round-table discussion on indie-horror, by Paul Corupe Horror novels, films and art-work may be intended primarily to scare audiences, […]
The Undead Go Underground
Zombies are the underdog of the horror genre. Lindsay Gibb walks with the living dead to see how they are […]
Holy Fuck
This CD is fighting an uphill battle against my incipient cold and the drudgery of Monday morning in an overheated […]