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this is paloma and milo's shared check please blog bc both of us have fallen too hard to subject our mains with this hockey hell

[fozzie]

in response to many requests, you can now buy a digital copy of my head’s in the game, but my heart’s in the song, a queer high school musical zine by [myself] and [paloma hernando]!

[purchase here]

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Missed a chance to jump on our kickstarter? want a PDF of each of our books for yourself? Got the book, loved it, now want to give it as a gift?

You’re in luck! Check out our online store today!

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ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT TO BRING THIS ANTHOLOGY TO LIFE!

Okay everyone, we are 4 days away from the end of this campaign (Dec. 14!) and we need all the help we can get! Right now we need to raise $3,600 to reach goal.

Click here to back now, before it’s too late!

This is a book about stories, about culture, and most importantly, about using magic and comics to make the world a more beautiful place. Not only is this book full of beautiful stories, the creators in this book deserve to be promoted and have their work out in the world! This book is made up of more than 80% queer creators and almost half of the creators are POC.  Please, indie anthologies like this are so important to help artists starting out, and to begin to turn comics into a sustainable career. Even a dollar can make all the difference. Here’s the link, one more time: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1124513664/the-sun-and-the-wayward-wind-relaunch

If you cannot give, please signal boost as much as you can!

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Taking a lyrical and humorous approach on late-night drives, Celia Lowenthal brings us “Highway Homilies”, five verses that parallel the liminal spookiness of modern American highway rest stops to old European fairytales and lore.

Celia’s illustrative and sequential work are equally stunning, both demonstrating her indubitable grasp on narrative and composition. Just look at her illustrated telling of the Gisla Saga to see what we mean! 

You can support Celia by getting a fabulous print of her many artworks on INPRNT, checking out her portfolio at celialowenthal.com , and following her @celialowenthal here on Tumblr and Instagram, and on Twitter as well!

To read “The Highway Homilies” and more, don’t forget to make a pledge to “The Sun and the Wayward Wind” today!  🚗 ✨

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3, 2, 1, AWAY WE GO!

Check it out! It’s our new Kickstarter campaign for “The Sun and The Wayward Wind” https://tinyurl.com/y9epr5up

For the first 24 hours, we have a special “early bird” discount on “The Chupacabra” tier and for the first 48 hours, a discount for “The Wampus!”

This campaign will run from November 13th to December 13th giving us a full 30 days to spread the word and bring in as many pledges as we can. Please share our campaign to all your friends, family, everyone you know who’s a lover of folklore and storytelling! Every share can help tremendously in bringing this book to life. Thank you so much and whether you’re a returning supporter or are a new backer, we hope you’ll join us in the next step of our journey!

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The early bird deals are over!!!!! Thank you to all who jumped onboard and got us this far, we’re so excited to be almost halfway to funding already! We’re just getting started with “The Sun and the Wayward Wind,” and only going full steam ahead from here. 

Our first artist feature is on Megan Kelchner (@cocokat here on tumblr!). Megan’s tale follows the relationship of Sal and a ghost in the river of the nearby woods, as their warm feelings for each other grow through the changing seasons. 

Megan’s sense of color, lighting and mood is so visually fantastic, and similarly subtle and romantic narratives shine through all of her illustration and comics work. Check out her portfolio at megankelchner.com , and support her work by also following her at @Megnutk on Twitter and Instagram!

Don’t forget to also check out the whole anthology, live now on Kickstarter!!

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We have just about a week left on the Kickstarter Campaign!!!

Our latest announcement introduces our newest guest artist: Tillie Walden! If we reach $45,000, Tillie will be creating a brand new, textural marker comic, in the style of some of these recent sketches she’s been doing.

We will also be donating 20% of any profit garnered from this Kickstarter to the Maryland Immigrant Rights Coalition and the National Immigration Law Center!

Please pledge or share our Kickstarter, we still have a long way to go but we believe in the value of these comics and the diverse, marginalized voices in our anthology!

[sagecoffey]

3 page Preview for my piece “The Legend of Snake Mountain”

I made this comic for The Sun and the Wayward Wind, a fantastic anthology from the Dandelion and Wine Collective!  THE KICKSTARTER IS STILL GOING ON TOO! I’m doing Black and White character commissions as one of the teirs! Get ‘em while they’re hot!

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In celebration of reaching $10,000, here are the first three pages of “Theo”, a comic by Sophia Zdon ( @sophiazdon )

This comic and many others are all included in the comic anthology “The Sun and the Wayward Wind” Share and support this to make sure this project gets funded! https://t.co/CQPx2PVm4G

More of Sophia’s work can be found here: https://www.sophiazdon.com

[omgcheckplease]

“Check, Please is a story about hockey and friendship and bros and trying to find yourself during the best 4 years of your life.”

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In celebration of reaching $10,000, here are the first three pages of “Theo”, a comic by Sophia Zdon ( @sophiazdon )

This comic and many others are all included in the comic anthology “The Sun and the Wayward Wind” Share and support this to make sure this project gets funded! https://t.co/CQPx2PVm4G

More of Sophia’s work can be found here: https://www.sophiazdon.com

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Ann Xu

Ann Xu ( @annxu ) is a cartoonist and illustrator working in Baltimore. Originally from the quiet suburbs of San Jose, California, she recently graduated with a BFA in illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her comics have been published as self-published minis and in anthologies like Power & Magic, an award-winning anthology from Power & Magic Press. Her work is nominated for a 2017 Ignatz Award for “Outstanding Minicomic,”

Support THE SUN AND THE WAYWARD WIND today and help bring this book to life!

How did you get started in comics and illustration?

I started doing illustration as my major in college because I wanted to pursue art, and it seemed like the field within that which suited my interests best, and that also led to me looking at more comics. I did grow up reading manga and the like, but I didn’t really have any vested interest in making comics myself until I started reading more graphic novels and stand-alone comics a few years ago. I loved the meaningful, moving stories that people had to tell, and I wanted to do that too. I felt and still feel that comics are the perfect form of storytelling–it envelopes you in its own world for a long time as a written story, but its art can also instantly connect with someone from a glance.

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A preview for “Dreadful Hours” by @madelinehmcgrane ! A story about the birth and death of a forest fire.

Read this comic and more by backing THE SUN AND THE WAYWARD WIND on Kickstarter today! http://kck.st/2wNAFPo

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A preview for “Dreadful Hours” by @madelinehmcgrane ! A story about the birth and death of a forest fire.

Read this comic and more by backing THE SUN AND THE WAYWARD WIND on Kickstarter today! http://kck.st/2wNAFPo

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Ignatz-nominee and comic artist @annxu tells us a story about Chinese Immigrants in 1906 San Francisco and an earthquake that threatens what “home” can mean. Read this comic and more by backing THE SUN AND THE WAYWARD WIND on Kickstarter today! http://kck.st/2wNAFPo

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Rest stops on long highways have always been strange and liminal spaces. Celia Lowenthal (@celialowenthal) explores some of the possibilities on the New Jersey turnpike in poetic shorts. 

Learn more about this comic by checking out our campaign and backing “THE SUN AND THE WAYWARD WIND” on Kickstarter today!

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Ashanti Fortson Interview

@ashantifortson is an illustrator and cartoonist with a deep love for kind stories and fantastical settings. Their comics work has appeared in Dirty Diamonds #7: Imagination and Tabula Idem, as well as on The Nib. They also make a queer space fantasy webcomic called Galanthus

Ashanti has a 14-page comic in The Sun and the Wayward Wind

Support the book on Kickstarter today to help bring it to life!

How did you get started in comics and illustration?

I started making comics about two and a half years ago, which feels like much longer ago than it is. I sort of stumbled into it, actually. Despite reading comics my whole life, I never actively considered it something I could do as well – at least, not until my freshman year of college. My first comic (a six-pager that I ended up completing in a week) was a response on a whim to an assignment in my digital media introductory class, and I’ve been in love with making comics since then. Over the years, I’ve become much more serious about my comics practice and about what I want to get out of making comics. I think this is reflected well in my work for The Sun and The Wayward Wind; “Heritage” delves deeper into messy, repressed, anxious feelings than some other comics I’ve made, and it’s a direction I’m greatly interested in exploring more.

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