The long-awaited second issue of Boston Powers, BCR’s all-ages superhero anthology, is now available! Featuring original superheroes and villains in kid-friendly comics, all set in and around Boston. Get your hands on this new issue, with another fabulous Kurt Ankeny cover, and…
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A young superheroine and a vampire fight it out in a swamp near Salem; a boy discovers his own hidden powers while facing down his demons at the Roger Clap Elementary school in Dorchester; a group of superkids has to deal with delays on the T while hurrying to battle a pink slime monster at the Prudential. These are just a few of the locally-based superhero sagas in the first issue of “Boston Powers,” a new, all-ages comic book series from the Boston Comics Roundtable.
The five stories in “Boston Powers” #1 were created by local writers and artists, all belonging to the BCR, an organization of comics makers that has been meeting regularly, holding events and publishing anthologies since 2006. This is the group’s first series designed specifically for kids. Three issues are planned for this year, each featuring all-new, original super-characters, taking on monsters, supervillains and evil corporations in recognizable locations.
“We wanted to emphasize the silly, colorful, imaginative excitement of the superhero genre, the reasons we all fell in love with it as young comics readers” says Dan Mazur, who edited the collection. “And by inventing superheroes whose turf is in and around Boston, we hope to have made something even more fun for local kids.”
While the comic book promotes positive values and diversity, “Boston Powers” first goal is to entertain its readers and show them their own towns and neighborhoods as locations for adventure and fantasy.
“Boston Powers” was funded in part via a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. The first issue of Boston Powers was to have debuted at the Boston Kids Comics Fest on April 27th, an event that was postponed due to the current health crisis. The comic book will instead be available for order online from BCR at www.bostoncomics.com, as well as through local comic book shops who are doing delivery and mail-order business at present. Retail price is $6.00 for the 40 page, full-color comic.
TO GET YOUR COPY OF BOSTON POWERS # 1, click here for the link to MILLION YEAR PICNIC
The Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming, All-Ages Boston-based Superhero comics anthology is live! The campaign runs through Thursday, March 12 2020 11:41 AM. Don’t wait for the last minute, be a backer!
The latest BCR anthology, “Starbound,” will be accepting pitches & proposals through February 15.
This is an all fiction sci-fi anthology about SPACE! We are looking for stories 4-8 pages in length, greyscale. For the pitches all we are looking for is your elevator pitch, some concept drawings for your story, and a link to your previous work! First-time anthology folks are encouraged to apply!
More information on the application form below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oLis1zLLTqud79APCKZ0JX9HlyUGyzr6vXsVhJFE5-Q
The massive archival work of scanning and posting the BCR Jam Comics has begun… and it’s gonna be slow! But we can at least keep up with them as they’re created. Here’s the latest, and they will reside at : http://bostoncomics.com/bcr-jam-comics/
Come see us and hundreds of other wonderful independent cartoonists this weekend at MICE: the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. Free admission, great programming, and fun for all ages. At our table, D01, you will find BCR playing cards, anthologies, and lots of great books by individual BCR’ers. Did I mention the table number? It’s D01