Shortbox Fest

Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision is out digitally at Shortbox Fest. The online festival runs the whole month of October, and is full of great stuff.

The direct link to Tunnel Vision is here, but be sure to check out the other artists’ offerings:

Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision by Ben Sears — ShortBox Comics Fair

Someone's robbed the local animal shelter of their fundraiser money. Can Young Shadow find the culprit, and help his friend locate his missing autographed baseball in one night? 19 one colour pages (page numbers refer to comic pages only and do not include covers or extras).

Young Shadow & The Watchdogs

Young Shadow & The Watchdogs recently finished serializing over on my patreon. I’m working with Fantagraphics to polish it up for a physical edition, which will be out next spring. You can preorder it here:

Young Shadow & the Watchdogs – Fantagraphics

Young Shadow teams up with the Watchdogs in a do-or-die baseball game against a roster of ghosts and ghoulies! Will Bolt City survive? Young Shadow usually protects sci-fi Bolt City by making deliveries for the food bank and rescuing pets. But this time around, he needs to focus on two things: hitting and pitching! When Young Shadow and the eight Watchdogs — Elmore, Gerry, Larry, Gomez, Marta, Ketchum, Rolando, and Junior — investigate a concerning chemical sludge being dumped into Bolt City's w...

Plus Man & The Roadkill

My next project will be kicking off on my patreon this month. The tentative title is Plus Man & The Roadkill, and it’s the next story in my “delivery comics” series, after Petroleum Spirit Daze and Empanada.

Here’s a drawing I did to establish the mood. I’m excited for people to see the comic, I think it’s going to be pretty good.

I’ve got about 6-7 pages penciled, and plan to start posting them when I get a week or two ahead.

New Prints/Originals

My annual fall print this year is this Skeleton Synthesist. It’s available as a 4×6 archival quality print, along with the prints from the previous four years. You can find those here:

Skeleton Synthesist Print | Ben Sears

4x6 print on archival quality paper

Fall Prints | Ben Sears

4x6 print

This drawing of a boxing Poliwhirl has proven to be a crowd favorite, so I’ve made some more prints available:

Middleweight Champ Print | Ben Sears

4x6 print on archival quality paper

Some new original drawings are also available

Cauldron Master | Ben Sears

4x6 original

Deep Woods | Ben Sears

6x4 original drawing ink & copic marker

Gan-Q | Ben Sears

6x4 ink on paper

Mirrorless

My band Mirrorless has had a flurry of announcements recently. Mirrorless is a project we started back in 2023, and consists of members of Elliott, Fotocrime, Xerxes, and By The Grace Of God.

Our debut EP is up for preorder, and two singles are already streaming.

MIRRORLESS – Equal Vision Records

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Aero Club

Another pandemic era project is finally kicking off this evening. Aero Club is a project that went through a couple of different iterations before settling where it is now: a two piece instrumental electronic band. We play our first show tonight at Camp Spaceman in Louisville, and go on first at 7pm. This is my first time not playing drums in a live band, so it’s a little nerve wracking. Still looking forward to it though!

That was a lot to read, so thanks for checking it out! Hope everyone has a good week.

-Ben