Zines@Douglas: Evaluating Zines

Broken Pencil Magazine is a Canadian magazine of zines, comics, DIY and the radical press since 1995. Check out the annual Broken Pencil Zine Awards. The goal of the Zine Awards has been to honour outstanding work coming out of the ever-expanding zine universe, and to acknowledge the talent and hard work of emerging, established and experimental self-publishers for their contributions to zine culture.

Broken Pencil also has useful Zine reviews (over 15,000 of them) and is available in the 2 databases linked below. Click the links (CBCA is best) and search your Zine title. We also have some print issues of Broken Pencil in our zine collection. More information is on the Broken Pencil Website. 

CBCA Access to Broken Pencil (1995-present).  

• If you don't find your Zine reviewed in Broken Pencil, try a Google search for your title and add the word review or words book review.  
• If you still don't find a review for your Zine you can used the CARSS Guide below to help you critically examine and access your Zine.