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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 made its first solo appearance at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo over this past weekend, and introduced con-goers to the latest addition to the NWP lineup: Rick Worley’s delightfully inappropriate A Waste of Time. Rick was on hand to sign copies of the book, do sketches and chat with fans. The response to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dorian Wright at postmodernbarney.com has written a glowing review of the new Northwest Press book, The Power Within, written by Charles “Zan” Christensen with art by Mark Brill, and featuring a bunch of superstar special guests, including Gail Simone, Phil Jimenez and Greg Rucka. The story exists strongly within the shadow of the recent media [...]
Check out this 10-page preview of Charles “Zan” Christensen and Mark Brill’s The Power Within right here on Northwestpress.com, thanks to an embedded Google Docs viewer. The book is available to order through Diamond Comic Distributors using item #JUL111189. Ask for it at your local comics shop!
While we were out in Los Angeles for Bent-Con, Jon Macy and I were joined by Justin Hall (on tinny Skype) and were the guests at the L.A. sound studio of the Comic Book Queers, and we recorded an hour’s worth of comics chat, gossip, foul language, and general silliness for their podcast. Evil Jeff [...]
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