Category: Indie & Small Press

REVIEW: Redemption and Revenge Ring True in Darlin’ and Her Other Names

Two guides are hired to lead a hunting party. Black and white artwork marries a short narrative of some privileged yet unfortunate souls, with a surprising supernatural twist at the end that stayed in my brain years later. The first version of this supernatural western comic, titled simply Darlin’, was created by Olivia Stephens back…

this detail from the cover of Unaccompanied by Tracy White shows the title and the head and shoulders of a running teen, silhouetted in the night

INTERVIEW: Tracy White Illuminates the Saga of Asylum-Seeking Teens in Unaccompanied

In Unaccompanied: Brave Stories of Teenagers Seeking Asylum, cartoonist Tracy White presents stories of migrant teens reaching the United States without parents, and going through the legal process of pleading their asylum cases here. Varied and harrowing, these stories illuminate the terrible situations these kids flee, and the system they need to navigate on arrival….

Two towers, the tallest building in the area, loom over a city. The buildings are lit up against a pink and orange sky, with plumes of smoke around it. A word balloon reads 'still heroes,' the tall pointed toward the buildings.

INTERVIEW: Exaheva Talks Interactive Storytelling and Queerness in Still Heroes

Brussels-based artist Exaheva recently released her interactive digital comic Still Heroes, a tender story of self-discovery that experiments with reader agency in visual storytelling. Readers follow main character Emeline’s struggles after her superhero group suddenly disbands and she finds herself lost for direction. Though seemingly a superhero narrative, Still Heroes touches on intimate experiences with…

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