Saturday night at SDCC the winners of the 208 Prism awards were announced, celebrating the best in LGBTQ comics. The awards are organized by PRISM COMICS and the CARTOON ART MUSEUM, with Prism Awards Chairperson, Maia Kobabe (Gender Queer: A Memoir), founder Ted Abenheim (Prism Comics) and Nina L. Taylor Kester (Cartoon Art Museum, Queer Comics […]
A Year of Free Comics: On matter of the day by Passmore, Kobabe and Thomas
You’re probably sick and tired of the disturbing news that the US has been embroiled in for the last week. But in case you aren’t – or are, like The Beat, just glued to the Internet and TV with your eyelids propped up, here are some comics about recent events and background. All the way […]
A Year of Free Comics: Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe explores identity with laughs and charm
Maia Kobabe is an Ignatz Award nominated cartoonist who lives in Colorado, probably best known for comics like Tom o’Bedlam, a gorgeous fairy tale reimagination. Kobabe identifies as genderqueer and in a comic of the same name explores the changes in eir life and attitudes with humor and a nice ink line. It runs occasionally on eir Instagram account. […]
Must Read: Maia Kobabe on paying for an art degree
Maia Kobabe is a very talented up and coming cartoonist as the above page from her Tom O’Bedlam adaptation shows. (disclosure: she is also a reviewer for me at Publishers Weekly.) Recently she wrote a very frank tumblr post in response to a question about whether to enter the California College of the Arts MFA […]