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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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Online Exclusive Fiction: The House
THE HOUSE STILL remembered its mother. She was one of the last living dryads in Northern California. Once a part […]
#LandBack Swag: Indigenous artists fundraise to support Wet’suwet’en land defenders
For weeks now, activists, allies, and artists have answered a call for solidarity from the Wet’suwet’en nation. Their unceded lands […]
Gentrification from here — zine artist reflects on places they’ve called home
Places I’ve Called Home Perzine, Andira Hernandez-Ramdwar, 24 pgs, andandand.xyz, $8 Gentrification is an intensifying issue in cities around the […]
Exposure Unit: We can work(shop) it out
Exposure Unit is a column about navigating the zine scene by Toronto-based zinester Rabeea Syed I love all things zines, […]
Pitch-off champs win a years’ rent, and bring their ‘Someday’ bookshop to life
[column size=one_half position=first ] Imagine this: a young couple hashes out a business plan to bring their media start-up dream […]
Folio: Keeping Out by Omar Badrin
Folio is a section bridging the printed page with unexpected media, hosted by a different artist or curator each issue. […]
Art Holes: Billy Starfield
Art holes is a column where artists diagram their work spaces. This issue, artist Billy Starfield gives us a look. […]
6 ways to survive Valentine’s Day and its aftermath
No matter what you’re doing right, it can feel like you’re doing everything wrong when everyone’s favourite overly saccharine corporate […]
Cat City Goes Snow
Cat Comics is a quarterly comic in Broken Pencil. Victor Martins is a cartoonist and illustrator living just outside of Toronto. Say […]
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Take a peak into ‘Dear Twin’ by Addie Tsai
This excerpt comes from Dear Twin By Addie Tsai, published by Metonymy Press last year. I lose myself in my […]