A Month of Zinesters: Andrea Manica
Next up, we ask Kitchener’s own Andrea Manica about the inspiration behind her prolific and award-winning zine-making. Based in: Toronto, […]
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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A Month of Zinesters: Aaron Moran
Next, we shift our focus to the West Coast, and ask Aaron Moran of Smoke Signals Press why he makes […]
This Week’s Indie Events Round-Up: July 18 – 25
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How to Transform Your City
By Kevin Bracken and Lori Kufner 1. Be cute. Your very presence should elicit a smile! Be playful! Wings help. […]
How To Come Out to Your Parents (as an avant-garde artist/writer)
By Darren Wershler-Henry Il faut épater le bourgeois. –Charles Baudelaire Rebellion isn’t what it used to be. At the beginning […]
Editor’s Note
By Anna Bowness We thought we’d better jump on the bandwagon before it left us behind: this issue of Broken […]
Zine Philosophy
Zines don’t need philosophy By Matthew Firth The idea of zine “philosophy” strikes me as an oxymoron. Zines, for me, […]
Goldstein on Goldstein
Springtime for Goldstein By Heather O’Neill Outside it is spring, but inside the house all the umbrellas are broken and […]
Junk Diary
By John McCurley John McCurley dropped out of the Ontario College of Art to write psychedelic plays full time. He […]
Condo Dwellers
By Alain Mercieca Condominiums, apartment buildings, call them what you will. Rectangular box friends that protrude out of most every […]
Inexorable
By Greg Shupak There was a rumour that I was dead. Actually, I survived. *** “Oh my God! Oh I’m […]