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Crowdfunding Corner: Fieldmouse Press’ Spring Line Up

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Welcome to our revamped “Crowdfunding Corner” rounding up some of the latest crowdfunding news. We’re going beyond just announcement projects, we’ll be tracking to make sure these projects get delivered as well as what we think the “risk” of backing them are.

We’ll be updating the format as we get a better handle of the needs of this sort of coverage, so stay tuned and check out the first round of projects!

Spring 2026 | Support The Latest Releases From Fieldmouse Press!

Fieldmouse Press

Publisher: Fieldmouse Press
Creative Team: Various
Launch Date: Currently funding
Risk: Low – They’ve done this before so it’s a pretty low risk.

The Cannibals by TINGUU; 978-1-956636-67-3 – May 26th 2026

The Cannibals is an 18+ queer yuri vampire horror romance set somewhere in the future in a world where vampires are regarded as worthless parasites, objects of derision, and fetish objects. The vampire Olive Yo struggles to make enough money to buy expired fake blood. Crushing on a rock star celebrity chef named Chamomile, (who only works with “ethically-sourced parasites”), an alley-way encounter leads both women on an unexpected path. Tinguu’s dystopian art is deeply satirical, sexy, horrifying, and ultimately liberating.

84 pg, 8″ x 12″ hardcover with gold leaf; color throughout

The Machine is Broken by Jared Sarnie; 978-1-956636-66-6 – May 26th

In The Machine is Broken Lux is going to kill herself… and she’s invited her mom. Lux’s sister is coming too, but she was never officially invited,  for the record . The three women travel to Zurich, home of the world’s first fully legal suicide pod. Hijinks ensue.

5.824″ x 9″ 56 pg smyth-sewn paperback with french flaps; color throughout

Stay by Jesse Rimler;  978-1-956636-72-7 – August 25th

Since her mother’s death, Wanda’s life has been one disaster after another. When she agrees to watch her sister’s dog, it feels like a chance to rebuild some kind of family peace — until a voice from an unexpected witness unearths things she wanted to forget. Darkly funny and relentless, Stay follows a woman at the edge of transformation, asking whether accountability can become a form of grace… or at least make you good enough for the family dog.

72 pg 8″ x 10″ smyth-sewn paperback with UV gloss, black and white 

A Tale of Two Travelers by Madita Schwenke; 978-1-956636-74-1 – August 25th

A tailor and a shoemaker meet and travel the same road. In this contemporary retelling of “The Two Travelers” by the Brothers Grimm, Madita Schwenke asks the question: are kindness and cruelty two sides of the same coin?

132 pg, perfect bound 5″ x 7″ paperback; black and white throughout

Stagnation Seed by BENNIZONE; 978-1-956636-82-6 – August 25th

Candy, heartbroken after another breakup, accepts her roommate Violetta’s offer — to build her the perfect android girlfriend. But as the metal slowly takes form in Vio’s hands, the truth bubbles to the surface.

60 pg 5.826”x8.267” spiral bound trade paperback

The Most High Girl in the World by Emily Zullo – Minicomic

Plenty of people “go with the flow” even if they don’t want to – in Emily Zullo’s expanded edition of The Most High Girl in the World, we see her autofictional recollection of events in her senior year of high school. What does it take to find yourself, especially when you’re surrounded by anxiety and weed smoke? 

28 pg saddle-stitch minicomic, cream cover with 1 color ink throughout

Different Ways to Fly by Rumi Hara – Minicomic

Known for her books Nori and The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories published by Drawn & Quarterly, Rumi Hara’s work is simultaneously charming and challenging. We’re delighted to present her latest short story as a part of our mini comics line.

16 pg saddle-stitched minicomic, full color

Small Press Expo 2022 Announces Additional Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced additional Special Guests for SPX 2022. It’s the first in-person show in three years taking place on Saturday September 17 and Sunday September 18 with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics, along with over 500 creators on the exhibitor floor.

SPX 2022 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Maia Kobabe is the author of Gender Queer: A Memoir, winner of an Alex Award, Stonewall Honor, and the most banned book in the US in 2021. It is being released in a deluxe hardcover edition that features a brand-new cover, exclusive art and sketches, a forward by ND Stevenson (Lumberjanes, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and an afterward by creator Maia Kobabe. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.

Ronald Wimberly (born 28 April 1979) is an American artist (a cartoonist and filmmaker). He has published several graphic novels, as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse Comics. Wimberly was the 2016 Columbus Museum of Art comics resident, and was a two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême‘s Maison des Auteurs. He is the recipient of the 2008 Glyph Comics Award, and has been nominated for two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.

Rumi Hara was born in Kyoto, Japan, and started printing her comics on a tiny home printer while working as a translator in Tokyo in 2010. After receiving an MFA in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design, Rumi moved to New York in 2014, where she now lives and works as an illustrator and comics artist. Her comics series Nori was first self-published as minicomics and was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2018.

Gabrielle Bell’s work has been selected several times for Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and has been  featured in The Believer, McSweeney’s and Vice magazines. Her story, “Cecil and Jordan In New York,” was turned into a film by Michel Gondry. The Voyeurs was named one of the best Graphic Novels of the year by Publishers Weekly. Inappropriate, her most recent collection of absurd short comics, garnered two Ignatz Award nominations and was named “One of the Best GNs of the Year” by The Library Journal. Gabrielle Bell lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Bianca Xunise is a cartoonist based out of Chicago, Illinois and will debut at SPX a brand new zine, Midnite Crawling, which is a collection of short stories about music and the punk subculture. In 2017 Xunise earned an Ignatz for Promising New Talent for their comic Say Her Name, an autobiographical story of police brutality and social justice. In 2020 Xunise earned their second Ignatz for their contribution to Be Gay, Do Comics published by IDW. Xunise has collaborated with Vogue, The Washington Post, The Nib, and Believer Magazine. They are also a contributor to the book How We Fight Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance along with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tarana Burk, and Harry Belafonte. Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist when they joined the comic strip Six Chix in 2020 as their first black creator.