Epidigm is a comic studio started in 2008 by comic artists Wei Li and Anise Shaw. We have our humble beginnings in featuring our science fiction drama, Anatta.

Epidigm’s mission is to bring comics that work within and push popular genres to a diverse audience. We offer free hosting, publishing opportunities and exposure to a wide audience to our comic members.
Epidigm has a community mandate and has partnered up with Cloudscape Comics to support the comics community in Vancouver. Through this strong coalition we hope to continue our work with a range of artists who have a passion for sequential art.

We are always looking for new features, comics and artists to highlight to our readers. Feel free to contact us anytime with suggestions or submissions.

About the Artists

Wei Li is a Vancouver artist and writer and the big conceptual brain behind Anatta. He is a graduate with his BBA from Simon Fraser University and is currently doing the commercial animation program at Capilano University. Wei was born in Shenzhen, China and immigrated to the United States at 9 years of age. He and his family arrived in Canada in 2001 and have remained here since.

Wei spends most of his time drawing, and when we say most, we mean about 95% of his waking hours. All of his friends cannot remember a conversation with him where his sketchbook is not open in front of him. He has been drawing comics as long as he’s had a pencil on a piece of paper, with Anatta being his first serious attempt at a webcomic. Wei’s life goals include being a full time comic artist and writer and bringing excellent, high quality work to his readers. As a very goal oriented and obsessively hard working individual, he will most likely achieve these goals.

Wei lives and works in his Coquitlam apartment with his two cats, Eire and Charlie and his partner and often co-artist, Anise Shaw.

Wei can be contacted at threeeyesworm[at]gmail.com

Anise Shaw is a Vancouver-born jack of all trades and general know-it-all. She is a recent graduate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Contemporary Arts with her BFA in Visual Arts. This means that she spent most of her degree pretending she wasn’t a comic artist at all, because comics tend not to fit into gallery exhibitions. Nonetheless, she continued drawing in her cutsy and bubble-like style until she finally met a person who could focus her chaotic artistic energy into the worthwhile project of Anatta.

Anise spends her time jumping between the 100 coexisting projects she has on her plate, usually opting to focus on two art-oriented projects, two domestic projects and one self fulfillment project. This sounds quite organised, but it’s not. It’s more that Anise tries to force order on her chaotic personality and usually has to watch everything unravel in front of her eyes. Currently, she’s trying to juggle Anatta with a table top RPG for Preteens and youth and a manga-style comic about sexual liberation on top of it all. Not to mention her desire to do home renovations, read science fiction and fantasy novels and watch some great televisions series at the same time.

As a bread earning project, Anise is a cartooning, animation and visual arts instructors for several municipalities in the Greater Vancouver area. She loves teaching after school program to children as they tend to be great sources of laughs, unbridled aspirations and artistic inspiration. She lives with her partner, Wei Li and is often caught cooing at something cute her two cats are doing.

Anise can be contacted at anise.shaw[at]gmail.com

Submission Guidlines

Epidigm.net is looking for online comics to host as our members. Works should be within popular genre, but working to create something new within them. We are looking for self aware, intelligent and well conceived narrative, art and execution. We accept submissions from any genre and format and with any tone. Artists retain all rights to their work. We encourage members of Epidigm.net to release their work under a creative commons license, but it is not a requirement.

We will only accept comics with a minimum of 25 pages completed to presentation and publication standards. Artists must be willing to adhere to a regular weekly update schedule of their choosing. We accept submissions with low resolution images attached, or a link to an online portfolio or presentation. All submissions must include the comic title, artist(s) names and contact information, a one page maximum statement of intent and a brief comic synopsis. Do spend some time putting these materials together in a presentable way. The more seriously you take your submission, the more seriously we will take you.

If you have a suggestion for a webcomic that you currently read and think would benefit from being a comic member of Epidigm, feel free to contact us with the link to the comic and the artist’s contact information.

Send all submissions and suggestions to anise.shaw[at]gmail.com