SelfMadeHero
@SelfMadeHero
Award-winning publisher of graphic novels from the quirky and humorous to the political and profound 📚 #GraphicNovels #ComicBooks #Illustration
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Over the last few years Thought Bubble and Travelling Man have teamed up to present micro-bursaries for UK-based comic creators. Every year we receive requests from our amazing community to donate towards them so, throughout May, you can now donate here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/donatemicrobur…
#LabourDay , #InternationalWorkersDay , May Day - happy all of them from SelfMadeHero!
🖌️: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Rickard Sisters
#selfmadehero #indiecomics
If you can't make it to meet jean marc rochette at #TCAF , don't worry! You can also find him at #VanCAF2024 (May 18-19th)!
And at both fests, copies of #TheLastQueen will be available in person, ahead of the North American release on May 28th!
VanCAF
#VanCaf #rochette
It's International Dance Day, and the 3rd #bookbirthday of Gareth Brookes's #TheDancingPlague !
So, keep dancing everyone - unless some unknown force is compelling you...
selfmadehero.com/books/the-danc…
#SelfMadeHero #indiecomics #internationaldanceday #bookbirthday s #bigbookbirthday
The 2024 Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation opened this month!
Fittingly, today we're sharing an excerpt from this interview by Five Books: acclaimed translator Edward Gauvin's favourite European graphic novels!
selfmadehero.com/news/authors-s…
#translation #indiecomics
O Canada! SelfMadeHero's coming back to #TCAF2024 , and with friends!
From May 11-12, we'll be in Toronto with:
- jean marc rochette (The Last Queen, Altitude, Snowpiercer)
- Peter Kuper (Ruins, The New Yorker comics)
- Mylo Choy (Middle Distance)
TCAF The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Happy 5th #bookbirthday to #MaggyGarrisson by lewistrondheim and Stéphane Oiry!
'Maggy, you're a pain... But you do have good intuition.'
selfmadehero.com/books/maggy-ga…
#SelfMadeHero #bookbirthday s #indiecomics #bigbookbirthday
'I'll frequent bars, saunter into cabarets... I'll be as anonymous as any man in the general Parisian indifference.'
🖌️: #GeorgeSand by Séverine Vidal and Kim Consigny
selfmadehero.com/books/george-s…
#SelfMadeHero #indiecomics #newcomics
'Books are invitations to travel and to encountering others: with each new page turned, another world appears before our eyes.'
Happy UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #WorldBookDay from SelfMadeHero!
'Both running and writing are acts of self-mastery and sacrifice. Each is a confrontation with oneself...'
Tomorrow is the TCS London Marathon, so we're sharing an exclusive article by Dean Martin: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
selfmadehero.com/news/the-lonel…
#selfmadehero
'Every book Peter Kuper does is a treat, both visually and narratively... #Ruins is more human than most comics dare try being.'
Thanks to Forces of Geek for the warm review! Read here: forcesofgeek.com/2024/04/ruins-…
#SelfMadeHero #PeterKuper #indiecomics #monarchbutterfly #outnow
Want to see how Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin grew up to defy 19th-century gender roles and become a legendary novelist?
#GeorgeSand : True Genius, True Woman by Séverine Vidal and Kim Consigny comes out on May 23rd!
selfmadehero.com/books/george-s…
#SelfMadeHero #indiecomics #newcomics
One great moment from #Uppsala comix fest: seeing #AimeedeJongh and #DaysofSand in the paper!
#SelfMadeHero #comix
'Uncompromising, deeply poignant and painfully sad, this is a saga of love and extinction: a testament to the passing of the past...'
Check out this fantastic review of #TheLastQueen by Win Wiacek (Comics Review) here:
comicsreview.co.uk/nowreadthis/20…
#SelfMadeHero #jeanmarcrochette
#uppsala comix fest was an amazing time! Big thanks to everyone who came to see us and Aimee de Jongh!
'til next time...
#SelfMadeHero #indiecomics #comixfest #aimeedejongh
