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Canzine 2024 Registrations Are OPEN! EXTENDED TIL 31ST!

The most exciting zine fair is returning to Toronto AND Ottawa! Register today to join this uncanny smorgasbord of zines, art, comics, discussions, workshops and surprises!

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.

Zines Killed the Video Star

“I figure, if I have to be forced to live in this modern, cold and digital world, I can at least point to the physical objects that I love." Musician Mike Adams foregoes the 'lyric video' for a more analogue approach.

In the World of Trina Robbins

To read a Trina Robbins comic is to enter an alternate history: one in which the legions of women who entered the industry as writers, artists, and editors during the war years of the 1940s were never driven back out.

Review: at the 7/11 outside Club Q

A deeply personal zine rendering moments of grief and joy, cartoonist and science illustrator Annabel Driussi reflects on the aftermath of the shooting that occurred at Colorado Springs’ Club Q in November, 2022.

Call for Submissions: FiiLTHY GLO ZiNE ISSUE 3

THEME:: TRANSPiRE DEADLINE:: August 18, 2024 FG headquarters encourages you to hit us with some fiilth ((art)). We value new-fangled […]

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Latest Reviews

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: The Novice

In Sean McCarthy’s The Novice, a strolling snail-man is consumed, only to survive and meet worse horrors in the gullet of the beast. Things are not always what they appear to be. Both within and without this whimsy world.

Review: Her Body Among Animals

There is seemingly no situation a Ferrante narrator will not relate to a point of arcane science trivia. When metaphor becomes the primary vehicle for storytelling, the device soon feels forced.
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Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

Column: Zine Philosophy By Claire Wiltshire The streets of Melbourne, Australia, are a canvas for provocative art. Despite the council’s attempts […]

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Sarah Steinberg

Column: Introducing Sarah Steinberg Back to the future when women were comedy By Sarah Steinberg Hello and welcome to my introduction […]

Column: Editor’s Note

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Column: Editor’s Note By Lindsay Gibb If you’re like me and you read a magazine from back to front (at least […]

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Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

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Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

Fiction: Heartbreak for Dummies What to Expect When You’re Rejected By Ashley Little The first month will be the most difficult […]

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Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

Fiction: Yes Man By Charlie Anders Juan put a Flintstones toothbrush up his ass in the parking lot behind the Westview […]