This is the last night we’ll go to sleep with Barack Obama as President. Some may be glad, others may be crying at the very thought. Keith Knight has a powerful comic at Fuse about what can’t be taken away. The past can’t be changed. And to quote Star Trek, one person cannot change […]
A year of free Comics: Super Hero Girls in ‘Past Times At Super Hero High’
The DC Super Hero Girls franchise has been a smash for DC – the graphic novels and novels have been best sellers, and the digital shorts are in their second season, and the toys are doing well. For years, observers said that little girls would like superheroes if they were presented in the right way […]
A year of free comics: Letters To An Absent Father by Maré Odomo – it’s not what you think!
Maré Odomo’s Letters to an Absent Father sounds like an emotionally wrenching autobiographical comic. And it is emotionally wrenching…but it’s about…well…it’s about someone named Ash and his many many companions. Odomo is a Seattle based cartoonist whose Late Bloomer is available from Retrofit. She’s very talented, as this reimagining mash-up proves. Heidi MacDonaldHeidi MacDonald is […]
A year of free comics: Scott Gilbert’s Mysterioso is inky 90s goodness
Robert Boyd has begun an interetsing reprint project on his blog: In June 1996, Scott Gilbert started running a serialized comics story in the Public News called Mysterioso. The original art for this story is currently on display at the Galveston Artist Residency until February 4. The original art doesn’t have the lettering and titles, […]
A year of free comics: Star Wars: Tales from the Far, Far Away Vol. 2
Star Wars is quite a popular franchise, I’ve heard, and people love it so much they will make Star Wars comics…and give them them. Star Wars: Tales from The Far, Far Away Vol. 2 is a fan anthology that Michael Moreci and Tim Daniel put together last month, which you can download for free right here. 116 […]
A year of free comics – Eugenie Shark by Nicole Marie Burton
Eugenie Shark is a comic book biography of scientist Eugenie Clark, a Japanese-American ichthyologist Eugenie Clark and a pioneer in marine life research. It’s a passion project of Nicole Marie Burton, cartoonist and publisher at Ad Astra Comix. I like these kinds of biographies. Those that integrate the biographer’s life to the story. It’s not […]
Free Comics Bonus: PEN’s State of Emergency looks at the matetr of the day
PEN America has a section of comics called State of Emergency, and I’m sure you can guess what that refers to. Meg Lemke, Rob Kirby, and MariNaomi curated the section and it includes Whitney Taylor: Iasmin Omar Ata Dylan Edwards Thi Bui, whose memoir about her family’s journey from Vietnam The Best We Could Do […]
A year of free comics: Mildred Louis’ Agents Of The Realm
Agents Of The Realm is the webcomic that every creator I look up to loves. It’s a book I discovered through seeing many people in my online life fall head over heels in love with it, and for good reason: It’s WONDERFUL!
A year of free comics: Nilah Magruder’s M.F.K
Dwayne McDuffie award winner Nilah Magruder’s M.F.K is a sprawling epic, filled with dynamic characters, ridiculously wonderful art. M.F.K is a completely unique take on the classic action adventure. In short it’s really really fantastic. In a sand swept post-apocalyptic world we meet Abbie, recently bereaved she’s just trying to get her mothers ashes home, but […]
A year of free comics: Ariel Ries’ Witchy
Witchy is a complete and utter gift. I found it when trawling twitter for a new addiction, and boy did I find it. Ariel Ries beautiful, haunting and sweet comic is the queer, asian witch comic that you didn’t know you were missing (or maybe you did, cos who ever has enough comics about badass queer, […]