Jen Miller Loves Edward Cullen
feature: Jen Miller Loves Edward Cullen Some confessions of Lower East Side’s DIY elf By Erin Kobayashi Although the 37-year-old […]
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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New Micro Press Publisher Brooklyn’s The Crumpled Press
feature: New Micro Press Publisher Brooklyn’s The Crumpled Press By Nathaniel G. Moore The Crumpled Press has put out 10 […]
How to Make Your first Video Game
How to Make Your first Video Game In the last issue of Broken Pencil we covered Jim Munroe’s Game Incubator, […]
How to Make a Screen Printing Press
feature: How to Make a Screen Printing Press Every good independent artist has, at one time or another, had the […]
Best Practices for Making your own Show Poster
feature: Best Practices for Making your own Show Poster Now that you’ve read about the culture behind gigposters and learned […]
Post More Bills
feature: Post More Bills Against most city by-laws, telephone poles and hoarding in major cities are covered in a mixture […]
John Goldbach’s Selected Blackouts
By Spencer Gordon I hope John Goldbach is nothing like his characters. I’m saying this in the most positive way […]
Combatting CanCon
feature: Combatting CanCon By Katie Addleman It’s Monday night–any Monday night. It’s one in the morning. The radio is on; […]
Vanity Treasures
feature: Vanity Treasures By Robert Dayton If you look up the term “vanity pressing” you might find a definition akin […]
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 […]