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 […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
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."
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.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
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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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 […]
Keeping it Just BeTwain Friends
We all know Shania Twain as Canada’s country music sweetheart with the occasional bad streak. Remember when she wore head-to-toe […]
Eyes on the prize! Only 3 Weeks Left to Submit to the Deathmatch
From part one of “Conspiracy” We are counting down to the December 31st deadline for our first ever Indie Illustrator’s […]
Announcing: Guest Judge Jenn Woodall!
Jenn joins the Indie Illustrator’s Deathmatch! That’s right folks! The acclaimed creator of Girls, Ghouls, Magical Beatdown and more is […]
Art Holes: Spaces of Resistance
Five illustrators offer snapshots from the front lines of political action in 2020 This section is typically where artists diagram […]