"Indy Book of 2007"

SubCulture (Ape Entertainment) - One of the best stories I have read in years, SubCulture is a book like no other. No super-powered superheroes. No horror or sci-fi. Writer Kevin Freeman and artist Stan Yan's SubCulture is just a book about the all-too-real life of the comic book geek. Think "Clerks" for the comic book set, or "The Breakfast Club" for the comic book bunch. If you can't honestly see something of yourself somewhere in SubCulture, you must not be a true Comic Fanatic.

~Fanny's awards at TheComicFanatic.com

Squid Works comics: Reaching out to Colorado by Steve Parkes

Frustration with limited marketing and distribution opportunities led a group of Colorado-based comics creators to form Squid Works, a cooperative of independent comics creators. Or, more accurately, to reform the group. As Squid Works current organiser Stan Yan explained to Independent Propaganda, “Squid Works started as ACME Comics in the mid-1980’s with founders T. Motley and Dennis Pimple at the helm. After some differences between membership about the mission of the group and the unfair distribution of labor upon Dennis, he kicked us all out of his house (where we were having our meetings) and the remainder of the group set off on its own to ponder its existence. After deciding the true mission of our group was to further each of our self-published projects and deciding that the only name from our brainstorm session that we didn’t hate was “Squid Works”, our group was reborn in 1996.”  More