Come visit us at Booth 2003 in the Independent Press pavilion! … [Read more...]
Fun at the Alternative Press Expo
By D. Lynn Smith Earlier this month Kymera Press and yours truly were in San Jose at the Alternative Press Expo. This is a small convention, but it still has the fun that we've experienced at other conventions. Usually, I wouldn't attempt to write anything while being this busy, but my friend … [Read more...]
A Shout Out to Men Supportring Women in Comics
By D. Lynn Smith When I decided to found Kymera Press, I was somewhat hesitant because of all the press about online rape and death threats women in comics were receiving. I was afraid that might happen to me as well. However while some women continue be harassed, I have not been harassed at all. … [Read more...]
What Do I Look For in a Comic Book Artist?
By D. Lynn Smith I recently answered some interview questions, and one of them was something like what advice would I give to artists wanting to work for Kymera Press. I talked about getting your work up on sites like Deviant Art and not being shy about displaying your work. But I thought it might … [Read more...]
Translation of Comics
By D. Lynn Smith Earlier this year, my friend Lorraine Watson started a discussion on Facebook about dialog. Since it was very interesting, I thought I’d give a synopsis of that conversation here. Lorraine asked, “Do you know if word and/or bubble placement changes for comics written in languages … [Read more...]
Richard Matheson and Lynda Carter in New Comics
By D. Lynn Smith You all know I’m a big fan of horror. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love a good horror story. Like many people my age, I used to run home from school to watch Dark Shadows every afternoon. During the same period of time, I discovered the late-night horror host Ghoulardi … [Read more...]
A Chat With Pati Nagel
By Autumn Daughetee For those of you who are not familiar with Pet Noir, it is a novel by Pati Nagle about Leon, a talking, genetically engineered cat who is indentured to a police department on an off-world space station. Leon works off the price of his creation solving crimes with his human … [Read more...]
What Fun Home and Bitch Planet Have in Common
By D. Lynn Smith A while back, Fun Home won the Tony for best musical. And guess what? It’s based on a graphic novel written by Alison Bechdel. Here is what Fun Home is all about... “In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late … [Read more...]
Kymera Press Celebrates a Triumphant Comic-Con San Diego
By Autumn Daughetee The staff at Kymera Press is back from Comic-Con International: San Diego and I’m pleased to report it was a very successful event. We were able to sell lots of copies of both of our series—Gates of Midnight and Pet Noir. We also connected with other professionals in the comic … [Read more...]
Playing with Fashion in “Gates of Midnight”
By D. Lynn Smith All of the art and lettering for Gates of Midnight #5 is complete! Paul, my wonderful husband and production editor, is busy putting it together into a book form and getting it ready to submit to comiXology Submit and the printer. Amelia Woo is working on the cover for Issue … [Read more...]
Hate has no place in the world of comics
By D. Lynn Smith Many of you probably don’t know about the controversy with the Hugo awards this year. The Hugos, along with the Nebulas, are among Science Fiction’s highest awards for writers. This year a group of people got together and stuffed the ballot box, essentially negating the validity of … [Read more...]
A Glimpse Inside the Comic Book Production Office – Part 3
By Paul Daughetee At the end of the second part of this article on the Production Office, we had created an Adobe InDesign document that contained all 32 pages of your comic. Your comic book is almost done—isn’t it!? THE BEGINNING OF THE END – It’s critical that before you go any further, you … [Read more...]