Every year, we gather some of our favorite creators to take our ‘Creators’ Year in Review’ survey. When thinking about this year, however, the usual questions didn’t seem to make as much sense. So, we’ve tweaked the questions a bit to better reflect what 2020 was truly like for all of us.
Profuse thank yous to the creators who took a few minutes to answer our questions. You’ll be seeing all five of their responses this week and next, as we continue our Holiday Season celebrations. Happy Holidays to all, and please stay safe!
What Were the Comics That Got You Through 2020?
A Wave Blue World Debuts New Model for Publishing Comics By Brigid Alverson | Dec 16, 2020
A Wave Blue World is an independent comics and graphic novel publisher with an unusual model: the house publishes the first issue of a new comics periodical series in print and follows it up with a complete graphic novel that is published just two months later. Readers who want to read the story in the serials format can also purchase the entire series digitally, but no single issues after the first are published in print.
Wendy and Tyler Chin-Tanner started A Wave Blue World 15 years ago in order to publish their own comics, and as the company grew, they added comics by other artists as well as anthologies, some funded on Kickstarter. The new format came with a general reorganization last year, and despite the Covid-19 pandemic, which broke out right around the time they were rolling out their first comics, they have ambitious plans for the next few years.