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Review – The Pain of Loss in Niv Sekar’s Your Mother’s Fox

01/24/2019 4:30 pm by Philippe Leblanc Leave a Comment

Review – The Pain of Loss in Niv Sekar’s Your Mother’s Fox

Review – The Pain of Loss in Niv Sekar’s Your Mother’s Fox

Filed Under: News, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: belonging, loss, Mini Comics, Niv Sekar, shortbox, travel

NYCC ’18 Interview: Shivana Sookdeo on “Elements: Fire”, Eighth-Grade Plagiarists and the “Inevitable” Future of the Medium

10/06/2018 11:00 am by Beat Staff

NYCC ’18 Interview: Shivana Sookdeo on “Elements: Fire”, Eighth-Grade Plagiarists and the “Inevitable” Future of the Medium

By Sara Jewell Shivana Sookdeo is a comic artist and designer at Scholastic. She is known for simple, eye-catching visuals paired with thoughtful, quietly dense narratives. Her range is broad and multidisciplinary. Her work has been featured in the Eisner and Ignatz-winning Elements: Fire, Sweaty Palms vol. 2, and Dirty Diamonds 7. She is currently working on a graphic novel, as well as […]

Filed Under: Crowdfunding, NYCC, NYCC '18 Tagged With: elements: fire, Interviews, nycc '18, Shivana Sookdeo, shortbox

ShortBox Partenering with US-Based White Squirrel for North American Distribution

07/13/2018 3:00 pm by Philippe Leblanc

ShortBox Partenering with US-Based White Squirrel for North American Distribution

ShortBox is setting foot in North America!

Filed Under: Art Comix, News, Small Presses Tagged With: Distribution, International Comics, shortbox, White Squirrel

Review – Family Haunting in Kiku Hughes The Ghosts We Are & The Ghosts We Will Be

03/15/2018 5:30 pm by Philippe Leblanc

Review – Family Haunting in Kiku Hughes The Ghosts We Are & The Ghosts We Will Be

As a reviewer, I find this comic to be quite good. As a father, I find The Ghosts We Are and the Ghosts We Will Be exceptional and beautiful.

Filed Under: Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: ghost stories, Kiku Hughes, shortbox

Indie comics fans are already raving about ShortBox #5

06/20/2017 2:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Indie comics fans are already raving about ShortBox #5

The fifth edition of Zainab Akhtar’s ShortBox is available for purchase worldwide. This is a curated box of short comics by the best indie cartoonists out there including Freddy Casrasco, Jeremy Sorese Areeba Siddique, and the red hot Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. As usual it’s an incredibly well curated list of cartoonists, with am emphasis on the literary […]

Filed Under: Literary Comics, News, World Comics Tagged With: afu chan, areeba siddique, freddy carrasco, jeremy sorese, nicole miles, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, shortbox, zainab akhtar

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