Announcing the first judge for the Broken Pencil Zine Awards: Naomi Moyer
The deadline for the Broken Pencil Zine Awards is fast approaching! Zinesters can submit through Submittable by July 31 and be […]
The BP Fall Bundle Sale is On Now
OVERSTOCK SALE!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO! WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! *ORDER NOW* Biggest Bundle Sale Ever is Here For Only $17.99 Limited […]
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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Protect Your Neck: Think your art has been stolen? Here’s what to do next (and how to keep it yours in the first place)
by: Alison Broverman Alison Broverman shares some useful suggestions of what to do when you find your creative work has […]
Music Review: More by New Fries
New Fries More, Telephone Explosion, telephoneexplosion.com This Toronto quartet is all over the map, and there’s no clear indication what […]
Jonathan’s Pick: okayplayer
image via anthonyvaldez.org Growing up just outside of Philly in the 90s and the early 2000s, the rap crew The […]
Announcing Canzine 2017, including our new zine fair in Calgary, AB!
Hey, zinesters! Comic artists! Writers and creators! Canada’s largest festival of zines and underground culture returns this Fall to Toronto, Calgary, […]
The Sad Ballad of Pepe the Frog: When Great Indie Art Gets Ripped Off
illustration by Patrick Burgomaster The internet is a wonderful and terrifying place to be an artist. Anyone can create something, […]
Jordan Abel wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize
For Jordan Abel, winning Canada’s most lucrative literary prize isn’t just a personal triumph, but a win for “all the […]
All Hail the Superqueerdo: Eric Kostiuk Williams’ comic sheroes fight back against condo-fication
by Jonathan Valelly photography by Greg Wong From a hidden lookout point at the top of a glassy, austere tower development […]
Staff Pick: Venom #2
Meeting Venom #2 (2015) for the first time was a chance coincidence. I was supposed to meet a friend at […]
The Smell of Our Own: Parental Edition with Simon & Judy Borer
Prepared Pianos: An interview with Judy Borer by Simon Borer Simon Borer is a musician, songwriter, poet and performer originally […]
Toronto Art Book Fair Preview: Lido Pimienta
Leading up to the Toronto Art Book Fair, June 15 – 18, we’re profiling some of our favourite exhibitors. Lido […]
Art Holes: Adam Waito
Art holes is a column where artists diagram their work spaces. This issue, artist Adam Waito gives us a look. […]