Presented by members of the Comic Jam, CRIT ONE HOLIDAY SONG BOOK is a 12-page, A5-sized zine of dark fantasy comics and songs where the holidays are haunted and heartbreaking.
Aaron Brown is fully operational and all of his circuits are functioning perfectly. Living in Massachusetts he is the creator of #IOTCOMIC and the fortune-telling comic Casbah The Rock. Caricaturist and solid band name inventor. You can find his comics and more at Frogking.art!
Ryan “Dougal” Devine (He/Him) – Artist
Ryan Devine has been a comic fan and drawer of things for as long as he can remember. He has been creating comics with the Comic Jam crew for a couple of years now and is slowly straying into writing as well.
Find him on Facebook, Instagram, and X as @Dougaldraws. Richie Frontera (He/Him) - Writer
Richie Frontera is a comic book writer living in Seoul. His stories have been published in the Comic Jam, Crit One: A Zine of Epic Fails, and Summer's End: Tales of Heartbreak, which he also curated. Luke W. Henderson (They/Them) – Writer/Curator
Luke W. Henderson writes a lot of things, sometimes too many things at once, but those things tend to be comics, prose, and poetry. Their comics work has been published in multiple zines and anthologies Corrupting the Youth, The Dark Side of Purity, Vol. 3 (Band of Bards), and Comics from the Kitchen (Foreign Press Comics). They are also a letterer with their debut in Containment Breach, Vol. 4 (Fugitive Poems).
John Jack (They/Them) - Artist
John Jack is a comic creator and painter based in Seattle Washington. Their work has been featured in Summer’s End: Tales of Heartbreak, Containment Breach, Dauntless Stories' Stardless Daydream, and the Comic Jam.
Aerie Skysinger (She/Her) - Artist
Artist, Illustrator, Amateur Baker, currently residing in New England. Can be found fan-arting around in various fandoms on Tumblr and Bluesky. @aerieskysinger.bsky.social and tumblr.com/aerie-skysinger.
Daniel G. Wilson (He/They) - Writer
Daniel G. Wilson is a Jamaican-Canadian writer, music journalist, musician, and screenwriter based in Ontario, Canada. A lifelong lover of comics, genre fiction, and all things punk, he spends his time researching different cultures and playing Zelda Games. You can follow him generally on Instagram and on his band JONCRO’s Twitter. You can also read some of his writing with the Canadian Co-Op/online magazine New Feeling.
Printing will be done through Mixam. They are an affordable and flexible printer that delivers excellent products. Members of the Crit One team have used them on two previous projects and have been very pleased with their quality and speedy delivery.
Shipping will be done using PirateShip.com. They offer affordable rates and a streamlined service that makes shipping comics easy. For INTERNATIONAL BACKERS, we will be using their SIMPLE EXPORT RATE to avoid tripling the price of your pledge. You shouldn't have to miss out just because you live across the pond!
