Our second Big Comic Show is Saturday, May 9: more than 30 comic creators from the Columbus area and beyond will be displaying their work, with comics available for sale and signing (plus a couple of workshops for aspiring comic creators). If you’re in town that weekend, don’t miss out!
To celebrate, we’re reblogging our starter guide for Comics for Adults Who Don’t Read Comics: here are 19 awesome series to try!
Love this! And of course, this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day at your friendly local comics shop – a great way to get introduced to some fun reads.
A smidge of self-promotion: You can hear me talk about this year’s free selection with comix guru Glen Weldon and the rest of the fine folks of Pop Culture Happy Hour on this week’s installment, posting Friday! I can particularly recommend, of course, the Doctor Who book, along with Hip-Hop Family Tree and the double issue of Step Aside Pops and SuperMutant Magic Academy.
(Also, MASSIVELY seconding the recommendations for Saga, Rat Queens and Sex Criminals – if you’re not a comics fan, and you decide to take the plunge and read one book, let it be Saga!)
– Petra
We just love it when Petra & co. over at nprbooks reblogs our stuff. It leaves us all warm and happy.
Regular readers of my blog will hopefully remember me announcing Defying Doomsday, the anthology I’m editing. Here’s a quick reminder:
Apocalypse fiction rarely includes characters with disability, chronic illness and other impairments. When these characters do appear, they usually die early on, or are secondary characters undeveloped into anything more than a burden to the protagonist. Defying Doomsday will be an anthology showing that disabled characters have far more interesting stories to tell in post-apocalyptic/dystopian fiction.
The anthology will be varied, with characters experiencing all kinds of disability from physical impairments, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses and/or neurodiverse characters. There will also be a variety of stories, including those that are fun, sad, adventurous and horrific.
The stories in Defying Doomsday will look at periods of upheaval from new and interesting perspectives. The anthology will share narratives about characters with disability, characters with chronic illnesses and other impairments, surviving the apocalypse and contending with the collapse of life as they know it.
If that sounds exciting, you will hopefully want to check out our Pozible campaign where you can pre-order the book (due out in 2016) or choose some other goodies. To check it out visit: http://ift.tt/1F1LoS7.
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Hey folks, this project has 8 days left and about $3k to reach its funding goal! Check it out and become a backer. I really want to read this anthology!
Regular readers of my blog will hopefully remember me announcing Defying Doomsday, the anthology I’m editing. Here’s a quick reminder:
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