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Shortbox Comics Fair returns with more than 140 digital comics

The annual event is back this October with brand-new comics from creators around the world.

The annual Shortbox Comics Fair has returned, offering digital comics in a variety of genres from artists all over the world. It runs through Oct. 31.

The fair is curated by Zainab Akhtar, who used to run the Shortbox comic imprint, and published and sold print comics up until February of last year. The spirit of the imprint continues with the fair, which offers a wide selection of really cool comics by both veteran and up-and-coming indie creators. You can find previews of each of them on the site.

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More than 100 digital comics went up for sale today on the Shortbox Comics Fair website

The annual event features brand-new comics from creators around the world.

The annual Shortbox Comics Fair kicked off today, offering more than 100 new digital comics from artists all over the world. It runs from today through Oct. 31.

If you ever attended a small indie comics show — Small Press Expo, APE in San Francisco, etc. — this is basically the online equivalent of walking down the aisles and seeing just a ton of really cool comics by both veteran and up-and-coming indie creators. Only the creators are from around the world and you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home to read their stuff.

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Legendary Comics will never reprint ‘Holy Terror’

The publisher says the book “has not been reprinted since the initial publication and will never be reprinted by Legendary Comics.”

When Frank Miller’s 2011 graphic novel Holy Terror was published in 2011, Wired’s Spencer Ackerman called it “a screed against Islam, completely uninterested in any nuance or empathy toward 1.2 billion people he conflates with a few murderous conspiracy theorists.” Now the book is back in the news, and publisher Legendary Comics told Smash Pages they will never reprint it.

A spokesperson for Legendary gave Smash Pages the following statement:

The graphic novel was published in 2011 by a prior Comics group. It has not been reprinted since the initial publication and will never be reprinted by Legendary Comics.

Smash Pages reached out to Legendary after Zainab Akhtar of Shortbox announced she would not attend the Thought Bubble Comics Festival in Leeds, UK, because Miller was scheduled to be a guest there. 

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