Indie Comics

by Melanie Burke Images courtesy of Northwest Press "It's like an after school special but it’s a good one,” says Adam Pruett of the anti-bullying comics...

  Continuing on from our first entry this past Friday, here is the second part of my HeroesCon interview with Michel Fiffe, creator of the...

Independent publisher ComixTribe has been steadily growing their presence in the direct market, on Kickstarter and especially on the web. ComixTribe.com is a site that's used...

Brooklyn based indie Secret Acres has just announced a couple of new projects and one of them is like an alt.comix supergroup: MK Reed...

Z2 Comics just made news last week with a new line of periodicals, and here's their fall graphic novel line, courtesy of Publishers Weekly....

Z2 Comics, best known for publishing the graphic novels Escapo, Fear my Dear, Cleveland and Henni, is getting into the periodical business with three...

Out of the Blue is a comics anthology published by Stache Publishing in 2014 that has left readers wanting more. The first volume collected...

It's a little hard to find concrete reports from indie shows these days unless Secret Acres or Robyn Chapman post reports, from the social media, looks like CAKE Chicago this weekend was a successful indie show. I've heard mixed reports on sales in past years, but based on the "haul photos" I've seen, a lot of comics were purchased. I dug up a few more concrete reports:

I have to admit, if I hadn't committed to going to SE: NYC I would totally be at the Grand Comics Fest, a small one day indie show that has a great lineup or cartoonists and some exciting comics debuts. You can see the lineup in the card above.

Things are kicking into high gear worldwide for comics shows. So much is kicking off tomorrow. Here's a very quick look at some of them. In London's Crouch End a 2nd year CAF is taking place, the Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival or CECAF, organized by Sean Azzopardi.

In Kieron Gillen's talk on Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, Gillen emphasizes themes of time and cyclicality present in Moore's graphic novel.  Temporal...

By Victor Van Scoit In the Marvel Universe Ultron is an artificial intelligence robot fixated on world domination. Ultron may only be a work of...