Q&A with Hope Amico of Gutwrench Press
Hope Amico of Gutwrench Press is a printer based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. I met Hope Amico this past […]
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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Fiction: Closer
Lionel wondered when exactly he had started positioning himself closer to people, to strangers, on purpose. On the city bus […]
Zinester’s Toolkit: Collage-spiration with Lisa Pijuan-Nomura
I am a collage artist based in Hamilton, ON. It all started about 28 years ago when I fell in […]
Soviet Zines Live On!
When Mark Yoffe was a teenager in Soviet-controlled Riga, Latvia, everything looked ridiculous. As he tells it, both the Soviet […]
Canzine Ottawa 2018
Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on details for Canzine 2019. Saturday, October 6, 2019, 12-6pm Art Gallery […]
Canzine Toronto 2018
Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on details for Canzine 2019. Here’s what happened at Canzine […]
Fiction: The Morning After
SHE POPS a Juicy Fruit to combat the taste of smoke and the sting of old booze settling into her […]
Print-N-Fold: The Nose Zine
Back in July, Broken Pencil hosted a zine workshop at the LitBang pop-up space in Toronto. One of the particularly […]
Folio: Potlatch Punk by Whess Harman
In each issue, asks an artist to take over a few pages and present a folio. This section highlights creators working […]
Global Zine Report: Slovenia
Check out profiles of more countries in our Global Zine Report. This small, pastoral post-Soviet country is known for its […]
Global Zine Report: State of the Zine 2018
We hear from zinesters of all stripes here at Broken Pencil. From teenagers making their first mini comic to designers […]
Global Zine Report: South Africa
Check out profiles of more countries in our Global Zine Report. Zines have always been a small but active subculture […]