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A Year of Free Comics: The Racial Contract in America by Mike Dawson

02/12/2019 6:00 pm by Philippe Leblanc 2 Comments

A Year of Free Comics: The Racial Contract in America by Mike Dawson

A Year of Free Comics: The Racial Contract in America by Mike Dawson

Filed Under: Free Comics, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, free comics, Mike Dawson, racism, social issues, the nib

A Year of Free Comics: An Update on Sudan’s Political Situation by Yazan Al-Saadi & Enas Satir

02/10/2019 10:00 am by Philippe Leblanc 2 Comments

A Year of Free Comics: An Update on Sudan’s Political Situation by Yazan Al-Saadi & Enas Satir

A Year of Free Comics: An Update on Sudan’s Political Situation by Yazan Al-Saadi & Enas Satir

Filed Under: Free Comics, Politics, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, Enas Satir, free comics, south sudan, Sudan, the nib, Yazan Al-Saadi

A Year of Free Comics: Updates on Venezuela by Mike Centeno

01/29/2019 6:00 pm by Philippe Leblanc 2 Comments

A Year of Free Comics: Updates on Venezuela by Mike Centeno

A Year of Free Comics: Updates on Venezuela by Mike Centeno

Filed Under: Comics, Free Comics, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, free comics, Mike Centeno, the nib, Venezuela

A Year of Free Comics: Cairo, Post-Revolution

01/13/2019 10:00 am by Philippe Leblanc 2 Comments

A Year of Free Comics: Cairo, Post-Revolution

A Year of Free Comics – Cairo, Post-Revolution

Filed Under: Comics, Free Comics, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, free comics, ganzeer, the nib

The Nib is kickstarting a print edition

07/06/2018 10:15 am by Heidi MacDonald

The Nib is kickstarting a print edition

In a newsletter post from editor Matt Bors, its been announced that The Nib, the acclaimed non fiction comics site, will be Kickstarting a print edition later this month. Bors writes: I founded The Nib five years ago as a comics site publishing more of the work I wanted to see in the world. Now, each […]

Filed Under: Crowdfunding, News, Small Presses Tagged With: editorial cartooning, matt bors, the nib

A Year of Free Comics: Passing by Carta Monir

01/19/2018 6:00 pm by Philippe Leblanc

A Year of Free Comics: Passing by Carta Monir

There’s a reason why I chose Carta Monir as the cartoonist of 2017. She’s an incredibly talented artist and is capable of illustrating deeply personal story. There’s always this sort of bittersweet quality to her work that I find appealing. There’s this palpable trauma and sadness underlying her work, just as there’s this sort of […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, Carta Monir, free comics, the nib

A Year of Free Comics: Reported Missing – What is it like when your mother is charged with murder?

10/23/2017 5:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A Year of Free Comics: Reported Missing – What is it like when your mother is charged with murder?

  Here’s a good one, the comic equivalent of  Serial and Making a Murderer, a true life tale of crime and mystery. The NIb’s Eleri Mai Harris returns to her native Tasmania to report on one of the most infamous crimes ever to take place there in a five-part webcomic, “Reported Missing” which just began […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, News, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, Crime, emeri may harris, tasmania, the bowles case, the nib

A Year of Free Comics: Pop music, race and Ignatz Promising New Talent Bianca Xunise

09/18/2017 6:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A Year of Free Comics: Pop music, race and Ignatz Promising New Talent Bianca Xunise

  This year’s Most Promising New Talent – at least as far as the Ignatz Awards are concerned – is Bianca Xunise, a Chicago-based cartoonist whose work appears on The Nib, Hello Giggles, Bitch Magazine, and NYLON Magazine. “Say Her Name,” the comic she won the Ignatz for, is specifically a powerful statement about the […]

Filed Under: Awards, Cartoonists, Free Comics Tagged With: a year of free comics, bianca xunise, race in america, the nib

A Year of Free Comics: On matter of the day by Passmore, Kobabe and Thomas

08/18/2017 6:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

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 […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, News Tagged With: a year of free comics, ben passmore, charlottesville, cory thomas, maia kobabe, the nib

In the event of a digital apocalypse, these 39 webcomics are safe

06/14/2017 11:48 am by Alexander Lu

In the event of a digital apocalypse, these 39 webcomics are safe

While political winds may change at the drop of a hat in America, the Library of Congress as remained a steady pillar of our culture. Dedicated to preserving content that provides insight to the zeitgeist throughout history, this week, the Library launched an online archive of webcomics. In a statement, Megan Halsband, a librarian in the Serial […]

Filed Under: Webcomics Tagged With: Hark! a vagrant, library of congress, Nimona, the nib, Webcomics, XKCD

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