Save the Mondragon!
By Josh Hume Winnipeg’s Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse is fighting for financial survival, having had to raise $12,000 by April […]
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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Photo and the Blog
By James King On January 26, 2006, citynoise.org posted a series of photos from Toronto’s own Kensington market. Whether they […]
Kino = Cool
By Malcolm Fraser It’s a well-known fact, and one often lamented in English Canada, that the Quebec film industry is […]
Atwood for Indies
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The Urbanity of Suburbia
By Liz Worth The city: A cultural mecca often seen as a hotbed of hip up-and- comers, underground movements and […]
Sidewalk Culture
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Indie Cartography
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Neighbourliness and Industry in Montreal’s Underground
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 […]