Z2 Comics launches Modern Prometheus production company
Z2 Comics is on a roll, having announced a new line of graphics novels, a line of periodical comics and now a productions company, Modern Prometheus, which got inked in THR.
Darby Pop teams with Magnetic Press
It's team up time. Magnetic Press, best known as publisher of a bunch of award-winning and magnificent French comics in the US, has partnered...
AfterShock announces initial line-up with Ennnis, Gaiman, Palmiotti, Conner and more
When AfterShock Comics, a new line headed by veteran writer/publisher Joe Pruett (Caliber, Desperado), was announced people might have thought, "OK." When the line-up of financial backers—including Michael Richter (eBay Facebook), reality TV producer Jon Kramer, Lee Kramer (Endeavor) and SVP Investor Relations Jawad Qureshi — people probably though. "Hm." When it was announced that Marvel editor Mike Marts was leaving Marvel to join AfterShock as Editor in Chief people definitely sat up and took notice. And now that the initial line-up of writers has been announced, I imagine a few people fell off their chairs.
Interview: Jennifer Crute Opens Up in Jennifer’s Journal
By Nick Eskey
Jennifer Crute is a native New York City artist, turned comic creator. She began her love for making art at an early...
Anti-Bullying Comics Anthology RISE to Release Third Volume
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...
HeroesCon Interview with Michel Fiffe Part 2: The Possibility of Digital, Comparisons to Cerebus,...
Continuing on from our first entry this past Friday, here is the second part of my HeroesCon interview with Michel Fiffe, creator of the...
MATT CHATS: Tyler James on the ComixTribal Magic
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...
Secret Acres news: Reed & Dalrymple’s Palefire and new Theo Elsworth
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 expands with fall GN line, including Abaddon, Pawn Shop and Ashes
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 announces new creator-owned periodical line with McGinty, Hunt, Tracy, Koplowitz and Porto
Z2 Comics, best known for publishing the graphic novels Escapo, Fear my Dear, Cleveland and Henni, is getting into the periodical business with three...
Interview: Corey Fryia Raps on Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue is a comics anthology published by Stache Publishing in 2014 that has left readers wanting more. The first volume collected...
CAKE Chicago report: perhaps 5000 people attended
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:
