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A year of free comics: Polly Guo’s Gawain’s Girlfriend and the Green Knight will cut your heart from your bosom

01/06/2017 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A year of free comics: Polly Guo’s Gawain’s Girlfriend and the Green Knight will cut your heart from your bosom

Polly Guo is a storyboard artist for Adventure Time, Dreamworks and various well regarded animated shorts.

She made a comic called Gawain’s Girlfriend and the Green Knight that is one of the best comics I have ever read

Filed Under: Free Comics, Webcomics Tagged With: Gawain's Girlfriend and the Green Knight, polly guo, Webcomics

A year of free comics: Beanstalk by Jenn Liv – The gorgeous expansion of the mind

01/05/2017 5:30 pm by Philippe Leblanc

A year of free comics: Beanstalk by Jenn Liv – The gorgeous expansion of the mind

Jenn Liv’s Beanstalk is a wonderfully magical little comic. A woman sleeping in a field wakes up to discover a world wider and larger than she ever thought possible. It’s a gorgeous comic about the ever-expanding universe, how connection with others expand our world view and ourselves. A wordless comic illustrated by Toronto based artist […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Free Comics Tagged With: Beanstalk, Jenn Liv, Study Group Comics

A year of free comics: Sam Alden’s Atmospheric Horror

01/03/2017 6:30 pm by Philippe Leblanc

A year of free comics: Sam Alden’s Atmospheric Horror

Not everyone can do horror in comics well, but Sam Alden makes it seem effortless. In 2013, he released a web comic called The Man That Dances in the Meadow that was eerie with a consistently unsettling tone. A truly amazing horror comic. The Man That Dances in the Meadow is a short comic about […]

Filed Under: Free Comics Tagged With: a year of free comics, Horror Comics, Sam Alden

A year of free comics: Brecht Evens’ Idulfania will make you want to learn Dutch

01/02/2017 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A year of free comics: Brecht Evens’ Idulfania will make you want to learn Dutch

  Brecht Evens’ Panther (published in the US by D&Q) was a sleeper for many of the year’s best of lists. The story of a girl whose imaginary friend turns imaginary fiend touches on many deep themes: adolescence, grieving, even the internet’s obsession with cats. Like his previous English language books,  The Wrong Place (a lothario […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, World Comics Tagged With: a year of free comics, Brecht Evens, dutch language comics, fairytale comics, idulfania

A year of free comics: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

01/01/2017 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A year of free comics: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

[There are many great comics out there. There are many free comics out there. And my reduction, there must be many great AND free comics for readers to experience. Will The Beat make it to 365 links this year? Don’t bet on it, but we’ll be trying in this series.] Let’s kick off our free comics […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, News, Top News, Webcomics Tagged With: free comics, on a sunbeam, sf comics, tillie walden

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