Creative: Breaking Down The Benefits Of Making Comics [@hannibaltabu]

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The following is a first person editorial. I saw an article referencing comments by writer Jim Zubkavich, who writes the largely entertaining comic Skullkickers (among other credits): Creator says creator-owned comics pay as little as $31.25 a page—if you’re lucky. On a print run of 5000 comics (and many, many creator-owned titles sell less than [...]

Movies: Seattle Welcomes Back Langston Hughes African American Film Fest April 14th [@BlkFilmSeattle]

Black film returns to the Pacific Northwest in a major way with this power packed presentation.

Movies: David Walker Goes Indie with Damaged Goods on Amazon [@badazzmofo]

The new independent film from culture critic David Walker has been released independently.

Ten things I've learned from working for an indie Canadian Hip-Hop label

Shout-out to Camobear Records and Josh Martinez. Still killing it. Go buy their music and keep them in Coke and Ketchup Chips. You have to have a sense of humour if you are a rapper in Canada. Because you are a rapper. In Canada. Halifax (and Nova Scotia more generally) is actually a hip-hop incubator, [...]