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London MCM Expo Comic Village Expands to Size of Actual Village
The MCM Expo London Comic Con is apparently expanding its Comic Village by 50% area after tables for the October show sold out in record time. Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, comic books, comic creators, indie comics, small press
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‘Isness’ Preview Is here
Last year I posted a piece about The Isness, Stavit Allweis’s ambitious post-apocalyptic comic project which trades pencils and inks for actors and lavish costume/set design.
If the term “fotonovela” has you thinking of teen magazines, 70s football albums and tabloid cartoon strips, think again; Stavit looks to bring an attention to detail to the technique that might just … read more
Egg Story Review
2011, Slave Labor Graphics
Written and Illustrated by J. Marc Schmidt
Comic artists, animators and cartoonists have anthropomorphised everything from dinosaurs to wabbits, but outside of Humpty Dumpty I’d be hard pressed to name another tale committed to sentient eggs. A dark comedy on the fragility of life, Marc Schmidt’s Egg Story chronicles the beginnings, ends and omelettes of a … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, small press
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Septagon Studios Releases Masks Mini Series And Hardcover Graphic Novel
Press Release: MASKS is a dark story with stunning visuals written and illustrated by Aaron Rintoul and published by Septagon Studios. After the successful Free digital release of MASKS #1, Septagon Studios has gone on to release the full MASKS mini series digitally along with the hardcover graphic novel and 5 Bonuses. For full details please visit www.MasksComic.com.
MASKS is … read more
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Tagged Digital Comics, graphic novels, indie comics, Septagon Studios
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Byron Returns to SLG as Digital-only Comic
Once you have survived drugged toads, vampire attacks, and the attempted realignment of reality. What else in life can possibly phase you. Karl Christian Krumpholz tackles that question as his erstwhile hero Byron returns for another set of adventures in an all new comic book series Byron: Die Byron Die, from SLG Publishing. Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Comics, horror comics, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, small press
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Dreams and Everyday Life Review
2011, Tabella Publishing
Written & illustrated by Aviv Ratzin
Stream of consciousness storytelling is a rarity in comics, perhaps due to the script-to-art creative process which has standardised the medium, or the somewhat depressing fact that most aspiring comic creators attempt to enter the mainstream by emulating it. Aviv Ratzin’s Dreams and Everyday Life is that exception to the rule; … read more
Amity Blamity: Book One Review
2011, SLG Publishing
Written & illustrated by Mike White
Amity Blamity follows mute four year-old Gretchen and Chester, a potbellied pig whose ability to talk seems to have earned him a place in Gretchen’s grandmother’s home, rather than hanging from and abattoir hook. Their serene, Pooh-esque playtime is frequently disrupted by Winston, a paranoid gerbil riding a shopping trolley, and … read more
Life with a Chance of Exploding
New SLG Graphic Novel Loserville Explores Meaning of Life and Explosions
Press Release: Jenna’s life is stagnating. Her husband is a slacker, her job isn’t worth the stress, and hypochondria is her only diversion. That is, until she starts getting symptoms of what doctors are calling “the worst disease in the world,” and it’s not all in her head. Loserville, … read more
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Sean Dietrich’s Epic Tour Joins Wondercon
Legendary underground live painter continues his epic art tour with WonderCon this weekend in San Francisco.
Press Release: Sean Dietrich, the San Diego live painter who has racked up almost 900 live art shows up and down the west coast, brings his 2011 Art Tour to San Francisco this weekend for the WonderCon comic and pop culture convention.
Dietrich, who … read more
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Tagged comic art, indie comics, Sean Dietrich, small press, Wondercon
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Indie Comics Magazine #1 in Comic Shops Today
Press Release: Comic book readers who are interested in Aazurn Publishing’s Indie Comics Magazine and did not preorder #1 need to buy today at their local comic shop, said Editor Gary Scott Beatty.
“We have no huge overprint, no digital version and no back issue sales,” Beatty explained. “Indie Comics Magazine #1 is an instant collectible.”
Appearing in the first … read more
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