#self-published comics

[copcomco]

John Porcellino's King-Cat Comics & Stories #83 has arrived!

AND, it's a King-Size Special Issue, running a whoppin' 48 pages.

HERE

[wintersoldier2005]

sorry but the idea of bruce being dick's father in his mid 20s. he's always a little tired but otherwise he's young and looks it too. he can pick dick up with one hand to put him on his shoulders. he doesn't know jack about taking care of kids. they play a game that they both love where bruce picks him up and just like... throws him off of the spiraling staircase to watch how he catches himself in the air and lands unharmed. they play soccer together in the backyard and bruce is so young and spry and he can do a bicycle kick (dick goes to school and tells everyone that bruce can do a bicycle kick. not to flex but he's really cool guys.) he lets dick make dino nuggets as their dinner three nights in a row when alfred is gone and they make a stupid big everything but the kitchen sink sundae and split it afterwards. kid you're killing me, he says, because he has a sweet tooth that alfred doesn't enable. maybe sometimes they argue and argue bad, especially as dick grows up, but at the end of the day that's his dad.

one day like ten fifteen years later when damian is young dick looks at bruce and all the sudden what happened.... his dad has crow's feet and his hair is graying a little...! that sort of tiredness that people get as they age! he's still strong he's the fucking batman but when damian wants to play a game (being hurled off the balcony into the pool) bruce looks at dick and smiles and he's got lines on his face. he's aging. and that's still bruce but he doesn't laugh with his head thrown back anymore and he doesn't style his hair the way he used to when he was in his 20s and he's stopped wearing the loose button ups with the first button undone he wore when he picked him up from school in the convertible. his dad is getting older and even bruce wayne can't escape the passage of time. he tells damian no being thrown off the roof. damian protests. but grayson says you used to throw him off the staircase when he was my age. bruce throws his hands up and turns away and gives dick a look before he goes that tells him he'll be in his office and if there happens to be a loud splash from the pool... well that's none of his business is it.

[violainebriat]

All Rodney Books now available for single purchase on my shop!!!!! AAAAA I think book 5 came out real nice with the color cover :)

[solitaireships]

I feel like I should say since there's been a recent uptick in a lot of communities I'm in/see stuff from a lot of white people pretending to be Asian, but you are not welcome here if you are in anyway stealing from Asian cultures for clout or the aesthetics of it

This includes if you're white and you give your self inserts Asian names, I truly do not care if your f/o is from an anime, you should not be using an Asian name under any circumstances. I hate that whenever I see someone using an Asian name online, I feel like I have to start searching their account to see if they're actually Asian or just a white person who likes the aesthetic of it bcs far too many white people will use Asian names here just bcs it sounds cool, with no regard for the actual cultural meaning behind it. Meanwhile actual Asian people will be mocked for their names, or treated like their names are too hard to learn to pronounce, or discriminated against based on their names

Asian cultures are not a fun little costume for people to dress up with. They aren't just a nice aesthetic, they aren't just a thing you can borrow from bcs you think it sounds cool

[vashito]

Cover art for the 3rd comic issue of 88! Im taking pre-orders for the comics here

[oliveoilcorp]

DARLIN’ AND HER OTHER NAMES, PART 1: MARTA

The first installment of my new werewolf-western-horror-romance comic is available now on gumroad and itch.io!

www.darlincomic.com

90 pages, mature readers only.

DARLIN’ is intended for mature audiences. This comic contains elements which some readers may find distressing, including: 

murder, gun violence, animal cruelty and animal death, blood, gore, body injury/horror, nudity, and language.

Please proceed mindfully.

Title designs by Binglin Hu.

(Thank you to friends, family, patrons and readers for your patience and support during the making of Part 1! 

I also want to give my immense thanks to Tin House, Mineral School Artist Residency, Artist Trust and MacDowell for providing time, space and support during various stages of Part 1’s progress. It means the world to receive validation for this weird little self-published project.)

[ari-grace-the-space-case]

I finished up my Tater Tot Hot Dish Recipe Comic!

[rontra]

as the holder of extremely niche isako lore it's really important to me that you know i didn't make this whole writer thing up. the p3 club book brings up that she's a writer as a hobby, specifically so that it can then say she hasn't had any particular success with it. her whole profile is so hilarious but this bit really gets me. mean to her

[toxicmetalexpo]

Get yourself some sexy sexy discounted artwork from my store

[ghelgheli]

Idk how to tell you this but it’s unreasonable to expect a novel written 3 decades ago to align with today’s understanding of representation and respect.

i think it's sleight of hand to suggest that the complaints many people (not just i!) have with sbb can be reduced to "representation and respect" rather than observations about the politics that informed its writing, but even if we grant this: why would anyone recommend a book that they agree is wildly inadequate by contemporary standards as first-line reading for lesbians? if there is such a failure to "align" with "today's understanding", what on earth makes it the go-to introductory text that it is so often shilled as? better to give it an honest elevator pitch—it is a semi-autobiographical historical document, with some interesting and compelling things to say but also with all the perspectival limitations that that entails, about one kind of lesbian experience in a few parts of the usa in one part of the 20th century.

[partyhorn]

My college roommate is a sea slug!?

[copcomco]

Here Comes... Chesley Nooseneck #1 by Charles Forsman

Charles Forsman is back with a nice, full color comic book, self-published under his own imprint, Not Okay.  Format fiends, take note: It's been produced in the wider, Golden Age format and is also cover-to-cover eight-panel grid, giving a real old school comics feel – and context – to it's darker and more contemporary comics.  Hear, hear!

Please note: our copies all have small dinks on either the lower left or top right corners, as shown in the last two pics. They were offered to us at a discount and we are passing the savings on with a lower price, HERE.

[d-feng]

Exciting news: my comic book, “The Cosmicals: Dusky Dunes”, is finally finished! For now I will self publish it on Gumroad and you are able to purchase a digital or physical copy of the book. The comic book consists of mostly refurbished and colored versions of my old shitpost comics from 2019. I am open to any publisher suggestions. I’m not super familiar with the world of distributing comics since this is the first time I’ve done something like this. As always, thank you all for the support.

[lawfulevilcomics]

Annnnnd we are LIVE! Dark Spider: With a Vengeance is here. We can't wait to get this comic to all of you. It's an incredible story filled with action, suspense, and explores the human side of our titular hero, Dark Spider.

[sc00pie]

finallyyy ive got that bitch available online!!! release will be staggered and i have a limited quantity rn but please take a moment to check it out!!! 1ink in b10~~~

(sh4res appreciated!!!)

[wygbyrm]

dude we honestly take it so fucking for granted that we can just post our art or writing or comics or whatever and it will instantly be seen by people around the entire world. like, if you were a hobby artist in the 1930s, or you wrote little short stories in the 1800s, nobody would see it unless you were well-connected and had people that wanted to pay for it. you couldn't just casually create and distribute- at least not on a large scale. even just 20 years ago, for the most part if you wanted to write a novel and let people read it, you had to sell that novel to a publisher, hope that your publisher could promote it and sell it to stores. now, it's all in your own hands. you can make a webcomic and post it and it will just be out there for the whole world, and it doesn't matter if it is marketable, or profitable, or even if it's good because some people will still definitely read it, and you were just able to put it out there because you liked it and were able to share it. even if nobody in your social sphere would get it, somebody somewhere in the world will probably look at it and love that shit. and across human history, having that much agency in the distribution of your own art is fucking unheard of.....