Tag: a year of free comics

The SF genre – especially social science fiction - has been well represented in comics of late with works like Tillie Walden's On a Sunbeam and Sophie Goldstein's House of Women (coming in a collection...

Continuing to go through the work of some TCAF notables, Beatrix Urkowitz is an up and comer living in Providence who graduated from SVA a few years ago.  It's fair to say their work is firmly...

First off, I am totally stealing this list of up and coming cartoonists at TCAF by Ardo Omer. The first name on her list is Ru Xu, definitely an up and comer. This Chinese-American  SCAD grad already has a full length...

Brik is an urban fantasy story about Drew, a young Jewish boy from Yonkers who loses his grandfather to a hate crime. In his grieving, he turns to Kabbalah to summon a mythical golem...

I’ve been carrying my son often lately. It’s a natural occurrence in my daily life now. He’s on the verge of walking, but hasn’t found its balance yet and keeps tripping and falling. He’s...

One of the year's biggest events is the launch of Catalyst Prime, Lion Forge's new superhero line. The arrival of a new line of comics created by a diverse line-up of talent behind the page - led by editor Joe Illidge - and with a diverse cast of characters on the page, couldn't be better timed for today's comics readers.

Canadian artist Rebecca Roher won the Doug Wright Award for her graphic novel Bird in a Cage, about a woman's descent into dementia and a family's struggle to deal with it. A heavy topic,...

Hannah Blumenreich is best known for her blockbuster Spidey zine which tore up the internets and subsequently got her an actual paying gig at Marvel. I met her briefly at TCAF and I can safely...

by Stephen Harrick   Box Brown's modus operandi as a cartoonist is to scrutinize aspects of popular culture and unearth their messy and unsanitized realities without judgment. His takes on Andre the Giant and the making...

by Stephen Harrick Renee Nault, artist on the upcoming comics adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, is already well versed in comics with her webcomic, Witchling. Jane is a nineteen-year old woman who was orphaned and lives in a small...

by Stephen Harrick Sacha Mardou (Sky in Stereo) has published several comics in The Common Reader, Washington University's online journal "engaging the essential debates and issues of our time." She presents a futuristic world that...

When you talk about dynamite collaborations, the team of Alex De Campi, Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee on No Mercy is about as superstar as it gets. A savage yet humane story...