Minicomics
Minicomics and self-publishing, and the table as a distribution system.
Part of Underground Comics
28 moments in this segment.
- - ron rege's cartoon utopia. Ron Rege Jr. talks about alchemy and Catholicism and the drawings that became The Cartoon Utopia.
- - Craig Thompson Talks Shop at Brooklyn Book Festival. Craig Thompson steps away from signing copies of Habibi to show the pens, brushes and paper he draws with and to talk about his path through comics. Filmed on the floor of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
- - Artists read their favorite comics at Short Run Seattle 2014. A short film made at the Short Run Comix and Arts Festival in Seattle in which exhibiting artists read aloud from the comics that mattered most to them. Atoosa Moinzadeh, ET Russian, Jean de Wet, JT Wilkins, Katy Lester, Aaron Mew, Casandra Lopez and Joshua Boulet take part.
- - Interview with Jordan Crane - The Comics Alternative. Jordan Crane discusses a new issue of Uptight alongside the rest of his self-published output, including the printing decisions behind his hand-made editions.
- - FLUKE inside the 40 Watt. Tables fill the Athens, Georgia rock club that hosts the annual minicomics and zine festival, a one-day show run without a trade floor.
- - FLUKE banner outside. The festival banner hung on the 40 Watt Club, advertising the 2018 edition.
- - Small Press Expo 2019 Recap (Full Version). A cartoonist documents a trip to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, covering table packing and prep, walkarounds of the convention floor, a flip through the haul of small press books bought there, the program guide, and a breakdown of exhibiting costs.
- - Zine and Minicomic Flipthrough Making Comics and Zines. A flip-through of a personal collection of minicomics and zines recorded for a community-education class, examining formats, paper choices and binding methods, from folded single sheets to saddle-stitched and hand-sewn books.
- - Autoptic Presents: A Conversation With Audra Stang. Sean Knickerbocker talks with cartoonist Audra Stang about making comics, printmaking and comic shops, after which Stang reads an excerpt from her serialised comic Tunnel Vision.
- - SPX 2021: Ourselves, In Stories: A Documentary At The Small Press Expo (and Q&A). Marjee Chmiel's documentary Ourselves, In Stories screens at the Small Press Expo, following small-press cartoonists through the obstacles of getting new work made and read. Warren Bernard questions Chmiel afterwards about how the film came together.
- - Book Launch: Halcyon with Ron Regé, Jr. and Annie Mok. Ron Rege Jr. launches Halcyon with Annie Mok, a Fantagraphics book whose drawing Publishers Weekly singled out on release.
- - 2022 Autoptic Festival Panels. The full afternoon of panels from a Minneapolis small press festival, opening with For the Love of Short Form, in which artists working in minicomics and newspaper strips argue for the short comics story at a time when graphic novels dominate attention and monthly comics have left newsstands.
- - Tabling At My First Convention ✸ Artist Alley at Autoptic Festival. A first time behind a table in the artist alley at Autoptic in Minneapolis, from pricing the stock to what actually moved over the weekend.
- - S.P.X. 2022 Haul - Small Press Expo. A table-by-table account of what one buyer carried out of Small Press Expo 2022, including Kus! titles, Mould Map, Tommi Parrish, Christopher Forgues and Jim Woodring.
- - County's Annual Small Press Expo Features Independent Comics. Local news coverage of the Small Press Expo at a Bethesda convention hotel, with tables from independent cartoonists and publishers and organisers describing a turnout of nearly seven hundred exhibitors.
- - #128 - Ron Regé, Jr., Cosmological Cartoonist. Ron Rege Jr. began self-publishing in Cambridge in the early 1990s, and describes the spiritual turn that reoriented his comics in the 2000s.
- - Ron Regé, Jr - Xerox'd Beginnings & The Cartoon Utopia. Ron Rege Jr. traces his route from photocopied zines in early 1990s Cambridge through drumming and occult reading to The Cartoon Utopia.
- - John Porcellino - 90s Mini Comics Oral History Archives. John Porcellino began photocopying King-Cat Comics in May 1989 and has self-published seventy-nine issues of it, and he recounts that practice for an oral history of 1990s minicomics.
- - Small Press Expo (SPX) Haul 2024. Two attendees unpack Small Press Expo 2024, with prints by Tillie Walden and Emma Hunsinger and a badge designed by Ngozi Ukazu among the haul.
- - Traveling to Seattle to Sell My Comics 🏙️✨ | Short Run Comix Festival 2024 | Artist Vlog. An artist records the trip to Seattle to sell comics, calendars and merchandise at Short Run, from packing the stock to the takings.
- - GOES LIKE THIS by JORDAN CRANE | Fantagraphics | Comic Book Anthology. A review of Goes Like This, Jordan Crane's anthology collection from Fantagraphics, going through the individual stories and showing the printing and colour work across the book.
- - Small Press Expo (SPX) Haul 2025. Two attendees lay out what they bought at Small Press Expo 2025, including books by Kata Kane, Coco Fox, Bowen McCurdy and Nate Powell.
- - DC Conspiracy Comics at Small Press Expo 2025 #smallpressexpo #smallpress #incodatv #incoda. Members of the DC Conspiracy talk at their Small Press Expo table about titles they brought, among them Uneasy Weasel by Jake Warrenfeltz, Stop and Smell the Flowers by Stephen Loya, the anthology Magic Bullet, DC Punk: Fugazi 86-87 by Evan Keeling, and Eric Gordon's DC Creepers.
- - New York Comic Con 2025 - Behind the Table | Artist Vlog. Footage from an artist's table at New York Comic Con 2025, showing the booth setup, sketching and signing for visitors, and the practical side of selling prints and books at a large convention.
- - Small Press & Indie Comics Showcased At Short Run Festival ! With @ComicTropes. Short Run in Seattle is walked table by table, with a stop at the Fantagraphics shop in Georgetown and books by Nate McDonough, Jim Woodring and Josh Simmons coming away.
- - Amie Wright preps for Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2026. Comics librarian Amie Wright sets out what the 2026 Toronto Comic Arts Festival will hold, from the programming side rather than the exhibitor floor.
- - TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2026 opening day tour (TCAF) - Mattamy Centre, Toronto. Opening day of the 2026 Toronto Comic Arts Festival at its new Mattamy Athletic Centre site, walking the aisles of a free two-day event running since 2003.
- - Lark Pien - 90's Mini-Comics Oral History Archives. Lark Pien recounts the 1990s minicomics years for an oral history project, before the colouring work on American Born Chinese and the children's books that followed.