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They asked about how to become professionals. Putting the 'Small' in Small Press While there were cruder efforts for many years prior, the true beginnings of what we today would recognize as the "fanzine" era are in 1869, with the introduction of the Novelty Printing Press I've attached some catalog pics and pricing from 1875 As you[...]

Crowdfunding site Kickstarter wants you to submit your small press comics for a special promotion this September, coinciding with Small Press Expo Kickstarter is sponsoring the Expo's Ignatz Awards for small press comics, and they're inviting submissions to be featured in a "Small Press Spotlight" on their website Any small press comic or zine launched[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Untethered #1 is a independent small press comic from Umar Ditta, Elliot Balson, Mike Maynard, and Robin Jones that centres on the tale of a genie that has found itself bound to a drunken homeless man named Frank in Edinburgh. Untethered #1 cover by Iain Laurie and Elliot Balson The premise itself is intriguing[...]

There's a strong vein of cartoonists running through mainstream comics now, and poaching from small press is a tried and tested method of ensuring quality periodicals I suppose this is as good a place to guiltily admit that I've not yet read Artificial Flowers (Rachael's book out on Avery Press), which would probably go a[...]

It is remarkably on point for this day and age with certain political elements talking about walls and wanting to demonise whole classes and types of people as enemies. Also, the back matter adds an intriguing element of backstory loosely hinted at in the main comic that could really lead to some interesting play later. Art by[...]

By Joe Glass Dan Butcher, creator and artist of UK webcomic series Vanguard, has put together a collected edition of his British superheroes series. Set

By Joe Glass Little Terrors: Desiccated Youth is the first collection from creators Jon Scrivens, Brett Uren and Patrick Cline. Set in the UK in a sleepy

On Monday June 27th, 2011, Adam Wollett wrote on the Kingdom Bum blog, "I've got an idea -- imagine Lord of the Flies, but with bums." That's how this all

Vendors at APE, the Alternative Press Expo starting toay, report that they have just signed a waiver so that the show can pass their details on to Slave

Small Press Expo, the premier small publishing comic show in the USA, is coming up September 13th and 14th in Bethesda Maryland, and each year brings out the best of art comics and indie comics to celebrate the medium and keep the comics community thriving. Tickets are always reasonable for the Expo, making it very friendly[...]

Mike Heffron writes, For the first time in a decade, I have my own small press table to sell my own comic books, my blood, sweat and tears.  But to be completely frank, I know you don't care. At Comic-Con, everyone knows it's  no longer about the sequential art It's everything around comics: the movies, the TV[...]

Con. Pro: The signs directing traffic to the badge pick up areas, parking lots, and set up areas were pretty well marked.  I figured I would have to pick up my badge first, so I went that direction first.  I asked the attendant about it and he directed me to the exhibitor drop off area so[...]

Recent books published by 2D Cloud are not disturbing in the blood-and-guts sense that you might expect from The Walking Dead TV show, but nevertheless,

In London, Emma Vieceli developed its Comics Village concept which has been repeated across multiple conventions which has reached out to the small press, concentrated them in an area and brought in a few big names to circle them But compared to Kapow, Thought Bubble, Cardiff Comic Con and London Super Con, the big name[...]

Matt Harding writes for Bleeding Cool: Day 3: Saturday Artist Alley and Small Press Reviews Hallelujah, I made it through the day without my awesome "Wolfman Bill Clinton" action figure being crushed to smithereens in my awkward giant shwag-bag One of the coolest booths that I found is a toy manufacturer named "Heroes in Action" toys, with[...]

Day 2 coverage of the artist alley and small press sections of the convention, and I got some cool stuff to talk about! Up first is my buddy Dan Cooney, of whom you may have heard about as being the creator of such properties as Valentine, Atomic Yeti, and a slew of amazing art instruction books[...]

It's one of the hearts and souls of San Diego Comic Con, and indeed many comic book conventions, the small press publisher's pavilion, where comic book folks, and other associated products, are making a go of it, selling their comics, their spin off items, their doodads and their dreams Here's a series of often unposed,[...]

Matt Harding write for Bleeding Cool:  I'm taking this convention in waves as I try to wade through masses of humanity to get glimpses and peeks at the treasure trove that is the small press and artist alley sections of this year's San Diego Comic Con All my peeps here at Bleeding Cool have you covered[...]

Paul Rainey has been self publishing his comics since the nineties, reaching a height of awareness with his Memory Man book.

However now I come home with something much more exciting and interesting, a stack of indie comics, grabbed in the Small Press Pavilion section of the gargantuan San Diego Comic Con floor. Some of the books I grabbed on the recommendation of this very website, such as Rob Hanes Adventures, of which I picked up[...]

  Gavin Lees wrote for Bleeding Cool from Stumptown last weekend; While the offbeat panels and overall community spirit are certainly highlights of

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool It's a good year to be a comics fan in Chicago. In addition to C2E2, Wizard World, a plethora of comic shops and

Staff writer Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. One of the greatest strengths of David Lapham as a writer is his ability to be unpredictable. When