Faith Erin Hicks writes and draws way too many comics. Works include Zombies Calling and The War at Ellsmere (SLG Publishing), Brain Camp, Friends With Boys and the upcoming Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (First Second Books). Her webcomic The Adventures of Superhero Girl will also be published by Dark Horse Comics in February 2013. She would really like more sleep.
Double Fine Productions is renowned for making videogames such as Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, and Iron Brigade. Scott Campbell (or Scott C) came on as art director for Psychonauts and started drawing comics as a morning warm up. These comics were then uploaded to doublefine.com and the world was made amazing. …read more
[close]SUPERMAG is Jim Rugg’s latest print project… a glossy, magazine-format collection of “narrative collapse.” It showcases his interests in genre, irreverent humor, graphic design, drawing, and typography. SUPERMAG features new work as well as collecting the best of his recent anthology contributions.
[close]Welcome to the city of Red Wheelbarrow, where the world’s greatest detective has yet to meet the crime he can’t solve—every criminal in Red Wheelbarrow is caught and convicted thanks to Detective Gould’s brilliant mind and cutting-edge spy technology. But lately there has been a rash of crimes so eccentric …read more
[close]Manhattan-born and based Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever is a collection of the cartoonist and illustrator’s ink-and-wash comics that blur the quotidian with the absurd. In Kerlow’s world tacos and toast have bodies and smoke, tiny men who can no longer copulate or consume sandwiches deal with existential angst, and dream logic …read more
[close]Simon Moreton weaves an emotional story about the mundanity of life. A man suffers through the Fall, geese, a sales trip barely surviving. Moreton’s brush strokes cary the reader through his story, forcing them to take a deep breath and look around.
[close]Art, film, and Topps trading cards all converge when Baylis goes on a journey that takes him from New York University to Bilbao, Spain, where he discovers that he might have something in common with the great 1980s artist, Jean-Michael Basquiat. Cover art by the legendary underground comics and Garbage …read more
[close]The new book from the acclaimed author of Guilty, Whatever and The Lodger (2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist). FAILURE collects Karl Stevens’ beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from The Boston Phoenix; winner of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for Best Cartoon. His slice of life vignettes and …read more
[close]Open Spaces and Closed Places is a humorous comic series with a magical realistic setting about high school delinquents, supernatural happenings, flowery young love, and dreamy-eyed youth. This newest issue explores the past of the three main characters Oscar, Vivien, and Jirou. Previous issues of OSCP can be read for …read more
[close]Jeremy Knowles is a 17-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question, as is his very existence. Can he survive the experience through the healing power …read more
[close]A collection of wordless comic strips originally published on the artist’s blog. Machine Gum features the manic trials and mishaps of an unfortunate robot beset by a frenzy of transformation, mutation, and unsympathetic providence.
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The Doug Wright Awards
TCAF Queer Mixer: Featuring Tagame & Vellekoop!
