Hugo Pratt/Corto Maltese

https://cortomaltese.com/en

Corto Maltese is a “cult” character of the best of the European graphic novel genre, but also a veritable 20th century literary legend. He’s a traveler, an ironic sailor who combines Mediterranean looks and character traits with Anglo-Saxon culture.

Corto, which in Spanish means “fast”, was created in 1967 by the great Venetian illustrator Hugo Pratt.

Corto is an anti-hero who prefers freedom and imagination to wealth. He’s a modern-day Ulysses who takes us along on his travels to the most fascinating places in the world.

Sequential Artists Workshop

https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/

We Teach Comics!

The Sequential Artists Workshop is a grassroots, non-profit comics school and creative community. We teach people how to tell stories and make comics in Gainesville, Florida, USA… and around the world via our online courses and resources.

The Sequential Artists Workshop is a 501 (c)3 non-profit grassroots comics school and creative community. We teach people how to tell stories and make comics in Gainesville, Florida, USA… and around the world via our online courses and resources.

In 2011, acclaimed indie cartoonist Tom Hart founded SAW to help aspiring cartoonists from all backgrounds, identities, and walks of life to make great comics. SAW’s Comics Intensive is high-quality, very affordable alternative to expensive art schools. Over 400 students have studied in our low-cost programs, whether at weeklong workshops, in evening classes, in our full-year comics intensive, or through our online offerings.  

At SAW we help budding cartoonists discover their own path in visual storytelling. Students learn core comics techniques like storytelling, character creation, panel design, storyboarding, inking and lettering.

In addition to a enthusiastic, supportive community of artists, resources at SAW’s headquarters in Gainesville, FL include studio space, a well-stocked comics reference library, printing materials, access to exhibition spaces and first-rate instructors armed with knowledge, talent, experience and generosity of spirit.

SAW brings celebrated cartoonists from around the world to Gainesville to lecture, teach workshops, and exhibit their work.

We host art shows, draw jams, talks, and other events, helping to make Gainesville a vibrant oasis of creativity in the region.

Through a variety of online offerings, from courses to one-on-one instruction to comics mentorship groups, we’ve made the unique SAW experience available around the world. 

Nate McDonough

https://www.instagram.com/grixlycola/

https://www.instagram.com/grixlycola/

Indulge me a modest monthly contribution and I will mail 4 issues of Grixly (and the occasional bonus mini comic) to you every year. I’ve been self publishing Grixly since 2009 and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop. Not because a poet resides in my heart but because I am sick and my work is roughly half way between stinky shack crazy man violence manifesto and a comic that is fully worth your time. Grixly is a quarterly comics publication that features at least 16 pages and sometimes a little extra. I’ll make sure those of you who drink the blood from the Patreon Chalice get a little more sugar than those naked and ignorant digging for lichens to nourish their annihilated frames out among the jagged rocks. Show me where a more red hot deal exists baby!

Peow

https://www.peow.studio/shop

This site and webshop is till a work in progress. It will be better as time goes by, but for now we hope it’s good enough to purchase books from.

However, if you happen upon any weird quirks or bugs, feel free to report them to

support(at)peowstudio.com

Notes: A Frog in the Fall

RT: Art Comics Finder

Art Comics Finder

Some years back, I wondered if anybody would step up and maintain, like, a site that lists comics shops worth visiting (when on vacation) and web sites worth visiting when shopping for interesting comics.

That never happened.

So now I’m just gonna start keeping this blog post updated with links and stuff. The first links are just off the top of my head, so I’ll be adding stuff as we go along…

Sabin Cauldron

https://sabincauldron.gumroad.com/

Comics creator in Brooklyn

Cathy G. Johnson

https://www.cathygjohn.net/

Hello! My name is Cathy G. Johnson, and I am a cartoonist, printmaker and illustrator. This website acts as a portfolio, storewhere you can purchase my work, and archive. I am also an art educator, teaching virtually and in-person.

I am available for illustration, posters, comics and teaching! Email me at cathy@cathygjohn.net or my agent Jen Linnan at jen@linnanliterary.com.

Subscribe to my email list to stay up-to-date with my work.

Note: This is an art portfolio website, therefore it contains some mature content. Have adult supervision!

Dustin Holland

https://www.patreon.com/dhollandcomics

https://www.instagram.com/dustin.holland.artstuff/

https://www.gorchverse.com/

My name is Dustin Holland, and I’ve been writing and making art for 10+ years. My goal is to put out 3 comics and 3 zines a year. 

Last year, I put out two collections of comic strips featuring a slapstick monster named the Gorch, a field guide to imaginary birds, the second issue of THE MARVELOUS MUNCHAUSEN, and a sci-fi heist comic called THE FUTURE IS AN OPEN MOUTH. 

This year, I’m excited to be collaborating with my brother on a sci-fi comedy murder mystery called MACHINE DETECTIVE. I’ve got a bunch of other stuff in the works too, so please keep your eyes peeled. 

Your patronage will go to printing and living expenses, as I try to juggle various jobs and creative projects. 

Please visit my website: Gorchverse.com

Last Gasp

https://lastgasp.com

Publishing the art, writing and photography of the underground for 50 years!

Last Gasp is one of the largest and oldest publishers and purveyors of underground books and comics in the world. Over the years we have published, and in some cases brought to light, some of the most respected and talented artists working today, including R. Crumb, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Mark Ryden, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Frank Kozik, Todd Schorr, Winston Smith, Spain, Robert Williams, and countless others. Today, we publish 12-20 new titles per year, focusing on ‘lowbrow’ and ‘pop surrealist’ artists, as well as graphic novels and pop culture titles. We also distribute all sorts of weird ‘n’ wonderful subversive literature, graphic novels, tattoo, and art books, supplying them to bookstores and art galleries on six continents.

Ron Turner founded Last Gasp in 1970. Our first publication, Slow Death Funnies #1, came out on the first Earth Day, April 15, 1970. Subsequent comics included the all-women’s comic It Ain’t Me Babe and Skull Comics. Turner’s enthusiasm for underground comics–in particular their autobiographical aspect–has been the driving force behind many groundbreaking publications. Last Gasp published Justin Green’s highly acclaimed confessional Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary in 1972, a book that became an inspiration to many artists now working in the autobiographical style. “Art Spiegelman, who won the only Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, has said he would never have started to do the autobiographical story of his family (in the graphic novel Maus) unless Justin had done it first. And Robert Crumb said the same thing,” said Turner. Read the whole story.

Last Gasp books have been glowingly reviewed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Juxtapoz magazine, the Guardian, Hi-Fructose magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Austin Chronicle, American Book Review, and the Los Angeles Times. Last Gasp was named “Best Local Publisher” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017 and 2018 (and maybe a few in between) by readers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Our offices are located in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Verona Creative/Ingrid Pierre

https://verona-creative.com/