Prism Comics will be exhibiting at Seattle's Emerald City ComiCon on May 10th and 11th. This is the organization's fourth time attending the show, and the first year it will also be sponsoring an offsite event: a party at the nearby Eagle Bar, 314 E Pike Street, on Saturday at 8pm. "The Emerald City ComiCon is a great show, and it gets bigger and better every year," said Charles "Zan" Christensen, co-creator of the Class Comics series The Mark of Aeacus and co-founder of Prism Comics. "Emerald City's got all the usual fun superhero stuff, but with so many independent artists and publishers in town, it also has a great indie vibe. We've had a great time there the last few years and are glad to be able to come back again!" In addition to its annual resource guide, Prism Comics:  [Continue reading...]

Here's Prism's coverage of, well, everything we were interested in and which we figured our readers would be into--but if we missed something, you'll just have to come to the Con yourself next time, won't you? First off, note that the photos were taken by Jonathyn Stepp and the ones we couldn't fit here are at Flickr (plus even more here). Thanks, Jonathyn! Next, we've got Paul Florez’s report from the mean streets to the con floor (check out his pic--dressed as correspondent and not superhero): "Hey there fellow comic book lovers! This is Paul Florez, newbie to the Prism fold. In case you didn’t get the memo, New York Comic-Con happened this past weekend at the Javits Convention Center. In the past, NYCC hasn’t really had a strong presence in the big scheme of  [Continue reading...]

On April 20 at Noon, join Ivan Velez, Jr. as he presents the panel, Sticky Pages 2: Super-Queero Edition at New York Comic Con taking place in Conference Room 1E03 at Jacob Javits Center in New York City. The panel, subtitled “Gays In Comics: Glorified, Gentrified, or Ghetto-Sized?” features Phil Jimenez (Amazing Spider-Man), Ariel Schrag (Awkward and Definition), Tim Fish (Cavalcade of Boys), Stephen Sadowski (Avengers/Invaders), Joan Hilty (DC Comics Editor), Allan Neuwirth & Glenn Hanson (Chelsea Boys), Jose Villarrubia (Mirror of Love), Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother 1 & 2, Dangerous Women), Abby Denson (Tough Love), Michael Fahy (Boy Trouble), and Robert Walker (Omen), moderated by Ivan Velez,  [Continue reading...]

In association with Prism and as part of a week of events at Jim Hanley's Universe to coincide with New York Comic-Con, cartoonist Ariel Schrag will appear on Saturday, April 19, at 7:30 for a signing and interview at JHU's Empire State Building location. Ariel's first book from Simon and Schuster's Touchstone imprint—Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag—will be available. Awkward and Definition, the first of a three-book series chronicling Ariel's high-school experiences, covers her freshman and sophomore years. Totally true and achingly honest, with every cringe-inducing encounter and exhilarating first moment documented, Awkward and Definition is an unflinching look at what it's like being a teenage girl in America. By the  [Continue reading...]

Seattle, WA — On March 23, it was announced that Mark of Aeacus, the erotic thriller written by Charles "Zan" Christensen and drawn by Mark Brill, has been nominated for a 2008 Queer Award by the Comic Book Queers podcast. Its fellow nominees in the category "Best Queer Indie Book" are Strangers In Paradise, Shortpacked, Love Omnibus and So Super Duper. This will be the second annual Queerie awards handed out by the podcast, which discusses the comics industry from a decidedly queer perspective. "I'm such a big fan of the show," said Christensen, whose book was also favorably reviewed on the 50th episode of Comic Book Queers. "I got an email yesterday from Brian Andersen, who I got to know a little better last month at WonderCon in San Francisco, and he let me know we were both  [Continue reading...]

Brian Andersen’s So Super Duper #4 is now available! Check out a six page preview of the issue at www.sosuperduper.com, where you can also find out how to get your own copy. You can request it online or via email, as well as the comic shops Whatever... in San Francisco’s Castro district, Isotope Comics in the SF Hayes Valley area, and Hub Comics in Boston. So Super Duper was also recently featured on the video show "The Stack" on the website Pulp Secret. Brian has posted fan art on his MySpace page in the Fan Art section. “Everyone's fan art is so terrific and I love it all--if you want to send me some pieces please so do!!” says Andersen. Brian has also announced that he is busy working on a new comic book adorned by the pencils of Celina Hernandez. Stayed  [Continue reading...]

Dead High Yearbook, edited by Ivan Velez, Jr. and featuring contributions from Jennifer Camper and Mark McVeigh among many others, has garnered acclaimed recently with awards and nominations galore (or gore). Here’s a short listing: 2007 CYBILS Graphic Novel Nominee YALSO Great Graphic Novel Award nominee 2007 2008 Quick Picks For Reluctant Readers Award ALA Great graphic Novels For Teens Winner 2008 Published by Dutton Books, Dead High Yearbook is a full-color hardcover graphic novel that tells eight intertwined stories of teens from one high school. The characters represent a typical assortment of students: popular, unpopular, rich, poor, fat and skinny, in love and not. But while they might seem like regular kids at first, they don’t stay that way, because every  [Continue reading...]

On Monday, March 17th, GLAAD announced the winners of the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at a ceremony in New York City, hosted by Graham Norton and honoring Brian Graden and Judy Shepard. Of note to Prism readers is the recognition by GLAAD of Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise (Abstract Studio) as Outstanding Comic Book. This is the comic's second award from GLAAD, having been previously honored as Outstanding Comic Book in 2001. SiP is also an Eisner Award winner (Best Serialized Story, 1996). The series, first published in 1993, recently ended its run with Issue No. 90 in June of 2007. It centered around the relationship between two women, Francine and Katchoo and chronicled among other things, their friends David and Casey, the shadowy Big Six organization, and  [Continue reading...]

The Lambda Literary Awards have been announced for books with LGBT content published during 2007. This spring, the Lambda Literary Foundation will produce the 20th presentation of the awards (known as the "Lammys") at a gala ceremony in West Hollywood, on May 29, on the eve of Book Expo America, the annual booksellers convention. "This has been a spectacular year for LGBT publishing in terms of the number of books published and the number of participating publishers," observes executive director Charles Flowers. "Last year, we had 147 publishers nominate their books, so that's an increase of 29%, while the number of eligible books rose 22%, from 381 to 463." Among these nominees, of interest to Prism readers are: Jennifer Camper for Juicy Mother 2 (Best LGBT Anthology) Perry  [Continue reading...]

Brian Andersen, the superpowered creator of So Super Duper, has been everywhere lately (including Prism’s recent residency at SF’s WonderCon). Here’s some of the (multimedia) coverage of Brian’s recent adventures: First, Brian is spotlighted along with other queer creators (Justin Hall! Tommy Roddy!) by the San Francisco Chronicle. Second, Brian cavorts with the likes of Britney, Lindsay, Paris and…Perez Hilton? Brian’s depiction of “Super Perez” graces La Hilton’s website. Brian reaction to this “OH. MY. Good Golly Gosh!!!” Check it out. Brian definitely proves to be the "Superhero of All Media", appearing in two clips on YouTube from his reading at the Three Dollar Bill this past Sunday. Here’s Brian’s own introduction, “The quality isn't the  [Continue reading...]