Comicbooks
BlackComicsChat Podcast
BlackComicsChat Podcast is Grace Gipson, Thelonious Legend, Marcus Kwame Anderson, Leo Faierman, and Anthony Otero. They broadcast live on Twitter and Twitch, showcasing the work of marginalized creators (along with some “rando Twitch stuff”). The Black Comics Chat first started out as a Twitter Chat in 2014 before becoming a podcast in 2015, featuring interviews…
Yuumei
Yuumei is a professional illustrator, designer, and published graphic novelist. She’s known for webcomics such as Fisheye Placebo, Knite, and 1000 Words. She’s also the original designer of the Axent Wear Cat Ear headphones that’s sold in stores. She’s been sharing her art and comics online for free all her life. She loves visual storytelling to convey the…
dinosandcomics
dinosandcomics is the a writer and artist team, James and K, who create dinosaur, a popular comic about depressed dinosaurs who find hope in each other. It’s at once irreverent and touching, simple and yet sophisticated, and always relatable. Their first book, Dinosaur Therapy, released in August 2021, is a printed collection of the dinosaur comics…
MariNaomi
MariNaomi is a queer mixed-race Japanese-American visual storyteller and community organizer who’s published four graphic memoirs, a graphic novel trilogy called Life on Earth, and many many gags, strips, diary comics, essays, and more. They’re also the creator and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and the Disabled Cartoonists databases. These resources, which feature thousands of comics creators, are free…
OliveOilCorp
OliveOilCorp is Olivia Stephens, a graphic novelist, illustrator, and writer and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Olivia has created work for a number of sites and publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Her debut graphic novel, Artie and the Wolf Moon, came out…
Rowan MacColl
Rowan MacColl is a freelance illustrator/comic-artist who’s currently working on a webcomic called Kingfisher. Kingfisher is a popular occult mystery series, set in the 1920’s, about wannabe scholar Seymour and his friend/roommate/bodyguard Gabriel trying to survive in a strange city while deciphering the secrets of an even stranger puzzle, the Kingfisher Box. Together, they hunt…
Star Prichard
Star Prichard is a full-time comic artist and illustrator who’s mostly known for her popular award-winning webcomic, Castoff, a fantasy-adventure series about a group of magical misfits on the run from the law. She’s also the host of iDOL DAYS, a podcast about all things idols in anime. Star and her co-host, Sarah, watch a variety…
Stephanie Williams
Stephanie Williams is content creator, comic editor/writer, and pop culture critic for notable publications such as SYFYFANGRRLS, Marvel, The A.V. Club, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes. You can hear her pop culture commentary on podcasts like The Lemonade Podcast and get a taste of her comic book expertise on the first two seasons…
Bianca Xunise
Bianca Xunise is an award-winning comics creator whose work deals with “the complexities of being an anxious weirdo and a magical black girl.” She says she likes to “create comics that are relatable and speaks to the hearts of my readers, to remind us all that we are not alone in our feels!” You may…
Fiona Creates
Fiona is a freelance Illustrator and comics artist whose work “fluctuates from elaborately costumed knights and witches, to flowing representations of plants, birds and other creatures.” Fiona’s work includes the ongoing digital comic series Ladies of the Knight, about a knight, her lady and their teenage squire, and a fully Illustrated, beautiful Tarot card set…