BY SAI LI Sai Li is a Chinese visual artist living and working in San Francisco, California. She currently focuses on visual storytelling by means of comics, illustrations and animation. Sai has shown her work both nationally and internationally, including China Independent Animation Film Biennial Forum (Beijing), SOMArts (San Francisco), Cartoon Art Museum … Continue reading
from Leanne Grabel’s The Last Weekend of Sylvia Plath Volume II, Issue II: Fall/Winter 2014 Nonfiction Noel Franklin, Shark Teeth K-Fai Steele, Yule Lads Caitlin Cass, Ford for the Birds Kathleen Kralowec, Charming, Intelligent Abigail Lloyd, #feelings Poetry Leanne Grabel, The Last Weekend of Sylvia Plath Catherine Kyle, The Tree Donna Kuhn, … Continue reading
Dear Readers, someone asked me recently: “Why is inkt|art necessary? Does it say something about the state of comics that female creators need their own journal? Or are you just partial to the art of women?” I laughed, as I usually do, when the answer is obvious or when it’s complicated. We’re two years and … Continue reading
Dear inkt|art Readers, As those of you who are artists and writers know, there’s not much worse in the creative world than losing your work. And for reading audiences, there is nothing sadder than losing the opportunity to see fresh, new work by a favorite artist. Alas, one of our own contributors, Noel Franklin (of … Continue reading
Dear Ink Tar-Tars, Constantly complaining that “there’s nothing new to read”? That “female comics creators are hard to find”? We’ve got you covered. Here are some newly released graphic novels and some soon-to-be-released works. All of the following can be ordered or pre-ordered from Amazon. (linked images take you straight to the book’s Amazon page, … Continue reading
BY EMI GENNIS This is the story of Salomon August Andrée, Sweden’s first balloonist, who attempted to become the first person to reach the North Pole in 1897 by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. The expedition was unsuccessful. Emi Gennis is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator, and an alumna of the Savannah College … Continue reading
BY CHARLENE POTTS An award winning illustrator, Charlene Potts has created art for numerous publications and exhibitions, including The New York Times, Scholastic and the G.W. Carver Museum to name a few. With her love of both art and politics – a blissful marriage of the two in comics journalism was inevitable. She is currently … Continue reading
