Leela Corman and Luna of Cairo have an amazing story on life as a belly dancer in Egypt slated for our June issue.

We can’t wait to share it with you. Subscribe! iPad, PDF, Kindle.

The latest issue of Inkt|art is online and it’s such a treat. This issue is all comics journalism—and all works are by lady creators. Stories include:

Sara Drake, Elsewhere

Eroyn Franklin, Detained

Noel Franklin, Last Call: Club Lingerie

Emi Gennis, S.A. Andree’s Ill-Fated Expedition

Leanne Grabel, The Family Fate Ate

Charlene Potts, Real Problems & Brilliant Solutions in America: A Guide

K-Fai Steele, Mystery Monkey

Sarah Drake has an extensive and very smart interview with Sarah Glidden up at Bad at Sports. It’s a really savvy conversation about comics, journalism, and being an artist.

Drake has created tremendous comics from Cambodia, and Glidden, a contributor to Symbolia, is working on a new book about journalism and the Middle East (check out the sneak peek above!). Their chat is totally worth a read.

Molly Crabapple draws the Fight to Save America’s Best Free College.

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.