Feeling low? Letting your job get you down? Galvin Aung Than turns beautiful quotes into incredible comics. Visit Zen Pencils for more inspiration.
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Feeling low? Letting your job get you down? Galvin Aung Than turns beautiful quotes into incredible comics. Visit Zen Pencils for more inspiration.

Head on over to CBR’s Robot 6 and feast your eyes on an EXCLUSIVE preview of Luna of Cairo, just one of the incredible stories you’ll find in the latest awesome issue of Symbolia. To read this issue, subscribe to Symbolia: on iPad // via PDF // Kindle Editions.
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Head on over to CBR’s Robot 6 and feast your eyes on an EXCLUSIVE preview of Luna of Cairo, just one of the incredible stories you’ll find in the latest awesome issue of Symbolia.

To read this issue, subscribe to Symbolia: on iPad // via PDF // Kindle Editions.

‘I’m looking forward to talking about what it takes to build a news enterprise from the ground up and what it takes to bootstrap an audience into existence, as well as how far you can go with experimental products and not a lot of capital,’ her disembodied voice says through the black computer screen.

Check out Erin’s awesome interview with Matt Millikan over at artsHUB. They talk about Symbolia, comics journalism, entrepreneurship, and tons more!

At the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this year, I posed a question to a number of comics creators: Why has Comics Journalism taken hold so well in comics, but so poorly as a quote-unquote “legitimate” form of journalism?


The response of many was that, to the contrary, no one has said that comics journalism isn’t legit.


My response in turn, was that we still can’t open up 99% of our printed media in North America to find an example of this incredible genre. 99% is probably generous. 99.9%.


Symbolia Magazine had a rebuttal for me.

Head over to ad astra comix for a little Symbolia write-up! And we have to say, we’re very happy to be part of the .01% doing comics journalism.

teenyrobots: Symbolia’s at CAKE again today, come say hi!
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teenyrobots:

Symbolia’s at CAKE again today, come say hi!

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atavist: We were at the New York Comics Symposium the other day, talking nonfiction comics, Stowaway, and Creatavist.  Our friends at the Atavist are doing great work. Give them a follow!
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atavist:

We were at the New York Comics Symposium the other day, talking nonfiction comics, Stowaway, and Creatavist. 

Our friends at the Atavist are doing great work. Give them a follow!

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In the story I’m reprinting here, we get to hear from Laura Sandow, a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served at GITMO, which morphed from a sleepy naval base to an infamous detention center during her time there. It’s fascinating not just to read Laura’s words about her attempts to process her role in the War on Terror, and how military culture has affected her emotional and mental health, but to see her experiences. (via An Exclusive Excerpt From The Next Issue of Symbolia: “Laura” And Women’s Experiences At Guantanamo | ThinkProgress) Check out an exclusive excerpt from our latests issue at ThinkProgress! And if you haven’t gotten this issue yet, don’t wait: iPad // PDF. 
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In the story I’m reprinting here, we get to hear from Laura Sandow, a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served at GITMO, which morphed from a sleepy naval base to an infamous detention center during her time there. It’s fascinating not just to read Laura’s words about her attempts to process her role in the War on Terror, and how military culture has affected her emotional and mental health, but to see her experiences. (via An Exclusive Excerpt From The Next Issue of Symbolia: “Laura” And Women’s Experiences At Guantanamo | ThinkProgress)

Check out an exclusive excerpt from our latests issue at ThinkProgress! And if you haven’t gotten this issue yet, don’t wait: iPad // PDF.