Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
04 June 2026

“Expands into a fluffy cloud when microwaved”

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In yesterday’s New Yorker crossword puzzle, clue 27 Down was: Brand-name bath bar that expands into a fluffy cloud when microwaved I’ve a...
06 December 2024

“Finding Friendships: Middle Grade Comics” Panel at MICE 2024

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The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) takes place this weekend in the Fuller Building at Boston University, 808 Commonwealth Aven...
17 April 2024

“Outside the Box” Opening Reception in Jamaica Plain, 21 April

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With friends from the Boston Comics Roundtable, I’m helping to organize an exhibit of comics art in the gallery of the Footlight Club, Amer...
15 January 2022

Stupendo, Secret Girl, and Boston Powers, #5

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The Boston Comics Roundtable just published Boston Powers , #5, its latest superhero comic book for young readers. For now it’s available at...
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17 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 2

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With the next set of pictures for “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons,” we got into the political part of his career. And the three cartoonist...
15 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 1

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Here’s commentary on the “Thomas Nast: A Life in Pictures” web exhibit and how the pictures came together. The exhibit starts with a portr...
06 October 2020

Making Space for Thomas Nast

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Early this year, folks at the Massachusetts Historical Society contacted me and colleagues in the Boston Comics Roundtable and invited us ...
12 March 2020

Stupendo Takes Off!

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I’m pleased to report that the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Boston Powers , the Boston Comics Roundtable’s collection of all-ages s...
11 February 2020

Helping Stupendo Take Off

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This picture shows Stupendo and Secret Girl, a superhero team I dreamed up a couple of years ago in a burst of short comics scripts for ki...
03 October 2018

Launching Jitney with Jex and Ticca

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This is the first page of “Mine: A Tale of the Jitney,” a short comics story I wrote and saw come to life through the artistic talents of ...
18 October 2017

“Comics and Medicine” Coming to MICE, Oct. 21

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The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) is coming up this weekend, and on Saturday I’ll moderate a panel on “Comics and Medicine...
01 May 2017

Mine

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29 November 2015

We Are Dead Robins?

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In DC’s current continuity, there have been four official Robins, and three of them have been dead for times ranging from a few minutes to...
10 November 2014

Hellcat Press Wants Horror Comics from Female Creators

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Lindsay Moore, a Boston comics writer who has had several stories published in Hellbound, In a Single Bound , and other local anthologies, a...
20 October 2014

Got My Copies Today

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Colonial Comics editorial team drawn by Noel Tuazon .
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04 October 2014

Colonial Comics Arrives at MICE This Weekend

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This morning at 11:30, I’m moderating a panel on “History in Comics” at the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Porter Square, Camb...
04 September 2014

Viewing Bad Houses

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While reading Bad Houses , a graphic novel by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil, I got to thinking about the trope of the “Manic Pixie Drea...
27 August 2014

Images of Oz Coming Through

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Images of Oz is an eighty-page 6x9 paperback showcasing the Oz illustrations of S. P. Maldonado. It includes an Oz comic that Shawn and...
21 November 2013

Creating a Safe Place

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As long as I’m linking to videos, I’ll add this time-lapse record of Dean Trippe’s work drawing a significant page in his autobiographica...
31 October 2013

Where to Find the Essex County Wax Museum

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As a Halloween treat I offer an online pointer to “The Essex County Literary Wax Museum & Menagerie,” a four-page comics story scripted...