And our second post today showcasing the work of our friends elsewhere in comics commentary… This time the subject is new venture The Comics Staple, from the direction of Tiffany Babb and The Comics Courier. More below, and don’t forget you can read an interview with Tiffany here at Broken Frontier last year.
Stay in the loop with The Comics Staple, a new monthly publication helmed by comics critic and editor Tiffany Babb (The Comics Courier, PanelxPanel). The Comics Staple is a brand-new 12-page black-and-white zine with a DIY aesthetic that keeps comics fans up to date on the latest books and news, shipping directly to subscribers through the mail.
The zine will feature the voices of respected comics critics and journalists David Harper, Oliver Sava, Susana Polo, David Brothers, Rob Salkowitz, Omar Valdivieso, Zack Quaintance, Jim McDermott, and Tiffany Babb to provide a curated and buzzy platform for fans who are excited to discover that new comic they should be reading. The Comics Staple will include top comics picks, reviews, interviews with creators, news roundups, indie creator spotlights, local comic shop spotlights, as well as a page on weird comics history from Mary Tyler Moorehawk artist and writer Dave Baker.
About the project, editor Tiffany Babb shares:
“I’m so excited to be working on The Comics Staple with this team of incredible writers. I really think that comics fans, myself included, have felt the splintering of the comics grapevine as social media has fallen from its heights. I’m hoping that the Staple will be a way for people to keep up with the comics that they love and learn about the new comics they should be following.”
The Comics Staple will fund through Kickstarter campaigns twice a year. Readers can pledge for six-month physical and digital subscriptions. The first Kickstarter campaign will go live in April, with the first issue of the Staple shipping in September.
To keep up to date on The Comics Staple, fans should visit the project’s pre-launch page at comicsstaple.com.
