Editor’s Pick: dadfeelings Podcast
In addition to being a groundbreaking game designer/developer, writer and probably my favorite person on Twitter, merritt kopas (our Issue […]
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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Book Review: Adultescence
Adultescence, P. D. Walter. 171 pgs, pdwalterbooks.com, $14.99 Adultescence is something like a television script treatment for a series resembling […]
In Praise of Terrible Art: London fest celebrates the “worst of creative expression”
The above dog painting will be displayed (and up for auction) this weekend at London’s Bad Art Festival. Photo by […]
Jonathan’s Pick: Totally Radical Muslims Zine
[image via totallyradicalmuslims.com] A few days after the mass shooting in Orlando, seething islamophobia and homophobia are still clamouring to […]
The Smell of Our Own: Jamiyla Lowe
“The Garden” by Jamiyla Lowe THE SMELL OF OUR OWN Artist Interviews Artist Musician April Aliermo interviews illustrator Jamiyla Lowe […]
Staff Pick: Maquina Muerta/DHK 12″ split
One hot Saturday in late May I was wandering, sweating and drooling my way through FAITH/VOID, Toronto’s newest and greatest […]
Broken Pencil’s DGAF Guide to Free Summer Fun
Hey you punk kids! Summer is here, we’re ready to have fun and we’re all still broke. Here’s our list […]
The Archaeologists: Chapter 11
This chapter is part of the ongoing serialization of The Archaeologists, the new novel by Hal Niedzviecki to be published […]
5 Global Zine Scenes You Should Want to Know About
Zines have long since left the North American underground, and the alternative press has been going in other hemispheres for […]
National Resonance: How Drone Took Over Canada’s Underground
In 2014, artist and activist Marie LeBlanc Flanagan announced a new Canadian holiday. Henceforth, she proclaimed on her […]
National Drone Day: The Playlist
photo of Burdens by Robert Szkolnicki curated by Kristel Jax To read Kristel’s cover story on drone music in issue […]