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 […]

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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Error State

by skot deeming As I write this, Canadian media’s latest discussion is revolving around how our most recent election will […]

Welcome to… Kingston, Ontario

Mapping the scene in Canada’s smaller towns and cities 1. AKA Autonomous Social Centre 75 Queen Street,   akakingston.org Co-op space […]

Message in a Tin

Like so many worthwhile but unlikely projects, the idea for Cigar-Tin Stories, “came from something obsessive.” Kingston author and painter […]

Book Bombing

The Philadephia-based public installation project Book Bombs started when printmaker Michelle Wilson wrote a note to her friend Mary Tasillo […]

Editor’s Note

So far, 2011 has been an exhausting but exciting year for Broken Pencil. We started the year with our 50th […]

Zine Philosophy

column: Zine Philosophy Calgary’s Got Rad Womyn, Okay? By Samantha Trees Ever since I moved to Calgary, Alberta two years […]

Deleted Zines

column: Deleted Zines Digging the Dirt on Ex-Zinesters By Nathaniel G. Moore Ah, the personal stigma that is body identity […]

Error State

column: Error State By skot deeming A number of years ago when I was in film school, one of my […]