Tag: art comix
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...
Watching the Crowdfunding: A New Critical Chips and 2dcloud’s Summer Season 2017
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 summer 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...
08/01/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
§ Nice Art
§ Zviane contributed a wonderful illustration for the month of August in a 2017 calendar and it is beautiful. Perhaps it's the weather, or the fact I'm going camping next week, but this...
Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer
Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting both of them together into a probably inevitable horror finale....
01/07/2017: Canada 150 Special: Small Press & Indie Comics
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§ For this monthly "Small Press & Indie Comics Galore", we'll focus more than usual on Canadian content to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary! My small contribution to the event.
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§ Nice art:
Let's start with Montreal...
Reviews: Three thought-provoking new releases from Retrofit
Shit and Piss by Tyler Landry
Imagine the comic that not only lives up to that title, but manages to do so with a poetic grace. That’s what Landry has achieved, a post-apocalyptic meditation on...
Review: The quiet poetry of Chaboute’s ‘Alone’
It’s 84 pages in before the subject of French graphic novelist Chaboute's largely silent work Alone finally appears, and even then, it’s only in the form of a hand dropping food to a goldfish in...
Tonight and this weekend to do: CAKE
As always there are about four gabillion pop culture events this weekend, but this weekend it's CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) in Chicago, kicking off TONIGHT with a couple of excellent events:
Friday, June 9
CAKE...
Review: Assessing the damage in ‘Roughneck’
Jeff Lemire has become quite a prolific comics creator since 2008. He’s largely devoted himself to the varying forms of genre fiction that comics offers, both his own creations, like Sweet Tooth or The...
01/06/17: Small Press and Indie Comics News Galore
§ Hi everyone, Philippe here with some micro press, small press and indie comics links and news.
§ Nice art: The above image is from Xia Gordon, a phenomenal cartoonist from Orlando (now based in NYC)....
How a comics marriage broke up over financial stress
Just to stay on this cheerful topic while everyone is so happy to be back at work after the holiday, Maggie Umber, cartoonist and co-founder of 2dcloud has a very honest post called Getting Divorced...
Anders Nilsen new book Tongues looks spectacular
Anders Nilsen has been a mainstay of the indie comics world for a while, gaining huge acclaim with Big Questions, a massive rumination on the meaning of life seen via a flock of birds. The books...
