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Introducing Broken Pencil 102: Cop City

In March of 2023, more than 50 individuals were indicted in Georgia on RICO charges. We take a look at Cop City and how it became a chilling assault on free expression.

The Best in Canadian Self-Published Comics to be Honoured at Doug Wright Awards

Strange and lurid. Enlightening and electrifying. It only becomes truer the further down you go. The Pigskin Peter Award celebrates the best comics underground.

Review: Resist #50

Mat Resist's DIY institution, which I first encountered at a Christian alternative music festival held on a former pig farm, hits a milestone. Surviving and thriving in the Anthropocene.

First the Press, Then the Streets

In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.

The Tide Turns in Time

How Michael Novick and his street action political zine Turning the Tide evolved to put radical media in the hands of the people.

Call for Submissions: The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table

Support the freedom to read by creating and submitting original zines.

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Latest Reviews

Review: The Marigold

Equal parts Cronenberg and Ballard, the Toronto of Andrew F. Sullivan’s satirical horror is most effectively unnerving when rendered from the vantage point of foundation pits, damp parking garages, fortress-like backyards and underground tunnels.

Review: but i digress

Our perspective on a past event can change over time given someone else’s account or our desires creeping in. Nestor Kok’s photozine encapsulates our warped perspective through Chicago’s infamous Bean.

Review: We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

Every good ghost story should make you feel like we live in a haunted world. Writer Margaret Killjoy can accomplish this chilling effect without relying on any ghosts.
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Latest Posts

Art Holes: Boo!

Trevor Henderson

Horror artist Trevor Henderson gives us a peek at the nightmare factory.

Toronto Zine Library Reopens

Marisa Kelly

“To me the space is important as an example of creativity, community and solidarity coming together without commercial expectations.”

Your Own Personal Joker

Zack Kotzer

Filmmaker Vera Drew wanted to reclaim the clown prince of crime with The People’s Joker. Now she has to fight the real supervillains to bring her Joker to the people.

Introducing Our Spring Issue: America the Absurd

Broken Pencil

Boots Riley tells us about the absurd and how it functions as a satirical language that can speak far more eloquently when the world is on fire. All that and more in our latest issue!

Faith and Comics. Love and Rockets.

Jenn Woodall

As someone who looked up to female punk music icons and also struggled with her own Catholic faith, I felt like Love and Rockets was attuned to me and my sensibilities.

Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Gory Little Details

Katie Rife

A twist of bone. A tease of flesh. Cannibals and testicles. We sat down with the Manhunt author about survival and sinew. “It’s an unfortunate way to get publicity, but if they’re giving it to me, I’ll take it. And I’ll use it to do all the things they’re so afraid I’ll do.”

New Visions at York’s DES_N Space Exhibit

Nadia Ozzorluoglu

The fourth floor of the Dahdaleh building has seen it all: lengthy crits, overnighters, lots of laughs and even more test prints. As they gear up to venture off into their post-graduate life, they want to welcome you into this space that they have called home for the past 4 years.