Feature: Hilarity in High-Def Is laughter leaving the clubs and heading online and onscreen?
Feature: Hilarity in High-Def Is laughter leaving the clubs and heading online and onscreen? By Michelle Kay If you’re in downtown […]
Announcing the 2023 Zine Awards Nominees!
Behold! Here are the nominees for Best Artzine, Best Litzine, Best Comic, Best Political Zine, Best Infozine, Best Perzine and Best Fanzine of 2023!
Introducing Our 100th Issue: Generations
For the 100th issue of Broken Pencil, we felt it appropriate to celebrate the use of zines as expression passed down through the ages, starring the Singapore-based family art collective behind Rubbish FAMzine.
Give the Gift of Zines With the Broken Pencil Holiday Sale!
I'm afraid to say it, but, 'tis the season. Save 35% off our print and digital subscriptions AND nab a Broken Pencil-themed colouring book!
Review: Greater Power: A Vince McMahon Zine
Speaking as something of a lapsed wrestling fan, Greater Power makes a compelling case for once again investing oneself in the strange, strange world of sports entertainment.
Overtime and Improv Classes: Aisha Franz on Work-Life Balance and Berlin’s Tech Culture Clash
Berlin is now home to more than 600 startups, modeling themselves after successful American businesses, many tried to import American workplace culture. Cartoonist Aisha Franz' latest book is a satire of the calamity that ensued.
Call for Submissions: HOCUS OVER THE THRESHOLD
Submissions In honour of the solstice, the theme is OVER THE THRESHOLD. Send your stories and poems of planetary […]
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Feature: Web Comics
Feature: Web Comics Funny web comics for laughing at By Richard Rosenbaum It’s no secret that we here at Broken Pencil […]
Feature: Soundbites from the Funhouse
Feature: Soundbites from the Funhouse Six creative types reveal what makes them laugh By Nathaniel G. Moore Elyse Friedman: “I once […]
Feature: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Feature: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore There was a time when comedy was challenging and it took people out of […]
If You Can Find it
By Liz Worth Hamilton proto-punks Simply Saucer are often cited as southern Ontario’s answer to the Velvet Underground. Their cult following […]
Black Bile is Anything but Precious
By Spencer Gordon Bored by the upper middle class, educated anxieties endlessly detailed in our major literary journals? Tired of bloodless, […]
Brave New Writing Workshops
By Brooke Ford If the feeling of disappointment over the closure of certain indie retailers is sitting heavily, if the news […]
Publishing gets Mobile with Microcosm’s Zine Trike
By Sara Ritchie In a digital world, when print feels like it is going the way of the dinosaur, Microcosm […]
For the Love of a Good Beard
By Grace Evans Rosemary Travale likes to draw things that make her laugh. The Hamilton, Ontario-based artist, participating in this year’s […]
Interview: Ken Sparling
A BP online exclusive By Brooke Ford Ken Sparling, author of self-publishedHush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt, For Those Whom […]
Interview: Joey Comeau
A BP online exclusive By Brooke Ford “The literary world, especially regarding headless monstrosities with incomprehensible messages from beyond the grave, […]
Riot on Campus
An analysis of two books on girl culture By Janine Amin Girl Zines: making media doing feminism by Alison Piepmeier, New […]