The Small Press Comics Scene might be small, but it’s energetic. We’re taking a look at some new publications from various publishers and a closer look at a crowdfunding campaign.
Review: ‘270°’ and ‘To Build A Fire’ honor different aspects of nature in beautiful packages
Is nature our friend or our enemy, or maybe a little of both? Perhaps it’s not even measurable against the human experience, since we are the only creature that has willfully left it behind to craft our own world, and are certainly the only creature that could be characterized as its potential destroyer. I’ve read […]
Review – Alexis Beauclair’s Vanishing Perspective is a Primer to Understanding Comics
Minimalistic comics to better understand comics!
Interview – Xia Gordon’s Upcoming Abstract Comics with 2Dcloud
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for its 2017 summer collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. They’re a publisher from which you never know what to expect. They keep selecting new and innovative work to publish that always defy and satisfy […]
Interview – Maggie Umber on her Latest Graphic Novel, Owls, Research & Colours
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher from which you never know what to expect. They keep selecting new and innovative work to publish that always defy and […]
2dcloud Launches Stellar Spring 2017 Crowdfunding Effort to Publish Gothic, Poetic and Owls Comics
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher from which you never know what to expect. They keep selecting new and innovative work to publish that always defy and […]
Kickstarter is increasingly crucial to indie comics publishing
Comics publishing has hit a bit of a slowdown, as I’ve noted a few times, and Kickstarter seems to be picking up the slack for a lot of publishers. Comicker’s Dave Acampo wrote a piece looking at this is mostly about his own Kickstarter for Comicker, but has some general observations and a pie chart of where the money goes prepared by Comicker publisher Sean Williams:
MoCCA Debuts from BIrdcage Bottom Books to Youth in Decline
It’s time for our annual look at some of the comics coming out for this weekend’s MoCCA Festival, being held this year at Center 548, is located at 548 W. 22nd Street, just off the Westside Highway, with programming at the High Line Hotel on West 20th Street and 10th Avenue. And here’s the books […]
2D Cloud announces ambitious 2015 slate, adds to staff
Minneapolis based 2D Cloud is an experimental comics publisher that’s looking to grow in 2015. They’ve added Blaise Larmee as Marketing Director and Melissa Carraher as Publicist. Larmee is, of course, a cartoonist of some repute himself. In the past they’ve put out acclaimed works by Anna Bongiovanni, Mark Connery and Noah van Sciver.
2D Cloud offers subs; teams with Uncivilized for MariNaomi’s Dragon’s Breath
A little indie news here — 2D Cloud a micro publisher which has put out some outstanding books like Anna Bongiovanni’s Out of Hollow Water, various books by Noah van Sciver, etc. —has announced some plans.