Zainab Akhtar is the publisher of ShortBox, a mail order box for independent comic books. Zainab wanted to change the way independent comics were sold but as a visibly Muslim woman, her efforts were often dismissed. How did she enter a market designed to exclude her?

Store: ShortBox

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Host

Anshuman Iddamsetty

Producers

Michelle Macklem
Emma Fedderson
Anshuman Iddamsetty

Senior Supervising Producer

Tammi Downey

Engineer

Jason ‘Metal’ Donkersgoed

Musical Score

Jim Guthrie