— Nice Art § This month’s nice art is by Zane Zlemeša, a Latvian artist whose done some work with Kuš! Comics. Her work has a lot of textures, bold colours, an interesting way to add layers of gray for depth and a unique style. It’s really neat, you can find her work directly at […]
01/05/2018: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore New Year’s Edition
— Nice Art § I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Welcome to 2018. Let’s start this year with some nice art from Maddi Gonzalez, a Mexican-American illustrator based in Minneapolis. She’s worked on a number of anthologies, including Elements Anthology: Fire and Fresh Romance. I like her use of colour and the variety of characters she can […]
12/01/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Nice Art This month’s nice art is by Priya Huq, a cartoonist and illustrator based in Chicago. She’s the creator of the web comics Mana, which I found to be quite engaging since it’s launch last year. She’s been making beautiful, moving art. Her water colours are always stunning too. She was kind enough to […]
11/01/2017 Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Nice Art This month’s nice art comes from Sarah Robbins. She made 31 small prints with a Halloween theme. It looks nice and the shades of red and grey looks very sharp and put me in the Halloween mood every day this month. You can find her whole series over at her website and get a […]
10/05/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Nice Art § Philippe here with some small press & indie comics update, albeit a few days later than usual. This month’s nice art section comes from Janice Liu, a Vancouver-based comic artist and children’s book illustrator whose work focus on fantasy and Asian culture. I like the lightness of her colours in her work. […]
09/01/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Nice art The above images are from Ann Xu. I like her work and her use of colour. I’ve bookmarked her website as something to check out. I’m on vacation this week and am looking forward to dive into her comics. — Plugs § I can’t possibly keep up with all the Patreon pages […]
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 illustration just screamed SUMMER to me. Zviane is a phenomenal cartoonist and her recent sell-published anthology series Jungle has been an […]
01/07/2017: Canada 150 Special: Small Press & Indie Comics
— § 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. — § Nice art: Let’s start with Montreal based Mélodie Vachon Boucher. an exceptional artist and poet who started releasing some experimental poetry comic via […]
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). Her work is one of the highlight of my TCAF experience. She participated in the 2dCloud Altcomics 10 comics reading/art show/animation/dance event. Her […]
ComicsAlliance to shutter its doors today
And then there were…five. Comics Alliance is shutting down, effective today, In fitting sign of the state of comics journalism , the news was scooped by another site whose lede was about how they had known the news for a while and scooped it. Editor-in-Chief Andrew Wheeler took to Twitter to break the news. I’m […]