How to Survive Micro-Press Publishing at SPX
by Zachary Clemente
This past weekend, the 20th annual Small Press Expo (SPX) brought an explosion of independent and small press comics to the Marriott hotel in Bethesda, MD. Literally overflowing with an abundance of...
SPX: Laser Eyes & Fire-Breath, Annie Koyama on Koyama Press
by Zachary Clemente
On Sunday of the 20th annual Small Press Expo (SPX), The Beat grabbed a strange, backless hotel couch surrounded by vacated folding tables with Annie Koyama, the past, current, and future Publisher...
Fantagraphics launches new micro imprint FU Press with Fukitor and The Emperor’s New Clothes
Rumors about Fantagraphics launching a smaller, micro press had been floating around for a while and in advance of SPOX they've made it official. FU Press will publish small limited editions (100 to 500...
MICE is a go October 4-5 in Cambridge
Here's another stop on the busy indie comics circuit: MICE the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, will take place this October 4-5. It's free and you get to buy great comics. Poster by Paul Hornschemeier...
Small Press Spotlight: Breakdown Press and Mutiny Bay
When TCJ.com co-editor and former PictureBox publisher Dan Nadel goes on a rampage ANYTHING can happen but he had a pretty good one today, about cutting edge comics:
Here’s a report on the new London...
Bookmark: Small Press Previews
Here's a good idea: Small Press Previews, a new site that I was informed of by Jared Smith. They have 46 publishers signed up to create a single spot to see previews of small press comics coming out each month.
For instance I didn't know there was a new Derf coming from Alternative Press!
Interview: The Whole Creative Team for ‘And Then Emily Was Gone’!
Who even is Emily and where did she go? Those are the first two questions that spring into the mind when reading 'And Then Emily Was Gone' by John Lees, Iain Laurie, Megan Wilson...
Interview: Sarah Burgess Falls Into ‘The Summer of Blake Sinclair’
After several years and countless surprising twists and turns in the lives of the main characters, Sarah Burgess' long-running webcomic 'The Summer of Blake Sinclair' has come to an end. But now readers can...
Graphicly Folds – Will Creators be Paid What They’re Owed?
This week saw digital comic publisher Graphicly announce that they have been acquired by Blurb, a book publisher who will be subsequently folding the comics section of Graphicly. The question, however, is if the...
Review: Some Picks from the Spring Oily Bundle
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 great material I want to get my hands onto, and...
Review: The Nonadult Delight of Miss Hennipin
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 into Day's main creative output. Now fully realized into a...
The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’
Just So Happens
By Fumio Obata
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Upon first impression of Fumio Obata's new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck with a lot of similar impressions that arose whilst reading...
