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It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
"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."
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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For the 100th issue of Broken Pencil, we felt it appropriate to celebrate the use of zines as expression passed down through the ages, starring the Singapore-based family art collective behind Rubbish FAMzine.
For every successful foray into Hollywood there’s 100 cash-strapped nightmares making use of ingenuity and offal. The rogue visionaries with a passion for film so strong that no empty pocket could ever prevent them from sharing their goopy artistry.
“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve also realized that I’ll never have time to create all the projects that bubble up in me, so they often come alive in my fiction.”
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet Tia Alandra, whose new zine is a resource for self-doubting masterminds.
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet Indiepocalypse, a curated zine of alternative, underground, and experimental video games.
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet PRUDEmag, a zine for spinsters, asexuals, relationship anarchists, and all others rejecting sex-necessariam.
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet Paterson Hodgson, whose autobiographical comics detail being a working-class renter in a big, expensive, hostile city.
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet Blaise Moritz, who will be debuting his new zine Being Superhuman at the fest!
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. For this edition, meet Constant Yen, whose revelries in cartoonland are a craft of their own.
We’re highlighting some of the zinesters and artists coming to Canzine 2023. Kicking things off, meet Agnes Wong of Big Rat Press, who chronicle an oddly familiar mouse.
As contentious book bans spread throughout America, Kim Hyun Sook’s book about her experience with book bans ended up in Clay County’s crosshairs.
The most anticipated zine fest is teaming up with the offbeat revue for a night of zine readings unlike any other!
