Q&A: zinester Cathon launches fabulous tiki murder mystery
The Pineapples of Wrath Cathon, Pow Pow Press Montréal-based graphic novelist Cathon serves up a zany tiki murder mystery. Set […]
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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Q&A: Theodore Carter talks abstraction and convention
Frida Sex Dreams and Other Unnerving Disruptions Theodore Carter, Run Amok We’re quickly becoming fans of new, upstart indie press […]
Q&A: Hassan Santur on youth, alienation, and the Somali immigrant experience
The Youth of God. Hassan Ghedi Santur, Mawenzi House. In stark prose, Toronto-based writer Hassan Santur explores the Somali-Canadian […]
Pencil Sharpener: Documenting SF’s Shadow Economy
In the midst of a “21st century tech gold rush,” Nick Marzano is more interested in what’s happening in the […]
Q&A: Brad Yung on how to create comics without going crazy
The Complete Stay as you are. Brad Yung, Three Ocean Press. Yung’s Stay as you are. mini-zines might just […]
Summer 2019 Indie Book Picks
Here are our picks of the best 9 indie books coming out this summer! In the End They Told […]
Exposure Unit: Collaborative zines require care
A column about navigating the zine scene by Toronto-based zinester Rabeea Syed. Making your own work allows you lots of […]
Announcing your final judge for the 2019 Zine Awards!
If Rasiqra Revulva isn’t already a household name in the zine community, she will be. Revulva is a multi-media artist […]
Unpacking the Inarticulable: Cynthia Cruz’ essays on silence
Disquieting: Essays on Silence Cynthia Cruz, 184 pgs, Book*hug, bookhugpress.ca, $20 Brooklyn-based poet and essayist Cynthia Cruz unpacks the inarticulable […]
Canzine Vancouver 2018
Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on details for Canzine 2019. Here’s what happened at Canzine Vancouver 2018: […]
