Zines Three Ways with BP Editor Jonathan Valelly
Join Broken Pencil Editor Jonathan Valelly for a loungacious all-ages summer zine workshop! Jonathan will be demonstrating a few different […]
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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Take a look into Nickname zine
The following are excerpts from the zine Nick Name by Hurley Winkler and Aysha Miskin! To read our full review, […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: A Routine Inspection
TRAFFIC OOZED over the bridge. Like milkshake through a thin straw, the stream of cars was drawn slowly but inexorably […]
Making your events more accessible!
If your event is inaccessible, it is neither radical nor revolutionary I spoke with various members of the Deaf community […]
June Zine Awards Entries
Zine Awards Entries from June! There are only 12 more days until the deadline to submit for the BP Zine […]
Deaf Zinesters Won’t Wait Up
“CULTURALLY DEAF PEOPLE don’t see deafness as a detriment — why would they, when there is a large, rich, vibrant […]
The Tsilhqot’in War
Check out more cool comics by Gord Hill here!
Mangoshake!
LEMONADE STANDS and car washes be damned, Mangoshake wants something new and better from the street-side adolescent hustle — and […]
How To Deal With Zine Fair Anxiety
After countless hours of solitary creation, a new zine is born! Now your average, introverted exhibitor must brace for the […]
Art Holes: Yuka Yamaguchi
Art holes is a column where artists diagram their work spaces. This issue, artist Yuka Yamaguchi gives us a look. […]
Zineswap: The return of the all-mail zine club
ZINESWAP IS BACK! In case you hadn’t heard of it in its previous iteration, here’s the idea: You send three […]
Edge Desert
Check out a cool comic by Sophie Yanow!