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 […]
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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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Kicking The Hat Around
More and more independent projects are going online to find funding. Is it working? By Alex Gurnham At some point […]
Deleted Zines Digging the dirt on ex-zinesters
Seven years seems like a lifetime to some people. Imagine finding a file folder of poems or essays you’d written […]
Introducing Sarah Steinberg
HELLO, MY NAME IS SARAH AND I AM ADDICTED TO FACEBOOK Hello there. It’s good to see you. Yes, I […]
Editor’s Note
Like most independent artists, I have a day job. Just as no one really expects to make money as a […]
Indieparture! Sarah Lazarovic
Indieparture! Hi all. Thanks for putting up with my odes to tricoloured cookies. My time at Broken Pencil is up. […]
Craig Atkinson
Craig Atkinson was born in 1977 in Liverpool. About five years ago he decided to “give up” painting large abstracts […]
Children of the King
Growing up, Elvis style By Kelly Anderson Most people who’ve been through adolescence know what it’s like to be embarrassed […]
Theory of the Say-Koh-Bich
Relationships rotate on these two mutually dependent principles: women steal and control men, and have the assets to get away […]
Little Wite Squirel Angel
i stud up and Maury huged me and the awdeance moaned and i looked up from the floor and the […]
The Secret Lives of Puppets
The cake’s just crumbs and the kiddie party is over. You’ll never guess what the puppets get up to next. […]
Some of This is True
When we came out of the evening and into the Kinsmen Field House, people were still mostly in their seats. […]