Atwood for Indies
Maggie MacDonald remixes dystopian lit By Ron Nurwisah Dystopias are nothing new. For as long as people have been thinking […]
Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City
In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.
Folio: Hannah Epstein on Rug Hooking and Art Churches
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Hannah Epstein, whose rug-hooking manifests the madness of the digital world into fiber.
Review: Resist #50
Mat Resist's DIY institution, which I first encountered at a Christian alternative music festival held on a former pig farm, hits a milestone. Surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.
First the Press, Then the Streets
In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.
The Tide Turns in Time
How Michael Novick and his street action political zine Turning the Tide evolved to put radical media in the hands of the people.
Call for Submissions: The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table
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By Sara Saljoughi In the past two years, Montreal has been a darling of music critics, and this has brought […]
In Profile: Toronto’s Someone Studio
Walking into Toronto’s Someone Studio, there’s an immediate old-world feel. Formerly Dreadnaught Press, the Someone team recently relocated 20 000 […]
A Month of Zinesters: Everybody Moon Jump
Next up, we asked Dave Cave of the zine Everybody Moon Jump why he creates his hiliarious, confessional, cut-and-paste zines. […]
A Month of Zinesters: Static Zine
In honour of International Zine Month festivities this July, Broken Pencil asked a handful of zinesters why they make zines. […]
Orderly Disorder
Last night a legion of lovely zinester librarians stopped through Toronto to share their love of zine collecting and preservation […]
School’s Out, Reading’s In
For teens 13-19! Broken Pencil is proud to help our friends at the Toronto Public Library get the word out […]
Sheila Heti Resurrects Artists’ Survey, Circa 1999
Toronto writer Sheila Heti has brought back to life an artists’ survey she conducted over 10 years ago in a […]
Happy International Zine Month
Back in 2008, Brainscan and Stolen Sharpie Revolution creator Alex Wrekk proposed an International Zine Month to the users of […]