A year of free comics: Sports Manga Essentials, a sampler of sporting action
Hey it's the big game today, in case you hadn't noticed. Sports comics have had a checkered past in the US - NFL Super Pro? - but in Japan, sports manga are a respected genre that has...
A year of free comics: get back to nature with Mark Trail
Another source of free comics! The interface is perhaps not the smoothest but you can read just about every daily newspaper comic strip online every day for free. King Features comics are available at...
A year of free comics: Jeremy Sorese’s What It Feels Like To Have A...
A story of the body I’ve kept, and even loved, despite itself.
Jeremy Sorese is the creator of the acclaimed Curveball, a sprawling, gorgeous graphic novel that mixes SF themes with an intimate tale of...
A year of free comics: Leaving Richard’s Valley by Michael DeForge, a very sinister...
Mostly daily
The very prolific Michael DeForge is running a mostly daily comic strip on Instagram called Leaving Richard's Valley
It's sort of the flip side to Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero also online, but also just out in...
FCBD Preview: The Ballad of Franklin Bonisteel, a prequel to Murder Ballads
Murder Ballads is one of the comics sert to make a splash this spring: a mini seres by Gabe Soria and Paul Reinwand that will have an accompanying album by Dan Auerbach of The Black...
A year of free comics – Kate Beaton’s Holiday Comics 2016
Kate Beaton is a Canadian national treasure. Her art is always lovely, her sense of humour refreshing and clever. Beaton offers us her holiday 2016 comic strip presented in two long posts. If you’re...
A year of free comics: Banned Books Week Handbook 2016
Cheating a little here for ComiXology Sunday, but here's a 16 page handbook created by the CBLDF about banned comics (including Drama and Bone), how to fight banning and other actions. Maybe a little...
A year of free comics: Valerian & Laureline and The Swimming Pool of Micheville
Izneo is the Comixology for France but they have an English language portal, and two albums you can download for free in English. They're the digital versions of the editions published here in the...
A year of free comics: The Adventures of Business Cat
It's been a rough week, so let's end up with something pretty fluffy, namely The Adventures of Business Cat , created by Tom Fonder and Rachel Robbins and drawn now by Fonder. The strip began as...
A year of free comics: the mystery of Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and...
There are many seekrit troves of free comics lying out there on the internet, like treasure chests ready to be unfolded. That's one of the reasons I started this feature.
Top Shelf 2.0 is a...
A year of free comics – Titan by François Vigneault
I really like Francois Vigneault’s Titan. It’s a spectacular science fiction comic. It follows the story of MNGR João da Silva, as he is sent to Homestead Station on the moon of Titan to...
What’s up with the free comics anyway?
As you read this I'm on a plane to New Orleans to speak on a panel at Intix, a convention for people who sell tickets. I'll be on a panel with Rob Salkowitz explaining...
