APEX MAGAZINE: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself as an illustrator?
ASHLEY MACKENZIE: I’m a Canadian illustrator based out of Toronto, Ontario. I graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design last year and I’ve been freelancing ever since.
Read MoreInterview with Ashley Mackenzie“We Are Comics” was born from frustration.
In April of 2014, every woman in comics was talking about Janelle Asselin: one of us, an editor and writer who’d been getting a nonstop barrage of graphic rape threats and other harassment in response to an article where she criticized the hypersexualization of a teenage girl on the cover of Teen Titans.
Read MoreWe Are Comics: A Visual Message for Visual MediumVictor Fernando R. Ocampo was born in the Philippines and now lives in Singapore, where his speculative fiction is inspired by everything from childhood experiences to everyday moments on the train (often with added spaceships, monsters, robots, and other creations usually not found on the train).
Read MoreInterview with Victor Fernando R. OcampoIn the shadow of machine–gods I tell wayfarers of a time when my people were a nightmare the color of hemorrhage and glinting teeth.
Read MoreCourtship in the Country of Machine–GodsShe is drowning in organza and shantung, a rustling mass of indigo and royal purple. The fabric whispers under her hands, defying her to prick a finger and spot the silk.
Read MoreInsurrection in SilkThat afternoon they flushed San Carlos Seldran out the airlock. Everyone on Cabra Deck was required to watch, even the little ones.
Read MoreBlessed Are the Hungry
It had been 169 days since Sondra was kidnapped.
Read MoreThe Food in the BasementThere are a lot of different ways to make a revolution.
I’m pulling this from memory, and Google wasn’t helpful, so forgive my errors. But there’s a story I’ve heard, about the five men who meet on a road.
Read MoreResolute: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefAPEX MAGAZINE: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself as an illustrator?
TORY HOKE: Sure. I showed aptitude early and got encouraged. My heart goes out to anybody who likes to draw and never got that encouragement.
Read MoreInterview with Cover Artist Tory Hoke