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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Above Water
A free/PWYC mental health zine by Broken Pencil editor Anisa Rawhani. Any proceeds go to Black anti-racism groups. Find out […]
Wearable Tech vs. Unbearable Tech
In the age of COVID-19, our bodies have never been more hidden, fortressed behind walls and windows, cloaked behind […]
Virtual Canzine 2020
The festival of zine culture and underground arts is back with a virtual twist! Three days of 250+ vendors, thousands […]
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Hei Lam Ng Originally from Hong Kong, Hei Lam Ng is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. […]
Art Holes: Homebound Edition
Around the quarantine clock with three creators at work in isolation. Nazlı Cem, Zovi Weng and Sid draw where they’re working.
Digital goes analog with the Electric Zine Maker
If you’ve ever been to a zines 101 workshop or festival, you’ve probably heard the beloved refrain, “Zines can be […]
Zinester’s Toolkit: Meet THE LECTRO-STIK, an old friend to zinesters and collagers
A column that spotlights the tools and processes behind the craft of zines and self-publishing I was pretty deep in […]
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SWAP Hamilton SWAP Hamilton is a sex work zine hub that curates a repository of sex workbooks, zines, videos, and […]
Exposure Unit: Art when time stops
A column about navigating the zine scene by Toronto-based zinester Rabeea Syed Everything’s shifted. You know this, but it would […]