Tag: shortbox
2024 ShortBox Comics Fair, 24 SBCF comics
Zainab Akhtar's all-digital October online comic convention, the ShortBox Comics Fair, has returned in 2024 with 100+ artists. Each creator has a digital comic available through the SBCF website all month long. So no...
Goodbye, ShortBox: micropress powerhouse ends print sales
The beloved, groundbreaking small press publisher ShortBox closes its physical shop at the end of February. Zainab Akhtar, the force behind ShortBox, began her path to publishing as a critic, and the editor and...
Browse the ShortBox Comics Fair, a digital indie comics fest
Since the 2023 ShortBox Comics Fair ends with October, here's a genre-racked foot in the door before it's closed.
REVIEW: In Sparrow’s CUCKOO stress gets cosmic
Cuckoo
Written and illustrated by Joe Sparrow.
Published by ShortBox.
Is this even a comic book? The answer is an unequivocal yes. Joe Sparrow’s graphic novel, Cuckoo, has panels and page turn reveals and even superpowers. But...
Here are the winners from the 2022 IGNATZ Awards
SPX returned and the Ignatz Awards are in-person again. Here is a complete list of the nominees and winners from last weekend's Ignatz Awards
Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: A CAT’S DAY, MOISTLY HARMLESS, and 3 more projects we love
Welcome to another installment of The Beat’s Comics Crowdfunding Roundup! This week we’ve got a lot of pink projects for all genders and a noir series that reminds you: everybody wants to be a...
Shortbox returns with first original graphic novel Genie Liang’s A Cat’s Day
Shortbox returns to Kickstarter to launch the publisher's first original graphic novel - Genie Liang's A Cat's Day.
(...It had us at 'cats'.)
Thought Bubble drops Frank Miller in wake of social media backlash
Thought Bubble in an enormous mess of controversy
Crowdfunding Comics Round-Up: Don’t Go Without Me, Ukelele Spells & 3 other projects we...
Five new projects you can support right now.
PREVIEW: SHORTBOX #11 brings together another unmissable lineup
That Sara Alfageeh print alone is worth the sub.
Small Press Update: 2dCloud, Avery Hill, Pow Pow Press, Shortbox and Koyama Press
The Small Press Comics Scene might be small, but it's energetic. We're taking a look at some new publications from various publishers and a closer look at a crowdfunding campaign.
