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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Editor’s Pick: Du Bois’ early infographics
Among the most remarkable American intellectuals of all time, Black scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois is remembered for his […]
Solidarity and Interdisciplinarity
Which are you, a generalist or specialist? To instinctively identify with one of these terms is common, and the […]
Queercore qollected
Toronto has the historical honour of being the Mecca of the queercore movement. Originally dreamed up in the ‘90s in […]
Our Very First Indie Illustrators Deathmatch – Winner Revealed!
Our very first Indie Illustrators Deathmatch has officially ended! For 2020-2021 we decided to do something a little different to […]
What “Moxie” Got Right, and Where It Stumbled
Like the teens it portrays, Moxie the movie has some growing up to do As soon as Moxie’s trailer dropped, […]
Exposure Unit: The Next Chapter
A column about navigating the zine scene by Toronto-based zinester Rabeea Syed I’ll cut to the chase — this will […]
Three new worker-led media groups emerge
The pandemic has taxed the capacity of even the most robust media outlets, hitting workers especially hard. The shaky […]
Indie Illustrator Deathmatch Final On Now
The BP Indie Illustrator Deathmatch Finals! 16 artists illustrated the same story. Two survived. Now only one can win. […]
Zine Philosophy: Brown Recluse Zine Distro on direct aid & sliding scale
Every issue, we invite artists, writers, DIYers and community members to offer a slice of their Zine Philosophy. This edition […]