Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb have a new book in the work for First Second Books: “One Day a Dot,” a children’s picture book written by Ian Lendler. We’ll have to wait a while to see the book, which “takes kids on the longest journey ever travelled by a picture book – from the origin …
Franklin Einspruch is among the contributors to the new anthology, “Double Nickels Forever,” edited by Warren Craghead III, the book is “a drawn tribute to the Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime album. 58 artists drew the 45 songs on the double LP.”
The BCR’s Heide Solbrig took her project, “The Dandelion King,” a mobile app companion to her graphic novel of the same name, to the POV Hackathon, an event that provides “matchmaking and mentorship for visionary filmmakers and inventive technologists.” Heide came home with the Participants’ Choice award! You can see a demo of this app …
BCR’s Lindsay Moore announces the formation of her new press, Hellcat Press, and is seeking submissions for a new anthology: Hellcat Press is currently accepting submissions for our premier anthology, Dark Lady. Dark Lady is an all-female horror anthology. If you are a woman with a horror story to tell, then Hellcat Press wants to read it! Further details at http://hellcatpress.com.
Boston area comics in the news: Ninth Art Press’ SubCultures in the Dig… Maris Wicks on her upcoming First Second Book, Human Body Theater in an interview at Comics Alliance.… Raul Gonzalez’s Lowriders in Space is reviewed in New York Times Book Review!! Jason Rodriguez, editor of Colonial Comics (including entries by several BCR and area creators) on Multiversity. The book also gets a nice review on …
“Cafe Racer” featuring Clay McCormack’s work from the Sean Murphy internship program is available at Million Year Picnic ($15, hardover), and Clay will have copies at upcoming BCR meetings. Ink Brick: A Journal of Comics Poetry No 2 including work by Kimball Anderson premiered at CAB (Comics Art Brooklyn) this past weekend. Holly Foltz announces two recent minis, Brain Parts 5 and Private Parts. River Bird Comics‘s Hellbound V: End of …