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Creator Bios
Amy Austin Amy Austin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Halifax. Distro titles: Neon Refuse |
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 |
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 |
Rob Hansen Cheapo Comix Rob is an illustrator, designer, and comic maker based in Halifax. Distro titles: Chetwynd #1-2 | The Narrows #1 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. Distro titles: A Brush With Debt; High Tide; Spray Days; Spring Cleaning; The Usual |
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 |
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) |
Sab Draws Bio to come Distro titles: A Sense of Space |
Christine Waugh Christine Waugh Studios Bio to come Distro titles: Oceans |
Black Rocks Books is a micropress and zine distro run by Scott Marshall. It exists to promote and celebrate comics and illustration created in Atlantic Canada (or by our expats and imports). If you have any issues or questions, please don't hesitate to contact me via email at shop@blackrocksbooks.com or ask in the BRB Discord. You can follow @blackrocksbooks on Bluesky. If you want to follow my art stuff as well you can follow @scottmarshall on BlueSky.
Black Rocks Books operates gratefully in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
We also acknowledge that people of African descent have been in Nova Scotia for over 400 years, and we honour and offer gratitude to those ancestors of African descent who came before us to this land.
This site is always under construction, and I am a broken man on a Halifax pier doing all this. Please bear with me.
The artwork shown on this site is copyright ©2025 by its respective creators.Everything else on the site is copyright ©2025 by Scott Marshall unless otherwise indicated.
All rights are reserved. Contact: shop@blackrocksbooks.com