Tag: Sam Alden

Not everyone can do horror in comics well, but Sam Alden makes it seem effortless. In 2013, he released a web comic called The Man That Dances in the Meadow that was eerie with...

At CAB this year I was talking to a few people asking, "Whatever happened to Sam Alden?" Alden burst on the scene a few years ago with an astonishing leap  from the Best American Comics's...

Good news! Sam Alden has  collected his pixel-comics in a print edition called Lydian!  60 pages of full color goodness! Bad news: It was only available at Comic Arts LA. Bah humbug. But you can order...

by Benjamin Rogers -- Once again the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo was a huge success. CAKE 2014 featured over 120 exhibitors and drew 2,200 attendees over the course of the weekend, a ten percent increase from last year’s show. Conference organizer Neil Brideau said that CAKE was excited to continue increasing its scope, noting that “this was the first year we’ve had a large international presence.” He highlighted some artists who travelled a long way to attend the show such as Inés Estrada of Mexico, and Philippa Rice and Luke Pearson of the UK.

Sam Alden has just posted the first part of a longer story called HOLLOW part I—it's a digital version of a comic he had print copies of for sale at TCAF. It's interesting to...

I saw Sam Alden reading these at the NY Comcis SYmposium the other night and let's just say it gets better and better. He uses a 500x500 pixel grid to do everything.

Youth In Decline's Frontier Magazine has become an impressive little art magazine showcasing various comics notables. The first two issues spotlighted Uno Morales and Hellen Jo. Sascha Hommer was announced for issue ##, but...

The breakout cartoonist of 2013, Sam Alden has done it again.

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...

One of the "It" cartoonists at this year's SPX was definitely Sam Alden, who took home the Most Promising New Talent Ignatz, and was generally mentioned by many people as a cartoonist to watch....

I like pre-ordering comics- not for any particularly altruistic reasons, but if I know I'm going to end up buying a certain comic anyway (due to the artists or writer involved) pre-ordering simply helps...