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Wet’suwet’en Nation is taking a historic stand, and Indigenous artists have a long history of doing their part. Until March […]
It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024
It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
BP is Closed, But You Can Still Access Our Archives
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
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."
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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Fiction: He Didn’t Say, She Didn’t Say
“SEE ME ACT,” he didn’t say, just after they’d kissed hello, on the cheek. He remembered, re-felt, the softness of […]
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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 […]