It's here!! Mega excited to share our 2022 fair poster, by the brilliant
@cannedcabbage
! Over 100+ brand-new digital comics, by an array of amazing artists, coming your way this October!
A refresher:
⬩ShortBox Comics Fair is an online-only fair that takes place every October
⬩100+ artists participating from around the world!
⬩Each exhibiting artist makes a brand-new comic!
⬩All 100+ new comics are released digitally on our website, available through October!
Incredibly excited to share this year's gorgeous SB Comics Fair poster by the wonderful
@cannedcabbage
! An online comics fair with a bit of a difference: each exhibitor will be debuting a new, digital comic book! In addition to special prices on our print catalogue, and more...!
Delighted to welcome
@jdebbiel
to this year's fair!
Deb JJ Lee (they/them) is a freelance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. They have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, NPR, Google, and more. Their graphic memoir, IN LIMBO, won an Ignatz and was nominated for a Harvey.
Welcoming
@kiddycup
to our lineup!
Jona is a storyboarder and comics artist from Tkaronto. They like exploring character-driven stories about troubled women and drawing funny pictures of their cats.
Announcing
@hirosemaryhello
to the fair!
Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is an Eisner, Ignatz, and Harvey award winning cartoonist best known for her books Don't Go Without Me and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, co-created with Mariko Tamaki.
Delighted to welcome
@claystorks
to our 2024 fair! Otava Heikkilä (b. 1990) is a comic author from Tampere, Finland. His work focuses on queer visual narratives, with eroticism, horror, trans experiences, and historical subjects often taking center stage.
Welcoming
@theo_plum
to our 2024 fair!
Theo is an illustrator and Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist based in the American Midwest. He likes drawing historical fiction, fantasy, and grim, ghostly atmosphere.
Welcoming
@planetsmudge
to the fair!
Sajan Rai is a freelance artist creating colourful and unsettling work, both in a canon of illustrated haiku poetry as well as comic capers following dysfunctional protagonists.
Welcoming
@narsidart
to this year's fair lineup!
Narsid is an artist based in Bangkok. His work mainly engages with narrative inspired by mythology, history, religion and traditional cultures from across the globe, to tell a story of human nature and our extraordinary soul.
Delighted to announce
@hobactea
to our exhibitor lineup!
Jay Eunjin Lee is a comics / story artist based in LA, born in South Korea. When she is not drawing she is cooking for leftovers or crying over fictional ladies.
Welcoming
@juangeedraws
to this year's fair!
Juan Gee is a Chinese artist and university student from Singapore. When not drawing science fiction and fantasy comics, JG is illustrating for tabletop games or reading up about anthropology, art history, and queer theory.
Pleased to welcome
@dadfather_
to SB Comics Fair!
Mei loves drawing colorful illustrations of any kind and silly things to make herself and her friends laugh! She enjoys reading books, angsty rock music, and things that look like her teddy bear.
Announcing
@TakiTakos
to our exhibitor lineup!
Xulia Vicente is a cartoonist & illustrator from Spain. Among her latest works are Elisa & Marcela and the Ignatz-winning I See A Knight. Some of the themes she enjoys are sapphic stories, fantasy, and horror elements.
Pleased to welcome
@nahambaz
to our 2024 fair lineup!
Nahla is an Egyptian character designer and comic artist who likes tv tropes and tarot. She graduated from CalArts character animation in 2020, and has been freelancing and making comics ever since.
Delighted to welcome Reima to our exhibitor lineup!
Reima is an architecture student and comic artist from France. Her favourite genres are tragedy and comedy. Her artistic preferences are just as extreme. She either goes for light and saturated colors or a dirty B&W.
Announcing
@DanielHShaffer
to our 2024 fair lineup! Daniel is a freelance illustrator and a graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is often found chewing cud in an open pasture while staring blankly at the vast sky above.
Delighted to welcome
@pearlperoni
to this year's fair!
Pearl Law is an illustrator, comic artist, visual recorder, and a zine maker. Much of her work takes inspiration from humour, literature, history, and behavioural observations.
Delighted to welcome Ash Green to SB Fair!
Ash is an Australian based children’s illustrator/ceramicist who enjoys dabbling in short comics, including a semi-regular gnome comic. Her work is created with traditional mediums and tends to be inspired by folk art and stories.
Delighted to welcome
@atjennifernie
to SB Comics Fair!
Jennifer Nie is an artist from Los Angeles working in comics and animation. When she is taking a break from drawing, she will go look at some big trees or eat a pastry.
Welcoming Jocelin Kee to the fair!
Jocelin is a sometimes poet, sometimes artist based in Hong Kong. You can sometimes find her asleep, but mostly she is awake, reading Wikipedia articles about eggs and folklore. She makes art about everyday life, teeth, and magic in strange…
Pleased to welcome
@consoroza
to this year's fair!
Born in 1992 in Argentina, Constanza Oroza works as a freelance artist for animation. She loves making comics about feelings, and drawing animals and people with swords.
Announcing
@krismukai
to our 2024 lineup!
Kris Mukai is an illustrator who has drawn for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Peachtree Publishing. She writes for tv animation including Adventure Time, Craig of the Creek, and We Baby Bears. She self publishes various comics.
Welcoming
@mcrockefeller
to SB Fair!
Matt Rockefeller is inspired by adventuring in the mountains, interpretive dancing with friends, and pondering the wonders of the universe. In addition to making comics, he works as a book illustrator and visdev artist for TV & film animation.
Welcoming
@OliveOilCorp
to the fair!
Olivia Stephens is an Ignatz Award-winning graphic novelist. Her comics explore themes of love, grief, community, and the supernatural. When not drawing, Olivia enjoys listening to torch songs and observing tree trunks.
Welcoming
@phoskitty_
to the 2024 fair!
Sandra Domz is a junior digital illustrator based in Spain. In her recent years, she took an interest in telling stories through comics. Funny, slice of life and lighthearted stories mixed in with fantasy and romance are always her go-to!
Announcing
@thebennizone
to our exhibitor list!
Benni "BENNIZONE" is an experimental painter who creates comics and other sequential art.
She is a big mixed-media fan, whose work usually springs from her feelings on lesbian identity; it's all about weird dykes!
Welcoming
@vincentlalalau
to our exhibitor lineup!
Vincent Lau is an artist from Seattle, now residing in Los Angeles. He mostly works on animated projects in exchange for money. Outside of drawing, he enjoys dabbling in watersports and is also an avid collector of Smiskis.
Featuring a textless excerpt of my comic for
@SBComicsFair
!! The reception will be Sat April 13 in Taito City, Tokyo, at
@almostperfectjp
There will be free drinks >:)
Announcing
@alexcsiple
to the fair lineup!
Alex is a Venezuelan-American multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on design and writing for animation. They love emotional storytelling and making comics that poke and prod and kiss the viewer on the mouth.
Announcing Arantza Peña Popo to our lineup!
Arantza Pena Popo is an Ignatz Award-nominated Afro-Colombian cartoonist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores autobiographical and fictional narratives of queerness, disassociation and mental instability.
Welcoming Lauren Adassovsky to the fair!
Lauren is a character animator and comic artist based in Angoulême, France. She started drawing comics in 2019 with her Instagram series 'Taiko San'. When she’s not drawing taiko comics, you can find her furiously doodling rabbits.
Welcoming
@roseberrycomix
to our fair lineup!
Erin Roseberry is a cartoonist and risograph printer living in NYC. Her work has appeared in anthologies published by Iron Circus and Dirty Diamonds. She usually makes short comics about sad creatures.
Pleased to welcome
@lynvaren
to our 2024 fair!
Apoorva Rege is a Pune-based Indian illustrator with a background in animation. She is fascinated by tragicomic storytelling and loves infusing her work with a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
Pleased to welcome Spacechoo to the fair!
Spacechoo is a French author and illustrator. She draws short comics between fiction and autobiography, and she’s also fond of printmaking. Her favorite themes are unrequited love and desire, with a humorist tone!
Welcoming
@lainadeene
to our 2024 fair!
Laina Deene is an illustrator based in London. Her work focuses on experimenting with texture and colour in various loose mediums such as gouache, pastel and pencil. She explore themes such as landscape, literature and people.
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