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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Unf*ck Your Adulting Has A Little Something for Everyone
Unfuck Your Adulting Dr. Faith Harper, 128 pages, Microcosm Publishing, microcosmpublishing.com, $9.95 These days, you can browse any bookstore’s health […]
Equal Parts Cosmic and Commonplace: Resting Witch Face comic zine
Resting Witch Face: Rule of Three Comic zine, Sydney Warnes, 16 pgs, sydneywarnes.com, $8 What’s it like to be a […]
The Sky is All Lit Up with the Announcement of CLMP’S Fifth Annual Firecracker Awards Winners and Finalists
Did the fourth of July come early? CLMP’S Firecracker Awards has just announced their 2019 winners and finalists for the […]
My Back Pages: The Art of Zines and Indie Publishing exhibition launches at the AGH
“Zines are traditionally an outsider’s medium, free of gatekeepers and gatekeeping,” says zine artist and curator Tara Bursey. “Now, with the […]
THIS IS SERIOUS: Canadian Indie Comics exhibition launches at the AGH
This Thursday, June 20th, the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s launches perhaps Canada’s most complete cartooning exhibition ever, THIS IS SERIOUS: Canadian […]
Letter from the Editor: How do you know when art is working?
How do you know when art is working? Maybe that’s a weird question. But I don’t see art as simply […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: Framed
SHADOWS ROSE, fell, and rose again against the walls of the small house, the sunlight cutting through the open blinds. […]
Cartoonist and TCAF veteran Nick Maandag launches debut book with Drawn & Quarterly
After achieving cult acclaim through his self-published and micro-published comics, The Follies of Richard Wadsworth is Maandag’s debut book. His mechanical, affectless characters […]
Behind Door #2: Introducing your second judge for the 2019 Zine Awards!
Back in 2017, when the BP Zine Awards was very young and consisted of only 5 categories, Jenn Woodall’s GIRLS […]
Jenna Rose Sands’ Zine Philosophy: Rage and Resilience Speaking Truth to Colonialism
I stumbled upon zines in the late ’90s as an angsty youth who frequented $5 punk shows where zines were […]
Little By Charlotte Joyce Kidd
Little opened their eyes. The sub, in this place, was gentle and far away, which made the colours of […]