Liz Mac was terrified. It was the first time she was presenting her work as an illustrator at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival. And there she was, last August at Alderney Landing, beside local stars like cartoonist Andy Cotnam. A self-taught illustrator, she’d only been to DCAF once before, in 2014, and that was as an […]
Faith Erin Hicks
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Got Faith?
“I owe my career to the internet, which is awesome and scary at the same time,” says Faith Erin Hicks, animator extraordinaire (whose serial Superhero Girl you may remember from The Coast’s comics page). But she’s not bragging. “The fact that I’m making comics as a living is astonishing,” she admits. After heading to the […]
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Super Friends
If you’ve been enjoying Faith Erin Hicks’ webcomic Friends With Boys in carefully meted out daily installments online, you’re lucky. Friends With Boys is being released in its entirety in graphic novel form February 28 through First Second Books (Strange Adventures book signing on March 3, 2-4pm) and it’s very hard not to devour the […]
