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It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024

It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]

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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Latest Reviews

Review: Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

The human brain and its capacity to love have never been simple. Jade Wallace’s poetry incites a lot of introspection into how we are connected to our environments in intimate ways, but not necessarily made loving by them.

Review: Feminism for a Genderqueer Generation

The way Melendez mixes theory with personal anecdotes is a graceful way to deliver intellectual critique with relatable humour. This is a strong, accessible read that even someone who might be hearing about “agender” for the first time can understand.

Review: People Collide

Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.
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Latest Posts

In Profile: Toronto’s Someone Studio

Lindsay

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: Static Zine

Laura Trethewey

In honour of International Zine Month festivities this July, Broken Pencil asked a handful of zinesters why they make zines. […]

Orderly Disorder

Lindsay

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

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

For teens 13-19! Broken Pencil is proud to help our friends at the Toronto Public Library get the word out […]

Happy International Zine Month

Lindsay

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

Lindsay

Gallery and studio space cre8ery is located in a non-descript building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. Established  in 2006 by artist […]

In Profile: The Monkey’s Paw

Lindsay

The Monkey’s Paw, named for W.W. Jacobs’ 1912 horror short story about a monkey paw talisman, is a secondhand bookstore […]

Web Graffiti

Lindsay

After 18-years as a print-based litzine, Edmonton’s long-running Urban Graffiti has officially transitioned onto the worldwide web. Still the same […]