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"When I’m working on a big project I can crash for a few hours and then keep on banging out pages." Real Deal Comix' Lawrence "Rawdog" Hubbard gives us a tour of his spartan digs. brokenpencil.com/art-holes/art-…

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Also in the current issue of Broken✄Pencil✎Magazine - A review of my comix RELUCTANT SADIST #8! First time my comix has appeared here. Thank you BP! RS#8 can be ordered through Thomas Campbell or, in Europe, directly through me. comicsblogger.net/product/reluct…

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Meet the CREW of PAYING FOR IT! We rose to the challenge of shooting an ambitious movie in 19 days. This pic is of half the team & was taken when we wrapped. Full credits here: shorturl.at/XESFN Premieres@TIFF_NET #TIFF24 💗🎞️ Keep up with PFI and follow Payingforitfilm

"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead." From issue 101, reaching for cops gun in MRI in conversation with wint about art, philosophy, the future of being online, all that garbage. brokenpencil.com/features/poste…

“I figure if I have to be forced to live in this modern, cold and digital world, I can at least point to the physical objects that I love.” @micdadam foregoes the ‘lyric video’ for a more analogue approach. brokenpencil.com/sharpener-2/zi…

In Sean McCarthy’s The Novice, a strolling snail-man is consumed, only to survive and meet worse horrors in the gullet of the beast. Things are not always what they appear to be within this whimsy world. brokenpencil.com/reviews/review…

A variant of that Jonah fellow and his whale troubles, eh.

“Within about 30 minutes we had 15 people making a fire-line, passing books to each other up the steps and to the back of the shop." On New Year's Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Here's how they spared their books from the flood. brokenpencil.com/toolkit/toolki…

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. brokenpencil.com/reviews/review…

“Everyone knows AI-generated music is a problem, but here it is destroying a very specific fandom.” - Samantha Cole As AI and online atrophy drive tech to strange and dangerous places, can indie outlets like 404 Media restore faith in digital publishing? brokenpencil.com/sharpener-2/40…

To read a Trina Robbins comic is to enter an alternate history, writes Zach Rabiroff, one in which the legions of women who entered the industry as writers, artists, and editors during the war years of the 1940s were never driven back out. brokenpencil.com/sharpener-2/in…

A tightrope walk of a novel, Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X deftly weaves speculative fiction and fact into a story about love and abuse, a relationship turned sour and the lengths one will go to for their art. brokenpencil.com/reviews/review…

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