DIY In the Farmland: Indie Art in Prince Edward County
Andrew McLuhan at his parent’s barn/workshop, photo by Lindsay Duncan By Isabel Slone Every time I tell someone that […]
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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Nicole’s Pick: The multimedia worlds of TMPL
image via tmplonline.com As someone who grew up far away from the city, I had never been very in touch […]
Zine Excerpt: Menstruate #2
Menstruate the Magazine for Straight Men Vol. 2: A Galaxy of Life Fills the Night By Hart, tawdryproductions.com, $20.00 Hart is an artist, […]
Jonathan’s Pick: Qweendom
For the uninitiated, ballroom house (also called vogue house) might seem abrasive or confusing — some combination of chanting and […]
Sharpener: Suffragette City Zine
Get excited for Suffragette City zine’s second ever issue coming this November. The zine, which focuses on amplifying the intellectual and […]
Exclusive Online Fiction: Another Kind of Thing you Feel in your Back
This new story by Faith Arkorful looks at dogs who seizure and parents who don’t come home. Written by Broken […]
Announcing the BP Community! Exclusive access to perks, content and more!
We’re totally excited to announce that Broken Pencil is switching from a basic subscription for our readers to a new […]
Staff Pick: Occultures
Last year at Canzine 2015, Broken Pencil assistant editor Jonathan Valelly assembled a panel of writers, artists, activists and […]
Review: The Alchemist Council
The Alchemist Council Cynthea Masson, 421 pgs, ECW Press, ecwpress.com, $16.95 The plight of being the first book in a […]
The Archaeologists: Chapter 21
This chapter is part of the ongoing serialization of The Archaeologists, the new novel by Hal Niedzviecki to be published […]
Folio: Theodore Ziegler
This excerpt is by Welland, ON-based illustrator Theodore Ziegler. Two years ago Ziegler sent Broken Pencil a long letter detailing […]