Indie Comics

  Youth in Decline's long-running series Frontier is coming back after a nine month hiatus. For those who may not have encountered Frontier yet, is a quarterly...

For the past couple of years the Small Press Expo in Bethesda has only deepened its reputation as "Summer Camp for Comics" by adding...

  Nice art The above images are from Ann Xu. I like her work and her use of colour. I've bookmarked her website as something...

At its most basic Jam In The Band is a pretty insightful and — just from my small knowledge on the subject — a...

Portland's LInework NW comic arts festival is on indefinite hold, meaning Comics Town, USA doens't have its own indie show.

The 2017 Ignatz Award nominations have just been announced, and this years honorees are a solid mix of mainstream (March Book 3), indie (My Favorite Thing is Monsters) and micro-press/self-published (Carolyn Nowak, Sabin Cauldron). I draw no wider implications from the list except that comics 2017 artistically speaking are strong.  Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters - kind of the To Kill a Mockingbird of comics at this point - lead with three noms including Outstanding Artist,  GN and Story.

I have a feeling that quite a lot of us would rather be somewhere else these days. It wouldn’t be so bad to be...

Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 summer collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated...

Here's a "comic book gets optioned" story that has a bit more bite than usual. Black by Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 (with additional...

There's no more loved or admired person in comics than Annie Koyama, the owner and publisher of Koyama Press. And this year's Small Press...

§ Nice Art § Zviane contributed a wonderful illustration for the month of August in a 2017 calendar and it is beautiful. Perhaps it's the weather,...

We all know the game “Tetris.” It’s addictive and embedded in the halls of video game history. Did you know though that it originated...