Irene

[irenecomics]

Inside 'Irene #6' by Irene Comics

Irene Comics was cofounded and is co-edited by CCS alumni Andy Warner, d.w. and Dakota McFadzean. Originally an exploration of the distinct styles of the editors themselves, it has now evolved into one of the diverse and worthwhile anthologies available. --- With each new Irene anthology

[irenecomics]

Irene at Needles and Pens in San Francisco

[dmcfadzean]

Irene spotted in the wild. Page & Panel, The TCAF Shop.

[centerforcartoonstudies]

@jaigranofsky‘s (CCS ‘12) epic comic diary Waiting for Baby, about the terrifying countdown to fatherhood is available now! OH BABY. Buy it here!

[irenecomics]

Jai has been in a few issues of Irene and he is one of our favorite artists and people. We’ve been following his progress on Waiting for Baby since the beginning and it looks to be a magnum opus.

[kevinuehlein]

Compulse 9

Sorry for the dropoff in sketchbook pages, I got sick.  Happy to announce my new 36-page collection of full-color sketchbook drawings, Compulse 9, at Short Run Seattle this Saturday, November 5th.

  View On WordPress

[gnartoons]

Short Run Comix and Arts Festival is this Saturday (11/05/16) at Fischer Pavilion in Seattle, 11-6pm. This is a free event that will showcase the work of many amazing cartoonists from the NW and beyond, it’s my favorite comix show of the year so I hope you can make it out!! Also, I’m debuting my brand new book, Swamp Mythos 3.

[kevinuehlein]

Sketchbook October 27, 2016

Compulse 9, debuting at Short Run in Seattle.

[irenecomics]

Kevin’s work was featured in irene 6. This new book looks amazing; look out for it at Short Run on Saturday, November 5th!

[ignatzhaderach]

Radishes was nominated for an Ignatz in TWO CATEGORIES yesterday my friends, and I can hardly believe it.

Read the whole thing right here: RADISHES

[irenecomics]

Congratulations to Irene contributor Carolyn Nowak on her Ignatz nomination!

[kevinuehlein]

Sketchbook June 18, 2016

[jaigranofsky]

'No Pleasing Jeeves,' a Comic by Jai Granofsky | VICE | United States

Two boys are out in the woods when they come across a giant barbecue with an alien inside it.

If you haven’t read my No Pleasing Jeeves comic, take a look-see here..

[irenecomics]

@jaigranofsky on Vice!

[benjuers]

doodle for Irene #6

[ignatzhaderach]

Good stuff in a fully stocked Etsy right now! get my comics and my gratitude! bank acct status: dust and despair.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolynCNowak

[kevinuehlein]

Disgusting Duck & Dumbass Dog in 'Dozens of Cousins' (2015)

Published in Irene 6, 2015

My comic, ‘Dozens of Cousins,’ in its entirety.  Published in Irene 6 this year, which you can still (and should) get from @irenecomics

[irenecomics]

The Comics Journal - This Week in Comics

Irene 5 was featured on The Comics Journal today. We love Irene 5, but don’t forget about our newest offering: Irene 6, which includes cartoonists from every continent. Yes, that includes Antarctica. Irene makes an excellent winter-themed holiday gift. We even have a few combo deals. There is no reason not to buy all the Irenes forever. Buy yours today!

[andywarnercomics]

The deeply important Lebanese comics magazine, Samandal, is in huge trouble, and they’re raising funds to survive. This is Lena Merhej’s comic explaining why the legal case against Samandal was brought in the first place, and how it’s even more of a crazy Kafka bullshit situation than “censorship trial” begins to explain.

For more information about the situation and why it’s so important, check out my tumblr post about it or read this recent Guardian article.

And please, please, please support Samandal as much as you can. They have a long way to go to get out of this hole. If you’re able, give them a hand.

[andywarnercomics]

If you care about comics, care about this.

Samandal is a comics magazine based in Beirut, Lebanon, but they publish artists from all over the world. The first comic I ever had published by somebody that wasn’t myself appeared in Samandal #1 back in 2007. They’ve published 15 issues in three different languages, hosted international cartoonists, set up comics events in Beirut and acted as the anchor of a wonderful and thriving comics community in the Middle East. I was a guest editor on issue 11 in 2011 when I lived in Beirut. That experience inspired the founding of my own comics anthology, Irene. Samandal’s editors are amazing people and artists. I’m lucky to call them my friends.

Samandal is in big, big trouble. Three of their editors lost a legal case brought by the Lebanese government that interpreted two out of context panels to be “inciting sectarian strife.” It’s utter bullshit. For a detailed story about the case, there’s a good New Yorker article that covers it.

The editors now face tens of thousands of dollars in fines for completely spurious charges. They’re raising money to try to stay in business. If they don’t raise enough, not only will the magazine be shuttered, but the editors could face jail time for nonpayment of their crippling fines.

Samandal matters. The Institute for Current World Affairs said: 

In the Middle East, Beirut is the vanguard of Arab comix. Samandal’s sixteen issues since 2007 have pushed artists in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia to follow suit. As Samandal’s coterie of artists experiment in Arabic, French, and English, the ‘zine has carved out space for scores of Lebanese graphic novels and other interventions across the region. 

The Hooded Utilitarian called Samandal “ground zero for Arab comics.” I love this art form, and wherever there is a group of people in this world making comics together, there is a light. Please, please consider donating to their fundraising campaign, even if this is the first time you’ve heard of Samandal. Don’t let this light go out.

[irenecomics]

Irene was inspired in part by Samandal. Irene co-founders and co-editors Andy Warner and d.w. have both contributed work to Samandal (Warner as a regular contributor and occasional guest-editor). And members of the Samandal crew have appeared in every issue of Irene beginning with issue number 2.

If you’re an Irene fan, you should really care about Samandal. And if you care about Samandal, you should contribute to this important campaign.

Copies of Irene books are included as one of the contribution perks, so if you have been procrastinating on getting your copies of the newer issues of Irene, now is your chance to do it and to stand by our sisters and brothers at Samandal!

[andywarnercomics]

[andywarnercomics]

TBT to some monsters I did for the endpapers for Irene #2 in 2013. The author bios went in those speech bubbles on the right hand side. Happy Thursday-Before-Halloween!