Broken Pencil
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| Title: | Broken Pencil |
| Publisher: | |
| Editor: | Zack Kotzer (2022 - present) |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1995 - present |
| Medium: | print, online |
| Fandom: | Zine Fandom |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | brokenpencil.com |
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Broken Pencil is a Canadian magazine (or "mega-zine"[1]) focused on zines, DIY culture, and indie arts. It was founded in 1995. Each of its quarterly issues features hundreds of zine reviews alongside commentary, interviews, original fiction, comics, and more.[1] Broken Pencil reviews all kinds of zines, including fanzines, often providing the only press coverage those zines ever receive.[2]
Broken Pencil also hosts the annual BP Zine Awards and sells zines on its website. Since its inception it has organized Canzine, a festival of zines and indie culture that takes place annually in Toronto and (since 2018) Ottawa.
References
- ^ a b About Broken Pencil. Broken Pencil. Accessed February 10, 2024. (archive link)
- ^ How zines survive in the Internet age by Olivia Carville (Jul 29, 2015). Toronto Star. Accessed February 10, 2024. (archive link)