20 Independent Videogames You Should Play
By Mathew Kumar Independent video games come in all shapes and all sizes, from boxed titles for sale in stores […]
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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Playing Dice with the Devil: What happens when the BP staff meets a pile of board games
By Lindsay Gibb Games from my past are strewn all over my living room floor. These are the spoils uncovered […]
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 […]
Indie Gaming Revolution: Indie games and the rise of DIY mod culture
By James King We’d usually begin it with a slip of paper passed during class, or maybe a phone call […]
Post-Punk: The Revival of Daniel Jones
With two upcoming reissues of Daniel Jones’ work, Liz Worth looks back on the influence and memory of Toronto’s lost […]
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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 […]