Vanity Treasures
feature: Vanity Treasures By Robert Dayton If you look up the term “vanity pressing” you might find a definition akin […]
Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City
In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.
The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards
Strange and lurid. Enlightening and electrifying. It only becomes truer the further down you go. The Pigskin Peter Award celebrates the best comics underground.
Review: Resist #50
Mat Resist's DIY institution, which I first encountered at a Christian alternative music festival held on a former pig farm, hits a milestone. Surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.
First the Press, Then the Streets
In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.
The Tide Turns in Time
How Michael Novick and his street action political zine Turning the Tide evolved to put radical media in the hands of the people.
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Schultz’s Circuit
feature: Schultz’s Circuit A Broken Pencil online exclusive interview By Stacey May Fowles Emily Schultz has been a small press […]
A Painful Place
feature: A Painful Place An interview with Michael Blouin By Spencer Gordon BP: What contemporary fiction and/or poetry currently excite […]
Carly Moran
Carly Moran is an artist from Ontario who has been lucky enough to travel around British Columbia this year. Although […]
Traveling From Scratch
Where do I start? Do I start before the real or with the imagined? Do I start before vows are […]
Shack the Clam Girl
Shack finds shells in the dirt sometimes. Marnie said it’s because the ocean was here once, and the dirt used […]
Touring on the Cheap
Hey all. I was invited to write an article about crossing the border to play music, but I am insanely […]
Get Organized
Or: Hey man, do you think that just because you’re in a band that you can slack off and play […]
How to Write
By derek beaulieu Nahum took some blossoms to Arkham and showed them to the editor of the Gazette, but that dignitary […]
Will Munro 1975-2010
By Nathaniel G. Moore & Lindsay Gibb When Will Munro — the Toronto-based artist who helped redefine what “queer” meant in […]
Delicious, Minty, Microscopic Art
By Alex Gurnham Few people have a passion for candy packaging. But then again few people, other than Robert Pasternak, have […]
Chips, Pop, Poetry?
Poetry has taken on many trendy forms since its inception thousands of years ago. It’s also found ways of alienating […]