It’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENT WEEK at Symbolia HQ. Today, we want you to meet Ben Chabala, Symbolia’s first Digital Fellow. Ben is going to be working with us over the summer on a couple of really exciting projects, including our first-ever fiction issue (more on that soon!). We’re thrilled to have someone with a strong background in comics culture and events organizing on our team. Read more about Ben below, and please join us in giving him a huge welcome! Ben Chabala is a recent graduate of Michigan State University’s Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing Masters Program and he’s been working with comics since 2009. Ben interned for Marvel Comics right out of college and later took a position as a Marvel.com freelancer, where he writes about awesome Marvel comics and video games. Ben worked alongside Kelly Roman and Michael DeWeese to help edit and publicize their debut graphic novel, The Art of War, out from HarperPerennial in 2012. He has talked about the Hulk and digital comics at numerous academic conferences and is the panel coordinator for the annual MSU Comics Forum. Ben also has a blog, I Speak Comics, where he interviews digital comics creators, writes about fighting video games, and charts the changing face of comics in digital spaces.
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It’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENT WEEK at Symbolia HQ.

Today, we want you to meet Ben Chabala, Symbolia’s first Digital Fellow. Ben is going to be working with us over the summer on a couple of really exciting projects, including our first-ever fiction issue (more on that soon!). We’re thrilled to have someone with a strong background in comics culture and events organizing on our team. Read more about Ben below, and please join us in giving him a huge welcome!

Ben Chabala is a recent graduate of Michigan State University’s Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing Masters Program and he’s been working with comics since 2009. Ben interned for Marvel Comics right out of college and later took a position as a Marvel.com freelancer, where he writes about awesome Marvel comics and video games.

Ben worked alongside Kelly Roman and Michael DeWeese to help edit and publicize their debut graphic novel, The Art of War, out from HarperPerennial in 2012. He has talked about the Hulk and digital comics at numerous academic conferences and is the panel coordinator for the annual MSU Comics Forum. Ben also has a blog, I Speak Comics, where he interviews digital comics creators, writes about fighting video games, and charts the changing face of comics in digital spaces.

Dudes and dudettes, we are so excited: Symbolia is now available on Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire editions of Symbolia feature a panel-by-panel reading experience that makes you a part of the story. We think it’s pretty slick. Don’t delay! Here’s what’s available today: How We Survive: Our double-sized preview edition features stories on Zambian rock stars, California’s Salton Sea, theories of evolution from the Lower Congo River, and more. This issue is free and available here. We Don’t Belong: Learn firsthand about the impact of deportation from a family torn apart, discover the weird, rebellious, and conspiratorial world of third party politics in the United States, and meet a Dalit Christian pastor fighting for equality in India. Available here. The Mating Ritual: What happens when love meets science? Insect organs, love robots and non-traditional relationships populate this issue of Symbolia. Available here. From here on out, every single issue of Symbolia will be published on iPad, via PDF, and on Kindle Fire. This is part of our long-term expansion strategy, which includes an Android app this summer.  Single issues are available at Amazon.com for $2.99 a pop. Even better: You can still get our preview issue, How We Survive, for free. Get on over there and get downloading. Your support of Symbolia supports a new breed of multimedia storytelling. Thank you for being a part of our community! Note: If you currently have a PDF subscription and would like to transfer over to Kindle Fire, please email admin@symboliamag.com. We’re happy to make the change.
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Dudes and dudettes, we are so excited: Symbolia is now available on Kindle Fire.

The Kindle Fire editions of Symbolia feature a panel-by-panel reading experience that makes you a part of the story. We think it’s pretty slick.

Don’t delay! Here’s what’s available today:

  • How We Survive: Our double-sized preview edition features stories on Zambian rock stars, California’s Salton Sea, theories of evolution from the Lower Congo River, and more. This issue is free and available here.
  • We Don’t Belong: Learn firsthand about the impact of deportation from a family torn apart, discover the weird, rebellious, and conspiratorial world of third party politics in the United States, and meet a Dalit Christian pastor fighting for equality in India. Available here.
  • The Mating Ritual: What happens when love meets science? Insect organs, love robots and non-traditional relationships populate this issue of Symbolia. Available here.

From here on out, every single issue of Symbolia will be published on iPad, via PDF, and on Kindle Fire. This is part of our long-term expansion strategy, which includes an Android app this summer. 

Single issues are available at Amazon.com for $2.99 a pop. Even better: You can still get our preview issue, How We Survive, for free. Get on over there and get downloading. Your support of Symbolia supports a new breed of multimedia storytelling. Thank you for being a part of our community!

Note: If you currently have a PDF subscription and would like to transfer over to Kindle Fire, please email admin@symboliamag.com. We’re happy to make the change.

Symbolia’s Cofounder Erin Polgreen was interviewed by J-Lab on the magazine’s roll out and release last December. To date, Symbolia has been featured in over 100 publications around the globe—and we’re just getting started. Stay tuned this week for some big announcements!

Big thanks to Chris Cassidy, Kate Gardiner, and Aleia Murawski for helping make our launch such a big success.

 

 

mollycrabapple: The prosecutors didn’t understand the internet. They didn’t want to. They resented those who did. They resented their arrogance, their irreverence, their ease with the machinery that runs the world. Hackers were the new witches. Power needed them and hated them at once. So they’d make an example of the ones who embarrassed them. -Molly Crabapple for VICE “Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev” (cause my god, Weev’s conviction, then sentencing, was fucked up and bullshit)
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mollycrabapple:

The prosecutors didn’t understand the internet. They didn’t want to. They resented those who did. They resented their arrogance, their irreverence, their ease with the machinery that runs the world. Hackers were the new witches. Power needed them and hated them at once. So they’d make an example of the ones who embarrassed them.

-Molly Crabapple for VICE “Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev”

(cause my god, Weev’s conviction, then sentencing, was fucked up and bullshit)

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newstatesman: In the Frame: Time Saver Tom Huberstone’s observational comic for the New Statesman this week. 
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newstatesman:

In the Frame: Time Saver

Tom Huberstone’s observational comic for the New Statesman this week. 

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emigennis: This is happening tomorrow! You can RSVP at our Facebook event page right here. emigennis: The books have come back from the printer and I they look amazing! Floating World Comics here in Portland has been gracious enough to allow us to have our release party in their shop on the Wednesday before the Stumptown Comics Fest. A few of the artists, including Julia Gfrörer, Sam Alden, Graham Kahler, and myself, will be in attendance to chat about the anthology and our work, as well as sign copies of the book that will be available for purchase. Hope to see you there! This looks so great! Go if you can!
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emigennis:

This is happening tomorrow! You can RSVP at our Facebook event page right here.

emigennis:

The books have come back from the printer and I they look amazing! Floating World Comics here in Portland has been gracious enough to allow us to have our release party in their shop on the Wednesday before the Stumptown Comics Fest. A few of the artists, including Julia Gfrörer, Sam Alden, Graham Kahler, and myself, will be in attendance to chat about the anthology and our work, as well as sign copies of the book that will be available for purchase. Hope to see you there!

This looks so great! Go if you can!

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Help us out.  Symbolia is making some big steps forward in the coming months—but we need your help to define our direction. Please take our first-ever user survey and let us know what you’d like to see next.  As a THANK YOU, we’re going to send a luxurious art print to one lucky survey-taker. You’ll choose the image from any issue of Symbolia and we’ll send you a thing of beauty. So what are you waiting for? Tell us what you think! (Rad caticorn via Pusheen.)
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Help us out. 

Symbolia is making some big steps forward in the coming months—but we need your help to define our direction. Please take our first-ever user survey and let us know what you’d like to see next. 

As a THANK YOU, we’re going to send a luxurious art print to one lucky survey-taker. You’ll choose the image from any issue of Symbolia and we’ll send you a thing of beauty. So what are you waiting for? Tell us what you think!

(Rad caticorn via Pusheen.)

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