#alternative comics

[marcelshorjian]

> THE JESTER

#alternative comics #illustration #digital art #pixel art #comics #blood tw #violence tw #unreality tw

[ezrazone]

im sharing the first chapter of a terrified child played by jeremy strong here on tumblr! (this is post 1 of 2! read the second post here)! this chapter is available to buy as a single issue! 56 full-color pages in 7"x7", all copies come signed & dedicated. $20, follow the link to purchase thru ko-fi or DM me to claim yours! spectacular new cover design by @formyths

#comics #ezra david mattes #a terrified child played by jeremy strong #memoir #experimental #alternative comics #colored pencil #traditional art #jeremy strong

[sparklecatkin]

an amazing illusion~

#mah wordz #johnny the homicidal maniac #jthm #johnny c #devi d #nny #emocore #emo #goth #alternative #alt comics #alternative comics #black and white #monochrome #jhonen vasquez

[michaelfurler]

BARK BARK GIRL is back in print! The 2nd edition of my graphic novel is out now, published a second time by the mighty PEOW! The cover is slightly different now.

«Sweary young-adult Jolanda struggles with herself, school and her dog’s off leash training. A math test is destined to change her entire life, she is destined to repeat a grade. Unless maybe, her dog…? If she’d have a couple more days, maybe this time she would study really, really, really hard? Probably.»

#bark bark girl #peow #indie comics #alternative comics #graphic novel

[garethbrookes]

An embroidery of some damned souls. From my graphic novel The Dancing Plague

#embroidery #graphic novel #comics #alternative comics #damnedsouls #contemporary embroidery #embroideredart #medieval art #medieval #the dancing plague #dancing plague

[figcatlists]

Alternative comics and literary graphic novels chart

This chart is a selection from my list of 200 alternative, art, and experimental comic books, as well as graphic novels with a literary bent. I arranged the chart in reverse order of publication to highlight the more recent titles; I also excluded some of the obvious big-name classics to make it somewhat more interesting than your standard "comic books aren't just for kids starter pack".

#comics recs #comic recommendations #graphic novels #alt comics #alternative comics #fantagraphics books #drawn and quarterly #indie comics #independent comics #alt comix

[adventuresclosetohomecomic]

Five years ago, when I was a lonely teenager with a punk fixation, I started writing a comic called Adventures Close to Home. It was an outlet for all my teen angst and a patchwork of my biggest influences at the time, intended to be an early testing ground for my growing interest in comics. I wrote about Al and Carl, two aimless 22 year-olds re-evaluating life with high school in the rear view. And then a weird thing happened: I kept writing more episodes, and slowly I started catching up to the characters in age. Today, Al and Carl are no longer twisted models of adulthood, but my peers, and I feel even closer to them as a result. I feel like we grew up together.

Today, I’m ending this chapter in the lives of both Al and Carl and myself. This will be the last Adventures Close to Home for the foreseeable future. It’s possible I’ll pick the story up again in time (I still have plenty of ideas), but it felt right to end it now. I’ve had this conclusion in mind for years, and it was time to put it to paper. As it stands, I’ve written 12 chapters and 73 pages of ACTH. They vary in quality, but I’m proud of them. I’m exploring the possibility of printing or publishing the series (under the title “Adventures Close to Home: Hold My Hair, I Think I’m Gonna Puke”), but for now you can read all of them on my website at https://www.vomitparty.com/adventuresclosetohome.

Thank you to anyone who has ever read a page of this comic, whether you were following along or reading casually on social media. I hope this story connects with you and provides a couple of laughs.

The image below is the first time I ever drew Al and Carl, circa 2018. I’ve grown a lot as a person and an artist since then, and I’m still growing up. I like to think this story is a reminder that we all are.

#acth #adventures close to home #coming of age #comics #original comic #cartoon #cartoonist #webcomic #indie comics #zine #comix #comic #alternative comics #indie webcomics #art #comic art #illustrators on tumblr

[tachyonmemories]

From "Xenozoic!" by Mark Schultz. Featured in Death Rattle no. 8 (December, 1986)

#mark schultz #xenozoic tales #alternative comics #horror art #dinosaur art #my scans

[counterintuitivecomics]

[VD: Comics, zines, and anthologies by Kimball and Laurel cover a dark table. K (pale hands, orange nails) and L (smaller pale hands) leaf through 8 comics/zines and 2 anthologies. End VD]

My partner @earnestattempts (Kimball Anderson) and I (Laurel Lynn Leake) are queer and disabled comics creators, and we want to share our work with you!

We made a short video showing off our weird artsy comics, and talking about stories that honor marginalized lives as inherently meaningful. Also about committing to disability justice and making more of our work free and accessible! To that end, we're offering some limited discounted slots for the pricier tiers too.

🌿 Kimball &/or Laurel Posts Tier: Never miss either of our behind-the-scenes posts, unless you only like one of us! We don't mind :P You also get access to an ever-increasingly captioned archive.

💭 Counterintuitive Releases: We mail you 4-6 printed comics every year, and share digital releases with you first. Plus posts!

📮 Monthly Mailers: Kimball sends you an exclusive experimental zine in the mail every month, plus you get the Counterintuitive Releases.

🐚 our free patreon post tag 🌱 my tumblr comics page & comics tag 🎐 kimball's tumblr comics tag 🎨 kimball's website 🐌 my digital shop 🍃 kimball's digital shop 👾 my comics shop 🦉 kimball's comics shop

Thanks for reading/watching! 🧡 Longer vid description under the cut.

[Longer VD: Comic books cover a dark table, while Kimball (pale hands, orange nails) and Laurel (smaller pale hands) point to their own names. They both do a silly finger wiggle as their voiceover introduces “Counterintuitive Comics”. L leafs through “Me Me Me”, where a noodle-armed Poly Morphous sobs against lush watercolors. K shows "Unfolding", a large greyscale comic featuring paper folded to reveal text and paintings. L flips through roughly sketched diagrams in her “Super Secret Mock-up COVID-19 info zine”. K shows “Holding Out”: Social Security letters, wobbly colored pencil forms resting in bed. L opens metallic “Suspension” to show scifi trappings and character focus. K pages through small, wide zine “Winter”, with a character walking in darkness. L opens artsy risograph-blue “L3no2”: comics about anxiety and depression paired with scrawled, smeared text. K opens anthology “CBA: Uncomics” to their section: broken pencil panels and halting words floating over digital, painterly textures. Then L’s: colored pencil and marker abstractions of magazine layouts melting into unparsable forms. L opens K’s anthology “Inaction Comics” to K’s pages: soft digital figures seeking reassurance and reclining on a couch. A sharp-toothed watercolor version of L writhes in self-hatred on her pages. Finally L flips through “Poly Morphous #5: Sick of Being Sick” (mini with teal cover, pink pages, pencilled comics). She makes a heart shape with her hands. End VD.]

This is our first time figuring out video descriptions - we welcome feedback!

#comics #lgbtq comics #disabled artist #queer comic #queer zines #queer artist #mini comic #poetry comics #alternative comics #abstract art #experimental comics #abstract collage #sci fi and fantasy #speculative fiction

[gergelyoravecz]

The Smiths: What She Said What she said: "How come someone hasn't noticed That I'm dead and decided to bury me? God knows, I'm ready!"

What she said was sad But then, all the rejection she's had To pretend to be happy Could only be idiocy

What she said was not for the job or Lover that she never had

What she read, all heady books She'd sit and prophesise It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead To really, really open her eyes

What she read, all heady books She'd sit and prophesise It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead To really, really open her eyes

What she said: "I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an early death And I need to cling to something!" What she said: "I smoke 'cause I'm hoping for an early death And I need to cling to something!" -> Instagram

#the smiths #morrissey #johnny marr #illustration #cartooning #comics #alternative comics #comics art #brushpen #inkdrawing #ink #black and white #post punk #the smiths lyrics #song drawing #song lyrics #meat is murder #what she said #80s music #the queen is dead

[facetsofthejewel]

New Artwork: The Autobio Comic Story-Making Begins... Check out my other comics and books available: www.blurb.com/user/shanhedg

#shannon hedges #pop art #illustration #street style #queer artist #gay art #comic art #city life #alternative comics #comic page #storyteller #storytelling #comic artist #indie comics #splash page #lgbtq

[sparklecatkin]

#mah wordz #squee #johnny the homicidal maniac #jthm #todd casil #jhonen vasquez #emo #emocore #goth #alternative #alt comics #alternative comics #monochrome #black and white

[garethbrookes]

My latest comic published by Kuš!

#comics #alternative comics #small press #art comics #watercolor #print making

[adventuresclosetohomecomic]

A day in the life of Carl. Revisit the last chapter (Al’s Day) for part 1.

#comic #comics #webcomic #art #indie webcomics #indie comics #comix #alternative comics #love and rockets #ghost world #fantagraphics #silver sprocket #punk #oc #punk art #zine #zines #comic artist #cartoonist #mine #adventures close to home #quiznos

[hockeywebcomics]

When your brain stops thinking

Yeah, the whole story of how Gretzky went to 99 is pretty cool.

I heard Eric Lindros did the same.

I hope y'alls got the reference though.

Ferda Boys is a webcomic series about hockey. It follows the lives of junior hockey players in countryside Ontario.

Ferda Boys also has its very own soundtrack, a music composed by @gunwallace, to whom I’m forever grateful. You can check it in my Soundcloud account.

#hockey #comics #webcomics #webcomic #+44 #blink 182 #wayne gretzky #eric lindros #sports comics #comics about sports #comics about hockey #hockey comics #junior hockey #ferda #ferda boys #internet comics #download comics #comics for free #read comics #hockey webcomics #canada #ontario #indie comics #alternative comics #jersey number #hockey jersey

[figcatlists]

1980s indie comics

A list of independent and alternative comic book series published in the 1980s by companies such as First Comics, Comico, Dark Horse, Eclipse Comics, and Fantagraphics. This chart is a selection from my list of nearly 100 such titles.

#comics recs #comic books #comic recommendations #graphic novels #alt comics #alternative comics #indie comics #independent comics #80s #80s comics #1980s comics #1980s