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Annick Press
Annick Press is an independent children's book publisher based in Toronto, Canada founded in 1975 by Anne Millyard (ANN) and Rick Wilks (ICK). We publish all kinds of books for kids, including picture books and graphic novels. Annick believes there's power in the joy of reading; and is passionate about ensuring that our books be self-affirming, innovative, informative, and fun.
Recent Annick graphic novels have garnered multiple nominations and awards, including New York Public Library Best of the Year, CCBC Jean Little First Novel Award, and the Doug Wright Egghead Award, as well as glowing reviews from Quill & Quire, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Book Riot, and the New York Times. Titles have been translated to Korean, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese.
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Avery Hill Publishing
Avery Hill is a publishing company based in London that helps aspiring creators reach their potential and is a home to the geniuses that the mainstream has yet to recognize.
Our canon includes psychogeographical mappings, eco-anarchist wizards, boat-shaped coffins, an all-female/non-binary construction crew (in space), a bad canine named Greasy, and much more.
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Ben Kahn
Ben Kahn is an Ignatz and GLAAD Award nominated writer of comics and novels. They have written comics for a variety of publishers including Scout Comics (Heavenly Blues), Dark Horse Comics (Renegade Rule; Immortals Fenyx Rising), Tokyopop (Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix), and an upcoming OGN with Simon & Schuster (Dashing School For Wayward Princes). In addition, their debut prose novel from Scholastic (Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend) released in 2023. For their work on Renegade Rule, Kahan was nominated for a GLAAD Award. They spend their days toiling away at new stories.
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Between the Lines
Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977. We publish nonfiction books that expose and challenge oppression in our society. We aim to amplify the struggles of Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities; migrants; women; queer folks; and working-class people. BTL is proudly leftwing and the books we publish reflect our activist roots and our commitment to social justice struggles. BTL authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists—all our authors hope their books will spark political and social change.
As a product of New Left radicalism, BTL embodies the cooperative and democratic ideals of its founders. BTL has no boss, no individual owner; we are run by a small staff and a dedicated volunteer editorial committee. Decisions on what we publish are made by consensus. We publish books not to seek profit, but to document and promote struggles for a better world, challenge the mainstream, and offer readers new perspectives on critical political issues.
Our press is situated in Tkaronto, traditional Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee territory subject to the Dish with One Spoon treaty. This land was stewarded by the Mississauga of the Credit River and is home to many Indigenous peoples, including the Métis, and those displaced from their homelands by Canadian extractive and other industries. Together we share a responsibility to care for and nurture these lands and to struggle for a better future for the earth and all peoples.
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Black Eye Books
From 1993–1998, Black Eye Books, published such notable cartoonists as Jay Stephens (The Land of Nod, Atomic City Tales), Nick Craine (Dance Me Outside), Jason Lutes (Jar of Fools, Berlin), Tom Hart (The Sands), Jeremy Eaton (World of Trouble), Matt Madden (Black Candy), James Kochalka (Quit Your Job), Ed Brubaker (Lowlife), Brian Biggs (Dear Julia), and New Zealand's Dylan Horrocks (Pickle, Hicksville).
Relaunched in 2019 by publisher Michel Vrana, Black Eye Books continues its pursuit of publishing eclectic and engaging stories told in the form of words and pictures.
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Black Panel Press
Black Panel Press is an independent publisher of graphic literature based in Canada, with distribution in the United States. The company was founded in 2017 with the goal of bringing exceptional international graphic novels to North American readers.
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Blaise Moritz
Blaise Moritz (he/him/his) is an artist living in East Toronto. He is the author of Bar Delicious, published by Conundrum Press in fall 2023 as part of its Conundrum 25 series. Since June 2019, he has produced The Test, a monthly visual poetry comic that includes both serialized works (such as the yearlong, 12-issue "Thousand Oaks", an epistolary comic dialoguing with Jack Kirby's late career essays) and one-off issues (such as a set of illustrations of Eugenio Montale’s prose poems). Issue 40, the final issue of "Thousand Oaks", was nominated for the Pigskin Peters Award at the 2023 Doug Wright Awards. Issue 17, the final issue of the sequence “An Affliction of the Eyes”, was shortlisted for Best Comics Zine at the 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. His graphic work has appeared as part of the Colossive Cartographies series from Colossive Press (London, England) and in The Plague Review Digest from Rotland Press (Detroit).
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Blue Delliquanti
Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis, MN.
From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal (with Soleil Ho), published through Iron Circus Comics, and Across a Field of Starlight, through Random House Graphic. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
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Boum
Boum was born in Montreal in 1985. Holder of a college diploma and a bachelor's degree in Traditional Animation, her animated shorts travel all over the world. Since 2011, however, she has been devoting herself to comics. Author of La petite révolution (Front Froid) and Nausées matinales et autres petits bonheurs (La Pastèque), she is best known for her series Boumeries, winner of the Bédélys Independent Award in 2021. She has a husband, two daughters, two cats and a very long to-do list.
Boum has been suffering from various eye diseases for more than fifteen years. In March 2021, she permanently lost the use of her right eye. Her latest book, The Jellyfish (Pow Pow), is inspired from her health issues.
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British Comics Now
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival UK presents a diverse range of creators reflecting the exciting dynamic of new comics in Britain today
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Bug Milk inc.
Bug Milk is a live event featuring comics, comedy, and film. Alex Swift, Olea Kim, and Sydney Madia curate new talent in a DIY, offbeat forum.
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Bulgilhan Press
Bulgilhan Press is a small press publisher bringing you the best self-indulgent comics you've always needed.
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Cat Brain Press
Julianna Cox is a storyteller through animation and illustrated books as well as an educator and co-owner of an independent cinema. Her work in animation has spanned from clay animation at Aardman Studios in Bristol, UK to CG series work for Netflix in Toronto, Canada. Julianna currently resides in Elora, Ontario, where her debut graphic novel, "The Ghost of Puffy, Part One", flew off the shelves of her local bookstore. Julianna regularly receives requests from kids for "The Ghost of Puffy, Part 2", which is in the works.
A connection with animals and nature is an omnipresent theme in Julianna's work, where she often anthropomorphizes her non-human characters in a way that gives her audience an insight to the playful, tragic and mysterious workings of nature.
"Feminist Fables to Read in the Park", a collection of illustrated poetry that speaks to our struggles against the patriarchy through the lens of bears, doves, worms and the like, will be Julianna's 2024 debut publication.
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Clive Smith
Co-founder and former Executive of Nelvana Limited, Clive Smith is an acclaimed creative talent in the world of animation. Smith’s many credits include co-producing and directing numerous features and television specials including the animated Beetlejuice, Cosmic Christmas, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, Tintin, Rupert, and the classic animated feature, Rock & Rule. Smith left Nelvana in the fall of 2001 and is currently developing several independent film projects with Musta Costa Fortune Inc., his production entity. The graphic novel that Smith will be premiering at TCAF 2024, which is based on an original screenplay of his titled “The Rather Unusual Adventures of Ice Cream Girl & Mr. Licorice”, is his first foray into the world of graphic novels and is a project that has brought together a dynamic group of comic creators.
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Conundrum Press
"Based in Nova Scotia, Andy Brown's Conundrum Press has quietly become a major force in alt-comics publishing." -The Comics Journal.
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Darcy Van Poelgeest
Darcy Van Poelgeest is the Harvey Award nominated, Eisner Award Winning writer and creator of LITTLE BIRD, (Image Comics), LOTUS LAND (BOOM! Studios), and THE BRIGHT QUEEN (Critical Role / Dark Horse). This year is the release of the much anticipated follow up to Little Bird, PRECIOUS METAL (Image Comics).
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David M Willis
David Willis has drawn webcomics for over a quarter of a century! From Roomies! to It's Walky! to Shortpacked! to now fourteen years of Dumbing of Age (some weird strip about college and superheroes), he definitely doesn't know how or when to stop. He lives in Ohio, but he's here for some reason.
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Derek Marks
After barely escaping Miami a tragic gay teen goth, Derek Marks lived in the mountains of North Carolina, Albuquerque, and Seattle until settling in New York City. While studying illustration at FIT and dabbling as a singer/synth player in a darkwave parody band, he earned his first illustration commission from Clarkson Potter. After 17 years in New York, he relocated to Michigan in 2020, where he continues to work on his comics and illustrations. His first graphic collection, “Legendary Spirits” was released in December 2021. His ongoing series “Fabulous Topless Woman” will debut its 3rd issue at TCAF.
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Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is the internationally renowned publisher of the world’s best cartoonists. D+Q has published many North American luminaries of the medium including Adrian Tomine, Lynda Barry, Nick Drnaso, Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Aminder Dhaliwal, Ebony Flowers, Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki, and Seth, as well as international authors including Tove Jansson (Finland); Guy Delisle (France); Tom Gauld (UK); Astrid Lindgren (Sweden); Yoshiharu Tsuge (Japan); Shigeru Mizuki (Japan); Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Korea); Zuo Ma (China); and many more cartoonists from across the globe.
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Dustin Harbin
Dustin Harbin is a very nice and not Canadian cartoonist, although he regularly masquerades as a pseudo-Canadian, occasionally even hosting--and always attending--the Doug Wright Awards. You can find his work at dharbin.com and on Instagram as @dharbin
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Fanfare Presents
Fanfare Presents is a Publisher and distributor of the best original and translated graphic novels and art books from around the world, including its eponymous publishing line, as well as Knockabout Books, Breakdown Press and Book Palace, among others. Since its inception in 1997, Fanfare Presents has earned more than 20 prestigious Eisner Award nominations and three Ignatz Award nominations, and most recently a Best in Show Award at the 2023 MoCCA Festival in New York City.
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Fantagraphics
For over 40 years, Fantagraphics has published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium has to offer. Our mission is to celebrate great cartooning in all of its incarnations, from the form’s early luminaries to contemporary artists currently forging the future of visual storytelling. Not content to rest on our laurels and extensive roster of talented artists, we constantly seek out fresh voices from across the globe. Thus, we honor the rich history of comics while providing a platform for bold new stories, styles, and perspectives that push the boundaries of the medium. Fantagraphics remains peerless in our commitment to be the publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists.
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Floating Head
Floating Head is Matt Bryan and Mike McCubbins. We publish science fiction art, comics, illustration, and prose in beautifully designed books and prints.
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Glacier Bay Books
Glacier Bay Books is an independent North American publisher founded in 2019/2020. Glacier Bay focuses on indie & alternative manga, works in translation, contemporary literature and art, and the small press scene. We are the publisher of the groundbreaking & award-winning indie manga anthology series Glaeolia. Glacier Bay has been termed “Quietly the coolest things in manga”, and a publisher whose books are, in their own right, works of art.
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Go Press Girl!
Go Press Girl! is a new and eclectic publisher of comics, zines, and art objects, with a focus on community and artmaking as a gift-giving practice. Co-founded and run by Rachel Bivens and Violet Kitchen, and based in White River Junction, VT on unceded Abenaki land.
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Graphic Mundi
Graphic Mundi publishes graphic novels for adults and young adults. Our creators represent a broad range of voices and experiences, and the graphic novels we publish address important topics such as health and human rights, politics, the environment, science, and technology. These books will enlighten and inspire. If we don’t always feel as though we live in the same world, at the very least we can strive to draw our worlds together, one Graphic Mundi book at a time.
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Groundwood Books & House of Anansi
Groundwood Books is an independent children’s publisher based in Toronto. Founded in 1978 by Patricia Aldana, the company is now part of House of Anansi Press. Our authors and illustrators are highly acclaimed both in Canada and internationally, and our books are loved by children around the world. We look for books that are unusual; we are not afraid of books that are difficult or potentially controversial; and we are particularly committed to publishing books for and about children whose experiences of the world are underrepresented elsewhere. House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey. Anansi started as a small press with a mandate to publish Canadian writers, and quickly gained attention for publishing authors such as Margaret Atwood, Matt Cohen, and Michael Ondaatje. Today, the company specializes in finding and developing Canadian writers of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as adding the best international contributions to our list.
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Heavy Sweater Comics
Heavy Sweater Comics is a an indie comics publisher based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, offering graphic novels, ebooks, minicomics, board, card, and role-playing games, and related merchandise. Launching in Nov 2023, Heavy Sweater was founded by cartoonist Kevin Woolridge
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Hollow Press
Hollow Press is an independent comics publisher house focused on dark weird fantasy. Founded in February 2015 by Michele Nitri.
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Iron Circus Comics
Curators of the "strange and amazing," Iron Circus Comics is an comic publisher based in Chicago and founded by C. Spike Trotman. Known for publishing the Smut Peddler line of femme-led erotica anthologies and graphic novels, and for its pioneering use of crowd-funding sites to finance graphic novel publishing.
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Jenn Woodall
Jenn Woodall is an award-winning illustrator and comics creator who dwells in Toronto, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Design from OCADU in Illustration as well as a BDes in Fashion Design. She started out self-publishing her own comics and was first published by Silver Sprocket, based in San Francisco. Her first original graphic novel series, ‘Space Trash,’ was published in September 2022.
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Kagan McLeod
Illustrator Kagan McLeod has recently published Kaptara, Volume 2 with writer Chip Zdarsky through Image Comics.
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Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist
Keith Knight is the award-winning cartoonist behind the semi-autobiographical weekly strip, "the K Chronicles", the syndicated daily "Knight Life", and the socio-political single panel, "(th)ink".
Knight's comic strip slideshow presentations on how comics can save the world are a hit at schools, churches and libraries across the globe.
His life and work were the inspiration for the television series "Woke", starring Lamorne Morris, where Knight served as co-creator, writer, and executive producer.
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Laneha House
Laneha House is a family run small press run by cartoonists Lawrence Lindell, and Breena Nuñez.
Laneha House is built on the foundation of family, love of comics, zines and coffee.
Projects include comics, graphic novels, art books, zines, music and cartoons.
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Leda Zawacki
Leda Zawacki is a queer cartoonist who has been making comics for over fifteen years. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. She currently lives in White River Junction, Vermont where she received her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2022. Publications include Little Gods, a graphic novel published by Tinto Press in 2017; contributor to the award-nominated Votes for Women anthology in 2020; and the Ignatz-nominated mini comic The Drain Pipe in 2021. She is also a two-time MICE Mini Grant winner for The Swinging Bridge in 2018, and The Stain in 2021.
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Lucky Pocket Press
Lucky Pocket Press is an indie risograph press, artist collective, and labor of love. We’re a small team of independent artists and printmakers, formed in January of 2019 by Sara Hagstrom and Steph Bulante with the goal of publishing comics from artists that inspire us. LPP is a platform for artists we love to tell unique, meaningful, and playful stories through narrative and sequential art, in the form handmade books. Our main goal is to provide intentional, well-loved production for artists’ passion projects. Ultimately, we hope to play, have snacks, make art, and have a good time.
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Lucy Sullivan
Lucy Sullivan is a Comic Writer / Artist from London, UK. Her acclaimed debut graphic novel BARKING is based on the her own experience of a mental health crisis was first published during the pandemic and quickly sold out. The new edition launches in ’24 with Avery Hill Publishing and available for the first time in Canada & US.
Alongside her comics and zines Lucy has created a variety of commissions for titles including Colossive Press Cartographies, Killtopia, Hey Amateur!, Department Of Truth and a Black Hammer short ‘Betwixt Between’ for Jeff Lemire. She is the artist on IND-XED with Fraser Campbell as well as stories with John Reppion for Skrawl Magazine, Jordan Thomas for Metallic Dynamite, Peter Davison for YOSHIN10 and Dan Watters for Razorblades (Image).
The second part of her new Folk-Horror series SHELTER is currently in development with Arts Council England. The first story Early Doors is out now - Winner of Broken Frontier’s ‘Best New Periodical Series’ Award.
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NBM Graphic Novels
America's first graphic novel publishing co. since 1976, a leading indie lit publisher with prominent US and the best European authors in translation. We have been greatly expanding our non-fiction catalog as well with biographies most prominently, including on the Beatles, Willie Nelson to Thoreau and Hitchcock.
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New Friday - A Lev Gleason Imprint
100% creator-owned and controlled indie comics and graphic novels from exciting new voices.
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New York Review Comics
New York Review Comics presents new editions of out-of-print masterpieces and new translations of books that have never been published in English—from intimate memoirs to absurdist gags, graphic novels to dizzying experiments.
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Olea Kim
Olea Kim is a nonbinary artist, designer, and cartoonist. They review comics as well as edit the comics section for The Grind, an alternative commuter newsprint magazine.
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Paradise Systems
Paradise Systems publishes exemplary comics from the United States, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Inspired by, but unfaithful to comic conventions, we seek to create a community of writers and readers that relish in weird, sincere, experimental storytelling. Since 2017, we've released 17 comics, including Naked Body, the first major anthology of Chinese comics to be published in English, and our work has been featured in the Guardian, Hyperallergic, and The Comics Journal.
Paradise Systems is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Orion Martin 2017. All books can be purchased through the website.
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Paterson Hodgson
Paterson Hodgson is a queer, non-binary artist and comic maker living in Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario. She writes about working class struggle, organizing, being a renter, being queer, having a body, dreams, magic, and gay stuff. Paterson is interested in independence, freedom, better futures, new worlds and always doing whatever they don't want you to do. She has self published three issues of her one person anthology Comics by Paterson.
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Patrick Sparrow
Patrick Sparrow is a lowbrow humorist and weirdo cartoonist. With work in the vein of early Mad Magazine and the underground funnies of the 70's, he speaks the language of downtrodden creeps and out of step yahoos everywhere. It is evident from his work with Humanaut, Adult Swim, Adhouse publishing and many others.
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Pegamoose Press
Two artists brought together by our mutual love of comics and cartoons. We have 3 kids, two cats and a whole lot of stories to write and draw.
We started Pegamoose Press as a means to find our true audience. The weirdos who share our sense of fun, imagination and a love of books.
Thank you for being here, getting to know us and helping us follow our passion.
Troy & Brenda
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Penguin Random House Canada
Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their work with readers everywhere.
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Phantomtits
Phantomtits is the result of the collaborative efforts of visual artist duo Pascale Arpin and Cara Tierney. Written by Tierney and illustrated by Arpin, the story unfolds over 3 volumes and is a semi-autobiographical superhero-ish retelling of Tierney's real-life top surgery that takes a fantastical turn when ghost boobs with very special powers appear and change the course of their life forever!
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Pow Pow Press
Pow Pow Press is the English-language imprint of Montréal-based French publisher Éditions Pow Pow. Since 2015, Pow Pow Press’ goal has been to make the work of Québec cartoonists available to an English-speaking audience in both Canada and the United States. With over 20 titles released to date, Pow Pow Press is well-known as one of the best comic book publishers in Canada. Authors published by Pow Pow Press include Cathon, Boum, Sophie Bédard, Pascal Girard, Zviane, Francis Desharnais, Blonk, Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Michel Hellman. For more information, visit www.powpowpress.com
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Power & Magic Press
Power & Magic Press is an independent comics publisher based in Portland, Oregon, founded by queer, Afro-Cuban cartoonist and editor Joamette Gil. Our mission is to empower BIPOC and LGBTQ+ cartoonists to create comics that reflect *our* worlds (and all else we dare to imagine)! We’re best known for our Ignatz-nominated flagship title, POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, and the Prism Award-winning HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy. Our latest title, MAÑANA: Latinx Comics From The 25th Century, marks our first foray into science fiction, as well as our first publication available in both English and revolutionary gender-inclusive Spanish editions. Now, we are ringing in 2024 with our first ever open submissions period accepting graphic novel pitches from solo creators!
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RAID Press
RAID PRESS [est. 2017] is a community-driven micro-publisher - a place FOR CREATORS, BY CREATORS. Our mandate is to elevate and promote the works of independent creators by giving them an avenue to produce their personal work while maintaining their creative integrity.
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Remy Boydell
Remy Boydell is a comic book artist from England. Books include 'The Pervert' and '920LONDON' ( Image Comics ).
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Renegade Arts Entertainment
We are a family run company, publishing comic books & graphic novels from a mix of exciting new storytellers and experienced Canadian creators and some International creators too. We publish stories in all genres, from history to humour to fantasy, romance, action and horror.
Our fiction reveals more truth than just the facts ever could.
We acknowledge that our business is sited on stolen, traditional Ĩyãħé Nakoda, Stoney Nakoda, lands.
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Robyn Smith
Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist known for her mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, illustrating DC Comics' Nubia: Real One (written by L.L. McKinney) and Black Josei Press' Wash Day (written by Jamila Rowser). She has an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has also worked on comics for College Humor, Nike, and The Nib. She loves cake and her cat, Benson, and holds onto dreams of returning home to the ocean.
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Rosarium Publishing
Established in 2013, Rosarium Publishing specializes in comics and speculative fiction with a multicultural flair. First launching with MOTHERSHIP: TALES FROM AFROFUTURISM AND BEYOND, we have gone on to publish such works as BLUE HAND MOJO, STORIES FOR CHIP, and THE ASSIMILATED CUBAN'S GUIDE TO QUANTUM SANTERIA and such artists as John Jennings, Whit Taylor, Damian Duffy, and Stacey Robinson.
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Rosena Fung
Rosena Fung is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. She is the creator of the graphic novel Living With Viola. Her second graphic novel, Age 16, will be released May 2024.
Her illustration clients include Chickadee Magazine, The Bentway, The Globe and Mail, The Boston Globe, Chronicle Review of Higher Education, CBC Arts, and the Toronto Transit Commission. She has created work for magazines, newspapers, and public art murals.
When she is not drawing, Rosena can be found teaching illustration, vending at zine fairs, and going to the library. Her favourite activities also include petting cats, eating snacks, and learning to play both acoustic and electric guitar. She lives with her partner and the literal best cat in the entire universe.
Her name is pronounced "Rosanna".
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Sarah Becan
Sarah Becan has been drawing comics since she was very small. Her food-based autobiographical webcomic “I Think You’re Sauceome” sparked a love of food and culinary illustration, and her work has since appeared in various publications, including Saveur, Eater, Chicago magazine, and Tasting Table. Her first graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews, was a recipient of a Xeric award, and she illustrated Let’s Make Ramen!, Let's Make Dumplings!, and The Adventures of Fat Rice. She currently resides in Chicago and would be very happy to do nothing but draw food all day.
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SelfMadeHero
SelfMadeHero is a leading UK publisher of graphic novels. We publish ground-breaking and beautiful work by authors and artists from across the globe, from the quirky and humorous to the political and profound. We are proud to bring readers graphic novels and visual narratives that provoke, entertain, inspire and inform.
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Silver Sprocket
Silver Sprocket is an independent publisher championing socially conscious and independently produced comic books, graphic novels, and related arts.
Originally a punk music label, Silver Sprocket transitioned to publishing comics in 2016. Since then, we have built a home for original, artist-owned work, including Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore, Catboy by Benji Nate, Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo, and American Cult edited by Robyn Chapman.
When in San Francisco, please visit our retail store and gallery, or attend one of our regular educational and community events.
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Simon Roy
Simon Roy is a comics artist, illustrator, and writer best known for working on books like Prophet, Tiger Lung, Habitat, and Griz Grobus. He's worked with publishers and clients like Dark Horse, Image Comics, Dreamworks, and more!
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Strangers Publishing
a celebration of the forgotten & overlooked
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Street Noise Books
Real books for people who give a damn.
Nonfiction graphic novels.
Unapologetic, authentic, and politically relevant.
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The Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards organization was founded in 2005 to honour, promote, and celebrate Canadian comics and the people who create them. Its premier event is the annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony, which presents prizes in four categories. Each year, the Doug Wright Awards also inducts two new members—one living, one deceased—into the Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame.
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University of Toronto Press
Founded in 1901, University of Toronto Press (UTP) is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America. Each year, UTP publishes approximately 180 new scholarly, course, and general interest books. UTP’s reputation for excellence stems from the publication of influential authors and outstanding research, as well as a continuing dedication to groundbreaking new scholarship. Our graphic novels are informed by scholarship and combine text and images in ways that are accessible, open-ended, aesthetically rich, and that foster greater cross-cultural understanding.
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Zach Worton
Zach Worton is a multi-disciplinary artist based somewhere in Ontario Canada. “Where,” you might ask? Wherever he and his partner Liisa wind up this year.
He has released several graphic novels through the likes of Conundrum Press, Koyama Press, Editions Cambourakis, D&Q, and distro with Fantagraphics. Currently, Zach is writing and drawing an ongoing series called “123 Walnut,” that is being serializing on his Substack, a horror graphic novel called “Black Snow” with writer, Jason Azzopardi, and continuing his series “The Weird World of Lagoola Gardner.
zachworton.substack.com
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