Border Patrol
A surveillance of small presses outside the Canadian border By Spencer Gordon Mud Luscious Press As the ground freezes […]
Slacker Uprising: The Long Tradition of Anti-Work
A Reddit-driven rejection of labour surged during the pandemic, but it stems from a long tradition. An overlooked history of the anti-work movement and where it fits with modern organizing.
Introducing Our Summer Issue (And New Look): World Gone Sick
Grant Ionatán (aka HTML Flowers) believed a lifelong struggle with illness and isolation would have prepared them. The artist's confrontation with a world gone sick proved differently. Our Summer Issue explores the ways artists, zines and scenes evolved in a planet compromised by pandemic.
Review: Investigation Into Alleged Gatherings on Government Premises During COVID Restrictions, or The Case of the Forbidden Jamborees
Henry Hardwicke Carruthers provides a wry, meticulous and absurdist satire of the absurdist scandal plaguing Boris Johnson.
Announcing Our Final Judge for the 2022 Zine Awards!
Acclaimed Cartoonist Sami Alwani joins our panel for the blazing hot Zine Awards! Enter today!
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Founded in 2017, Broken Pencil Zine Awards celebrates excellence in independent, underground zine making and micro-printing!
Call for Submissions: EYESUCK ZINE
Submissions Self-aware, witty humour that points to Y2K nostalgia. Comics Poetry Microfiction (500-1000 words) Requirements Must follow the theme of […]
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By Brooke Ford, Lindsay Gibb, Nathaniel G. Moore, Hal Niedzviecki, Richard Rosenbaum, Ian Sullivan Cant & Derek Winkler For our […]
Broken Pencil’s 15 Year Timeline
1995: Hal Niedzviecki and Hilary Clark drink several pitchers of beer at the now defunct Beverly Tavern. Hal: We should […]
Despite What You’ve Heard, Zines Aren’t Dead
Liz Worth investigates the survival of zines and finds that they’re more important than ever “In web-centric world of 1,001 […]
Questionnaire with Broken Arts: Small Press of Toronto Spring Fair 2011 Edition
In anticipation of Small Press of Toronto Spring Fair this weekend, Broken Pencil has put together some previews for you […]
The Advocate for Fagdom
Filmmaker and early zinester, Bruce LaBruce, has been an inspiration to many Canadian punks, gay activists, sexual liberators and general […]
Renegade Craft Season
By Grace Evans It’s craft season again across the U.S as the summer Renegade Craft Fair winds its way through […]
To Do List: Toronto Comic Arts Fest
Did you know there’s some 300 cartoonists attending this weekend’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival? That is one certifiable clusterfuck of […]
TUFF Now Accepting Submissions
The Toronto Urban Film Festival needs YOU! Well, not you specifically. Just your homemade silent one-minute films that you keep […]