Chronic pain made a big impact on my childhood, and it continues to impact my adult years. I don’t personally suffer from chronic pain, but those around me do; multiple close family members of mine have migraines and other forms of chronic pain. Many of you who are reading this can probably relate, as a…
Colouring Is for Badass Feminists
In case you didn’t know, colouring is the shit. There are truly few artistic pursuits that are both therapeutic and require little-to-no artistic talent to enjoy, and don’t leave you harshing yourself about your skills (or lack thereof, in my case.) And colouring is maybe the finest among them! You know what is even cooler…
Kickstarter of the Week: More Tezuka, More Better!
Amanda and Angel, here, bringing you our excitement over the latest Kickstarter campaign to publish more work by Tezuka Osamu!
Kickstarter of the Week: Dirty Diamonds #6: Beauty
Female comic creators from around the world share their personal stories about beauty in a brand new anthology, Dirty Diamonds #6. In the Dirty Diamonds #6: Beauty Kickstarter campaign, editors Kelly Phillips and Claire Folkman explain they’re looking to publish the next issue of their all-girl comic anthology. Since 2011, Dirty Diamonds has been giving women…
Living her Dream: Kristi McDowell Chats About Gamer Girl & Vixen
What do you get when you combine a long time dream and a love of comics and fanfiction with a great writing partner and creative team and a desire to see more diversity in comics? You get Gamer Girl & Vixen, an up and coming comic about two super villains (because super heroes are dull!) whose…
Kickstarter of the Week: Datura: Wearable Art Armor
Be the beautiful bad-ass warrior you’ve always dreamed you could be with this week’s Kickstarter of the Week. No cosplay or sword required. On the campaign page for Datura: Wearable Art Armor Kickstarter, artist Sam Guay talks about the concept: ““Datura” is one of my illustrations, born from mythic symbols and my love of decorative armor. I’ve…
The Broken Frontier Anthology Kickstarter Campaign is Ending Soon
If you’ve been sleeping on the Broken Frontier and A Wave New World collaboration Broken Frontier Anthology, time to hop out of bed and get funding. Ending May 23, 2015, this independent comics anthology promises to deliver mind-blowing art and stories from the fringes of the universe and beyond from over 40 different writers and…
Kickstarter of the Week: Elsinore
When a Shakespearean tragedy holds a Groundhog Day twist, a young woman must try to change the future to prevent the death of everyone in the castle. A team of six friends are hard at work developing Elsinore, a time-looping adventure game. In Elsinore you play as Ophelia, a young noblewoman, who has a terrible vision…
Kickstarter of the Week: Cosplanet
Calling all cosplayers! This week’s Kickstarter IndieGoGo is a film called Cosplanet: The Evolution of Cosplay being produced by Respect Films. This documentary is a project that covers the history of cosplay from its origins in the seventies, when it was still known as “costuming,” to the cultural phenomenon it has become. For the film…
Interview with Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics
Drawing games are awesome. They’re one of the few games I can get most of my friends and family who aren’t into board games to play with me. They are all also big fans of Taboo, and I’m a big fan of geekery. Now there’s a tabletop game that will combine all of the interests and…
Disabled Protagonists + Apocalypse = New Anthology I Never Realized I Needed
Just when I thought I was done with apocalyptic/dystopic fiction I found Defying Doomsday: a crowd-funded anthology featuring disabled characters of all stripes, coping with the end of the world. The project, which ends on May 1st and is still $1600 away from its goal, looks full of exactly the kind of stories the genre needs…
Kickstarter of the Week: Check, Please!
A few weeks ago I recommended a little, irregularly-updated webcomic about boys and hockey called Check, Please! I talked about the growing fanbase and popularity, and the forthcoming kickstarter. On Monday, April 20th, at 6:00pm EDT, The Check, Please!: Year One Kickstarter went live. By 6:30 pm it was fully funded. Currently, the Kickstarter is…
