Northwest Press at GeekGirlCon! Leia Weathington (creator of The Legend of Bold Riley), Justin Hall (Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny) and Charles “Zan” Christensen (The Power Within, The Mark of Aeacus) will be exhibiting at the fabulous GeekGirlCon in Seattle this weekend signing copies of the books and meeting with readers. Stop by and say hello! [...]
Oh What a (Preview) Night
Hey Northwest peeps. Zan here with a little convention check in! I really should be getting to sleep, but I’m still coming down after my action-packed day. If I fall asleep while writing this, you’ll know why. Well, the first night of Comic-Con has come and gone. (Well, technically the last night before Comic-Con has [...]
Northwest Press Goes to Comic-Con!
Comic-Con in San Diego is just days away, and we’re thrilled to have a big presence at the show this year. Northwest Press will be a major partner with Prism Comics on the convention floor, and will have talents available during the entire show to sign, sketch and visit with con-goers. Guests include Jon Macy [...]
“The Power Within” on Pride Month List on Library Journal
Martha Cornog has included Charles “Zan” Christensen and Mark Brill’s anti-bullying comic The Power Within on Library Journal’s list of 26 LGBT comics and graphic novels recommended for library collections in recognition of the upcoming LGBT Pride Month in June. This is a story created to address teen bullying and suicide. Thirteen-year-old Shannon just doesn’t fit [...]
Nominate NWP Books for Harvey Awards!
Hey there, comics professionals! The voting has opened for the 2012 Harvey Awards, and all comics industry professionals are welcome to submit their nominations for the best of 2011. I would be oh-so grateful if you could keep the four Northwest Press books from 2011—Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics, The Power Within, A [...]
The Feast of Fun Goes Inside the Out 100 with Zan
I had the great pleasure of appearing on the Feast of Fun podcast the other day, fresh off my trip to New York to go to the OUT 100 gala. We had a lengthy conversation about that and a lot of topics, and whiled away an hour-and-a-half before we knew it. Check it out! Listen [...]
Christensen and Brill Named Two of Out Magazine’s OUT 100 for The Power Within
OUT Magazine revealed today that Charles “Zan” Christensen and Mark Brill—creators of the anti-bullying comic THE POWER WITHIN—have been recognized as two of 2011′s “OUT 100″, described by the magazine as an “annual salute to the year’s most inspiring people”. Other notable honorees this year include Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Bernhard, Justin Bond, Dustin Lance [...]
Northwest Press Helps It Get Better
Today, I’m proud to let you know we made our first contribution to the It Gets Better Project from proceeds from the sale of David Kelly’s book, Rainy Day Recess. A portion of the sale of each book goes to help the organization which was started by Dan Savage in October of 2010 in response [...]
The Gay Comics List loves The Power Within!
One of the biggest challenges in doing “advocacy” storytelling is striking a nice balance between getting your message across and telling a good story. If you fail, you end up with something much less entertaining than preachy. The most rewarding feedback we’ve gotten since releasing our anti-bullying book The Power Within is that we’ve succeeded in [...]
The Power Within reviewed at Comics Bulletin
Jason Sacks at Comics Bulletin recently reviewed Mark Brill and Charles “Zan” Christensen’s anti-bullying comic, The Power Within and gave the book highest marks: five out of five silver bullets! We were especially pleased to note that the book had reached beyond the LGBT audience and resonated with a straight married man with three kids; we [...]
The Mark of Aeacus #1
The Mark of Aeacus #2
Glamazonia T-Shirt
The Power Within
Pickles
The History of Jayson… So Far
Fearful Hunter #1
Diary of a Catering Whore: Year One
Pride High #1
