We’re running a whole article from our latest issue at The Nib! Away From Home, by Sarah Glidden and Fran López, explores immigration, ALF, and flea markets. Click on over and take a read!

In the next issue of Symbolia, we’re looking to tell all. This issue will focus on thoughtful, revealing—sometimes humorous—first-person memoirs. We’re looking for stories of fundamental change, rites of passage, and personal transformation. Think secret lives, travel, survival, adventure, perseverance, and coming to know oneself. This issue will build on a strong tradition of autobiographical comics and zines. We’re especially excited to push the boundaries for interactive content in this issue and look forward to pitches with intriguing ideas for sounds, animation, and other elements that will enhance the story. We’re looking for writers, artists, and journalists with experience crafting interactive content. We will pay special attention to pitches for global stories. Note that all work will be fact-checked and will need to be well-documented. Symbolia pays creators for their work. The deadline to submit a pitch for this issue is FRIDAY, AUGUST 9.

Five amazing stories told by five incredible women. 

SYMBOLIA PRESENTS: HEROINES!

Prepare yourself for a powerful experience. Get it: iPad // PDF // Kindle.

Heroines is packed with incredible stories told by courageous women from around the world. Meet veterans of the U.S. military, belly dancers, women who have escaped Nepal’s human trafficking trade, and more! Heroines is included with a Symbolia subscription, and can be purchased as a single issue for $2.99.

This issue features:

Nichole Marinaccio de Freitas and Jeff Ruliffson on hard choices, tattoos, and military life.

Luna and Leela Corman share a day in the life of a belly dancer in contemporary Cairo.

Dan Archer interviews Meera, a survivor of human trafficking in Nepal.

Sara Mirk and Lucy Bellwood interview two veterans who served at Guantánamo Bay.

To read this issue, subscribe to Symbolia: on iPad // via PDF // Kindle Editions.

Makes me so happy to see that every single featured creator on @comixology is a rad lady.

Sylvie Reuter

This issue features a bang-up crew of women journalists and artists, including our very own Joyce Rice, Kat Leyh, Lindsay Beyerstein, Beth Caldwell, and Erin Siegal. Please support their work by reblogging, downloading the issue, and sharing widely.

Symbolia’s first official issue is here! If you haven’t purchased a subscription yet, now is the time. Single issues are $2.99—and only $1.99 per issue for subscribers. Get Symbolia on your iPad or via PDF today.

What you’ll get in this issue: Are you a loner? A rebel? Meet other outsiders from around the world. Our latest issue explores belonging in many forms. In it you will:

Learn firsthand about the impact of immigration policy with a family torn apart by deportation with Beth Caldwell, Kat Leyh, Joel Medina, and Erin Siegel.

Discover the weird, rebellious, and conspiratorial world of third party politics in the United States with Lindsay Beyerstein, Danica Novgorodoff, and Joyce Rice.

Meet Pastor John Yesanathu Das, a Dalit Christian fighting for equality in India with Dan Carino.

Join Symbolia’s community of subscribers today. For just $1.99 per issue, you’ll get 3-5 stories that merge comics, audio, graphics, animation, and long-form journalism in dazzling new ways.

And stay tuned: We’re releasing Kindle, Nook, and Kobo editions shortly. 

Is Jack Kirby better than The Cremaster Cycle? Can’t we just have a world FULL of things that are in some way amazing, beautiful, touching and mind boggling, and not just five or six Sistine Chapels?

Wertham and Are Comics Art? — is it 1981 again?

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Mixed-race queer woman of color making comics about life with my white transgender boyfriend.

Happy 200th Birthday, Pride And Prejudice! Here's a super rad comic from Jen Sorenson to celebrate.

Cartoon by Emily Flake. For more from this issue: http://nyr.kr/USOWBM

Hey my review of Nicole J. Georges’ wonderful new graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, is in the Philly Inquirer. You can read it if you want.

Happy new year. Time to make the comics: this first one covers the last couple weeks or so of my life: I had to jump onto an elimination diet for wheat and dairy. GOOD TIMES. Click for a larger/readable version. (and please, reblog/tweet/share if you like!)

Whattt! Symbolia is a month old today! So. Exciting.

Even Better: We're only 16 downloads away from 3,000 users on the iPad!

To celebrate, the next 16 people to download our first issue and tweet OR tumbl a screenshot/picture of you reading Symbolia will get an adorable Symbolia button (see below!) in the mail. Send your proof to [email protected]. 

Hop to it, people! Get the coolest comics journalism magazine around on your iPad today.

What will you find in future issues of Symbolia?

Here’s a sneak peek from our next issue. Lolo’s Story is about two siblings separated by deportation. Produced by Beth Caldwell, Joel Medina, and Erin Siegal, a team of multimedia journalists, and illustrator Kat Leyh, Lolo’s Story features dynamic illustration, video and audio interviews, animation, and more. It’s going to be a blockbuster.

We’re pretty excited about our next issue, in other words. If you want to get your hands on Lolo’s Story the minute it’s released, subscribe today via our iPad app or get Symbolia’s PDF edition.

Cartoon by Roz Chast. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/SHt2jA

Symbolia has arrived. 

Symbolia, founded by GraphicLadies!? curator Erin Polgreen, mixes the best of comics art with thoughtful journalism from around the world. Not only that, but Symbolia is committed to gender parity. Each issue of Symbolia features work by at least 50% women creators.

Here's how to get your mitts on Symbolia today:

Own an iPad? Then get our flagship iPad app, featuring audio, animation, and interactive infographics.

No tablet? No sweat!��Symbolia also has a PDF edition that can be read on any device.

The Details: Symbolia is a bi-monthly digital magazine dedicated to incendiary storytelling from around the world. We're merging longform journalism and sequential art to create an entirely new digital news experience. Subscriptions are $11.99 for 6 issues, and single issues will be available for $2.99 a pop. Our preview issue is free, and comes with any subscription.

Symbolia's preview issue features work by cartoonists Susie Cagle, Sarah Glidden, Kat Fajardo, and many more. Your subscription, via PDF or iPad, will help create paid work for lady cartoonists and lady journos. Please help spread the word!