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Life can seem bleak, but today's Fresh Friday Features offers lights among a sea of darkness. These comics will uplift you spirit, fighting against evil and negativity with weapons of humor, love, and child-like wonder.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - 1 AND A HALF: After accepting his master's "Eternal Gift", Sebastian became the living nightmare every child and pregnant woman is afraid of.
• Comic - Buni: The twisted and side-splitting hilarity of Buni! Always positive, Buni doesn’t understand that the cute world he lives in is usually out to get him.
• Comic - Lore:  A girl named Charlene gets invited to the adventurer clan's exam. Her...

Love is a battlefield and the titles of today's What's Trending set the stage for fighting in the name of love! From bitter exes, tales of revenge for fallen loved ones, or enemies turned lovers, what are you willing to do in the name of love?

Scott Pilgrim Color Collection, 1128 pages - Published by Oni Press, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

The New York Times bestselling series and basis for the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is now available in a new full-color format! Laugh as slacker Scott Pilgrim tries and sometimes fails to get his life together and win the heart of the literal girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers! Cry when things look bleak for our heroes! Make a...

Our Creator Interview series returns with an insightful conversation with DC Horn, Editor in Chief and Writer for XanCon Entertainment. With much experience in crowdfunding, and an incredibly varied range of comics in style, themes, and subject matter, this is one interview everyone should read!

GlobalComix: Tell us a little bit about XanCon Entertainment, yourself, and how you got into making comics!

DC Horn: Hello! Thank you for the opportunity to be here. I am DC Horn, “editor-in-chief” and writer for XanCon Entertainment. XanCon Entertainment was named after a dueling card game that I was developing titled “The Xanatopian Conflict.” This card game...

Last Friday, we posted our second #CreatorAppreciation Month activity, asking creators to share their first page and newest page of the comic. We've collected some responses here that we enjoyed, so make sure to check out the works of these creators.

NEVER STUDIOS

Read Never Studios comic here 

Never Studios, has published many indie comics, and flagship series like DOCTOR PLAGUE, Castle Lugbúrz and KIRA: A Star Wars Story.

Comments from ArtCrumbs: An extremely great example of a creator promoting their work with so much passion. Nearly everyday Never Studio (Louis) is out there promoting their work, which is also drawn very well. Please check them...

Listen up, kid. I’ve put together a list of six gritty, indie comics for today's Popular Last Week that'll take ya deep into the underworld of the mafia—stories filled with power, loyalty, and betrayal. Read these if you wanna learn what it really takes to survive in this business, but remember—once you’re in, there’s no getting out. Capisce?

Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years, 757 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

It's been a decade since teen comic book nerd Dave Lizewski donned his homemade Kick-Ass costume and took to the streets of NYC to fight the city 's hardest criminals. This New York Times bestseller...

Welcome to the August 12th-17th edition of This Week on GlobalComix, where we feature new arrivals hitting digital shelves.

New arrivals this week are below, including Frank Cho's Jungle Girl; Army of One; Magic Planeswalkers: Noble; and more!

Monday, August 12th

Frank Cho's Jungle Girl: The Complete Omnibus - New Arrival

Dynamite proudly presents Frank Cho's Jungle Girl! Overseen by co-writer and artist Frank Cho and infused the issue with everything Cho fans want to see — beautiful women, thrilling adventures, and, of course, dinosaurs — Jungle Girl also features Co-writer Doug Murray (Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes, The...

Today's Fresh Friday Features have buried secrets in the depths of their pages and it's up to you to solve them! From bizarre dolls made from living children to missing young girls and whodunit murder mysteries, there's hidden truth just waiting to be exposed. Can you solve these mysterious tales?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Porcelain: Beryl’s life in the desert, living with her aunt and her cat, is relatively simple…until the day she finds and enters the Dollhouse. Stuck inside an ever changing mystery house that hunts children and turns them into dolls, Beryl goes on a psychedelic journey.
• Graphic Novel - Julycanthropy: When Alex, a young...

Who knows what the future holds? The titles of our What's Trending take a guess and use future possibilities as their creative playgrounds. Which future would you want to live in?

TAKESHI - The Web Comic Series, 3836 pages - Published by Unbound Vision, (cc/ @UnboundVisionStudios)

Follow the hilarious and adorable adventures of Aki and Shiro as they do battle against the forces of evil... and boredom! TAKESHI The Web Comic Series was created by Ryan Lai. Consider supporting us on patreon for exclusive artwork, rewards and benefits! Patreon.com/UnboundVision

Story and Art by Unbound Vision

RAGS, 260 pages - Published by Antarctic Press, (cc/ @JDu...

Our Creator Interview series returns with Charlie McElvy of @Xion Studios. With multiple series in the works as well as experience in crowdfunding, Charlie has some serious knowledge that is valuable to creators and publishers alike. Add in a consistently positive attitude and a love for comics and manga, and he was an easy choice for an interview.

Don't forget to check out his active Kickstarter campaign for American Yakuza, which is incredibly close to funding with about 2 weeks left. Good luck and let's dive into the interview!

GlobalComix: Tell us a little bit about your work, yourself, and how you got into making comics!

Charlie McElvy: Wow, is there a character...

Last Friday, we posted our first #CreatorAppreciation Month activity, asking creators to share their comics, their creator names, and how long they've been making comics. We enjoyed reading through the responses and saw some creators posted to Instagram and even Facebook! We're so happy you've enjoyed sharing your posts with us, and so we'd like to return the favor by highlighting replies that stood out to us.
 

Bwillet Comics

Read Bwillet's titles here 

Bwillett Comics, unique stories featuring weirdly endearing characters and tropes that lull you into a false sense of security.

Comments from ArtCrumbs: With a large amount of...

Welcome to the August 5th-10th edition of This Week on GlobalComix, where we feature new arrivals hitting digital shelves.

New arrivals this week are below, including BOOM! Studios' Guerrilla Green, and the definitive first edition of G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO from Image Comics!

Monday, August 5th

Guerilla Green - New Arrival

“PLANT...EVERYWHERE!” Ophélie is a thirty years old city-dweller who’s joined the guerilla gardening movement fighting for decades to bring more green back into cities that increasingly resemble concrete jungles. Now she’s putting the guerillas’ motto into action by reviving the...

From the games on the field to the realms of consoles, a little friendly competition never hurt anyone, right? Today's Popular Last Week features titles taking games seriously! Can you keep up with these professionals?

Metroid: OTHER FEMME, 18 pages - Published by The Force Media, (cc/ @omorales81)

This story delves into the psychology and trauma that haunts intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran. Discover on a new take on Samus' origin story that draws from all of the lore from METROID, and adds some new ideas. This is a fan fiction based on Nintendo Co. Ltd's titular franchise.

Story and Art by The Force Media

Earthbound part 1, 152...

We're incredibly excited to announce that Offline Reading is now available in the GlobalComix app! Available to GlobalComix Gold members, you can now enjoy reading on the go - even without a data connection.

Explore an incredible growing catalog of 60,000+ stories and download them to read offline, anywhere, anytime. Download the latest version of the GlobalComix app for your devices to start your offline reading journey.

The oddballs of life get the center stage in today's Fresh Friday Features. From a once-human slime at an all-human high school to the stranger who appears one day in a quiet village, there's always that one person in every group. Life is full of strange people, and that can make for some very bizarre stories!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - When the Blood Has Dried: Meabh has taken over as proprietor of The Lough Inn, finding a semblance of peace after a lifetime of adventuring…however, the proposed opening of a branch of the Adventurers’ Guild risks dragging her past into the present.
• Graphic Novel - The Cult of Pizza: Two pizzeria employees and...

What's in a style? The pages and panels of today's What's Trending feature grunge-styled artwork in all its variations. From tales of revenge to apocalyptic scenes, what darkness will lift itself from the pages into your mind?

METAMORPHOSIS: We As Mortals, 897 pages - Published by Jester On Mars, (cc/ @JesterOnMars)

“Have the Gods abandoned us? Or do They revel in the monstrous nature of Their creations killing for sport?” The world is on its final breath. It hopelessly tries to recover after the merciless assault from 20 years ago by the Demigod: Saevel… Follow Arel, a young outcast who dreams of becoming a hero, as she tries to find her place...

GlobalComix is proud to announce an entire slate of activities supporting independent creators and those who make up teams putting out amazing works in the comics, manga, and webcomic industries.

Here's a breakdown of what we've planned for the month:

• Social Media activities with a dedicated hashtag (#CreatorAppreciation) to share and promote your comics each week
• A variety of news content including interviews, curated features, and special articles celebrating creator achievements and sharing creator knowledge
• Creator-focused promotion through Twitter and Instagram posts
• Launching new creator-focused features
• Celebration of the most popular creator-made...

Welcome to the July 29th - August 3rd edition of This Week on GlobalComix, where we feature new arrivals hitting digital shelves.

Upcoming stories this week includes exciting urban stories and the Spawn-inspired Rat City from Image Comics, tales of sportsmanship, growing up, and dangerous beings from Oni Press, a new Omnibus from Archaia Entertainment, more fang-tastic Vampirella tales from Dynamite Entertainment, and finally an entire swath of new Biographies from NBM Publishing.

July 29th

Paklis - New Arrival

In this special standalone issue: a diverse collection of never-before-published comics from creator DUSTIN WEAVER. It’s got superhero...

Warm up your get-away cars and put on your night vision goggles, cause we're going on a heist with the comics that were Popular Last Week. Stories so unbelievable they just might be true, follow these stories of crime, mystery and humour as they barrel towards a bombastic ending.

ALTRVERSE: The Somewhat Incredible Jackie-Boy Man, 52 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)

A long time ago, in a galax—no, wait. Gifted with Great Power and Great Respon--nope. Not that either. After a lifetime of fandom and fantasy, Jackie was caught in a strange, cosmic cock-up that gave him amazing powers! …Or at least, ‘fairly impressive physical...

Shiver me timbers, landlubbers. I'm here with a curated list of pirate comics for today's What's Trending, where we turn our focus to the scourges of the sea. Enjoy these titles, where we'll see the lives of those on the high seas, or equivalent in the unique worlds of these comics. Every take brings something new and different to the mix 

Heathen, 351 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)

SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY – Viking Style! WOMAN. WARRIOR. VIKING. HEATHEN. OUTCAST. THE GODS MUST PAY… Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, and exiled from her village for kissing another woman, the lesbian...

Gather 'round and listen to these tales of lands of desolation in today's edition of the Popular Last Week. Tales of weary travelers, burnt-out or overgrown cities, and the survivors that call those lands home. Make sure to pack lots of water and take these comics along to keep you company.

DOCTOR PLAGUE, 33 pages - Published by NEVER STUDIOS, (cc/ @LouisMihael)

DOCTOR PLAGUE, is a dark gothic fantasy inspired by Bloodborne and Castlevania, during the Black Plague, the infected transforms into horrid monsters. A plague doctor with tragic past, must fight these monsters while discovering a sinister plot that will leave the world in darkness.

Story and Art by NEVER...

Welcome to the July 22nd through 27th edition of This Week on GlobalComix, where we feature new arrivals hitting digital shelves.

Upcoming stories this week include an entire fleet of Battlestar Galactica comics from the Classic Volumes to Zarek and Death of Apollo, double helping from Red Sonja by Dynamite Entertainment, New GlobalComix Original featuring Deadbox from Vault Comics, I Kill Giants by Image Comics, Munchkin and the Wild's End Omnibus by BOOM! Studios, Pink Lemonade and Smoove City from Oni Press, and finally Cat vs Human and some classic comics like Cathy and first of many books in Peanuts Kids by the one and only Charles Schultz.

Monday, July 22

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Sometimes you have to break things down before you can rebuild. Our Fresh Friday Features this week captured the element of destruction with stories of those who suffer breakdowns, experience disorder or upheavals in their lives. Now they have to recover and begin life anew to find a new normal to live with. How would you react in these situations?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Wifwulf:  WIFWULF is an original folklore myth telling the story of Charity Bjornsdotter, a young woman in 1860s Montana who spends her days in the woods with her closest friend, a local wolf she calls Silver Slash.
• Comic - I'm a Mess: It humorously examines the characteristics and...

Grab your best animal companions and sit down to read some comics just for them! Our What's Trending shares stories and tales of amazing animals and the humans they live with or assist. From explorer cats and dogs, to missing magic creatures, to a human that's a "pet" to an enchanting dragoness, there's a story here for everyone!

The Dragoness Says Sit!, 526 pages - Published by Fafnir Fenn, (cc/ @FafnirFenn)

Flare the Dragon is tired of humans leaving their sacrificial trash on her doorstep. And she certainly doesn't want this tiny blue-haired reject... or does she?

Story and Art by Fafnir Fenn

Man's Best, 169 pages - ...

Raise the curtains, it's showtime! Today's edition of the Popular Last Week features performers, the stories they perform, and the stories of their own lives. Drama takes on a whole new meaning when you mix in a murder, vampires, burlesque, some horror, and the realities of life in the hot spotlight.

Songbird, 55 pages - Published by SparkleArts, (cc/ @SparkleArts)

Meet Yana, the glamourous new starlet at the Songbird burlesque house. She's out to make a new life for herself in Galiteia, but her past is hot on her heels... Get to know your favourite Celestis characters even better in this AU novel, brought to you by Sadie Sparkle, creator of Celestis.

Story and Art...

Welcome to the July 15th through 20th edition of This Week on GlobalComix, where we feature new arrivals hitting digital shelves.

Upcoming stories include Stan Lee's Alliances: Orphans, Green Hornet, and a heaping helping of James Bond, all by Dynamite Entertainment; the exclusive new Witchblade vertical edition by Top Cow & GlobalComix; Warlords of Appalachia by BOOM! Studios; and Lost at Sea by legendary creator Bryan Lee O'Malley & Oni Press.

Monday, July 15

Stan Lee’s Alliances: Orphans - New Arrival

From the mind of legendary comics creator Stan Lee, the architect of the Marvel Universe, comes Alliances: Orphans, a...