Fanbase Press is honored to announce that its upcoming LGBTQ+ coming-of-age graphic novel, Four-Color Heroes, will feature a foreword by GLAAD Award-winning writer David M. Booher (Killer Queens, Canto), as well as an essay by clinical psychologist and media consultant Dr. Drea Letamendi on protecting the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth.
The Fanbase Press staff is thrilled to announce that they will be participating in Valor Con 2023, a free one-day convention coordinated by (and hosted at) Val Verde Unified School District in Perris, CA. Taking place on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., attendees will have the chance to meet a host of talented comics creators and organizations, including Eisner Award winner John Jennings, NAACP Image Awards winner David G. Brown, Eisner Award nominee Norm Harper, Comadres y Comics, the Comic Art Professional Society, Christie Shinn, Don Walker, and many more! Be sure to stop by the Fanbase Press booth, where you can purchase all of our comics and graphic novels, including award-winning titles like Ripple Effects, Nuclear Power, and Quince, as well as meet Quince creator Sebastian Martinez-Kadlecik! The team will also be participating in incredible panels, so be sure to check out the programming schedule below.
Prospera seems like a perfect world with its comfortable lifestyles, white-collar jobs, and lack of death, at least in the most common sense. Once the monitor implanted in each citizen’s arm falls to a certain level, they are gently shepherded to the Nursery by a ferryman to be reset into a childlike state and eventually returned to Prospera as a ward of adult members of the community; however, the Support Staff that take care of the menial jobs on Prospera live ordinary human lives with aging, illness, and suffering, while resentful towards the idyllic Prosperan community is growing rapidly. Whispers of a rebel group known as the Arrivalists spread, and an unsuspecting ferryman called Proctor Bennett will be sucked into the heart of the conspiracy when his father’s retirement doesn’t go as planned.
The following is an interview with author Rebecca Yarros regarding the upcoming release of the New Adult fantasy novel, Fourth Wing, from Red Tower Books. In this interview, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief Barbra Dillon chats with Yarros about her creative process in bringing the story and characters to life, what she hopes that readers may take away from the story, and more!
Since March of 2020, Fanbase Press' weekly Comics & Coffee Zoom sessions have provided comics industry professionals with an opportunity to discuss ways to cope with the changing comics landscape in light of the global pandemic. As a new year begins and the impact of COVID-19 continues, it is not lost on us that comic book conventions - and the opportunity to connect with industry colleagues personally and professionally - will not take place in the same manner for the foreseeable future. To provide further opportunities to connect with industry creators, publishers, media, retailers, and educators during our collective quarantine, Fanbase Press will be hosting its weekly Comics & Coffee virtual meetup on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at 10 a.m./PT (1 p.m./EST). Fanbase Press' Comics & Coffee is a FREE hour-long Zoom session taking place every Saturday, welcoming new and experienced comics pros to a virtual meetup that aims to fill the convention-less void with networking opportunities, sharing creative successes and failures, and troubleshooting ways to navigate the industry in the weeks and months to come.
In The Fanbase Weekly, the Fanbase Press staff and a host of special guests from across the pop culture spectrum discuss the top geek stories of the week.
As a special feature of The Fanbase Weekly podcast, the Fanbase Feature focuses on and celebrates a specific element of geek culture.
Here at Fanbase Press, we strive to provide an outlet for up-and-coming creators to promote and showcase their incredible works. With thousands of creators utilizing crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo to make those works a reality, we will highlight these talented creators and their noteworthy campaigns through #CrowfundingFridays! We hope that you will join us in giving these projects a moment of your time (and possibly your support)!
The following is an interview with Will O’Mullane (writer), Jonathan Stevenson (letterer), Clark Bint (artist), Butch Mapa (artist), Daniel Romero (artist), Edison Neo (artist), and Lane Lloyd (artist) regarding the recent release of the creator-owned comic book anthology, Establishing Shot. In this interview, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief Barbra Dillon chats with the creative team about their shared creative process in bringing the collective stories and characters to life, what they hope that readers will take away from the collection, whether more installments of the anthology are in the works, and more!
The Arkham Sessions, hosted by Dr. Andrea Letamendi and Brian Ward, is a weekly podcast dedicated to the psychological analysis of pop culture, including Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Universe, the MCU, Star Wars, and Doom Patrol. Nostalgic, humorous, and even a little educational, each episode promises to lend some insight into the heroes, villains, and classic stories of the Dark Knight and more!
The Arkham Sessions, Ep. 203 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi
