A great weekend meeting people and selling comics and cards at Jamaica Plain Open Studios. Thanks to the Footlight Club for hosting us.
Category: News
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BCR Comic Art Show at The Footlight Club in Jamaica Plain
The Footlight Club is the oldest community theater in the country, and BCR is the oldest community comics group in, well, New England, that we know of. So it’s a perfect fit!
Artists in the show:
EJ Barnes
Anthony Lathrop
Dan Mazur
Brendan Tobin
Reggie Themistocle
Calvin and Nile Hennick
Lindsey Leigh
Crispin Wood
Catalina Rufin
Deborah Lang and Robert Christie
Julie DiSalvio
Jonathan Todd
Mark Borok, with Troy and Lavinian Minkowsky
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Boston Powers signing: Million Year Picnic, Dec 3-4
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/836772237474412
Schedule of creators signing:
SATURDAY, DEC 3 12-1:30
Mark Borok
The MinksSATURDAY, DEC 3 1:30-3:00
Michael Saver
Kurt Ankeny
Reggie ThemistocleSUNDAY, DEC 4, 12-1:30
Maria Varmazis
Crispin Wood
Patrick FlahertySUNDAY DEC 4 1:30-3:00
Juan Williams
Dan Mazur
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BOSTON POWERS # 6!!
Kurt Ankeny’s masterful cover features The Blue Lobster and current nemesis, the Bookworm. The sixth issue of Boston Powers – BCR’s collection of superhero comics for kids, set in and around Boston – is now available! The new issue features 4 all-new stories, colorful, funny and fun, and more-than-appropriate for ages 8 and up. Kids from Massachusetts might even recognize their own hometown or neighborhood in any of these locally-set adventures.
The new issue features the return of several Boston-based heroes from previous issues:
–– Earthboy, the environmental kid-hero guided by the spirit of Henry Thoreau takes off from the Boston Aquarium to face a fiendish fisherman, The Boston Angler. Written by Scott Harris-King, drawn by Reggie Themistocle.
— The Conductor‘s heroic exploits again revolve around the “T,” this time she meets a new villain, the Forgemaster. Jason Doring, writer, with art by Ben Humeniuk.
— The Blue Lobster claws his way back to the pages of Boston Powers, this time entering the BPL to take on the ravenous Bookworm. By Dan Mazur.
— Plus a new character, The South End Avenger, premieres in a tasty adventure from the team of Deb Lang and Robert Christie.
— And once again a spectacular cover by Kurt Ankeny.
All stories are by Boston creators (with a few special guest out-of-town collaborators).
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Boston Powers 4 to debut at MiniMICE
On August 28, the BCR will be exhibiting at “MiniMICE,” the outdoor version of MICE to be held at Starlight Square in Central Square Cambridge. Among the offerings will be all the recent BCR anthologies — including the new issue of BOSTON POWERS, number 4. This will be the public premiere of issue #4, and, thanks to our beloved pandemic, the comics show debut of the first three issues as well.
Boston Powers 4 cover b Kurt Ankeny 
Superhero Friends Forever in Metro Con by Ashley
The first of three “Year 2” issues, Boston Powers 4 features another great cover by Kurt Ankeny, as well as 4 new stories featuring characters introduced in the first 3 issues:
“Sharkbus Shenanigans,” written by father-daughter writing team “The Minks,” with art by Mark Borok, offers the return of Worm Man and other characters from issue #1’s “The Superhero Battle of Prospect Hill.”
In “Revere Beach Clean Up” by Cassidy Sulaiman & Kit Whitecar, the superhero-vampire team-up, Sunbeam and Echo Wing, have a day at the beach where they encounter a sea serpent.
Juan R. Williams gives us the 2nd chapter of his Dream Dialusion series, “Savage Shadow in the Strand,” another exploration of fantasy & creativity played out in a superhero format (set in the Strand Theatre, Dorchester)
Boston artist Ashley introduced her superhero universe in short features in Boston Powers 2 & 3, and contributes her first full story, “Superhero Friends Forever: Metro Con” a rollicking adventure set in a fictional Boston comic on.
“Revere Beach Cleanup” by Cassidy Sulaiman and Kit Whitecar 
“Savage Shadow in the Strand” by Juan R. Williams
All four issues of BOSTON POWERS will be available at MiniMICE, with a cover price of $6 each, and special package deals for the show as well. The comic will soon be available at local comics shops and online, but for now you can get yours at Mini MICE (or through the Boston Powers Year 2 Kickstarter).
For more on the Boston Powers series: http://bostoncomics.com/boston-powers-first-three-issues-now-available/
(Featured image: from “Sharkbus Shenanigans,” written by The Minks, art by Mark Borok)
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Boston Powers Year 2 Kickstarter is LIVE!
The Boston Powers Year 2 Kickstarter has launched as of August 18. Please consider supporting BCR’s project, continuing to publish fun & positive superhero comics for kids, set in and around Boston!
(image: from Juan R. Williams’ “Savage Shadow in the Strand,” from Boston Powers #4)