Crucial Comix
@crucialcomix.bsky.social
A cartoonist-run small press. We publish narrative nonfiction comics and offer affordable comics-making classes. 💅
She made an anti-catcalling sticker. When it blew up online... then the backlash arrived. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/she-mu...
She Must Be Ugly
A comic about the experiences of being a female artist and how art- and women’s bodies- are perceived by others.
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This preview of my book QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE is brought to you by @crucialcomix.bsky.social! Read the whole chapter for free on their site: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/a-brie...
Gorgeous new comic! 🐺 Other: How being a furry helped me feel at home in my body. By @apollocored.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/other-...
A brief history of coming out - from artist @newlevant.bsky.social's essential new book "Queer and How We Got Here." www.crucialcomix.com/comic/a-brie...
New comic: The Third Bronze - The mystery of a missing Italian sculpture makes me think about the unknowns of my own family history. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/the-th...
New comic by artist Mike Centeno: No Place Feels Like Home - Witnessing Trump's overreach into Venezuela from abroad. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/no-pla...
A comic for #EarthDay: The land is an ancestor we refuse to abandon. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/the-la...
A beautiful new comic about an unexpected conversation with an NYC Lyft driver. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/lyft-r...
✨New comic: Frustrating and joyful moments from being pregnant as a trans person by artist Will Betke-Brunswick. 🏳️⚧️ www.crucialcomix.com/comic/excite...
We're hosting a free artist talk with the great @mattielubchansky.com this Wednesday, 3/25 - learn about her process for making trans-centric dystopian sci-fi comics! 👀 www.crucialcomix.com/product/arti...
Artist Talk: Mattie Lubchansky
The “award-winning transsexual comics idiot” and author of Simplicity and Boys Weekend will be talking about her cartooning process.
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A new comic illustrates the raw and strange experience of developing schizophrenia. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/schizo...
Cartoonists pen a series of comics about ICE in their communities: "These personal stories matter. Small stories are how larger narratives are shaped." #iceoutcomics www.crucialcomix.com/comic/cartoo...
So honored to have an excerpt of ACE OF HEARTS up on the @crucialcomix.bsky.social website!! It’s the part of the book where I finally realize I’m asexual after years of confusion and hurt and compulsory sexuality. I hope y’all will check it out 💜💚🙂
New comic: A Canadian perspective on what boycotting the U.S. reflects about Canadian identity. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/on-the...
Want to learn how to write for nonfiction comics? We're sharing this chapter on writing for comics from new book Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative www.crucialcomix.com/comic/writin...
New comic: An art student from Pakistan shares what it's like trying to draw the human form when figure drawing classes are rare. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/figuri...
A comic I made all around failure is up now @crucialcomix.bsky.social ! It was the first time I've worked with editors and I felt challenged in all the right ways. Thank you so much team and I hope you enjoy reading. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/failin...
Gorgeous new comic by @auilix.bsky.social ✏️ "Failing beautifully: Pole dance taught me to embrace myself—even what I'd seen as my failures." www.crucialcomix.com/comic/failin...
It was a pleasure and an honor to co-edit this comic by Cee Lavery, "Swapping Genders With My Ex," with Al Benbow for @crucialcomix.bsky.social: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/swappi...
Swapping Genders With My Ex
We saw our future in each other, one where both of us would change.
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I made a spooky #zine about my chronically ill body! Thanks to @crucialcomix.bsky.social and the chronic illness comics club. Open to trades! #hallozine #chronicillness #disability #ehlersdanlos #heds kelleyclink.com/shop-1
New class announcement: Queer economies of care. How do queer folks keep each other alive, fed, housed, and laughing—especially when the system isn’t built for us?https://www.crucialcomix.com/product/queer-economies-of-care-comics-edition/
Queer Economies of Care: Comics Edition
Queer survival and resilience are the heart of this class focused on zine-making and collaborative comics.
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New class: Raising and Drawing Our Kids Through Chaos is for anyone with young kids in their life who wants to make comics about navigating this difficult political era. www.crucialcomix.com/product/rais...
Look what's fallen off the shelf and rolled all the way on over to Crucial Comix!! One of my proudest, and most unhinged comics!
Crucial Comix@crucialcomix.bsky.social · 11mo agoRavioli Unraveled: The comic essay no one asked for about that commercial where the can of raviolis follows that little girl home. By @darrenvogtart.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/raviol...
New comic: Sobriety has been a lonely road, but I made it out alright. // By @danielgwilson.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/cranbe...
New comic: As a mental health researcher, hope often feels unjustified when the reality of our brains is so complicated. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/connec...
Ravioli Unraveled: The comic essay no one asked for about that commercial where the can of raviolis follows that little girl home. By @darrenvogtart.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/raviol...
Crucial Comix is one year old today! We're celebrating our birthday by starting a Patreon, so we can be financially sustainable for the long haul. ✊ Check it out and thanks for supporting independent artists: www.patreon.com/c/CrucialComix
New comic: Creative Spark by @egogala.bsky.social - As an artist, I use all kinds of technological tools. So why does AI feel distinctly repulsive to me? www.crucialcomix.com/comic/creati...
"Comics have no walls nor borders." A powerful new anthology brings together 60+ cartoonists to support Palestine & fight despair with collective imagination. Free to read. Attached comic by Julia Mata inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
