Indie Comics

Sometimes it’s better to just give yourself to something rather than to seek out its meaning. Not everything has to have one clear meaning,...

This collection of short works by Malachi Ward and published by Alternative Comics announces itself with a verbal joke — From Now On is another...

The indie comics tour continues this weekend with CAKE in Chicago, a show that's had a slow rise to become what sounds ike a...

This short, spare, poetic, emotionally brutal piece from Cathy G. Johnson and Koyama Press captures the intersection of three lives, and the unlikely self...

The first in a projected seven-book science fiction series, Joshua W. Cotter’s Nod Away draws you in with the human drama, but keeps the science...

Massachusetts cartoonist Melissa Mendes has a knack for comics that not only center on kids, but present the world from their points of view...

https://twitter.com/shelleysavor/status/731929972865126401 "Good for nothing" manko artist Rokudenashiko was the hit of TCAF and she's in New York for a series of events. Tonights talk is...

Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less...

  I’m ashamed to admit that prior to reading Why Would You Do That? from Hic and Hoc, which will debut at TCAF this weekend,...

Okay now this is putting your money where your mouth is, in the best possible way. The other day we told you about Rosarium Press...

In 2006’s Lucille, French cartoonist Ludovic Debeurme gave a surreal and somber tone to a doomed love story, following the individual wrecked lives of...

I’m sitting here in my office in Chicago, thinking as to what I’m going to write about comics. I’ve been publishing comic books for over six months now, as the co-publisher at Z2 Comics. In that time I’ve met incredible artists, discussed stories and characters, gone through sleepless nights peppered with nightmares of cash flow, and had these brief, fleeting moments of joy as I held a new issue of a book we just made in my hands. I’m wondering how to describe that feeling, as it would be the core of this piece, and for some reason I’m having a hard time putting it together in my mind. And then Prince died.