Small Game Hunter
By Joel Katelnikoff A factory, Saskatoon, 4pm. Al forklifts a palette of melamine-coated particle board into the Big Saw. 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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Toronto’s New Graphic Novel
By Nathaniel G. Moore Doug Wright Award-winning novelist and comic artist releases a collection of his mini comics from the […]
Montreal’s New Graphic Novel Store
By Nathaniel G. Moore A beautiful new Drawn & Quarterly store (211 Bernard St. W., Montreal) has opened in the […]
Mining Memories, Telling Tales
By Erin Gray “Reclaiming our voices through digital storytelling is not just about telling our stories, but about reclaiming our […]
Busting at the Zines
By Dave Miller There wasn’t much signage outside of the Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, just a few printed sheets taped onto […]
Welcome to the City of Craft
December 1st, 2007 marked the very first City of Craft fair in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood. So what, you say, there […]
Online Indie Culture Survival Guide
Like a passionately noxious lover that I just can’t get enough of, the Internet consumes, thrills and overwhelms me. I […]
Defining Independence in the Digital World
In the year 2002, I wrote a long piece for my own publication The Eclectic Screening Room, entitled “Us, Mainstream […]
Get Up for the Download
By now, everyone and their computer knows that Radiohead released their seventh full-length record over the internet, offering fans a […]
Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
Five days a week, Toronto poet Rob Read sits down at his computer between eight and 10 a.m. and scours […]