Songs of the Lefties
By K. Crab Excerpted from Songs of the Lefties (US$5, CDN$7 – includes postage, PO Box 1510, Laguna Beach, CA, […]
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 […]
BP is Closed, But You Can Still Access Our Archives
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
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."
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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Road Trip
By The Dawn Horse Excerpted from Road Trip (PO Box 209003, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA, [email protected], www.myspace.com/thedawnhorse)
Sharp Shooter
By Jacinta Bunnell In rural Pennsylvania, dads like mine wanted their children to gain a working knowledge of rifles and […]
Country of Origin
By Mark Young My Smithsonian T-shirt comes from Mexico. The University of Western Sydney one is Chinese made. This poem […]
Boggle
By Jacinta Bunnell No one cooked dinner anymore. The mother was always playing Boggle with the commitment of a graduate […]
Popcasts
By Josh Hume Ah, iPods, Satellite radio… these new-ish forms of media dispersal are so exciting. But in and of […]
The Urban Beast Project
By James King Forget what the traditionalists say. Taxidermy is in the throes of a revolution, led by the Urban […]
Playing with Scissors
Kids get empowered with Haircuts By Children By Lindsay Gibb My hairdresser is unlike any I’ve had before. Sure, she’s […]
My Dad is the Chief of Police
Matt Blair takes the indie road anyway By Cameron Gordon In the republic of Toronto, Matt Blair is many things […]
Anarchy In Utero
Baby Bloc gets them started early By Liz Worth “What do we want?” “Waaaaaaaa!” “When do we want it?” “Waaaaaaaa!” […]
Pictoral Profile: Misha Glouberman
By Ethan Rilly
Deleted Zines
Digging the dirt on ex-zinesters By Nathaniel G. Moore “Do you remember the 1990’s?” That’s the first thing out of […]