The Cow-Pie Microgrant is open til May 2020! More info here: https://www.cowhousepress.com/cowpie
Wrapping up our Summer
We’re pleased to announce that the Lemonade Summer Kickstarter is finally complete! It was a long and incredible journey - we’ve learned and grown so much from this project. Thank you so much for helping us bring this to life, believing in this project, and seeing it to the end together.
With your generosity, we donated a total of 212 copies of Lemonade Summer to libraries, youth centers, and prisons across the US! We will continue to donate copies for as long as Lemonade Summer is for sale.
Words from Gabi!
"Thank you so much everyone for all of your support and patience! I'm so lucky that you all chose to support me and the kind of positive LGBTQ+ stories I want to tell. Without you, I wouldn't have gotten this far! I plan to keep spreading the positivity with fun diverse storytelling, so keep an eye out in the future and I hope to see you again."
What’s next for Cow House?
We’ll be at zine fests and comic conventions near you! We’re also hoping to get copies out to libraries and stores in smaller cities where resources for queer youth are hard to come by. If you know of a space that would like a copy of Lemonade Summer, let us know! In the meantime, we’ll be working on new projects.
Cow House Press' New Intern!
Hey! I'm Yasmine, the new Cow House Press intern! I'm really excited to be able to be a part of the Cow House and hopefully make things at least a little bit easier for the team as the summer progresses. You'll be able to see me in action creating social media posts across the board and helping out at tabling events.
I hope you're all having a great day!
Short Gay Stories wins Prism Award!
Image courtesy of Prism Comics
The inaugural Prism Awards winners were announced this weekend at the Queer Comics Expo, and we couldn't be more excited to learn that HP Lehkonen's Short Gay Stories won in the category of small to mid-size press.
The Prism Awards recognizes works by queer authors and works that promote the growing body of diverse, powerful, innovative, positive or challenging representations of LGBTQAI+ characters in fiction or nonfiction comics." Honestly, I don't know how the judges could have chosen among all the amazing nominees!
The finalists for the awards are some of our favorite comics by amazing queer creators. See the rest of the winners here.
CAKE 2017
Thanks Gene Kannenberg Jr for the photo!
Cow House hung out with our friends, the Ladydrawers at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo this weekend! It was Connie's first time helping out at an expo table and it was a blast. Rivven brought a ridiculously amazing gudetama tent which was great for times when the show got to be too overwhelming (reminded me of the quiet spaces Chicago Zine Fest offers.)
CAKE 2017 was also the debut for the paperback version of the Wicked and The Tired. We were pretty nervous because the shipment of books didn't arrive till 8pm the night before! But they were shiny and ready
Foiled! at Chicago Zine Fest
Prep for one of our favorite shows of the year Chicago Zine Fest is in full swing. We needed extra hands so Production Assistant (and mushroom) Jenna came in to give us a hand with folding, foiling and corner-rounding the super special limited edition version of The Wicked & The Tired. (Available here)