Letter From a Letter Carrier in 2020
LETTER FROM A LETTER CARRIER IN 2020 It’s been a tough go for postal workers this year. As […]
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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Online Exclusive Fiction: Therapy by A. D. Metcalfe
// Illustration by Corina Wong The words coming out of my mouth don’t remotely match […]
The Desert Is the Country of Madness
The glittering towns that spring up overnight in the desert are no longer images of the City of God…They are […]
Queer Scientists Decolonize the Field One Zine at a Time
Every issue, we invite artists, writers, DIYers and community members to offer a slice of their Zine Philosophy. This edition […]
Answering with analog: Defying the digital dystopia
Answering with Analog IRL artists and makers defying the digital dystopia In my early 20s, I belonged to an underground […]
Cat City
Cat City by Victor Martins
First Family
FIRST FAMILY by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is an illustrator, comic book artist & activist advocating for […]
Printing Without Permission: Global Zines from Turkey
As part of our ongoing Global Zines series, we recently interviewed Girdap Zack Unthatow, along with Efe Tusder and Egemen […]
COVID Zine Micro-Grant Recipients
Montreal-based comic artists Sarah Mangle and Lee Lai are both pretty accomplished and well known as far as the zine […]
Q&A: Judge Jenn Woodall talks Illustrator’s Deathmatch & More
Acclaimed illustrator Jenn Woodall, the creator of Girls, Ghouls, Magical Beatdown and more, has joined the Indie Illustrator’s Deathmatch team as a […]
Babcia
Babcia by Marta Chudolinska
Zine Civics 101: Q&A With Democracy Zinester Bronwyn Mauldin
by Jonathan Valelly As we launch our year-long exploration of zines as political tools, it only made sense involve […]