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Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
"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."
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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“What I want to do is use this exaggeration to point out contradictions and to point out ironies and skip over large swaths of theory and just smack it in your face. That’s the usefulness to me.” The activist, musician and director tells us how to speak to a world that’s gotten strange.
To settle all of your Broken Pencil Zine Awards questions, big and small, please refer to this handy-dandy Q&A right here.
The loss of local voices goes beyond arts scenes and progressive op-eds as trusted legacy publications become propaganda for your city’s worst actors.
Celebrating zine excellence since 2017, it’s the sixth annual Broken Pencil Zine Awards! You have between now and September 15th, 2023 to enter!
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Olivia Mae Sinclair, a textile artist binding books and zines with frayed fabrics, exploring a textured meaning of the text within.
One of the biggest appeals of zines and their scenes is the low barrier of access. What good is self-publishing if it is too prohibitive for most people to participate?
Etsy emerged as an opportunity to capture the feeling of zine and art fairs online, selling a diverse catalogue of pieces from a universe of uncanny creators. But a zine fair and a multimillion dollar enterprise are rarely the same entity.
While tarot may be best known today as a future-telling tool, it is much more than that. Meditation, personal growth and beyond. Follow your ideas to truly make your deck your own. Allow each card to become part of your own personal system of self-discovery.
Horror artist Trevor Henderson gives us a peek at the nightmare factory.
“To me the space is important as an example of creativity, community and solidarity coming together without commercial expectations.”
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.
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!
