Another New York Comic Con is upon us. We’re there – will you be?

Jess Fink, creator of Chester 5000, was an absolute delight talking to. I ran into the same problem with her that I had with Sylvan Migdal; I am a huge fan of her work, but her work happens to be smut. There’s no easy way to approach this, so I took the liberty of editing [...]

Sitting down with Derf Backderf was one of the highlights of my 2012 SPX experience. He’s a tall guy, depicted roughly as you see him in the back of My Friend Dahmer, with a few years on him. His aforementioned work was one of the highlights of my graphic novel collection in the past year, [...]

Jason Pittman was one of the creators to give us a free book at last year’s SPX–certainly the first free book we received by my recollection. He released some great looking stuff at SPX and we were thrilled to see him there again this year. So thrilled, in fact, that I decided to sit down [...]

As Derf Backderf pointed out to me in my interview with him (come back and read it tomorrow morning!), My Friend Dahmer never goes where you think it is going. It’s a story where you already know the ending, so it takes a long road towards it without ever really arriving. It’s also not really showing [...]

More SPX minicomics, including something that has scarred me for the foreseeable future.  COPOUT Comix! I wasn’t aware of the COPOUT scene in Philadelpha, but now I am and am intimately curious. This is a minicomic compendium, so I’ll go through and give some reviews of each individually. FAT GHOST by Crystal Ben A story [...]

Man, I love minicomics. They are these perfect little packages of interesting content, able to deliver such a punch without much room. There is a real economy of storytelling here–although sometimes there are just unicorns. Here are a few* that I picked up over the weekend.  The Cartoon Crier: Classic Saddies Presented by the Center [...]

Curvy is the story of an intrepid young girl who finds her way to a magic candy kingdom, facing down pirates, exploring the multiverse, and making new friends along the way. Curvy is not a story for kids. Indeed, Curvy is a sensationally NSFW story that centers around regular old human Anais and her black [...]

Spandexless contributor Sam Kusek has done something really awesome: He’s hosting a comics themed improv show at ComiCazi (my go-to  comic store in Boston, and one of the best I’ve been to in general), named (aptly) “ComedyCazi”. It’s tomorrow night at 8pm, and for the cheap price of a Batman annual you can take part [...]

That’s a wrap, folks. Our favorite con of the year is over. Now the hard part…

See the winners of the 2012 Ignatz Awards, in real time!

We’ve shared a car for 4 hours and we’re ready to kill each other – all for you, and for the Small Press Expo!