Indie Comics Archives

ROUNDTABLE: 11 Comics We Love at ShortBox Comics Fair!

October 23, 2023

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Christmas, we’re talking about ShortBox Comics Fair. The brilliant small press publisher has created something unlike any other comics festival, releasing over 100+ digital comics that are only available during the month of October. ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Interviews, Webcomics

The Cartoonist Cooperative Want to Disrupt Predatory Publishing Practices

March 1, 2023

In case you didn’t realize, we really love comics here at WWAC. But often the sequential art that we love is born out of an industry that is flawed at best and exploitative at worst. It’s why we’re always excited to see creators coming together to forge brave new ways to share ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays, Indie & Small Press

Humour in Times of Crisis: How Satire Can Lead to Self-Reflection and Social Action

October 29, 2021

Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal was introduced to me in March of 2020 by a highly valued friend and mentor, just as the world was locking down for the first time. It has become my comfort read throughout this wild journey we have been on in the past year as the post-apocalyptic collection of ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Superman/Batman Fan Book Soft Lead is The World’s Sweetest

December 2, 2020

Batman and Superman have a long and storied history but in a recent fan comic shared on Twitter, artist Chan Chau encompassed a sweet, soft, and caring side of the heroes that we rarely see. The 17 page comic is one of the loveliest things that I’ve read in a while, and both moved and ...

Indie & Small Press, Interviews

A Platform for Philippine Komiks: An Interview With Penlab

November 30, 2020

Filipino komiks (“comics”) have long had a commercial industry that goes far back as the 1920s, but it has been only until recently that interest in these works has grown outside of the Philippines. With social isolation restrictions still in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many ...

Comics

Gamal Hennessy on The Business of Independent Comic Book Publishing

August 17, 2020

The world of comics is changing. With DC suffering mass layoffs shortly after separating from Diamond distribution and Marvel struggling to find a brand outside of their brilliant X-Books, there is an industry wide reconsideration of the publishing landscape. Outside of the world of the big two ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays, Indie & Small Press

Community Spaces, Alternative Marketplaces: Indie Comics and Culture

May 29, 2020

Over the last decade, the growth of independent, “indie,” or creator-owned comics has broadened the comic book landscape and birthed a new wave of creators who aren’t adhering to conventional standards. The demand for non-superhero material from publishers outside of the Big Two (Marvel and DC) ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

Big Punk #1 Review: Life on the Wild, but not Queer, Side

April 15, 2020

In Big Punk, our protagonist asks an important question—didn’t the world used to be about pushing against convention and boundaries? Why has everyone turned into a yes-man? She can take no more of this and makes the only sensible decision—move to the woods. But is she alone?

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

A Little Magical Girl Ultra Violence: A Review of Magical Beatdown Vol. 1 & 2

April 10, 2019

Magical Beatdown Volume 1 & 2 Jenn Woodall (Art & Words) Silver Sprocket With a longsword, a baseball bat studded in nails, and her trustworthy bloodthirsty motorbike, Jenn Woodall’s eye-patched magical vigilante combats harassment from scumbags with style all while paying homage to ...

Comics

You Yourself Are an Obsolete Computer: Reading Carta Monir

September 21, 2018

“Virtual intimacies were failures before the fact. If you had to get online to get it, it couldn’t be the real thing. But what is the real thing, what is real intimacy?” —Shaka McGlotten Before it spirals out into freaky chatroom horror, Carta Monir’s Secure Connect takes the familiar and ...

Indie Comics

ROUNDTABLE: 11 Comics We Love at ShortBox Comics Fair!

The Cartoonist Cooperative Want to Disrupt Predatory Publishing Practices

Humour in Times of Crisis: How Satire Can Lead to Self-Reflection and Social Action

REVIEW: Superman/Batman Fan Book Soft Lead is The World’s Sweetest

A Platform for Philippine Komiks: An Interview With Penlab

Gamal Hennessy on The Business of Independent Comic Book Publishing

Community Spaces, Alternative Marketplaces: Indie Comics and Culture

Big Punk #1 Review: Life on the Wild, but not Queer, Side

A Little Magical Girl Ultra Violence: A Review of Magical Beatdown Vol. 1 & 2

You Yourself Are an Obsolete Computer: Reading Carta Monir

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