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Side Hustle: Sex Worker Zines
Indie Wrestling! Plus: World's biggest cake, world's smallest printing studio and our book picks for summer

Read more about Broken Pencil #84: $ide Hu$tle

Guerrilla Gardening: DIY planters battle urban sterility
Fold! Your very own zine mascot + how to make a cut-out comic
Neocolonialism and genocide

guerrilla gardening

Read more about Broken Pencil #83: Guerrilla Gardening

Roll the Dice: How to get an arts grant
10 zines talking back to Trump! Plus the winners of the Zine Awards 2018 and DIY for the apocalypse!

Read more about Broken Pencil #82

Global zine report: Dispatches from zines in every hemisphere!
Plus: Urinal fiction, communist zine archives and more!

Read more about Broken Pencil #81: The New Noir

The New World of Webcomics
Found Fruit: Discovering DIY Foraging

Read more about Broken Pencil #80: X-Ray Summer Fiction Frenzy

Read the winning stories from Indie Writer's Death Match 2018!

Read more about Broken Pencil #79: Deaf Creators Make Themselves Known

Read more about Broken Pencil #85: Freedom Hi

A woman with short dark hair in a t-shirt, ripped jeans, and crocs poses in front of an illustration of herself on a checkerboard background

Baby Ballou interviews artist, writer, and comedian Bre

Read more about Zine 38: Zine Queen Bre

The Foodies: How pop-up chefs became the new indie rockers
Summer DIY Issue: Make Your Own Board Game, Primp Your Zine and Discover DIY Gynecology

Read more about Broken Pencil #56: The Foodies

Mad Zines: Creators confront mental illness
Plus: Piracy Hits the Underground & How Indie Ideas Become Franchises

mental disorders

Read more about Broken Pencil #53: Mad Zines

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