As if reading Jerel Dye’s comics wasn’t good enough, you can now decorate your entire life with his unique steampunk-ish imagery: prints, of course, but also on tote bags, laptop and ipad skins, iphone and ipod cases, mugs, throw pillows, wall clocks… do all your holiday shopping at http://society6.com/jereldye, and have a very Jerel Christmas!
Alexander Danner (one of the original three BCR members!), gets spotlighted this week on the Colonial Comics’ blog, for his contribution to the anthology “The Trial of Anne Hutchinson,” (pictured, drawn by Matt Rawson).
“Hellbound V: the End” the horror anthology from River Bird Comics gets a glowing notice from Tony McMillen in this week’s DigBoston: “Hellbound V marks the end of the Hellbound series, but luckily the books are going out on a seriously high note….”
The Horn Book, a renouned publication about books for children and young adults, features a report by Carli Spina on the Comics and the Classroom symposium (including Boston Comics Rountablers Joel Christian Gill and Cathy Leamy), an event presented by Lesley University’s School of Education this past October, as part of the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (#MICE2014).
On sale at Million Year Picnic this week, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream: over 100 of today’s best cartoonists pay tribute to the great Winsor McCay, including BCR’s Jerel Dye (editor of Hellbound III). Other local creators include Raul Gonzalez (Low Riders in Space), Joe Quinones (Howard The Duck), Hans Rickheit (The Squirrel Machine), and Maris Wicks (Primates).
Fresh off a successful kickstarter and Participants’ Choice award at the POV Hackathon, “The Dandelion King’s” mobile app, developed by Heide Solbrig and her team to complement her graphic novel of the same name, gets glowing press in Filmmaker Magazine, which praises the projects “complicated strangeness,” calling it “an endearingly personal use of today’s tools to …