Festival Season 
A Very Special Holiday Gift Guide of Sorts
What to get that incredibly specific someone. Hopefully we’re doing this right.
Minicomic Minute: Kids Against Getting Killed
A funny brochure-formatted minicomic by Mara Lander about managing home invasion.
Minicomic Minute: In Time
A neverending mobius strip comic by Joshua Chappell
I Went to Short Run
A traveling artist’s festival weekend diary.
Inward Odyssey
The Understanding Monster’s second chapter provides clues to Theo Ellsworth’s increasingly intricate puzzle box.
READ COMICS: An Illustrated Imperative
A wide array of beloved comics artists help illustrate a simple but important message. Block photographs by Robert Stanievich.
Achieving Flow in the Art Room
An artist/educator introduces her students to meditation practice and the concept of “flow.”
Beans, Greens, and a Snake in the Garden
Folk symbology and the indispensable perils of growth in Sophia Wiedeman’s The Lettuce Girl.
Monster in the Mist
The hazy world and unknowable inhabitants of Renée French’s Baby Bjornstrand.
SPX: The Small Press Expo, 2014
Impressions of the 20th Small Press Expo from the Festival Season authors / cartoonists / book buddies.