Online Indie Culture Survival Guide
Like a passionately noxious lover that I just can’t get enough of, the Internet consumes, thrills and overwhelms me. I […]
Issue 38
Defining Independence in the Digital World
In the year 2002, I wrote a long piece for my own publication The Eclectic Screening Room, entitled “Us, Mainstream […]
Get Up for the Download
By now, everyone and their computer knows that Radiohead released their seventh full-length record over the internet, offering fans a […]
Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
Five days a week, Toronto poet Rob Read sits down at his computer between eight and 10 a.m. and scours […]
Weighing the Web
Two Broken Pencil staff members debate the benefits of the Internet as a cultural tool By Hal Niedzviecki and Derek […]
I’m Feeling Unlucky
Independent culture in the Google era By Ryan Bigge Part I So there’s this indie rock band from Toronto called […]
Paper is Boring. Comics are Awesome.
Richard Rosenbaum investigates how online comics sustain themselves It’s not that it’s impossible to become successful doing indie comics. In […]