Posted in: Comics | Tagged: , , ,


Is Sasha Matthews The First Ten Year Old Proper Comic Book Publisher?

All you need are paper, pencils, pens, an imagination, research, a scanner – and a grandfather with printing connections.

And you too could be a ten year old self publisher like New Yorker Sasha Matthews of Rumble Comics which specialises in a line of historical stories, such as the fall of Pompeii or the life of Sitting Bull.

Meticulously researched with actual books, Sasha Matthews' comics are now being sold in local book and comic stores, and have moved well into three figures of sales…

Introduced to comics by her father, with five Essential X-Men volumes, then moving on to Calvin And Hobbes, she first dabbled with a superheroic comic called Plant Girl, she moved onto more serious matters. Historiacal stories that gave her a narrative discipline, from which to innovate within…

 

 

 

Copies are currently on sale at Bank Street Bookstore, the first to stock her work, as well as stores of the Book Culture chain. And you can read a Tech Times interview below…

I was twelve when I worked out I could create and print comics using a mangle-like device at school. I managed to sell some to classmates. About five of each. I thought I was some like of prodigy. How wrong I was.

 


Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!

Stay up-to-date and support the site by following Bleeding Cool on Google News today!

Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
twitterfacebookinstagramwebsite
Comments will load 20 seconds after page. Click here to load them now.