02/02/2018 Small Pres & Indie Comics Galore
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Nice Art
§ This month's nice art is by Zane Zlemeša, a Latvian artist whose done some work with Kuš! Comics. Her work has a lot...
Crowdfunding Watch: Witches, Scientists and Existential Crisis
I like to end the month by having an existential crisis and I'm glad that 2018 is proving no different. The good part about...
Review: Ellice Weaver’s ‘Something City’ is a Busytown for the 21st Century
Like a Richard Scarry book for the modern urbanite, Ellice Weaver’s beautifully drawn Something City weaves together various corners of an urban environment to create...
Ben Passmore’s ‘Your Black Friend’ is now an animated short
Ben Passmore's critically acclaimed Your Black Friend won an Ignatz award, a Dinky Award and a Broken Frontier Award andwas nominated for an Eisner Award. It continues...
Alert! You can now order Short Box #7 with new Emily Caroll and...
Short Box is a curated collection of small press comics editor by Zainab Akhtar, and the new one, #7, just went live for pre-orders....
Exclusive: Silver Sprocket Announces 2018 Spring Line-up with Nowack, Passmore, Sweater and more
Silver Sprocket is an SF-based indie comics publisher with a growing presence. In addition to putting out comics–most notably the Ignatz winning Eisner Nominated...
Review – This Bitter Cold will End in Margaux Othat’s Blanc
Margaux Othats' Blanc would probably have featured in my best comics of 2017 had I written that list during the cold wave hammering...
01/05/2018: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore New Year’s Edition
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Nice Art
§ I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Welcome to 2018. Let's start this year with some nice art from Maddi Gonzalez, a...
The Beat’s Holiday Gift Guide: For the Indie and Small Press Comics Admirer
The holiday gifting time is here and the Beat crew stands ready with some suggestions for the comics lover, comics curious or even comics oblivious -...
12/01/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Nice Art
This month's nice art is by Priya Huq, a cartoonist and illustrator based in Chicago. She's the creator of the web comics Mana, which...
Review: Dave Ortega puts family first in ‘Dias de Consuelo’
With immigration in general and Mexico in particular having become such issues of anger in modern America, Dave Ortega’s tender, informative family saga Dias...
Jack Kirby & Wally Wood – In Color: Sky Masters of the Space Force...
There have been a number of Kirby projects this year, but here's one that's a little more unique. Amigos Comics is issuing a full...
