The Nib is an American online daily comics publication focused on

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, essays and memoir about current affairs. Founded by cartoonist Matt Bors in September 2013, The Nib is an independent member-supported publisher.

Background

Originally published on

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, the platform underwent changes in May 2015 resulting in The Nib shifting focus and publishing less content regularly. In July 2015, Bors announced The Nib would no longer publish on Medium and stated he would take the title elsewhere. He self-published a collection of comics as a print anthology called ''Eat More Comics!: The Best of The Nib'' in September 2015. In February 2016,

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announced it would partner with Matt Bors to relaunch The Nib. The site officially re-launched under First Look Media in July 2016. In October 2016, First Look Media announced that Topic, the company's multimedia storytelling studio, would produce The Nib's first animated series, also called The Nib. The series' first episode premiered in June 2017, and its second season launched in March 2018. In September 2018, The Nib magazine was launched at the Small Press Expo. In June 2019, First Look Media decided to stop funding The Nib and laid off its staff as of the end of July 2019. Bors announced he would be continuing to publish comics on The Nib with member support from its subscription service, The Inkwell. In December 2019, The Nib successfully crowdfunded a new comics anthology ''Be Gay Do Comics'', collecting works by queer artists.

Notable contributors

Ruben Bolling Ruben Bolling (born c. 1963 in New Jersey) is a pseudonym for Ken Fisher, an American cartoonist, the author of '' Tom the Dancing Bug'' and ''Super-Fun-Pak Comix''. His work started out apolitical, instead featuring absurdist humor, parodying c ...

* Gemma Correll * Mike Dawson *

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* KC Green *

Pia Guerra Pia Jasmin Guerra is an American-born Canadian comic book artist and editorial cartoonist, best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title '' Y: The Last Man''. She has worked in the comics industry since the 1990s, a ...

Chris Hayes Christopher Loffredo Hayes (; born February 28, 1979) is an American political commentator, television news anchor, activist, and author. Hayes hosts ''All In with Chris Hayes'', a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also ...

* Mattie Lubchansky *

Pat Oliphant Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (born 24 July 1935) is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years. His body of work as a whole focuses mostly on American and global politics, culture, and corruption; he is particu ...

Nate Powell Nathan Lee Powell (born 1978) is an American graphic novelist and musician. His 2008 graphic novel ''Swallow Me Whole'' won an Ignatz Award and Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel. He illustrated the ''March'' trilogy, an autobiographical ...

* Jon Rosenberg *

Jen Sorensen Jen Sorensen (born September 28, 1974, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American cartoonist and illustrator who authors a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events from a liberal perspective. Her work appears on the websites Daily ...

Ann Telnaes Ann Carolyn Telnaes (born 1960) is an American editorial cartoonist. She creates editorial cartoons in various media—animation, visual essays, live sketches, and traditional print—for the Washington Post. She also contributes to The ...

Tom Tomorrow Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of editorial cartoonist Dan Perkins (born April 5, 1961, in Wichita, Kansas). His weekly comic strip, ''This Modern World'', which comments on current events, appears regularly in more than 80 newspapers across t ...

Awards and nominations

In 2016, ''The Nib'' received a nomination for a

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for Best Anthology. In 2017, contributors Ted Closson, Sarah Winifred Searle, Eleri Harris, and

Ben Passmore Ben Passmore (born 1983) is an American comics artist and political cartoonist. Early life Born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Passmore attended art school at Savannah College of Art and Design where he majored in comics with a ...

received nominations for The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year and contributor Gemma Correll won a

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. Also in 2017, contributors Amanda Scurti and Mike Dawson received nominations for

Ignatz Awards The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...

for Outstanding Online Comic. Contributor

Bianca Xunise Bianca Xunise is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and self-described " goth of color". Her work is nationally syndicated through the ''Six Chix'' comic strip collaborative. Early life Xunise was born in Chicago to artistic parents; her moth ...

received an Ignatz Award in 2017 for her ''Nib'' comic "The Weight of Being Black in America". In July 2018, Eleri Harris won the Australian Ledger cartooning prize for her serialized ''Nib'' comic ''Reported Missing''. Contributor Charis Jackson-Barrios was awarded the 2018 Locher Award. Her winning entry included several ''Nib'' pieces. Mike Dawson also received a nomination in 2018 for an

Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ...

for Best Webcomic. In July 2019, contributor Chelsea Saunders won the Locher Award for her Nib work. In September 2019, ''The Nib'' editorial team, including Matt Bors, Eleri Harris, Matt Lubchansky, Sarah Mirk and Andy Warner, were given an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series for ''The Nib'' magazine. Also in September 2019, Matt Bors was given the Transformative Work Award at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) for changing the course of comics history. In 2019, ''The Nib'' won the

Ringo Award The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Ringo Awards, are prizes given for achievement in comic books. They are named in honor of artist Mike Wieringo and they were founded by the Reisterstown, Maryland-based Cards ...

for Best Webcomic.

References

External links

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