Crossed Genres Magazine is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine committed to telling stories of unrepresented, marginalized or ignored characters in science fiction and fantasy, such as characters of color, QUILTBAG, disabled, etc. The magazine relaunched in 2013 after a successful Kickstarter in the summer of 2012. Continuing to keep it running is the…
News & Things: Awesome Art
21st Century Tank Girl on Kickstarter Original co-creator Alan Martin’s campaign to create an all-new Tank Girl book. Although it’s Alan’s project, original co-creator Jaime Hewlett has agreed to do art for the covers. Bra Week Features Busty Girl Comics Over the next week or so, Autostraddle covers the topic near and dear to our…
Kickstarter of the Week: Girls Night Out
If you are not already familiar with Amy Chu, she needs to be on your radar of up and coming comic book creators. Chu is a regular on self-publishing panels at cons and it is easy to see why. In two and a half years, she has self published four comics, contributed to several anthologies,…
Kickstarter of the Week: She Makes Comics
The spotlight on women in the comic book industry has been dialed up recently, but with the upcoming documentary She Makes Comics, the Sequart Research and Literacy Organization, along with Respect!Films, intends to show that women have always been around, telling many of the amazing stories we’ve grown up with. Did you know that Ramona...
Kickstarter of the Week: Kill Shakespeare Board Game from IDW Games!
For those not familiar with IDW’s series Kill Shakespeare, let me break it down: all of Shakespeare’s characters are real, and so is Shakespeare (also, he might be a wizard). There’s magic and intrigue and high adventure. I don’t really need to give you more details than that, right? Go read this book immediately!
Mysteries of the Arcana: An Interview With J. Gray
One of the most attractive things about webcomics is that there are no walls, no glass ceilings, no One True Right Way to do anything. No one kind of story that’s better to tell than another. No Old Guard demographics gatekeepers telling you you’ll sink your readership if you write about that. Anyone can write about…
Kickstarter of the Week: Boston Metaphysical Society
“Before Mulder and Scully, there was Hunter and O’Sullivan.” You’ve probably seen this tagline a lot if you follow Boston Metaphysical Society’s writer Madeleine Holly-Rosing on Twitter and that’s a pretty apt description of the supernatural steampunk adventure comic. I’ve expressed my appreciation for Boston Metaphysical Society’s print comic before so I was overjoyed to…
News & Things: Vampire Adventure Academy Time
Kickstarter of the Week Maple Key Comics, a new, independent, bi-monthly anthology, is looking for your help! The 300 page!) anthologies will be available in print or digital, on a subscription basis. Stories will be serialized, Shonen Jump style, and a year of stories will complete each arc. To anchor each issue, an established indie…
News & Things: New comics, banned comics, gift comics
Kickstarter of the Week Periscope Studio wants to sell you artbooks from a bunch of their creators! The Oregonian comics collective is making its first foray into publishing with a series of artbooks from their… shall we say robust list of creators. The Kickstarter aims to fund printing of an initial run of six, limited…
News & Things: Art and Tech Slaves Wanted!
Not news, not commentary (not exactly), all promotion. Check out this essay and video, The Bent Bullet, on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, by Eric Lensherr. Kickstarter of the Week Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Africa Edition is an interesting project. Editor Kel McDonald is looking for $20,000 to pay artists and ship books….
Help Fund Fantagraphics’ 2014 Spring Season
Fantagraphics is looking to crowdfund its spring season books. The move is in response to a cash flow crunch that more and more book and comic book publishers are getting squeezed by. (Just look at book publishing, where venerable small houses are closing, merging, and holding fire sales for their backlists.) Publishers tend to run…
Interview with Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey of the Nelvana of the Northern Lights Kickstarter
Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey are mere hours away from seeing their Kickstarter campaign to reprint the Canadian WWII-era comics featuring Nelvana of the Northern Lights come to a close. One of the first female superheroes to hit comics, Nelvana was the creation of Canadian artist Adrian Dingle, with connections to Inuit culture and Group…
