Canzine 2016: Enter the 1-2 Punch Live Book Pitch and Win!
Have you got the novel to save the world? The manifesto that is sure to spark insurrection? Poems to echo […]
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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Dreams From the Scrap Heap: Celebrating 20 Years of Conundrum Press
Andy Brown and Joe Ollman (by Joe Ollman) from 20 x 20 By Jonathan Rotsztain The one-man publishing machine known […]
Hal’s Pick: Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves
image via tiff.net Lost in the media feeding frenzy over what celebrity was quaffing champagne where during the course of […]
Jonathan’s Pick: The high-stakes office chairs of Bridget Moser
There’s something about Bridget Moser’s video and performance work that makes me feel a really dense spectrum of feelings. There’s […]
Broken Pencil Zine Race at Word on the Street Toronto!
Hey Broken Pencil friends and fans! Come find us in the Magazines area at Word on the Street and get […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: Rocket Man
For this month’s online fiction we’re pleased to deliver Ceilidh Michelle, who writes about creative kids plus a lot of […]
Art Holes: A look inside Ginette Lapalme’s cat-filled Chinatown home studio
Art holes is a column where artists diagram their work spaces. This issue, we look at Ginette Lapalme’s small cluttered […]
Staff Pick: Portraits
At a first glance, it might be easy to pigeonhole Erin Klassen’s latest book Portraits as a series of mini-stories about […]
The Archaeologists Chapter 26: Hal — Monday, April 21
This chapter is part of the ongoing serialization of The Archaeologists, the new novel by Hal Niedzviecki to be published […]
Colin’s Pick: Pau Wau’s fold-out photo zine, Muses
Every year or so Pau Wau Publications releases a zine packet called Muses. Muses comes with five zines of from […]
Book Review: Wigford Rememberies
Wigford Rememberies Kyp Harness, 203 pgs, Nightwood Editions, www.nightwoodeditions.com, $19.95 It’s difficult to read Kyp Harness’s debut novel without hearing […]
Comics by Gord Hill: Resistance @ Unist’ot’en
Gord Hill’s comics appear in every issue of Broken Pencil. Click the image to view it in larger format. Learn […]