ALL-NEGRO COMICS, edited by Chris Robinson, wins the 2026 CHILDREN & YOUTH LITERARY AWARD, spotlighting a historic legacy. Image Comics also leads award season with multiple Nebula, Hugo, and ALA nominations, marking a major moment for its titles. https://ow.ly/cjkh50YUE9W

I'm fascinated by Kyle Baker's brief inking career. I think he was cranking to keep the lights on as he launched his brilliant career as a writer/artist, and it shows. But Kyle's genius as a cartoonist shines through and brings out something great & unique. Here he is over John Byrne on Avengers.

Really enjoy seeing what kind of influences folks identify in Free Planet. They're generally all over the place because of our effort to pull from foundational, profoundly influential scifi prose, especially Cordwainer Smith and Robert Heinlein. (I've never even seen DS9 but I know it's beloved!)

Really enjoy seeing what kind of influences folks identify in Free Planet. They're generally all over the place because of our effort to pull from foundational, profoundly influential scifi prose, especially Cordwainer Smith and Robert Heinlein. (I've never even seen DS9 but I know it's beloved!)

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The other book I read this weekend was Aubrey Sitterson and Jed Dougherty’s Free Planet. Easily one of the most inventive new Sci-Fi texts I’ve chanced across, even if it does wear its influences (40k, DS9, Dune) on its sleeve.

COSMICAT: LIFE. DEATH. REBIRTH by Rick Lopez is now available for pre-order! As seen on Next Panel Press, follow Cosmicat while he learns the truth about the past, the future, and his place within the omniverse at large in this love letter to comics, manga, and the strip format!

Free Planet. Issue #11 Published by @imagecomics.com The Freedom Guard faces a secessionist threat while Mookie and Jackson go undercover for supplies. Meanwhile, betrayal from within threatens to destroy the group. A dark space opera twist.

Free Planet. Issue #10 Published by @imagecomics.com Tensions peak on Lutheria after a refinery blast. As factions clash, the Freedom Guard investigates the Surroko mountains to find the truth before war consumes the planet.

Free Planet. Issue #9 Published by @imagecomics.com Under a crushing embargo, Lutheria faces starvation and food riots while a conflicted Freedom Guard soldier weighs treason. This action threatens the planet's independence.

A full year of conflict, drama and revolution boils over in Free Planet #12. It's the geopolitical space opera's antepenultimate issue, with violent clashes in space, betrayals, love triangles and a shocking, brutal death. Today is your LAST day to preorder Free Planet #12 at your local comic shop!

Today is FOC for our book. Watch the trailer and if you are intrigued let your local comic shop know you want a copy.

I've posted about it on here before but Free Planet, about an immediately post-revolutionary space government dealing with what comes next, is so fucking good man

A full year of conflict, drama and revolution boils over in Free Planet #12. It's the geopolitical space opera's antepenultimate issue, with violent clashes in space, betrayals, love triangles and a shocking, brutal death. Today is your LAST day to preorder Free Planet #12 at your local comic shop!

Artist ANDY MACDONALD and writers MARK ELIJAH ROSENBERG and MATTHEW ROSENBERG bring you an ongoing sci-fi adventure about finding purpose, holding onto hope, and really lonely robots. On sale May 6 from Image Comics. Add it to your sub at Coliseum of Comics now!

I still think about this podcast frequently. @ashcanpress.com, @ethansparker.bsky.social and I are all digressive & tangential enough that we left a lot on which to chew. Also: Thanks!

Excellent company in which to be; thanks, John!!! 🫡

Five months out and FREE PLANET vol 2 is already a #1 New Release on Amazon. Preorder NOW. While we ALWAYS prefer that you buy from your local comic shop, books are made or broken on Amazon, where sales are driven by algorithms informed by—you guessed it—preorders. a.co/d/06AMuN53

Five months out and FREE PLANET vol 2 is already a #1 New Release on Amazon. Preorder NOW. While we ALWAYS prefer that you buy from your local comic shop, books are made or broken on Amazon, where sales are driven by algorithms informed by—you guessed it—preorders. a.co/d/06AMuN53

FREE PLANET by @aubreysitterson.com and Jed Dougherty (no relation). We've all seen the big, glorious sci-fi revolution in movies and comics. But FP asks "what comes next?". Nothing easy, that's for sure. Bombastic and brash but still thoughtful, it's a great read. It's out now!

Does complete freedom include the freedom to secede? The Freedom Guard is confronted by that very question--in bloody, explosive fashion--in FREE PLANET #11. Landing in comic shops April 8.

Never Seen Again 2014 digital sketch. The last known drawing of these four adventurous tourists. I am certain I was under the influence of movies like The Mound and Descent while drawing it.

It's not for everyone. But if you're ready for novelistic complexity, an expansive use of the form that must be experienced in print, a comic designed for people who like to read... FREE PLANET #11 is waiting for you in your local comic shop right this very moment.

No visual medium offers the freedom of comics and FREE PLANET luxuriates in it, with charts, graphs, maps, essays and even chess diagrams. Designed for exploration, there's simply not another comic like FREE PLANET; issue #11 lands in comic shops 4/8.

FREE PLANET #11 lands in comic shops April 8, with my favorite cover thus far. A geopolitical space opera about the first completely free planet in human history, FREE PLANET takes a maximalist approach unique to the comics medium: A full meal on which to ruminate for an entire month.

FREE PLANET #11 features what I believe to be the best single panel @jebriodo.bsky.social and I have ever done. Sex, violence, justice; FREE PLANET #11 has it all; in comic shops everywhere April 8, only from @imagecomics.com.

Can a free society have prisons? How do you square the freedom of the individual with the rights of the many? With security? With hunger and poverty? What concessions are necessary? Which are acceptable? Is a truly free planet even possible? FREE PLANET #11 lands in comic shops April 8.

www.fanlightzone.com/comics/free-... if it’s FREE PLANET, @odphpodcast.bsky.social is talking about it! @aubreysitterson.com @jebriodo.bsky.social @imagecomics.com #comics #ncbd

It's not for everyone. But if you're ready for novelistic complexity, an expansive use of the form that must be experienced in print, a comic designed for people who like to read... FREE PLANET #11 is waiting for you in your local comic shop right this very moment.

No visual medium offers the freedom of comics and FREE PLANET luxuriates in it, with charts, graphs, maps, essays and even chess diagrams. Designed for exploration, there's simply not another comic like FREE PLANET; issue #11 lands in comic shops 4/8.

Free Friday archive post on Patreon: Featuring various strongwomen, some trousers, a sorceress, a superhero and some preparatory drawings for Savage Hearts and Free Planet respectively. www.patreon.com/posts/april-...

FREE PLANET #11 features what I believe to be the best single panel @jebriodo.bsky.social and I have ever done. Sex, violence, justice; FREE PLANET #11 has it all; in comic shops everywhere April 8, only from @imagecomics.com.

Folks, the reviews for the Modern Library unabridged edition of Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire including the original author notes are in: “Another life changing Dan recco” raves @aubreysitterson.com

Issue #11 is out next week!

The Comics Staple is a black and white comics zine coming to you soon! Make your pledge for a six month subscription today! comicsstaple.com

The #kickstarter for Crumbs of Fortune is live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...#kickstarter Join me and Nichole Morningstar for this long-form comic strip about a terrible telemarketer and the lunch that changed his life. Grab the early bird special today! #comicsky #comicbooks

Does complete freedom include the freedom to secede? The Freedom Guard is confronted by that very question--in bloody, explosive fashion--in FREE PLANET #11. Landing in comic shops April 8.

Can a free society have prisons? How do you square the freedom of the individual with the rights of the many? With security? With hunger and poverty? What concessions are necessary? Which are acceptable? Is a truly free planet even possible? FREE PLANET #11 lands in comic shops April 8.

FREE PLANET #11 lands in comic shops April 8, with my favorite cover thus far. A geopolitical space opera about the first completely free planet in human history, FREE PLANET takes a maximalist approach unique to the comics medium: A full meal on which to ruminate for an entire month.

This is a great example of the kind of work that can only exist in the medium of comics, and a great fun read on top of that!

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It's #podcast time, y'all! Revolutions, defining freedom, and empires, oh my! @shaunduke.net + @stephengm.bsky.social sit down w/ comics writer @aubreysitterson.com to discuss Free Planet, the comic form, and more! Audio/Vid: skiffyandfanty.com/p... T#podcastanks for listening!

Graphic Novel Review: Free Planet #1 A wildly inventive comic/graphic novel by Aubrey Sitterson and Jed Dougherty @princejvstin.com has our review at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/grap...

I'm so very proud and grateful that FREE PLANET is being recognized and appreciated by more prose-focused audiences in addition to the comics crowd. 🫡

"Free Planet did not seem like a traditional comic, and I did not read it like a traditional comic." From the magnificent @princejvstin.com's thoughtful, engaged and deliberate review of FREE PLANET volume 1 at the venerable @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/grap...

I'm so very proud and grateful that FREE PLANET is being recognized and appreciated by more prose-focused audiences in addition to the comics crowd. 🫡

A sci-fi comic for people who LIKE to read. Who want to be challenged and surprised. Free Planet vol 1 is a future history of humanity’s first completely free planet, designed for study and exploration. It’s available now and eligible for Hugo Award nominations. www.lacon.org/hugos/

In all humbleness, I do think I did a hell of a job with this review. Comics and Graphic Novels are not one of my core constituencies and so had to dig deep on this one. But yes, there are even footnotes. have you MET me?

"Free Planet did not seem like a traditional comic, and I did not read it like a traditional comic." From the magnificent @princejvstin.com's thoughtful, engaged and deliberate review of FREE PLANET volume 1 at the venerable @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/grap...