New Autoptic comics and art event announces Jamie Hernandez as guest star

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Tweet It’s all still a bit cloak and dagger (and very early days), but there’s a new and upcoming  event in Minneapolis this August. Cooked up by Zak Sally, Anders Nilsen, Tom Kaczynski (all of whom are currently faculty members at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), local publishers 2D Cloud, TalkWeird Press, Grimalkin press [...]

On the Scene: The 2012 Ignatz Awards at SPX

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TweetBy Hannah Means-Shannon The Ignatz Awards are known for their quick-fire pace and sense of humor but that doesn’t mean they downplay the often very personal extremes indie comics creators face in pursuit of publication.  Jerzy Drozd acted as MC of the 2012 awards and crammed a lengthy shopping list of emotional highs and lows [...]

Anders Nilsen hits the West Coast with ‘Big Questions’

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The complete BIG QUESTIONS by Anders Nilsen is ure to be one of the books of the year, a 600+ page meditati