Broken Pencil #45
by Hal Nedziecki
This issue of Broken Pencil is heavily influenced by the impending Olympic, with a page on the fictional Zinester Olympics, and Sarah Steinberg's column about her own Emotional Winter Olympics. In Carrying the Torch, Maggie MacDonald travels across Canada and takes a tour of indie culture in small towns. Maggie visits a gopher taxidermy museum, a coffeeshop/gallery called All Citizens, and the Star Trek-obsessed town of Vulcan, Alberta. Another article addresses the possible artist exodus from Vancouver, and posits it may be a result of Arts money being diverted toward the Olympic Games. Non-Olympically speaking, there are indie comics artists' profiles, and a page on the radical grrrls of Calgary. And of course, there are a whole slew of book, zine, and music reviews to round it all out.
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“ ... a great piece on underground media and zine culture in small town Canada ...”
" ... a great peice on underground media and zine culture in small town Canada that was sort of like a road trip of oddball DIY offshoots. Also liked the short thing on a community/show space in Latvia started by hardcore kids, though it wasn't super punk orientated - the focus was more about how they don't really have a big zine/comic culture there. ... I also liked a piece by Samantha Tree about the feminist punk scene in Calgary. There are a bunch of excerpts from other zines and comics scattered throughout."