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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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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, small press
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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
In Between Days in ‘The Floundering Time’
New Graphic Novel from SLG in May
Press Release: It’s graduation week, and Emma is having to move forward whether she wants to or not. There are crushes to confess, sexuality to sort out, and a few (or maybe more than a few) last drinks to down with her best friend Joey. In her debut graphic novel, The Floundering Time, … read more
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Arthur Flowers Performs ‘I See the Promised Land’
A clip from Arthur Flowers’ recent US tour, as he reads from I See the Promised Land, his graphic novel on the life of Martin Luther King, and explains how the project came about: Continue reading
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Tagged graphic novels, political comics, small press, World Comics
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Interview: RIP M.D and Angry Beavers Creator Mitch Schauer
Little terrors love big monsters. Rip, the protagonist of RIP M.D., the new series from animation studio Lincoln Butterfield and publisher Fantagraphics Books, is so convinced that the creatures that go bump in the night are simply misunderstood, he decides to make it his business to befriend the undead.
From Angry Beavers creator Mitch Schauer, RIP M.D. is an all-ages … read more
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Tagged all-ages comics, comic books, indie comics, small press, zombie comics
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Amity Blamity: A Fun For All-Ages Farmland Adventure
Pot bellies, pigtails and flying garlic invade the family farm in new SLG graphic novel series
Press Release: Starting a new job is an adventure for anyone, but when you are a four-year old girl working in the barnyard offices of a pot-bellied pig adventure becomes more than a euphemism. So goes Amity Blamity, the new graphic novel series by … read more
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Interview: Ape Entertainment at NYCC
Interview with the Founders of Ape Entertainment, David Hedgecock and Jason M. Burns, at the New York comic Con. Continue reading
Terry Cronin Presents Zombies of Rock in the New Indie Comics Magazine #2
Press Release: Rock is back from the dead, as indie author Terry Cronin contributes a double-sized zombie story to the new Indie Comics Magazine #2, scheduled for preorder in Diamond Comic Distributors’ February 2011 Previews catalog and available ONLY through Previews. The done-in-one tale features the band Recalcitrant Jones and the Deadbeats from Cronin’s popular Students of the Unusual comic … read more
Nineteen Eighty Five Volume 3 Review
Written & illustrated by James Reitano
Anyone unfortunate enough to reach the age of thirty will tell you that your taste in fashion and music is forged during your teenage years and early twenties. After that, your passions either stay the same or, for the majority, are gradually diminished by the combined forces of responsibility, conformity and family. When I … read more
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