Eric Kostiuk Williams is a freelance illustrator and comic creator based in Toronto. He has worked with Much Music, Sharpie, In Toronto Magazine, Xtra! Magazine, and CAMH. Eric recently published his debut autobiographical comic, Hungry Bottom Comics, and is completing his thesis in OCAD’s Illustration program.
What Makes a Baby is a children’s picture book about where babies come from that is written and illustrated to include all kinds of kids, adults, and families. Geared to readers from pre-school to about 8 years old, it teaches curious kids about conception, gestation, and birth in a way that …read more
[close]Knight, Strongman, Captain, Thompson, and all the rest return in this the second exciting, amazing, and thrilling volume of Double Fine Action Comics! This volume collects 200 Strips that include the Black Pyramid Interdimensional Adventure, Knight Turns Inventor, Tower Story, Gold Digger Adventure, The Uncle Black Knight Experience, The White …read more
[close]Using a grid of 9 panels over 40 wordless pages, Carlos Santos imagines multiple narratives driven by the power of the unconscious. With precise and accomplished images, Santos has created an experimental tour de force rarely seen in comics. “Carlos Santos creates strips in a manner that is essentially intuitive. …read more
[close]Translated by Edward Gauvin Cover design by David Mazzucchelli What are the movies? What effect do they have on us? Why do we love them so much? Blutch addresses all these questions in a series of interlocking short comics that move between scholarly history, romantic theory and ribald vignettes, featuring …read more
[close]In 2012, Providence-based artist and musician C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex — all of them infused throughout …read more
[close]Hic and Hoc announces the festival debut of Unknown Origins and Untimely Ends, edited by Emi Gennis. This book contains over 30 non-fiction unsolved mysteries by relative newcomers and small press comics legends alike, including J.T. Yost, Julia Gfrorer, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Moreton, and Sam Spina. Featuring tales of …read more
[close]When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter “Pirate King” Gabriele d’Annunzio, an Italian poet who stormed the city with 3,000 Italian nationalists. D’Annunzio declared Fiume a free republic and himself commander. He envisioned a …read more
[close]A collection of works by the undisputed gay bondage comics master Gengoroh Tagame is being published for the very first time in North America by PictureBox in The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: The Master of Bara Manga, designed by Chip Kidd and introduced by literary icon Edmund White. Tagame (pronounced Tah-gah-mé) is …read more
[close]John and Naomi were childhood sweethearts— and then they grew up. Life took them on very different paths, but accidents will happen. When their two lives intersect again, they decide to have another go at love. But this is no simple romantic rekindling: Both John and Naomi are wearing the …read more
[close]Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely …read more
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The Doug Wright Awards
TCAF Queer Mixer: Featuring Tagame & Vellekoop!
