Times are tough for comics commentary so it’s always cool to see those of us still left working together to reach new audiences. New below about our chums at Shelfdust and the Comics Courier collaborating. You can read an interview with Shelfdust’s Steve Morris here at BF and one with the Comics Courier’s Tiffany Babb here.
Wild-mannered comics website Shelfdust will be partnering with reigning comics champion Tiffany Babb to support The Comics Courier’s latest campaign – available to back through Kickstarter now!
SWING SWING! Today the alarmingly Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust has announced that it’ll be teaming up with first-ballot hall-of-famer Tiffany Babb to re-release articles originally published in The Comics Courier! A new essay from The Courier’s back catalogue will appear every Friday on Shelfdust across the course of June! To celebrate the news, errant rabbit Steve Morris has read a book of baseball terminology and masterfully applied it to this press release.
So in what can only be called a home run for fans of comics criticism, every Friday for the next few weeks Shelfdust will feature articles which originally appeared in the pages of The Courier, including essays from Babb herself, “Moneyball” Nick Marino, and “Live-Arm” Lillie Hochwender. Many are describing this news as sweet chin music which has pulled the string from Uncle Charlie.
First created by grand-slam champion Tiffany Babb in 2024, The Comics Courier is a tabloid-sized newspaper-format journal of in-depth comics criticism power-pitched at fans who love a tactile, old school reading experience. Having successfully funded three campaigns previously, the current Kickstarter campaign for issue #4 of the Courier is now-running, having successfully beaned the general public and reached its funding target already. Truly, a five-tool player.
Backers of the latest edition will find essays from a loaded-base-worth of terrific critics including Armaan Babu, Hagai Palevsky, Kate O’Donoghue, Kathryn Hemmann, Samantha Puc, Shaenon Gaerrity, Tynan Stewart, Zack Quaintance, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (several of whom have also written for Shelfdust, fact-fans!) Reached for comment on the news, Babb said “Go Angels” and did an improvised Wade Meckler dance.
So run off to Shelfdust this Friday, and then follow it up by racing straight on through www.comicscourier.com
