BOSTON POWERS: All-ages superhero comics set in Boston.

Our Kickstarter for the project is live, running through March 12, 2020. Have a look! Help independent creators make great comics for kids!


In 2020, Boston Comics Roundtable will publish its first three issues of Boston Powers, an all-ages comic book anthology featuring superhero stories set in and around Boston. Our Kickstarter campaign, launching on Tuesday, February 18th, will pay for full-color printing, and to
ensure a page rate for our member/creators.

Concept art for “The Cape,” art by Crispin Wood, story by Wood and Ted Widmer, and “What Night Conceals,” art by Kit Whitecar, story by Cassidy
Sulaiman


Why Superheroes in Boston?


For BCR, bringing the creativity and imagination of the comics medium to our local community is always a priority. We’ve published Inbound 4: a Comic Book History of Boston ; Spellbound (Boston Urban Fantasy), and Hellbound #1 , New England-based horror. Our first foray into Boston Superheroes was the three issue run of In a Single Bound … but it wasn’t aimed specifically at kids.

With Boston Powers , our aim is to offer readers of all ages – but especially young readers – fun and positive comics that bring the superhero genre to our own Boston-area neighborhoods. We’ll publish 3, 40-page issues in the coming year: classic, floppy, stapled, full-color comic books.


Character designs by Brendan Tobin for “Hero Helper,” written by JL Bell, and “The Superhero Battle of Prospect Hill Park,” written by Lavinia Minkowsky and Troy Minkowsky and drawn by Mark Brooks.


When will the comics be released?


Artists and writers are hard at work on stories for issue one, which will debut in April at the Boston Kids Comics Fest. Subsequent issues will premiere at FanExpo Boston in August and in October at MICE: the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo.


Kickstarter donations will help fund the initial, full-color print run of all three issues, as well as pay a modest page rate to our artists and writers. The monetary goal of this campaign won’t fully fund the project, but BCR has enough money set aside to make up the difference. It would be great to raise the whole amount, of course, but we believe in only asking for what we need. As for stretch goals, the more we raise, the better-paid our wonderful creators will be.


Who are these wonderful creators?
Here are the teams and stories that will likely appear in the first three issues of Boston Powers :
JL Bell (writer), Brendan Tobin (artist), “Hero Helper”
Kit Whitecar (artist), Cassidy Sulaiman (writer), “What Night Conceals”
Lavinia Minkowsky, Troy Minkowsky (writers), Mark Brooks (artist), “The Superhero Battle of Prospect Hill”
Juan Williams, “Dream Dialusion”
Catalina Rufin (artist), Liz Young (writer), “Glitter Supernova”
Ted Widmer (writer), Crispin Wood (writer, artist), “The Cape”
Kayla Thornquist (artist), Michael Saver (writer) “Paul Revere and his Magic Time Traveling Lantern”
Patrick Flaherty (writer), Danielle Mesa (artist), “Newtrino”
Jason Wiser, “One Day Out”
Ben Doane, “Tourism Man and Rail Rat”
Jason Doring (writer), Fell Hound (artist), “The Conductor”
Scott Harris-King (writer), Reggie Themistocle (artist), “Earth Boy”
Jennie Wood (writer), Jay Kennedy (artist), “Hungry Mother”
Dan Mazur, “The Blue Lobster”
Concept and character design for “Dream Dialusion” by Juan Williams.
Concept art by Kayla Thornquist for “Paul Revere and His Magic Time-Travelling Lantern,” written by Michael Saver