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On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
"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."
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.
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
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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About two years ago, in a car full of zinesters en route to Ottawa, there was a 10-minute window where […]
Hello, Broken Pencil reader! And welcome to the magazine’s newest regular column, Exposure Unit. I’m Rabeea Syed, a zinester and […]
For the past 17 years, I’ve worked at Quimby’s Bookstore here in Chicago, which sells zines, mini-comics, and books. We’ve […]
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In 2018, Broken Pencil mounted its second-ever Zine Awards! Congratulations to all of the nominated zines and winners, many of […]
Yes, Ma’am, Issue 12: The Dream Issue By Yes, Ma’am (San Antonio, Texas) The alternative and underground press has always […]
Plumbago Magazine, Issue 3 Edited by Andy Welfle (San Francisco, California) CATEGORY SPONSOR: SENECA COLLEGE – ARTS, ANIMATION & DESIGN […]
Hair Anand Vedawala (San Francisco, California) The perzine genre anchors zine culture in so many ways. Perhaps undersung in […]