Molly Ostertag Archives

So far, Jonathan Hickman, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Skottie Young, Molly Ostertag, Saladin Ahmed, and Chip Zdarsky have gone public, as well as engaging in a number of other monetising and merchandising opportunities It is clearly one of the biggest stories to hit the comic book industry this year in a year of big[...]

Saladin Ahmed's comics Substack is called Copper Bottle, while Molly Ostertag's new Substack is titled In the Telling. The logo of Substack In an opening post, Ahmed writes that he will continue to produce work-for-hire comics, but will now publish all creator-owned comics on Substack. There's a lot of that work on the way! I've earned wonderful fans[...]

The Castoffs is a new comic book series from Lion Forge, written by Stuff Of Legend's creator Brian Smith with MK Reed and drawn by Molly Ostertag. Is it me, or am I getting a "The Next Lumberjanes" vibe off this? THE CASTOFFS #1 (W) Brian Smith, M K Reed (A/CA) Molly Ostertag It's Mage against the Machine! Magic vs[...]

Garrity, Melanie Gillman, Zac Gorman, Jimmy Gownley, Matt Groening, Dan Hipp, Keith Knight, Mike Kunkel, Roger Langridge, Jeff Lemire, Jonathan Lemon, Patrick McDonnell, Tony Millionaire, Caleb Monroe, Terry Moore, Dustin Nguyen, Molly Ostertag, Lincoln Peirce, Paul Pope, Hilary Price, Liz Prince, Stan Sakai, Chris Schweizer, Ryan Sook, Jeremy Sorese, Raina Telgemeier, Richard Thompson, Tom Tomorrow,[...]

Calling all female gamers! An awesome project is coming, edited by Hazel Newlevant (If This Be Sin), and featuring comics by Molly Ostertag, Yao Xiao, Annie Mok, Jane Mai, Mia Schwartz, and Carey Peitsch, and groundbreaking game developers Anna Anthropy and Merritt Kopas called Chainmail Bikini. [Cover by Hellen Jo] Chainmail Bikini is an anthology of comics[...]

Bart can be reached at bishop@mcwoodpub.com. Strong Female Protagonist  By Graig Kent It's like my grandparents adapting to the VCR (the what now?).  That's how I feel about web comics.  I don't have any objection to them, in fact I quite like the idea of what they can do and what they represent, especially for creators, but I[...]

Top Shelf has announced that it's adding Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag's webcomic Strong Female Protagonist to their distribution family The hit webcomic that has been running since 2012 had a successful Kickstarter campaign allowing the creators to self=publish and have Top Shelf distribute. With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of[...]

SVA graduate Molly Ostertag, the artist on the successfully Kickstarted print version of the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist, now picked up by Top Shelf, produced a striking new comic as part of her senior thesis at SVA: Bacchanalia I had the good fortune to look at some of the original pages at an SVA open[...]

She will be at SPX – table E12. Molly Ostertag is the artist for Strong Female Protagonist and also a fellow SVA classmate She will be at SPX – table B14B. Aatmaja Pandya is an illustrator/comic artist that has been running her webcomic, The Bell Blues, for a fair amount of time She is also another SVA[...]

Strong Female Protagonist has been a webcoming accruing quite a following for the past couple of years as artist Molly Ostertag completed her degree at the School of Visual Arts Graduation completed as valedictorian of her class, she turned her attention to the relatively full time job of launching a Kickstarter to her take her[...]

The Rookery had impressed me at MoCCA Fest for its eclectic, stylish design and contents, and the number of unique voices included who seemed to find their way to convey some of the dynamism of comics as a team effort. I spoke with Rookery-contributors and graduating seniors Jess Hurley, Steph Bailey, Molly Ostertag, and Hazel Newlevant[...]

You can meet him, but here's a preview: Thursday, April 17th Desert Island at 540 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn and So What? Press are hosting the Staycation Book Tour Release Party from 7-10PM with Dave Kelly, Lara Antal, Molly Ostertag, and Jess Ruliffson They say: Come celebrate the release of So What? Press' spring line of books at[...]

It gives writer Dave Kelly and artist Lara Antal a chance to show off their feel for pacing and up close human interaction to remind us that the Night Watchman stories are really about the human perspective on strangeness, whether daily life or things far beyond normal human ken. The Night Watchman stories return to their[...]

One of the SVA contributors, Molly Ostertag, will also be supporting her artwork on the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist with the series' writer Brennan Lee Mulligan, at table #B13. The SVA team describe the book as follows:   They can't be true – but are they? Balanced beautifully on the edge of the fantastic and the feasible, urban[...]

One we've previewed already, Tales of the Night Watchman: Staycation, and you can see that here, but here are the other two to check out and look for at So What? Press's booth, #B13. Firstly, we have Tales of the Night Watchman Presents: It Came From the Gowanus Canal, written by Dave Kelly with artwork by[...]

Written by Dave Kelly and illustrated by Lara Antal, previous Tales of the Night Watchman books have appeared at various indie shows including Small Press Expo, and expanded into Tales of the Night Watchman Presents collaborating with other artists like Molly Ostertag to bring the strange world of the Night Watchman to life. The comics feature[...]

Ford, a Brooklyn local whose prints alone were making me drool. But Sean also had his minis of his work Shadow Hills available, a mystery story with great line-work and an interestingly tense atmosphere. Bernard Stiegler, a Baltimore area native, was up in Brooklyn with his Xeric Award grant-winning book The Reptile Mind. Molly Ostertag, Dave Kelly, and[...]

Panelists included Lara Antal (Tales of the Night Watchman), Marguerite Dabaie (The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories), Robin Ha (Women of Marvel, The Dress), Hazel Newlevent (If This Be Sin), and Molly Ostertag (Strong Female Protagonist) Dave Kelly of So What? Press was also instrumental in designing the panel and rounding up participants. It was,[...]

Genre is back in a big way – – from the movies we watch right down to the comics being published outside the mainstream – – and creators everywhere are working to redefine what it means to be a hero as well as challenging the presupposition that the good guy always gets the girl…because sometimes,[...]

The former is by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal and the latter by Kelly and Molly Ostertag.  The premise of the series is that blogger Nora and roommate Charlie follow the exploits of Charlie's possessing spirit, a "spectral detective" known as the Night Watchman He lures them into paranormal adventures, often with a dash of[...]