The now VP, Publisher of Hachette Group imprint Legacy Lit grew up inspired by her parents’ 9-5’s, but also her love of reading. Seeing little representation in most executive level roles, she never ...

When C. Spike Trotman ran her first Kickstarter campaign back in 2009, it was not exactly a conventional choice even in the unconventional world of alternative comix publishing. “They said you need to ...

Even as a child, Charlie “Spike” Trotman defied convention. An outspoken thought leader in underground comics today, the cartoonist stood her ground in her hometown of Potomac, Maryland, before ...

At art school in Chicago she was told her pictures had too much realism, but after founding her own webcomic she found a diverse audience hungry for her output There are lots of things Spike Trotman ...

Spike Trotman has built a comic book publisher from the ground up, through the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, since 2009, raising seven figures in backing. But now, as a result of concerns over ...

Spike Trotman started out as the ultimate do-it-yourselfer, self-publishing her webcomic Templar, Arizona using preorders to pay the bills before she sent each volume to the printer. Now the company ...

Best known for integrating crowdfunding into her publishing model, Spike Trotman, publisher of the indie graphic novel house Iron Circus Comics, is stepping away from Kickstarter to launch a new ...