#maple key

[ifuckingloveplants]

And now when I sway to a fitful wind, alone and listing, I will think, maple key. When I see a photograph of earth from space, the planet so startlingly painterly and hung, I will think, maple key. When I shake your hand or meet your eyes I will think, two maple keys. And if I am a single maple key falling, at least I can twirl -Annie Dillard

[maplekeycomics]

Maple Key 4 is coming very, very soon, darlings! Feast your eyes on the beautiful cover art by Sasha Steinberg. MK4 marks the debut of several brand spanking new three-part stories from Ian Richardson, Carl Antonowicz, Luke Healy, and Stephanie Zuppo, as well as the continuations of Ignatz-award winner Sophie Goldstein's the Oven, Luke Howard's Talk Dirty to Me, Joyana McDiarmid's Hale, and Sasha Steinberg's The Disappearance of Pepper Stein, and Rachel Lindsay's Rachel Lives Here Now. PRE-ORDER ISSUE 4 TODAY!

Or, even better, save yourself $9 and get a subscription for issues 4-6.

[lukewhealy]

I have had a busy summer, comics wise. I'm excited to get back to a slower working pace, honestly. But still, I've got a lot of new stuff, and I thought I'd write up a post on how you can read it. 

#1 Starlight (Teen Unofficial Fan Magazine #23)

A facsimile fanzine about a teen pop star, her strange life, and her stranger fans. 

This comic is available as a part of Dog City issue #3, an anthology that I co-edit. This is printed as a mini-comic, inside the issue, with an awesome screen-printed cover. I made the cover above, and sent it to my co-editor, expecting him to tell me it was an impossible print, but somehow he pulled it off and it looks really cool. 

You can buy a copy of Dog City #3 right here. It only ships to the USA, so I'm sorry if you don't live there (like me).

#2 Mountain, Take Me

Mountain, Take Me, tells the story of a group of teenagers, who decide to follow around their elderly neighbour, on the day she believes that the world will end. 

I'm really proud of the art on this one. I don't usually think of my drawings as a selling point for my work, but here I really put in a lot of extra time to give the pages a distinct look. I'm especially happy with a sequence late in the story that happens as the sun sets.

This comic is being published as a part of Irene #5, which you can pre-order here. I'm excited to have my work published alongside so many talented artists!

#3 The Exquisite Corpse (Part 1 of 3)

I'm doubly excited for this comic. The Exquisite Corpse tells the story of a personal trainer in the future, who switches bodies with his clients in order to exercise in their place. And, this may surprise you, not everything goes according to plan.

The reason that this comic is so exciting for me, is that it's the first of a three part story, that will be serialised in Maple Key Comics issues #4-6. 

Issue #4 is their October-November issue, so expect it to become available some time around then. For now, you can either buy physical copies of the first 3 issues, or you can also get PDFs for super cheap. I recommend you check out the PDFs at the very least, because there is some really stellar work in there. This is gonna be a series that people talk about, so I recommend you get in on the ground floor. 

Also also, Maple Key specialises in serialised stories, and some of those are 6 parters, so you can catch up with the first 3 parts before issue #4 is released. (I'm totally obsessed with Luke Howard's story Talk Dirty to Me in there.)

All of these comics will eventually be available as individual minicomics, probably at TCAF in May, which is a while away, so if you're interested, I still encourage you to buy the anthologies.

Phew. Ok. That's my summer. Oh wait, I'm also working on a secret project. Haha. BYE.

[dogcitypress]

Avast, new self-published comics are on the horizon in Pittsburgh this September!   The gang here at Dog City Press and our good friends at Maple Key Comics will be celebrating the release of the third issue of Dog City and the third issue of Maple Key Comics at The Copacetic Comics Company in Pittsburgh. Come join us on Saturday September 6th for a night of comics revelry, why dontcha? You'll have a chance to chat with comics pals and peers and enjoy food, drinks and limited editions goodies. Editors Joyana McDiarmid, Simon Reinhardt and Juan Fernandez will be present to discuss our ongoing projects.  And, of course, you can pick up copies of both publications, hot off the press!! Can't wait to see you there! (Hop on over to the Facebook event for more details) ♥ All zine and comics lovers welcome.♥

[aprilmalig]

So I starting doing a comic about a self-obsessed sugar addict moving to an unforgiving metropolitan city. Oh and she happens to be a vampire. And a princess. And a cat. And uh, nothing like me at all. 

It is for Maple Key, which you can still fund via Kickstarter for 5 more days! 

[redinkradio]

A page from my story "The Oven" that will be appearing in the Maple Key anthology!

This anthology is going to be great. Go get you some!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1175422988/maple-key-comics

[maplekeycomics]

Maple Key contributor Iris Yan is a globetrotting Brazilian cartoonist who has a PhD in Mathematics and is a professionally trained aura reader. Her story "Hotline," the first installment of which will appear in the first three issues of Maple Key, fictionalizes Yan's experiences as an operator in a student-run support hotline.

Yan's work is characterized by a simple, clean style that is extremely readable and more often than not uproariously funny. Her studies at Vermont's Center for Cartoon Studies honed her already considerable storytelling chops.

You can see more of Yan's work at her website. Stay tuned for more contributor spotlights as the Maple Key Kickstarter continues!

[giozzblr]

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