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Cover for Neon Refuse by Amy Austin

Amy Austin

Amy Austin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Halifax.

Distro titles: Neon Refuse
Available for commissions? TBD
Instagram: juicylizards

Cover for Dart Mouth #1 by Glen Carabin

Glen Carabin

Brightside Comics

Glen is a creator based in Eastern Passage, NS. Unable to find an artist to illustrate his book, Glen got creative and developed a unique style for DART-MOUTH.

Available for commissions? TBD
Glen's Substack
Monkeys Fighting Robots article
True North Country Comics interview

Cover for Illegal Bodies by Jud Crandall

Jud Crandall

Extra Final

Jud is an accomplished musician and graphic designer based in Saint John. You can read ongoing instalments of Illegal Bodies on his Patreon and follow his musical project USSE.

Distro titles: Illegal Bodies Annual 01
Available for commissions? TBD
extrafinal.com | USSE on Bandcamp

Cover for The Narrows by Rob Hansen

Rob Hansen

Cheapo Comix

Rob is an illustrator, designer, and comic maker based in Halifax.

Distro titles: Chetwynd #1-2 | The Narrows #1
Available for commissions? Yes
cheapocomix.com

Cover for Disco Ripper by Dave Howlett

Dave Howlett

Parallel World Productions

Dave is perhaps best known locally parked behind the counter at Strange Adventures in Halifax, slinging comics and knowlege in equal measure. In his spare time he makes his own comics and curates his giant collection of DVDs.

Distro titles: All Star Composite Superman #1 | The Makers | The Last Paper Route | Slamarama | The Complete Scenester
Available for commissions? TBD
Instagram: @paskettiwestern

Cover for The Last Paper Route #1

Sean Jordan

Wordburglar

Sean Jordan, better known by his stage name Wordburglar, is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Toronto. His style is best described as upbeat and charismatic with an emphasis on wordplay and humour.

Distro titles: The Last Paper Route
wordburglar.com

Cover for The Last Paper Route #2

Alex Kennedy

Sean Jordan's partner in comics, collaborating first on Adventures in Paper-Routing and cowriting The Last Paper Route comics that followed. He works as a comedian in Vancouver.

Distro titles: The Last Paper Route

Instagram: @rlextherobot

Cover for Sydney the Song Cat by Nathan Little

Nathan Little

Nathan Little is an animator based in Halifax. Sydney the Song Cat is his independent animation project, available on YouTube.

Distro titles: Sydney the Song Cat: CATching the Spotlight
Available for commissions? TBD
Instagram: @nathanlittleart

Cover for Young and Dumb by Scott Marshall

Scott Marshall

Black Rocks Books

I am the founder of the BRB distro and have been making zines for about 40 years. I started making comics of my own in the early 90s and have been publishing them for about 30 years. I am also a graphic designer and technical writer based in Dartmouth NS.

Distro titles: As Seen On Your Nana's Wall | Hey Judas | Microdose | The Insult | Young, Dumb, and Full of Comics

Available for commissions? Sometimes
heyscottmarshall.com

Cover for Breakfast at Stalin's by Charvel Rappos

Eris S. Nyx

Eris Nyx is a writer, artist and musician based in Halifax.

Distro titles: Breakfast at Stalin's (Out of stock)

Available for commissions? TBD

erisnyx.info

Cover for Zeta Zine #2 by Zeta Paul

Zeta Paul

Zeta Paul is a Mi’kmaw interdisciplinary artist. She attended The Nova Scotia University of Art and Design and fell in love with creating, through mediums such as illustration, animation, print, photography, and jewellery. Her inspiration often revolves around feelings, memories, nostalgia, intimacy communicated through color, tone and subject matter arranged in a dynamic ethereal manner.

Distro titles: ZetaZine
Available for commissions? TBD
Linktree for Zeta Paul

Cover for The Usual by Kate Phillips

Kate Phillips

Kate Phillips is an award winning illustrator and graphic novelist based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Between drawing her own comics and illustrating children's books, Kate has been exploring digital and traditional art to tell stories through a Queer, East Coast lens.
Kate has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Print Media) from Mount Allison University.

Distro titles: A Brush With Debt; High Tide; Spray Days; Spring Cleaning; The Usual
Available for commissions? TBD
katephillips.net

Cover for Go! Go! Rumble by Andrew Power

Andrew Power

Scary Mask Productions

Andrew is a animator and cartoonist from St. Johns, now living in Halifax. In addition to working on a wide variety of TV and films over the years, he also created the superhero/slice-of-life webcomic "Aptitude Test" and the anime recap podcast "Samurai Pizza Cast."

Distro titles: Go! Go! Rumble
Available for commissions? TBD
Scary Mask

Cover for Breakfast at Stalin's by Charvel Rappos

Charvel Rappos

Charvel Rappos is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator, and community organizer living and working in K'jipuktuk/Halifax. Charvel’s work is centred in a creative exploration of the everyday as a force against banality. Her work pairs instance with exploration in order to understand social and personal states, how they move, and how they remain. Process-based, her work is often used as an informal tool to produce and manage contradictions of these states; absorbent, she strives to uncover new and lost approaches to doing so.

Distro titles: Breakfast at Stalin's (Out of stock)
Available for commissions? TBD
Instagram: @dofusnark

Cover for A Sense of Space by Sab Draws

Sab Draws

Bio to come

Distro titles: A Sense of Space
Available for commissions? TBD
Instagram: @sabdraws

Cover for Oceans by Christine Waugh

Christine Waugh

Christine Waugh Studios

Bio to come

Distro titles: Oceans
Available for commissions? TBD
Instagram: @christinewaughstudios