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Radiator Comics to Publish UM Volume One by buttercup!

by Neil Brideau

Radiator Comics is proud to announce we will be publishing UM Volume One by buttercup to debut at the Small Press Expo in September 2024.

UM is a magical girl comic about Eugenée, a Black, nonbinary, aspiring birth-worker who finds themself mixed up in a millennia-old conflict between the powers that be and a faction of cosmic, shamanic midwives.

We are running a pre-order campaign via Crowdfundr, March 4 – 31, 2024 to offset the production cost of the book. You can preview the campaign, and sign up to be notified when it launches at crowdfundr.com/umvolume1

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Drew Lerman

Radiator Comics to Publish Escape From the Great American Novel by Drew Lerman

by Neil Brideau

Radiator Comics is proud to announce we will be publishing Escape From The Great American Novel, a 176-page collection of Drew Lerman’s online comic strip, Snake Creek.

Escape from the Great American Novel follows best friends Roy and Dav as they find themselves on opposite sides of a battle between apocalyptic oil barons and bomb-chucking anarchists. But Dav just wants to write the Great American Novel, while Roy wonders what the big deal is—after all, their world is only another fiction. Continue reading →

Fizzle No. 1 by Whit Taylor

Fizzle is Nominated For Outstanding Series Ignatz Award!

by Neil Brideau

In celebration of Whit Taylor’s series, Fizzle being nominated for an Ignatz Award, we’re offering free PDF downloads of the first three issues until September 11. Read them here:

Download Fizzle No. 1
Download Fizzle No. 2
Download Fizzle No. 3

If you prefer physical comics over digital ones, you can order copies here:

Purchase Fizzle No. 1
Purchase Fizzle No. 2
Purchase Fizzle No. 3

Or subscribe to the first five issues:
Fizzle Subscription
Subscribers receive new issues before anyone else, get deep discounts on shipping, and exclusive bonus items!

You can vote for the Ignatz Awards!
Register by September 7th here.
See all the nominees here. (Congratulations Ben Passmore, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Isabella Rotman, Melissa Mendes, Sage Coffey, and all the other nominees!)
Watch the Ignatz Awards Ceremony 8:00pm EDT on September 12 on the Small Press Expo YouTube channel.

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comic cover, a giant woman reads a book while lounging on high-rise buildings with her feet in the ocean

Introducing Sun and Sand Comic Anthology

by Neil Brideau

We’re so excited to have teamed up with Black Josei Press to publish a free comics anthology featuring comics by South Florida cartoonists about the region, its people, its environment, and its food!

Sun and Sand Comic Anthology was published to coincide with Free Comic Book Day. The physical national event has been postponed, but we’ve published the anthology online today for everyone to read! You can read the comics on the site, or download a PDF, visit https://sunsandcomics.wordpress.com

Print copies will be distributed for free later this year to coincide with the rescheduled Free Comic Book Day.

This 28-page anthology features ten new comics by Neil Brideau, P. C. de la Cruz, Jessica Garcia, Jayro Lantigua, Drew Lerman, Isai Oviedo, Miriam Rae-Silver, Jamila Rowser, Estrella Vega, and Carina Vo (cuhreenah)!

The print version was printed by KSY Press, and a portion of the funding was made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through their Knight Arts Challenge.