Pieces on the Urban Gameboard: Is urban gaming a revolution or just a mindless exercise?
By Mike Drench “The first time I played here, it was the most terrifying experience of my life,” says Matt […]
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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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Indie Gaming Revolution: Indie games and the rise of DIY mod culture
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Post-Punk: The Revival of Daniel Jones
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Idiots’Books By Norah Franklin In 2006, Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr quit their 9-5 jobs in Baltimore and moved into […]
ABC
By Melissa Bovaird On February 12th a group of dedicated (or at least not-quite-right) individuals trekked through the worst of […]
Moetown Hoedown
By Melissa Bovaird Vernon Smith doesn’t hate the term “alt country,” he is just proud to be the first to […]
Canadian Internet Radio Take-over
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Indie Lit Makes It Big in Hungary
By Richard Rosenbaum Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the resulting chaos across Eastern […]
Toronto Free Library
By Norah Franklin This summer, curators Maiko Tanaka and Sarah Todd will explore the familiar institution of the library within […]
Zoe Whittall
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E-Publishers
The future of printed matter is looking more and more like a computer screen, but that doesn’t necessarily mean progress […]