About the Broken Pencil #100 Generations

The zines we make will likely outlast us. This is not meant to be a daunting statement, situating your chapbooks into the fabric of the cosmos or a self-aggrandizing claim that we are Xeroxing our own pyramids. Simply to address that many of us make zines to be passed down between strangers, friends and family for as long as the staples hold them together.

For the 100th issue of Broken Pencil, we felt it was appropriate to deconstruct this essential element of zines. How they, as physical objects, serve to communicate meaning and message throughout generations. A resource for art and expression through its very act of survival.

In our main feature, we meet the Lim family out of Singapore, better known as the Holycrap collective behind Rubbish FAMZine. Parents Pann and Claire, and children Renn and Aira, transform their shared ephemera into decadent acts of zine creation, inviting the world into their funhouse of a home