Chicago’s CAKE announces Cupcake winner and opening of exhibitor applications
Is it 2018 already? Apparently! It's deifnitely time to start sending out those exhibitor applications for indie shows. CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) has...
Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics has raised $1 million on Kickstarter..and to celebrate they’re...
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They said it wouldn't last.***
But Spike Trotman and her Iron Circus Comics publishing company just celebrated raising their one MILLIONTH dollar on Kickstarter.
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10/05/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Nice Art
§ Philippe here with some small press & indie comics update, albeit a few days later than usual. This month's nice...
Review: Ulli Lust’s ‘Voices In The Dark’ is a walk on the worst side
The offerings from New York Review Comics have revealed one challenging work after another with curation of truly elevated works, but as impressive as...
SPX is back – and so is Four Women In A Hotel Room!
SPX (Small Press Expo) is this weekend! I'm on a bus to SPX right this minute! SO excited - maybe because I've had the...
Interview – Ryan Sands on the Return of Frontier, the 2018 line-up & Parenthood
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...
SPX announces Slumber Party theme for Prom
For the past couple of years the Small Press Expo in Bethesda has only deepened its reputation as "Summer Camp for Comics" by adding...
09/01/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
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...
Review: ‘Jam In The Band’ depicts aging as an artistic process
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 hold indefinitely
Portland's LInework NW comic arts festival is on indefinite hold, meaning Comics Town, USA doens't have its own indie show.
2017 Ignatz Nominations include a new category; three noms for Ferris
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.
Review: Looking for truth in ‘Crawl Space’
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...
