Set in St. Louis, Missouri in the midst of Prohibition, the comics center on the Lackadaisy, a speakeasy tucked away in a cave beneath the Little Daisy Cafe, where flashing the club symbol from a deck ...

McCormick Place will be teeming with fans of superheroes from mainstream comics this weekend. But there’s an ever-expanding world of offerings outside of classic — white, male — comics. And a Chicago ...

After 12 years of success on the platform, Iron Circus Comics is conducting its first crowdfunding campaign without Kickstarter. The effort will raise publishing funds for The Poorcraft Cookbook, a ...

The comic book industry is nothing if not a volatile place in 2026, particularly in light of Diamond Comics' bankruptcy last year. It falls on smaller publishers to find new and creative ways of ...

Comics creator and entrepreneur C. Spike Trotman doesn’t like doing things the easy way. She built her company, Iron Circus Comics, on crowdfunding, back in the days when people thought that was the ...

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly common outlet for comics, for both independent creators and major publishers. Iron Circus Comics was among the first to explore the possibilities of funding ...

It’s a brand that has a decade of history behind it, but still — comics that not only don’t hail from traditional corporate publishers, but also are aimed at an explicitly adult audience can be a hard ...

The animated short, currently being crowdfunded, will be based on Tracy Butler's longrunning webcomic. By Graeme McMillan For years, Spike Trotman has been a leading light not only of independent ...

While Smut Peddler origins are ten years before that, it was the anthology collection that started a movement. The mantra is that the books are edited by women, and made for everyone, SmutPeddler ...