#Indie Comics

[yosb]

for the last day of lesbian visibility week, i wanted to share some updates of my queer regency webcomic, the masquerader! here's a character line-up with some costume designs of bella & prue.

the quick slug from my co-writer is "it's a regency lesbian love story between a woman who's cross-dressing after her life falls apart and a woman striking out on her own." and my contribution is: also there's murder and luddites!

we've been working hard on boarding it behind the scenes, and i'm hoping to have some pages out before san diego comic-con!!!

you can follow my instagram for comic updates or follow the tumblr we have set up for it!

❤️🧡🤍💗💜

[glimmr-mag]

Preview of "Endless Waltz" by @catprinx

An immortal vampire dressmaker takes on the task of creating the wardrobe for the new lady of the house. However, the lady requests a much more unusual garment: a suit.

You can read the full comic in Glimm*r Vol. 1, click here to save our Kickstarter page!

[ramonvillalobos]

Porkchop: Robot Killer

Cover for my dawg Tony Gregory

[kbspangler]

Welcome to Monday's webcomics, in which we decide who should be in prison and who shouldn't.

Clarice, fucked-up mass murderer? Yes.

Leopold, absolute but well-meaning twerp who's never killed nothin'? No.

And as it's the last social media update of the month, please consider joining our Patreons for news and regular comic updates. We do a lot of extra plate-spinning that we don't/can't talk about in public, and Patreon tends to catch this overflow.

Mine is at patreon.com/KBSpangler and you can get access to the new wedding comic bonus story!

Ale's is patreon.com/AlePresser

May your day be joyously stabby!

[shaylacousintale]

Ramshackle trios + my ramshackle oc

Sticks is the twin younger sister of stone and she’s an scared coward of the group but she acts like an idiot as stone is protective of her because he have an soft spot for her

Ramshackle belongs to @zeddyzi

[yeehawpim]

I've been seeing that quote go around and while making this I think I managed to track it back to "An Oresteia" by Anne Carson

[alienbycomics]

Content Warning: religion and transphobia⚠️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I made a comic reflecting on my church upbringing as an eXvangelical trans person. The Jesus conservative Christians claim to represent looked lot more like many of the LGBTQ+ friends I know and love. Just some food for thought 💖

[kiddycup]

working on a new oc zine

[feathernotes]

WEBCOMICS! (read them) 😎 A small dedication to the webcomics that have shaped our indie spheres for many years. Free to read and with plenty to choose from, check them out, and tell your friends too! info to check out HERE and HERE

[bethfuller]

“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild...”

✤ introducing Witching Hour, my first comic. all 40 pages soon to be published by the amazing @quindriepress and coming to kickstarter this may! ✤

[yugsly]

My new comic, VISCERA OBJECTICA, is now up for PRE-ORDER! ( $15 usd. click above to learn more, and to see more random pages!)

A humble tailor is very skilled at his work, but finds the complex patchwork of love painful to stitch together. One day, he visits a farmers market and is drawn to a beautiful puppet, whose vendor utters only: “His name is Theu.” Though the puppet is inanimate, the tailor inexplicably falls for Theu, day by day finding that patchwork of love no longer painful.  Viscera Objectica explores the depth of feeling that develops between man and object, lover and loved.

[glimmr-mag]

Preview of @gabriellemkari's illustration titled "Merderous"

You can view the full illustration in Glimm*r Vol. 1, click here to save our Kickstarter page!

[jean-wei]

All-Purpose God, 2019.

Posting some old comics. This is vol 1 of a series of short comics I've been making in my spare time, under the umbrella "Phrasebook". They're each based on a phrase or word in Chinese that I've been thinking about. You can read vol 2 ("Dragon Whiskers)" here, and vol 3 ("Tailwind") here.

[rachelh1017]

Hello everyone! I’m happy to tell you I finished all the content of my first comic book about them!! (finally!!!) And the physical copy (traditional Chinese version) will be self-published and sold in Taiwan comic con.

For now, the English version is available digitally as PDF. I have uploaded them onto my ko-fi shop and itch.io, have a look if you’re interested! 💝

And please remember that most of the content has been posted and can be read for free on here or my other socials. This comic only contains one new story (8 pages). Thank you so much for reading this long post.😅 I'll create more new content in the future.🦾

[kbspangler]

This is the public statement from @alepresser and myself which went up at Webtoons tonight.

Now for some ranting. Just from me, not from Ale—she's innocent of the art crimes I've committed in the past, and boy howdy have I committed art crimes.

This is the first page of my first webcomic, A Girl and Her Fed. I started this thing back in 2006. (I don't actually need a head count of those reading this who weren't yet born in 2006. I'm sure you're delightful and I wish you well in college.)

And this is the last page I drew in early 2020 before I turned art duties over to Dr. Beer. It's better, right?

Well, these days, A Girl and Her Fed has pages like this:

I drew this comic for fourteen fucking years because it's a story I wanted to tell, and I thought webcomics were the perfect format for it. I didn't know how to draw. I got better through sheer obstinate perseverance and sticking to deadlines as best I could for, again, fourteen fucking years. I sought out a replacement artist when I ran into time constraints and couldn't do art plus writing anymore; I'm a much better writer than an artist, so I had no problems whatsoever kicking art to the curb.

The first time Ale sent me art that would go up on the website—art I hadn't needed to draw myself—I literally cried in relief because I had been grinding myself down for, yet again, fourteen fucking years.

So when I read comments from people who say they want to make a webcomic but can't draw themselves and therefore need to resort to AI, that little line between my eyes gets dangerously deep.

This isn't like I'm some old dude who's bitching over student loans getting cancelled after making regular payments. This is me, someone who threw raw art onto the internet like a monkey hurling fresh poo, because I wanted to make a webcomic and the art is part of the process of storytelling via webcomics! I could've (arguably should've) hired an artist right out of the gate, and that would've been part of the process of making comics, too: a partnership between an artist and a writer is also something which grows and develops over time.

For example, after Dr. Beer and I spent two years working on AGAHF, we decided we enjoyed our partnership so much that we set out to make another webcomic! It's great! It's got wonderful art and consistent storytelling! You should read it!

But turning art duties over to unaltered images generated by AI because you want to make a webcomic but "just can't draw" is, frankly, a bullshit excuse. I'm not talking about persons who are physically unable to draw due to disability—I'm talking about people who say they want to make webcomics but simply don't wanna do the art part.

Friends, if you don't want to show your entire ass in front of God and country, you don't actually want to make a webcomic.

Do the thing yourself.

If you're scared, don't be. Take the plunge. Set a goal of twenty strips and do the thing yourself. If you can already draw but can't write? Great! Write twenty strips, write forty panels, etc. You might surprise yourself. If you can write but can't draw? Great! Draw twenty panels and see what happens.

Whatever comes out of it, it's a thing you've done yourself. It's something new you've given to the world, no matter how big or small. Be proud of that. And if you need to partner with someone else to make your comic dreams work? You can do that, too! It's still a thing you've done yourself, and many projects are stronger when done together.

...but maaaaaaaaaybe hire that partner before you've busted your own ass for fourteen fucking years. That one's on me.

[yeehawpim]