We’re glad you asked! Our newest project, Mountain, is going to be a gorgeous, full colored comic, all about friendship. Artist Bitmap Prager and writer Emily Riesbeck are a powerhouse creative team and we’re so excited to work with them.
Bitmap is the creator of “The Ashen Princess,” “Ash Skies” and “To Catch A Dream-Eater”. Her work has been featured in anthologies including “The Other Side” and the Ignatz-winning “We’re Still Here.”
Bitmap Prager is a self-professed “CMYK matriarch!” Her wild color palettes aren’t just pretty, they’re assertive and impossible to ignore.
“My work is about creating safe queer spaces in art, without denying the danger of the world or suggesting pacifism in the face of inequality. My work is about different bodies being able to occupy lived in spaces, with their own history and cultures, while making it clear you should be able to look and see yourself within those.
My work is also about punching nazis. It is visually loud, and in all places denying of supremacy or assimilation. While I may hate being put on targeting lists by white supremacists targeting Jews or trans people, I can say I'm endlessly pleased that they hate my art.”
And Emily?
Emily is a machine.
They’re a writing veteran, working on multiple projects at the same time, and churning out 10,000 words a week. They’re super detailed, their world-building is top-notch, and incredibly quotable. Some of our favorites so far are:
“My favorite topic in the world is me.”
“I hate weight-lifting, but I like having weight-lifted.”
“Bitmap, if that’s your bliss, go for it.”
Emily Riesbeck started writing comics at the ripe old age of ten, when they created their first original character, the superhero Aqua Guy. Since then, they’ve been self-publishing their superhero webcomic, The Blue Valkyrie, and their debut graphic novel, It’s Your Funeral, is being published by Iron Circus Comics. Their short comics have been featured in anthologies like Chubby and Local Haunts.