Volunteer at Canzine Saskatoon
Canzine is looking for volunteers! Are you enthusiastic, welcoming, and invested in building an inclusive arts community? Do you love […]
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 […]
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."
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.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
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.
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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About Canzine
Canzine: Festival of Zines and Underground Culture Canada’s Largest Festival of Zines and Underground Culture coming this Fall! Toronto, Calgary, […]
Canzine Vancouver Events
Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, 11am-5pm Vancouver Public Library — Central Branch (350 W. Georgia Street) All Day Zine Fair — Hundreds […]
Register for Canzine Vancouver
Canzine Vancouver Is Full! Saturday, September 21, 2019, 11am-5pm Vancouver Public Library Please read the Canzine Vendor Rules Before Registering for Canzine! […]
Volunteer at Canzine Vancouver
Canzine Vancouver is looking for volunteers! Are you enthusiastic, welcoming, and invested in building an inclusive arts community? Do you […]
Last Year’s Canzine Vancouver
Canzine Vancouver: Festival of Zines and Underground Culture 2017 was on Sunday, November 5, 2017, 1-7pm at SFU Woodward’s. Check out the Canzine […]
Podcast: Quimby’s Bookstore & Rochdale College
Read and Distribute episode 10 is ready for your listening pleasure! This week, Read and Distribute is talking with Liz […]
Last Year’s Canzine Toronto
Canzine Toronto 2017 was on October 21, 2017 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Check out the full list of vendors and the Facebook […]
Letter from the editor, Issue 78: Guilt, gatekeeping, and getting over it
In early November, the zine and DIY publishing world lost one of its greatest champions in the broader art […]
The Fight Against Fish Farms
Gord Hill’s comics appear in every issue of Broken Pencil. Click the image to view it in a larger format. […]
The New Tattoo Underground
STICK AND POKE. #QTTR. FLASH. If any of these phrases mean something to you, you may have already noticed: tattooing […]
Zinester’s Toolkit: Monica Trinidad
Zinester’s Toolkit is a new column about the tools zinesters use to make their work, and how you can […]