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.
Take It Off
“There’s a man in the ER and he’s taking off his shirt and getting ready to fight with security.”
We love this new project! Cartoonists depicting things overheard on the Chicago Police Scanner=Comedy Gold.
Molly Crabapple draws the Fight to Save America’s Best Free College.
We're #25 in Amazon's non-fiction graphic novel list! Click to get us to the top 10!
This is totally amazing news. Kindle editions of Symbolia can be read within the Kindle app on any tablet. To help us break into the top 10, please purchase one of the below issues:
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.
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.
And we are so pumped. Get it: iPad or PDF.
In this issue, you’ll find stories about making open relationships work, the logistics of loving a sexbot, and more. Pretty cool, right? The Mating Ritual is included with the cost of subscription and is also available for $2.99 as a single issue purchase.
Secondly, this issue features a super rad collaboration between Symbolia, Popular Science, and Tumblr. Shape Matters explores the life and work of an artist-turned-mad scientist who has dedicated her career to the study of insect genitalia. Written and illustrated by Andy Warner and featuring 360 degree animated GIFs of insect copulatory organs, this is one of our finest published works to date. Don’t miss it! Other amazing talent in this issue includes:
- Matt Bors and Sarah Mirk interview three people who are making non-monogamous relationships work.
- Audrey Quinn and Kat Fajardo on how—and why—humans might love sexbots.
Also! Please take this short user survey to help shape all of our tomorrows.One lucky survey taker will win a beautiful Symbolia art print from the story of their choice! So hop to it and tell us what you want to see next.
To read this issue, subscribe to Symbolia via iPad or PDF Edition.
P.S. We want to give a special shout out to Chris Mohney and the great team at Tumblr’s Storyboard for supporting Symbolia. We’re honored to have worked with you and can’t wait to see what you do next.
