Tag: Indie Comics
MoCCA ’25 announces guests including Badiucao, Burns, Hernandez and Sterte
Comics legends Charles Burns and Jaime Hernandez join new stars including Bianca Xunise, Linnea Sterte and Chinese dissident artist Badicao at this year's MoCCA Arts Festival
Indie Comic Creators: THE LANTERN provides a new digital initiative to help foster a...
A new place to showcase independently created comics, THE LANTERN is an online catalog where creators can both showcase and sell their work.
MoCCA Festival unveils 2025 plans, including Media Sponsorship by The Beat
SI's MoCCA Festival returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion this March 15-16, and The Beat will be its media partner for the first time!
On the Scene: MICE turns fifteen
Sunday afternoon, the second day of MICE, and I’m headed to a panel. The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo is celebrating their fifteenth anniversary this year, going from a (locked) room at the end of...
Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase moves to two days in 2025
Due to demand from vendors, The Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase (BICS) is going to a two day show in 2025
INTERVIEW: The Jazz Odyssey of MILES DAVIS AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUND
The Beat catches up with Dave Chisholm about the jazz odyssey of Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound, available now from Z2 Comics.
Browse the ShortBox Comics Fair, a digital indie comics fest
Since the 2023 ShortBox Comics Fair ends with October, here's a genre-racked foot in the door before it's closed.
REVIEW: The FUNNY PAGES will break your heart, kid
Owen Kline's debut feature is too mean-spirited toward its own characters and subject matter to be an effective comedy.
2022 Ignatz Awards nominations announced – with a change in voting
Along with the nominations a huge change in voting for the Ignatz Awards has been announced: voting will no longer take place at SPX but will be open to anyone who requests a ballot via email.
TCAF disinvites NFT minter Pink Cat from show amid criticism
Announcing that NFT-minting IG cartoonist Pink Cat was a guest was only the start of a days long trash fire for TCAF
ADVANCE REVIEW: Dave Chisholm’s ENTER THE BLUE takes readers on a jazz odyssey
A journey into the heart of jazz.
CAKE postponed until 2023, but other indie comics festivals go on
CAKE has announced it will not hold an in person or online event in 2022 - and we check on the status of other beloved indie comics festivals.