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 […]
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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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 […]
Weighing the Web
Two Broken Pencil staff members debate the benefits of the Internet as a cultural tool By Hal Niedzviecki and Derek […]
I’m Feeling Unlucky
Independent culture in the Google era By Ryan Bigge Part I So there’s this indie rock band from Toronto called […]
Paper is Boring. Comics are Awesome.
Richard Rosenbaum investigates how online comics sustain themselves It’s not that it’s impossible to become successful doing indie comics. In […]
Where the Wild Things Are
Poet Dani Couture walks the fine line between urban life and the natural world By Stacey May Fowles Canadian poetry has […]