Last week saw the Birmingham Comic Festival in Birmingham, and FutureQuake Press were there in full force, celebrating 10 years of their publications which include Zarjaz, the 2000AD-inspired zine, and the outstanding anthology title, Futurequake. Here’s editor and publisher Dave… Read More ›
Marketing your comics
New North West Comic Creator Groups Information
With Lancaster Comics Day on its way on Sunday 14th June, Blackpool Comic Con in September and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October (to name but three events), here’s information on two groups that may be of… Read More ›
New Edition of Josh Blaylock’s “How to Self Publish Comics” Released
First published in 2006 as a four issue US comic series, Josh Blaylock‘s now classic How-To prose book, How to Self-Publish Comics: Not Just Create Them about the business of comics publishing, after selling out of its updated 2012 edition,… Read More ›
New Service tracks Independent Comic Publishers
Here’s an interesting and clearly well thought project: Indie Comics Tracker, a service enabling you to not only keep track of your favourite independent comic titles – but discover new ones, too. Indie Comics Tracker allows you to discover… Read More ›
Creating Comics: How Social Media subscribers can be your biggest asset
Oliver Wetter, head of Fantasio Fine Arts, is a freelance illustrator and Art Director from Germany who I first encountered while editing SciFi Art Now, my collection of SF art for ILEX, back in 2010. He has a lectureship at the IBKK art… Read More ›
Bristol Comic and Zine Fair back in October
The annual Bristol Comic and Zine Fair returns to The Station on 4th October 2014, and the organisers have opended the dorrs to creators to apply for tables. The Fair, now in its fourth year and curated by Bear Pit Zines… Read More ›
One Issue – Six Questions For Scotland
On the evening of Monday 17 March 2014 Glasgow’s Centre For Contemporary Arts (CCA) held the Issue One symposium on the future of the comics industry in Scotland. With a panel of industry professionals, creatives and academics, this was not… Read More ›
Image Comics “Genesis” latest US project for British artist Alison Sampson
British comic artist and architect Alison Sampson (one of the team behind Think of a City, a tumblr-based, mass storytelling project) is providing art for a one-shot creator-owned comic, Genesis, from Image Comics, which will be published in April. Written… Read More ›
London Christmas Zines Social announced
South West London and Surrey Zines, in association with London’s Housmans Bookshop, have announced a free event Christmas Zine Social on Saturday 7th December, where zine sellers can sell their wares in the run up to Christmas. Zine readers and… Read More ›
Creating Comics: Some thoughts on selling your comics…
(This article was first featured on my own blog back in September, and I’ve given John permission to re-publish it here): I hope that esteemed comics historian, journalist and curator Paul Gravett won’t mind me borrowing the above image from… Read More ›