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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Latest Posts

Letter from Anisa: Zines, urgency & optimism in strange times

Anisa Rawhani

I’m writing this the night before our fall issue goes to print — I know, risky Tom Cruise business — […]

Beena Mistry’s zine uses modern lyrics to unpack Dante and Virgil’s bond

Graham Sigurdson

The Love That Moves the Sun and All the Stars Comic zine, Beena Mistry, 14 pgs, beenamistry.com Brampton-based illustrator and […]

The trees in this zine will kill you before you know it

Joshua Barton

Arboreal Nightmares Zine Mer, 6 pgs, [email protected], $2 The grace and beauty of trees is but a clever ruse in […]

McLuckie’s ‘Follicle’ zine is both repulsive and eerily comforting

Stefanie Ucci

Follicle JJ McLuckie, 40 pgs, jjmcluckie.com, @artworkbyjj, $12 If you’re looking for a particularly grotesque read, look no further than […]

Jay MillAr ‘Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You’ but instead he released this collection

Joel W Vaughan

I Could Have Pretended to be Better Than You Jay MillAr, 191 pgs, Anvil Press, anvilpress.com, $20 A non-exhaustive cross-section […]

Folio: The Artistry of Inuit Sealskin Sewing

Jocelyn Piirainen

Folio is a curated section focusing on unexpected materials, bridging the page with other media. This issue, Folio is curated […]

Into the comics mines with Halifax illustrator GC Houle

GCHoule

I often joke that I’m “heading off to the comics mines” when I buckle down to work. For me, making […]

Print’s new home for rural lesbians

Stefanie Ucci

Urban centres are known to be hubs of safety and culture for LGBTQ+ people. But what about those people under […]

Make Your Own Hermione Paper Puppet

Broken Pencil

This is Hermione. She has a very rare genetic condition called hypertrichosis, which causes excessive hair growth on portions of […]