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. […]
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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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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 […]
In Profile: Winnipeg’s cre8ery
Gallery and studio space cre8ery is located in a non-descript building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. Established in 2006 by artist […]
Toronto’s Book Bakery “Fund-Fair” and Book Launch
Unconventional, not-for-profit publishing house, the Book Bakery, is hosting a fun-filled fair tomorrow night (Wednesday) with carnival games, a bake […]
In Profile: The Monkey’s Paw
The Monkey’s Paw, named for W.W. Jacobs’ 1912 horror short story about a monkey paw talisman, is a secondhand bookstore […]
Web Graffiti
After 18-years as a print-based litzine, Edmonton’s long-running Urban Graffiti has officially transitioned onto the worldwide web. Still the same […]
Questionnaire with Bits of String Press
Today is the big day: Small Press of Toronto Spring Fair starts at 11 am to 5 pm and is […]
Attn: Technophobes!
For those still resisting/actively hating all things social media and the internet, check out these fun literary Twitter accounts that […]
Questionnaire with Pop Sandbox
With only a few days left before the Small Press of Toronto’s Spring Fair, where an ensemble of small presses, […]