(a page from Snow by and (c) Benjamin Rivers) Benjamin Rivers has posted up a video promoting his new graphic novel Snow, which I have to say from the premise and the taster of it you can check out looks very interesting, dealing with something most of us are likely to experience in our lives, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 10, 2010
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Katie Green has published some tips for those folks self-publishing their own comics – amusingly and rather appropriately she’s done this in the form of a comic. I like her moxie (I’m not entirely sure what moxie is, but apparently it’s a good thing to have according to one old book I read and I [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 18, 2010
Five by Masha Solon and Katriona Chapman. Tomatito Press Five is most definitely not comics. It’s very much an illustrated book, or possibly, by virtue of it’s length and style, a simple, but rather lovely illustrated poem. So why is it on here, on the FPI blog? It’s not comics. Not really even close. But [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 9, 2010
Goblin Hall by Rob Jackson Self Published Rob’s changed his usual A5 format to a near US comic sized 32 page self-contained full story. It’s a nice format, still handy, but the increased size of the pages gives Rob more space to work with and allows him to get the entire story in without overwhelming [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Garen Ewing points us to his brother Murray who has posted up a two part look at the advantages and perils of self publishing, detailing the various steps he took, from trying to find an affordable way to create print-ready PDF pages to sourcing a publisher for his Alice at R’lyeh booklet that was also [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 23, 2010
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Over on the blog of our New York FP crew Devin has a series of utterly essential tips and recommendations for anyone considering the path of self publishing their comics work: “Brian Michael Bendis was an unloved worthless nothing before he self published a few crime comic books. Now? He’s Marvel’s top writer, recognized by [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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OpenBookToronto has two interesting videos up on Youtube, recorded at the recent TCAF gig, talking to comics creators about how and why they choose to create and disseminate their comics work, with one focusing on web comics and the other on self publishing, both well worth checking out (tip of the hat to Tom at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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As regular readers will know the FP blog crew are huge fans of Canadian artist Kate Beaton‘s – we were just pointing you yet again to her work at the weekend there while she was off at TCAF. And if you were lucky enough to have been in Toronto for TCAF you would have been [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
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You might remember a few weeks back Eagle award winning creator Tom Humberstone posted up some advice on how to go about selling your small press comics (see here). Now Tom’s followed it up with an article on printing your own comics: “You know that famous illustration that appeared in a punk fanzine (Sideburns I [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 10, 2009
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Sushi Karaoke! by Lizz Lunney Self Published I last had a look at Lizz Lunney’s wonderful mini comics a while back. (damn, given away what I thought of the new comic already.) I started it with this: There are some mini-comics that really want to be grown up, proper comics, who want to be published [...]
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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