Colonial Comics a Geek Dad Favorite
Colonial Comics makes Geek Dad’s list of Best Books of 2014! “Comics and graphic novels are an extremely moving way to teach about history. Great comic artists can show the joy, anguish, …
Panel Patter’s Best of the Year: SubCultures and more!
Rob McMonigal at Panel Patter blog includes SubCultures in his 2014 favorites! But wait, there’s more (BCR-related stuff, that is): Whit Taylor’s The Anthropologists; Little Nemo Dream Another Dream, featuring Jerel Dye (plus …
“Comics Global History” a Beast Best
The Daily Beast has named “Comics: a Global History, 1968 to the Present” by Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner as one of its Best Coffee Table Books of the year. …
Festival Season’s Holiday Gift Guide
“Festival Season,” which was named the Best New Comics-Related Website of 2014 (by me, just now), has posted a rather unusual Holiday Gift Guide. Contributors include Jason Viola, Cara Bean and …
Dan Mazur reviews La revue dessinée #05
La revue dessinée is a quarterly French journal of comics “investigations, reportage and documentaries” (enquêtes, reportages et documentaires); in other words, comics journalism. Dan Mazur goes over their latest issue …
‘Tales of the Talented Tenth’ vivid series
Bobbi Booker of the Philadephia Tribune reviews Joel Christian Gill’s (Strange Fruit, Hellbound I) Tales of the Talented Tenth
Comics A Global History reviewed on Popmatters
Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner‘s Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present gets a (generally) positive review on British website popmatters.com: “A beautiful book filled with glorious reprints in color …
Alexander Danner in Colonial Comics’ Creator Spotlight
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, …
Hellbound V Reviewed in the Dig
“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 …
Comics and the Classroom Symposium covered on Horn Book
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 …