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Filmmaker Mag likes Dandelion King
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 add community and multimedia to the reading experience.”
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One Day a Dot
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 of the universe all the way to you,” but the creative team is interviewed at KidLitFrenzy. -
Double Nickels Forever
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.” -
POV Hackathon Winner: The Dandelion King
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 at http://vimeo.com/112003535.
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Area 4: A Graphic History
Area 4, a 2-page Cambridge history comic by Jerel Dye, Gavin Kleespies and Roho is now available to read online courtesy of the Cambridge Historical Society Newletter.
