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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Latest Reviews

Review: Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

The human brain and its capacity to love have never been simple. Jade Wallace’s poetry incites a lot of introspection into how we are connected to our environments in intimate ways, but not necessarily made loving by them.

Review: Feminism for a Genderqueer Generation

The way Melendez mixes theory with personal anecdotes is a graceful way to deliver intellectual critique with relatable humour. This is a strong, accessible read that even someone who might be hearing about “agender” for the first time can understand.

Review: People Collide

Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.

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Celebrate 100 Issues of Broken Pencil at the Zine Awards on January 25th!

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Celebrate 100 issues of Broken Pencil and see the Zine Awards at See-Scape during an evening you won’t forget!

Need Holiday Activities? Make Your Yuletide DIY With These Zinester’s Toolkits!

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Shrinky Dinks! Tarot cards! Need some crafts and activities to keep the friends and family smiling this yuletide season? Here’s a collection of Broken Pencil’s DIY Toolkits worth gathering around for.

TOOLKIT: Make Your Own Tabletop RPG

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If you want help making your scrappy little art game full of weird characters and personal opinions and you think nerding out about systems to help enable your dream kind of play sounds like fun, let’s roll.

Win $200 Worth of Broken Pencil Goodies

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Share, subscribe and / or tune into Justin Decloux’s annual Holiday Movie Mind Melter to enter for your chance to win books, merch and zines!

Folio: Lonesome Bill Walker on Puppetry and Pee-wee

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Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Lonesome Bill Walker, whose woodwork and puppetry explore queerness and its rich strings throughout pop culture.