#the nib

[lucybellwood]

Another piece I did for The Nib back in 2015! Gonna keep posting these until they shut down at the end of the summer. It was such a treat to hear that Matt and the whole editorial team just won an Eisner for their work on the magazine and website. Much-deserved.

Anyway: this is a parody and isn't representative of every screenwriter's experience, but it certainly feels relevant with all the strikes rolling out right now. Did you know what kind of credit you get on a film directly impacts how much you're paid? For writers you'll see "created by," "written by," "story by," and all sorts of other things, all of which translate to different levels of compensation! (Highlander, for example, has Story by Gregory Widen and Screenplay by my dad and his writing partner, Larry Ferguson.) The Writer's Guild is often responsible for arbitrating those decisions. They have a whole MANUAL to help writers understand the process. It rules.

Thanks, WGA. Thanks, The Nib. (And you can always make more of these comics possible on Patreon.)

[berniesrevolution]

You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!

A history of company towns

by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore

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[antifainternational]

[lubchansky]

From me in the Nib’s WORK issue.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

This. This is a devastatingly perfect summary of the climate of the U.S. in the 1990s, the climate Animorphs was written in and responding to. Animorphs anticipates the post-9/11 cultural shift, because that cultural shift didn't happen overnight.

[dio-03]

Cover and Spot Illustrations for The Nib Magazine’s CITIES issue digital painting, 2022

Honored to be asked to make these for The Nib, loved working in the open format and creating striking single images.

[terror-billie]

The Nib is no longer going to make new comics and they've put all their PDFs up for free, with an option to make a donation to the archive if you like.

The Nib is an online satire comic created by Matt Bors, who made the "we should improve society somewhat" comic

The comics feature a variety of authors telling their stories and making political satire.

[ebookporn]

To Be Read by Noah Van Sciver

[biophonies]

comic about my very first job from The Nib’s work issue, which was released this month~

living so close to beverly hills did me irreversible psychic damage

(see more of my art on patreon, insta & twitter)

[thoughtportal]

The Nib magazines are free to download!

The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before we go, we are making all 15 issues of our Eisner and Ignatz award-winning magazine available for anyone to download for free. That’s more than 1,600 pages of comics, including our out of print Secrets, Nature, Food, and Color issues.

Through the month of August, you can download a PDF of any of our issues below and, if you feel like it, kick us a few bucks to help preserve the website. If you prefer print, pick up issues of the magazine from our store.

[wakewithgiggli]

[lucybellwood]

Sharing another longer comic I made for The Nib back in 2016, since they'll be shutting up shop at the end of this year. This piece was such a great excuse to dig deep into the world of sail-powered cargo! I particularly loved talking to the team behind Ceiba, who are now years into their build and documenting the entire shipbuilding process along the way.

(Dig this? There's always room for more passengers aboard the good ship Patreon.)

[berniesrevolution]

Marea Verde Rising

Unstoppable Latin American activists made green the color of abortion rights – now, the U.S. needs the “green wave” more than ever.

by Sarah Mirk and Laura Athayde

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[redgoldsparks]

Back in 2018 I drew the short comic "Dancing With Pride" for The Nib. In 2020, it was included in a wonderful collection called "Be Gay Do Comics" a 250 page collection of comics by queer, trans, and nonbinary authors. Later that same year, the anthology won an Ignatz award, the indie comics award given at Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. The traditional award for an Ignatz is a brick, based on the brick that Ignatz Mouse would throw at the titular character in George Herriman's classic newspaper strip Krazy Kat which ran from 1913 to 1944. Cartoonist, multi-media artist, puppet maker, sculptor Shing Yin Khor divided up the Ignatz brick for this anthology and made these beautiful wooden stands, shaped like the Nib logo, to display the brick fragments for all of the contributors to the anthology. I was delighted to receive my award in the mail this week, and shall display it on my bookshelf with pride! Though I have won other book awards, this is the first one that has ever come with a physical object and I shall treasure it :) You can request a ballot to vote in the 2022 Ignatz Awards here. 

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