indie Comics Archives

(Like for instance the amazing James Neish on Stripling Warrior.) JG: From my own experience making indie comics, I know it can be very hard to get much attention, especially in the light of comics news from big companies and their multimedia releases How do you push against these challenges? BA: Being tenacious helps Having an unexplainable[...]

If we measure the impact of reading comics by the way they change our perspective of things, whether of human nature, of the unexplained aspects of the

By Nikolai Fomich   For the past five years, cartoonists Kelly Phillips and Claire Folkman have been working with dozens of amazing cartoonists from

Gideon Kendall may be one of the first people I met in comics, or at least aspiring to comics, even though he was already a highly accomplished

One of Bleeding Cool's favorite indie comics series, Anne Bonnie is returning on June 10th for its 4th issue, written and illustrated by Tim Yates! The fifth issue is slated for early September, a sixth issue in early October Anne Bonnie is published by Blue Juice Comics, where you can also find previous issues. Tim Yates[...]

Billy has been the "Last Romantic Anti-Hero" since 1995, appearing as a comic strip in The New York Hangover and is very much a child of the indie comics movement, rising from mini-comics to webcomic status, and finally appearing in a hardback collection from Z2 Comics in 2014 Dean Haspiel, with the inception of an[...]

If you live anywhere near New York City, you are probably aware that Special Edition NYC is running this week on Saturday the 6th and Sunday the 7th of

By Shawn Perry Indie Spotlight is back with coverage of indie comics like Holidaze, Flutter, The Hero Business and The Surface. Holidaze by Dave Dellecese and Andrew Cieslinski is a hilarious and clever series starring all your favorite anthropomorphic personifications of the holiday season as they enjoy their off-season The first issue introduces us to the Holidaze[...]

By Olly MacNamee. A monthly review spotlighting the best titles the UK indie press has to offer. Bloodfellas (Markosia) Christopher Marlowe and the Bards

By Olly MacNamee With less than a fortnight to go until this Kickstarter campaign draws to an end, there isn’t much time left to check out this original

It's an animated series and comic books that take place after the animated series. BC: How did you get into indie comics? JP: Basically, just by starting out and doing it That was really it I mean, I had a story that I felt that I needed to tell And I wanted to tell And just went[...]

This time, she attended the Indie Comics For Kids Panel. She writes: Art Baltazar (Tiny Titans, Aw Yeah Comics), Ian McGinty (Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors), and Mike Kunkel (Herobear and the Kid, Shazam) were all at the Denver Comic Con "Indie Comics For Kids" panel There was no moderator, so the panel was very free flowing and[...]

Neil Greenaway reported on Denver Comic Con for Bleeding Cool, taking excellent pictures, but also doing a series of short Indie Spotlight interviews.

By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu I’m a latecomer to the world and characters created by Richard Starkings in his famous Elephantmen title. I’ve been meaning to

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn

By Alex Wilson For those of you unfamiliar with OSSM Comics, they’re a Santa Monica based publisher who’ve released a few genre spanning titles such as

It’s the privilege of the still relatively young not to have to write articles like this one, usually. For me, this is a day with only one headline. My

By Joe Glass At MCM London, starting the weekend of May 22nd, UK Independent comic creator Mike Garley and his team (Josh Sherwell and Michael Stock)

The first issue of New Praetorians reads like an early Image comic, but in the best of possible ways. Writer R.K. Syrus and artist Satine Phoenix crafted

By Olly MacNamee Mac's Books: A monthly review spotlighting the best titles the UK indie press has to offer. This column includes: Silicon Hearts No.1

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Walking around Artists Alley, it is unusual to come across husband and wife creative teams

By Nikolai Fomich Josh O’Neill believes in comics. He believes in their ability to produce jaw-dropping and original humor. He believes in their power to

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent I met David Blake Lucarelli about a year ago when he had a table at one of the local SoCal

John lives through hell and masters his telekinetic skills and eventually returns to free the American sheep…whether they want to  be freed or not. NF: As someone who's had a successful acting career, spanning stage, film, and television, you must have a deep love for comic books to jump into the world of making indie comics[...]

The anthology Meanwhile, now in its third issue from Soaring Penguin Press (in the UK, with #2 having just reached the USA) is mightily impressive and

Today on ComiXology you'll find a unique comic with quite a backstory to it. In fact, it has so much backstory that the comic contains plenty of

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent The cover of Rock & Roll Biographies #2 Faith No More & Mr. Bungle can only be

By Joseph Kyle Schmidt and Samuel Morse The Bleed is a weekly podcast by Bleeding Cool contributors Joe Schmidt and Sam Morse. The podcast consists of the

By Jason Karlson LGBT representation is among the most hotly debated issues in comics at the moment and while the last few years have seen huge

MoCCA Fest this year moved to Chelsea and to a really interesting multi-level space that even included a rooftop lounging area. Though we understand that