Tag: Indie Comics

At the beginning of each month I take a survey of all of the self-identifying comic fans on Facebook, looking at the changes from month to month. Two months (and some change) ago Facebook...

For all of these posts I've tried to instill the idea that there isn't a simple comic fan. While it might mostly be men, comic fandom is a diverse crowd whose specific interests varies...

Of the many comics I picked up at the recent Lakes International Comic Art Festival, there was one comic in particular that caught my eye as I turned around one of those giant rooms....

Comic Arts Brooklyn (Or CAB as it soon to be known) released a schedule of events including art shows and panels and what not and it all sounds horribibly wonderful if you like good...

I'll admit, I wasn't expecting a show about small town football culture to be a subject of nostalgia for indie cartoonists, but, hey, this is the social context I was moaning for the other...

As we mentioned earlier in the week, Uncivilized Books won the Sam Alden Derby and will be putting out the first collection of the up-and-coming cartooner's work. And now he's tweeted the title and...

The new Comic Arts Brooklyn indie comics CAF, or CAB as everyone is calling it, kicks off on November 9th at the Mt. Carmel Church for exhibits and The Knitting Factory for talks. Information...

By Adam McGovern One of the final panels of SPX 2013 was about fruitful points of departure. “Paying Tribute: Traditions of Style,” hosted by Joe McCulloch and featuring comics re-creators Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Tom...

AMC is jumping on the "spin-off" bandwagon. With Breaking Bad ending, a Bob Odenkirk-headlined spinoff called "Better Call Saul" is in the works, although whether anyone will want to revisit the Breaking Bad world...

This week's edition of PW Comics World contains news of a newish publishing company: Z2 Comics, formerly Zip Comics, which put out the Eisner-nominated Cleveland by Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant last year. It's...

This is the golden era of indie comic, artistically and even financially, at least in term of the number of publishers, CAFs and cartoonists who wake up every day excited to be cartooning. It's a movement that is aesthetically and formally as exciting as anything else going on out there. All of which makes the Jason Karns Kerfuffle all the more unusual.

MIX 2013 is yet another outstanding comics symposium, this one in Columbus, OH. It will be held Sept. 27–28, at the Columbus College of Art & Design campus. The keynote speaker is Jeff Smith;...