Tag: Indie Comics
Growing pains hitting many indie comics shows
Even indie comics are getting to be, if not big business, then extremely popular. More popular than a street fair, even. The last two years, perhaps inspired by BCGF and TCAF, have seen indie...
Alternative Comics now available on comiXology
Resurgent Alternative Comics has just teamed up with comiXology to release their titles digitally. Five books—Karl Stevens’s Failure, Steve Cerio’s Pie, Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle series including the Humor Can Be Funny collection and...
Spotlight on the comiXology Submit Experience with W. Maxwell Prince
ComiXology Submit lauched on March 6, 2013, as a platform for independent comics creators to upload their comics, wait for approval, and if accepted, market their comics directly through ComiXology at a 50% profit...
Virginia Paine to take over Sparkplug Books; business to continue as usual
In an announcement on the Sparkplug Books website, Emily Nillson has announced that she and Tom Neely are turning the running of the imprint over entirely to Virginia Paine; and Paine promises business as...
PREVIEW REVIEW: Shipwrecked with BREAKERS
It’s a strange guide to a mysterious treasure, this tome launching April 25th at Desert Island (eerily appropriate venue name!) from So What? Press, edited by Lara Antal and Dave Kelly. BREAKERS is the...
Alternative Comics is back with Stevens, Kochalka, Henderson, Will and more
The return of indie stalwart Alternative Comics was announced a while ago, and publisher Marc Arsenault has just released info on their 2013 slate with books by Karl Stevens, Sam Henderson, Elaine M. Will, James Kochalka, Kevin Scalzo and more. If this cover gallery does not get you excited, then there is nothing I can do for you.
Moore’s ‘Rachel Rising’ may show up on your TV
Hollywood Reporter's HEAT VISION broke the news that Terry Moore's Rachel Rising got picked up by Alcon Television Group. Alcon financed/produced movies like BOOK OF ELI, Christopher Nolan's INSOMNIA, and the Academy Award winning BLINDSIDE.
Read Monkeybrain’s Bandette #1 for Free
Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover's Bandette has received four Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominations for 2013. The digital comic is up for Best New Series and Best Digital Series, and Colleen is nominated under Best Penciller/Inker and Best Colorist. Want to see what all the fuss is about? In light of the prestigious news, Monkeybrain is giving away issue one -- free of charge -- until Friday night of San Diego Comic-Con.
REVIEW: 10 Debuts at MoCCA Fest 2013
MoCCA Fest simulates the surreal experience of swimming in comics, even this year when things were more neatly arranged within their red curtained aisles, and perhaps it was more of a spa experience than...
INTERVIEW: Elaine Lee on self-publishing, Kickstarter and Starstruck
Kickstarter has turned in to my new ESPN. You could have done a March Madness bracket of Kickstarter projects last month, but everyone wins. Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta's project involves reprinting Harry Palmer's...
24 Hours of Women Cartoonists: Jess Ruliffson
Jess Ruliffson is an illustrator and non-fiction graphic novelist, increasingly wearing the hat of a comics-medium journalist. She's working on a graphic novel based on interviews with veterans of the war in Iraq and...
24 Hours of Women Cartoonists: Andrea Tsurumi
Andrea Tsurumi is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist working on a number of platforms. She's a Harvard graduate currently pursuing an MFA at the School of Visual Arts, but in the meantime her work...
