NewCity Chicago talks to Kiss Me Comix

NewCity Chicago has a feature up on Kiss Me Comix, a small indy publisher who appeared at the Black Age of Comics Convention in Chicago:

Like any good superhero team, Kiss Me has a motto: "We don't play by the rules, cuz we're doing it better." And in the world of comics, Kiss Me Comix, an African-American-run independent comics company that features the lives and problems of multicultural characters, is not just bending the rules, but breaking them altogether. In a U.S. market dominated by Marvel and DC, independent publishers and alternative voices such as Kiss Me struggle to get heard. "It's been tough," Jenkins says. "I think [the comics industry] is still holding onto a lot of stigmas and stereotypes, and just plain lack of creativity to understand and take the different cultures and adapt them to make a good story." Kiss Me Comix's titles, however, follow diverse story lines like Barbara's "Serenade," about a Korean-American woman's struggle for fame as a singer.

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