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Ivy Noelle Weir started her bookish career at nineteen years old, when a reference librarian at the local library caught her crying in an alleyway after learning that the coffee shop where she worked was going to be abruptly shut down. He offered her a job as a circulation clerk, and what started as a part-time way to pay the bills turned into an award-winning career in librarianship and eventually, a Master’s Degree in library science. Ivy also holds a degree in art history, helps to manage The Valkyries and Valkyries Valhalla (two international organizations of female nerd professionals with over 800 combined members), speaks at events and conferences nationwide about comics and pop culture, and just celebrated the release of her first graphic novel, Archival Quality (about a haunted library, of course). Since coming to Quirk’s publicity and marketing department in 2016, she has worked with librarians, bloggers, and comic con attendees to spread the word about Quirk titles.

This one is for all the badass girls out there. Yes, we're talking about you. We created this girl-powered zine with you in mind. The zine includes an exclusive sneak peek at our upcoming book Girls Resist!, quizzes, an advice column, and more. Will you join the Geek E. Girl Revolution?

Check out the excerpt below. To download the full zine, click here!

We hope you've enjoyed our Webcomics Week…and now that you're inspired, it's time to create some great webomics of your own!

And here's some final advice, courtesy of Michelle Gish, one of our fave webcomic creators.

1. Make something you know you'll be passionate about! If not, after a while working on it may start feeling like a chore. Just remember to have fun with it!

2. Post consistently. Try to update your comic on a regular schedule. If you want to build an audience, people will most likely keep following it if they know you're going to keep posting.

3. Don't be frustrated if you feel like no one is reading your webcomic. Trust me, if you keep working on it, people will start to read it! When things get difficult, remember why you wanted to start your webcomic in the first place and that will motivate you to keep going.

For more webcomic wisdom, see our Webcomic Week Info Page.

Webcomic how-to graphic created for Quirk Books by Michael Rogalski, eyewashweb.com.

Easter is coming up quicker than you think, and what's better thank a book in your Easter basket (besides candy)? We have some Quirk book recs for you — for everyone from your littlest book fans to teens and adults.

It’s all things webcomics at Quirk this week, so I have compiled a list of some of my favourite webcomics! There was a time when I would check for regular updates on my favourite webcomic sites, but these days I am an extremely casual webcomics reader. The endless social media scroll can be a blessing or a curse for the webcomics creator. Recently I have been relying a lot on Instagram and Twitter to find and read new comics, so forgive me if my taste is a bit eclectic.

We don’t like to brag, but the city that houses Quirk Books world headquarters—namely Philadelphia—is pretty great. Not only are we the home of the current Super Bowl champions, and the origin of, you know, democracy in America, Philly also has a pretty strong comics game. Comics masters from Marjorie Henderson Buell to R. Crumb to Charles Burns to Box Brown hail from our town or chose to reside here. But this is Webcomics Week…so today we'll just point out some of the great webcomics that are available from Philly-area creators. As Ben Franklin said, "I don't always read webcomics…but when I do, I read ones created in Philadelphia."