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 […]
Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City
In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.
The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards
Strange and lurid. Enlightening and electrifying. It only becomes truer the further down you go. The Pigskin Peter Award celebrates the best comics underground.
Review: Resist #50
Mat Resist's DIY institution, which I first encountered at a Christian alternative music festival held on a former pig farm, hits a milestone. Surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.
First the Press, Then the Streets
In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.
The Tide Turns in Time
How Michael Novick and his street action political zine Turning the Tide evolved to put radical media in the hands of the people.
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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 […]