Podcast: Read and Distribute
Welcome to the first episode of Read and Distribute! In this episode you will hear interviews with the judges of the first […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
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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Black and QTPOC Artists (Re)Claim Space
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Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Young adult fiction has picked up on social justice issues in the past couple years. Yet […]
DIY Cosplay: Make your own fantastical armour
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Everyday Superheroes: Anti-Corporate Cosplay & the DIY Multiverse
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Podcast Activist Katie Jensen: I Am Woman, Hear Me .RAR
Words by Kristel Jax Photos by Lindsay Duncan It’s April 2017. I’m at Katie Jensen’s Inclusive Podcast Workshop series where, […]
Jonathan’s Pick: Sheffield Park Black History Museum
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Comic: Babcia, a papercut story
Marta Chudolinska (pronounced who-doh-lean-ska) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto.
Art Holes: Autumn Crossman-Serb
Art holes is a column where artists diagram their work spaces. This issue, illustrator and graphic novelist Autumn Crossman-Serb gives […]
The Smell of Our Own: Sami Alwani interviewed by his mother, Ghada
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