The Reading Raum
Creating a Zinester’s Paradise in Berlin Leah Buckareff, formerly of Toronto’s City of Craft festival, has taken her long-standing love […]
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 Tale of Cornelius P. McStone
The unlikely story of a septuagenarian zinester by Kelly Anderson Terry McAdorey always wanted to be a bum. As a […]
Age of Consent
Stacey May Fowles eagerly explores Evie Christie’s corrupt new novel The Bourgeois Empire I’ve long thought Evie Christie to be […]
Border Patrol
A small press surveillance By Spencer Gordon Look yonder, dear Loyalists, across that great (un) defended border and into an […]
Pictorial Profile: Fletcher Pratt
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2010: The Year She Makes Contact
Montreal writer and book artist Alisha Piercy arrives on the small press lit scene with tales of rafting boy scouts, […]
Zine Philosophy Myself, yourself, etc.
If we’re going to have a conversation and I’m going to tell the whole truth, there are really only two […]
Kicking The Hat Around
More and more independent projects are going online to find funding. Is it working? By Alex Gurnham At some point […]