Indie Comics

While waiting for my Porter Airlines flight at Billy Batson Airport, I thought I'd dash off a thought or two. • It was an...

Comics anthologies are generally a good thing, but in my personal preferences, I like ones that are on a tightly focused topic better than...

There's a great warehouse sale going on at AdHouse Books: It's been a few years since we had a SALE, so I thought we'd make...

It's hard to convince me to not contribute to the growing number of small press comic subscriptions--every season there seems to be even more...

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi...

Thought Bubble in Leeds, UK—to be held November 9-15th this year—has rapidly gained an international reputation as one of the finest comic arts festivals out there. With a fantastic guest list and a friendly vibe, it's on many people's must-do list now. But with popularity comes growing pains. The show has just announced a bunch of changes including a move to curation for exhibitors, a higher fee for tables, and charging for tickets to a Saturday night party. The show has rapidly outgrown its venue, and a third hall used in 2013 is no longer available. So...something had to give, as they explain.

The idea for Miss Hennipin, a new release from Sonatina's Andy Douglas Day, began as a summer day's unassuming illustrative dalliance and briskly developed...

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi...

By Bruce Lidl Indie comics publisher Top Shelf announced yesterday that they will be selling a selection of their digital titles, without any DRM copy...

The Stumptown Comics Festival , Portland's long running indie comics show, is ending in its present form, but the Awards and its indie-focused programming...

Sparkplug Books has has some changes in the last few years, following the death of founder Dylan Williams, but under new publisher Virginia Paine, it's stayed in the game. In an email, Paine shared some plans for 2014...and also the news that times are tough at the indie, with Paine being forced to stop paying herself.

One fiercely intelligent young woman, one city in which superheroes and villains are the norm, and one comic in which diversity is as natural...