SPRING COMICS WORKSHOP
Free! For kids & teens!
Saturday, 13 May 2017, from 1-3pm at the Cambridge Public Library (449 Broadway)
Sponsored by US! (The MYP), The Boston Comics Roundtable, and the Cambridge Public Library
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Metaphrog Signing 18 May 2017
AWARD-WINNING GRAPHIC NOVELISTS METAPHROG AT THE MILLION YEAR PICNIC!
Metaphrog are Franco-Scottish duo
Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, winners of the
Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards Best Visual Artist 2016.
They will present their stunning new graphic novel
adaptation of The Little Mermaid in a special signing
at The Million Year Picnic, as part of a
tour supported by Creative Scotland.
www.metaphrog.com | Twitter: @metaphrog
Thursday May 18 4.30-6.30pm
Free Comic Book Day 2017, Saturday 5/6 only!
The Sale:
20% off ALL new comics AND trades from Marvel and DC
10% off ALL kids’ graphic novels
30% off ALL Adventure Time issues and trade paperbacks
The Schedule:
9:30am-11am – Robot Camp (Jordan Stillman, LJ-Baptiste, & Neil Johnson)
11am-1pm – Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
1-2:30pm – Jerel Dye and Barry Corbett
2:30-4pm – Jay Kennedy
The Schedule Plus Biographies:
9:30am-11am – Robot Camp (Jordan Stillman, LJ-Baptiste, & Neil Johnson)
Robot Camp is a collective and network of artists. We support and publish many creative endeavors, including, but not limited to, anthologies, single issue comics, graphic novels, prose, and more. We are interested in creating physical objects. Find out more at www.robotcampcomics.com.
Jordan Stillman is a writer and editor from Boston, MA. She is the Co-Director of Robot Camp and enjoys hot cups of tea, cats, and singing loudly.
LJ-Baptiste is an artist from Dorchester, MA. He writes and draws comics both for print and web. His current project is his ongoing webcomic series COMIXSCAPE, which can be read at www.comixscape.net.
Neil Johnson is a writer and cartoonist who works and lives in Boston, MA. You can find his most recent work at www.neiltheghost.com.
11am-1pm – Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
Braden Lamb grew up in Seattle, studied film in upstate New York, and learned about epic sagas in Iceland and Norway. He now lives and works in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife and art partner Shelli Paroline. Together they have illustrated the Eisner Award-winning Adventure Time comics and The Midas Flesh. Braden is also the colorist for several New York Times best-selling graphic novels, including Sisters, The Baby-Sitters Club, and Broxo. bradenlamb.com
Shelli Paroline escaped early on into the world of cartoons and science fiction, and from there launched into a career creating comics. She and her husband Braden Lamb form an Eisner Award-winning art team, collaborating on such series as Adventure Time and The Midas Flesh. Shelli is Co-Director of the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo an annual event highlighting the best in new and local sequential art. She lives and works in Salem, Massachusetts. shelliparoline.com
1-2:30pm – Jerel Dye and Barry Corbett
Jerel Dye is a cartoonist, illustrator, and artist living and working in the Boston area. He has been creating art and comics since 2005 and has produced several self-published mini comics and has created comics stories for anthologies like Inbound, Minimum Paige, Hellbound, and the award winning Little Nemo/Winsor McCay tribute Dream Another Dream. In 2012, he received the MICE comics grant for his mini-comic From the Clouds.
His first graphic novel Pigs Might Fly is due to be released in 2017, by First Second books. Much of his art stems from a deep interest in science and technology though frequently contains a healthy dose of wonder. Jerel Dye received his BFA from Umass Dartmouth in Painting, and his MFA at MassArt in the Studio for Interrelated media. Jerel is also a freelance designer and teaches courses in drawing, cartooning and comics in Massachusetts.
Barry Corbett is a freelance Magazine Cartoonist and Publisher of Comic Books and Webcomics. His Panel Cartoons have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Barron’s, American Legion, Lacrosse Magazine, True West, Prospect, Medical Economics, First Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, & Christianity Today.
Barry released Embrace the Pun in 2006, following by Revenge of the Pun, and The Pun Rides Again. Kitty Nirvana (2008) won a medal at the IPPY Awards. It’s a Cat Thing was released in 2012. Barry publishes Comic Books under the imprint Griffin Comics; Gormon, Star Crossed, and Terminal Velocity.
Terminal Velocity is an autobiographical comic told in a series of short vignettes covering the death of his brother in childhood, his forays into scuba diving and hang gliding, the violence in ice hockey, and his comical attempts to become a skydiver. Find his work at www.corbettfeatures.com.
2:30-4pm – Jay Kennedy
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Shortages
ALL NEW GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #1
CHAMPIONS #8
EXTREMITY #3
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY MOTHER ENTROPY #1 (OF 5)
IRON FIST #3
JESSICA JONES #8
NARWHAL HC GN VOL 02 SUPER NARWHAL & JELLY JOLT
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS HERO KILLERS #1
SECRET EMPIRE #1 (OF 9)
SPIDER-MAN #16
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #17
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #14
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 3 May 2017
5 WORLDS GN VOL 01 SAND WARRIOR | Preview
(W) Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel (A) Mark Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, Boya Sun
The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there’s more to themselves – and more to their worlds – than meets the eye! The clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, Oona Lee is a fighter with a destiny bigger than she could ever imagine. A boy from the poorest slums, An Tzu has a surprising gift and a knack for getting out of sticky situations. Star athlete Jax Amboy is beloved by an entire galaxy, but what good is that when he has no real friends? When these three kids are forced to team up on an epic quest, it will take not one, not two, but 5 Worlds to contain all the magic and adventure! Available in softcover and hardcover editions.
ACG COLL WORKS ADV INTO UNKNOWN HC VOL 12
ADVENTURE TIME #64
ALL NEW WOLVERINE TP VOL 03 ENEMY OF STATE II
ALTER EGO #146
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION TP GOBLINS LAST STAND
AQUAMAN #22
BACK ISSUE #96
BALTIMORE THE RED KINGDOM #4
BATMAN #22 (THE BUTTON)
BLACK BOLT #1 | Preview
(W) Saladin Ahmed (A/CA) Christian Ward
THE KING OF THE INHUMANS’ FIRST SOLO SERIES!
Black Bolt imprisoned! But by who? And where exactly? The answers to both will shock you! But to learn those answers, Black Bolt must first win a fight to the death with a fellow inmate – The Absorbing Man! Award-winning science fiction writer Saladin Ahmed (Throne of the Crescent Moon) crafts a story as trippy as it is action-packed, with truly mind-bending art from the one and only Christian Ward!
BLOOD BLISTER #2 (MR)
BOWMAN 2017 BASEBALL Trading Card BOX
BRAVE CHEF BRIANNA #3
BULLSEYE #4 (OF 5)
CAVEWOMAN DESTINATION JUNGLE #1
CEREBUS IN HELL #3
CHAMPIONS TP VOL 01 CHANGE WORLD
COMICS REVUE PRESENTS APR 2017
CYBORG #12
DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS #26
DEATHSTROKE #18
DIVINITY III STALINVERSE TP
DOCTOR FATE TP VOL 03 FATEFUL THREADS
DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #511
DRAGON BALL SUPER GN VOL 01
DRAW #33 (MR)
EMPOWERED SOLDIER OF LOVE #3
ETERNAL EMPIRE #1 | Preview
(W) Sarah Vaughn, Jonathan Luna (A/CA) Jonathan Luna
JONATHAN LUNA (ALEX + ADA, THE SWORD, Spider-Woman: Origin) and SARAH VAUGHN (ALEX + ADA, Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love, Ruined) return with ETERNAL EMPIRE, a fantasy epic!
The Eternal Empress has waged war against the countries of Saia for over one hundred years and now her sights are set on the last country standing. Within the brutal Empire’s workforce, a young woman receives strange visions that give her the courage to escape her fate…or run straight toward it.
EVERAFTER FROM THE PAGES OF FABLES #9 (MR)
EVERAFTER FROM THE PAGES OF FABLES TP VOL 01 PANDORA (MR)
FAITH (ONGOING) #11
FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #5 (OF 6)
FLINTSTONES AND JETSONS TP VOL 01
GIANT DAYS #26
GOLDIE VANCE #12
GOLDIE VANCE TP VOL 02
GREEN ARROW #22
GREEN LANTERNS #22
HAIKYU GN VOL 11
HARLEY QUINN #19
HAWKEYE #6
HOPE LARSON MERCURY GN NEW Printing
ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #1 THE SPANISH ARTS
INJUSTICE 2 #1
INVISIBLE EMMIE GN
JAMES BOND #3
JEAN GREY #1
JOJOS BIZARRE ADV STARDUST CRUSADERS HC VOL 03
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #383
JUSTICE LEAGUE #20
LADY MECHANIKA TP VOL 03 LOST BOYS OF WEST ABBEY
MANIFEST DESTINY #28 (MR)
MISS KOBAYASHIS DRAGON MAID GN VOL 03
MONSTERS HC VOL 01 MARVEL MONSTERBUS BY LEE LIEBER KIRBY
MY BROTHERS HUSBAND GN VOL 01 (OF 2) | Preview
(W) Gengoroh Tagame (A/CA) Gengoroh Tagame
From one of Japan’s most notable graphic novelists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji’s past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented journey into the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the West, and how the next generation has the chance to change the preconceptions of and prejudices against it.
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #53
NAILBITER TP VOL 06 BLOODY TRUTH (MR)
NICHIJOU GN VOL 08
NIGHTWING #20
NISEKOI FALSE LOVE GN VOL 21
NOVA #6
ONE PIECE GN VOL 82
OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #27 (MR)
PAPER GIRLS #14
PENNY DREADFUL #2
PIX TP VOL 02 TOO SUPER FOR SCHOOL
PLANETOID PRAXIS #4 (OF 6) (MR)
PRE CODE CLASSICS SPACE BUSTERS SPACE PATROL HC
PRE CODE CLASSICS TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET HC VOL 01
PRE CODE CLASSICS WORLDS OF FEAR HC VOL 02
RAVINA THE WITCH GN | Previews
(W) Junko Mizuno (A/CA) Junko Mizuno
Ravina the Witch, from the supremely talented visual artist Junko Mizuno, is a dark, fantastical illustrated tale featuring talking animals, giant birds and dancing mushrooms. When Ravina is given a magic wand by a mysterious old woman, she turns from a lonely girl living in a dump… into a witch?
REAL FRIENDS GN
REGGIE AND ME #5 (OF 5)
RISE OF BLACK FLAME TP
RIVERDALE (ONGOING) #2
SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 117 MASTER OF FLAME & TOWN OF HATE
SHIPWRECK #4
SPECTACULAR SISTERHOOD OF SUPERWOMEN HC
SPIDER-GWEN #19
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #23
SPILL ZONE HC GN VOL 01 | Preview
(W) Scott Westerfeld (A/CA) Alex Puvilland
Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone’s twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death – or worse. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits – and it seems to be calling Addison’s name.
STAR WARS ROGUE ONE ADAPTATION #2 (OF 6)
STARSTRUCK OLD PROLDIERS NEVER DIE #4 (OF 6)
STRANGE FRUIT HC (MR) (written by Mark Waid with art by J. G. Jones)
STUFF OF LEGEND CALL TO ARMS #2
SUPERMAN #22
TMNT ONGOING #69
UNCLE SCROOGE #26
UNHOLY #4 (MR)
UNSTOPPABLE WASP #5
WALKING DEAD #167 (MR)
WAR STORIES #23 (MR)
WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 02 YEAR ONE (REBIRTH)
WOODS #32
X-MEN BLUE #1 2ND Printing
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Shortages:
DEADPOOL MERCS FOR MONEY TP VOL 02 IVX
BELLADONNA #4 COSTUME CHANGE SET (MR)
CINEFEX #152
GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #7
MICRONAUTS WRATH OF KARZA #1 (OF 5)
QUANTUM TEENS ARE GO #3 (MR)
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 26 April 2017
ACTION COMICS #978
AIRBOY ARCHIVE TP VOL 05
ALIENS DEAD ORBIT #1
ALIENS DEFIANCE #11
ANAD MARVEL READING CHRONOLOGY #1
ARCHANGEL #4 (OF 5)
ARCHIE COMICS ANNUAL DIGEST #278
ARCHIE TP VOL 03
ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL GN VOL 10 (MR)
ATTACK ON TITAN GN VOL 21
AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 15 NORTH SOUTH PART 3
BATGIRL #10
BATMAN 66 MEETS WONDER WOMAN 77 #4 (OF 6)
BATMAN BEYOND #7
BATMAN THE SHADOW #1 (OF 6)
BEN REILLY SCARLET SPIDER #1
BIG MOOSE ONE SHOT
BITCH PLANET #10 (MR) | Preview
(W) Kelly Sue DeConnick (A/CA) Valentine De Landro
Eleanor’s gambit: The “PRESIDENT BITCH” arc concludes.
BLACK MONDAY MURDERS #5 (MR)
BLACK PANTHER #13
BLACK ROAD #9 (MR)
BLACK WIDOW TP VOL 02 NO MORE SECRETS
BLOODSHOT USA TP
BLUE BEETLE #8
BRITANNIA WE WHO #1 (OF 4)
CLEAN ROOM #18 (MR)
CONAN THE SLAYER #8
CONAN THE SLAYER TP VOL 01 BLOOD IN HIS WAKE
CRICKETS #6 (MR) | Preview
(W) Sammy Harkham (A/CA) Sammy Harkham
America’s most beloved alternative comic book series returns with another “Blood of the Virgin” story tracking the debauched and haunted of Hollywood ‘s lower caste in the early 1970s. Sprinkle some short strips, hilarious letters and asides, and you have a bonafide comic book experience on your hands.
D4VEOCRACY #3
DARK TOWER DRAWING OF THREE TP SAILOR (MR)
DEADPOOL VS PUNISHER #2 (OF 5)
DEADPOOL WORLDS GREATEST TP VOL 06 PATIENCE: ZERO
DETECTIVE COMICS #955
DOC SAVAGE RING OF FIRE #2 (OF 4)
DOCTOR WHO 12TH YEAR THREE #2
DOCTOR WHO 9TH #12
DOOM PATROL #6 (MR)
ELEKTRA #3
FAIRY GIRLS GN VOL 04
FISH EYE #3
FLASH #21 (THE BUTTON)
FLASH BY MARK WAID TP BOOK 02
GFT VAN HELSING VS THE MUMMY OF AMUN RA #4 (OF 5)
GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #239
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #5
HADRIANS WALL #6 (OF 8) (MR)
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #19
HELLBLAZER #9
HILLBILLY #6
HOSTAGE HC (MR)
HULK #5
IMAGE PLUS #13 (WALKING DEAD HERES NEGAN PT 13)
INFAMOUS IRON MAN #7
JEM THE MISFITS #4
JONESY TP VOL 02
JOYRIDE TP VOL 02
JUDGE DREDD BLESSED EARTH #1
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #5
JUSTICE LEAGUE TP VOL 02 OUTBREAK (REBIRTH)
KAIJUMAX SEASON TWO TP
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #4 (OF 12)
KILL OR BE KILLED #8 (MR)
LADYCASTLE #3
LOAC ESSENTIALS HC VOL 10 DAN DUNN SECRET OPERATIV
LOBSTER JOHNSON PIRATES GHOST #2
LOOSE ENDS #4 (OF 4) (MR)
LUMBERJANES #37
MAGDALENA #2
MAN-THING #3 (OF 5)
MARVEL PREVIEWS #22 MAY 2017
MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL #4
MIGHTY THOR #18
MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR #18
MOSAIC TP VOL 01 KING OF WORLD
MOTHER PANIC #6 (MR)
MOTOR GIRL TP VOL 01 REAL LIFE
NAMELESS CITY GN VOL 02 (OF 3) STONE HEART
NIMONA GN NEW Printing
NO ANGEL #3 (MR)
OCCUPY AVENGERS #6
OLD GUARD #3 (MR)
OLD MAN LOGAN #22
ONE HUNDRED DEMONS HC by Lynda Barry (back in print)
ORPHAN BLACK DEVIATIONS #2 (OF 6)
PATSY WALKER AKA HELLCAT #17
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE TP PEARLS HOGS THE ROAD
PREVIEWS #344 MAY 2017
PROMETHEUS LIFE & DEATH ONE SHOT
REAL SCIENCE ADVENTURES #1 (OF 6)
REBELS THESE FREE & INDEPENDENT STATES #2
ROCKET RACCOON #5
RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE #176
SAGA DLX ED HC VOL 02 (MR) | Preview
At long last, it’s finally time for the second hardcover collection of SAGA, the New York Times best-selling series praised by everyone from Alan Moore to Lin-Manuel Miranda! Created by the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist FIONA STAPLES (Mystery Society, North 40, Archie Comics) and writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (THE PRIVATE EYE, PAPER GIRLS, WE STAND ON GUARD), SAGA BOOK TWO continues the action-packed education of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war.
Collecting 18 issues of the smash-hit comic, this massive edition features a striking original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as a brand-new gallery of exclusive, never-before-seen SAGA artwork from legendary creators including CLIFF CHIANG, PIA GUERRA, FAITH ERIN HICKS, KARL KERSCHL, JASON LATOUR, SEAN GORDON MURPHY, STEVE SKROCE, and MORE!
Deluxe Hardcover format – 7.25 x 10.875″
Collects SAGA #19-36
SATELLITE FALLING #4
SAVAGE DRAGON #223 (MR)
SCOOBY DOO TEAM UP #25
SMALL FAVORS GN (A) by Colleen Coover (Omnibus Edition)
SPOOKHOUSE #4
STAR HAWKS HC VOL 01
STAR WARS DARTH MAUL #3 (OF 5)
STEVEN UNIVERSE ONGOING #3
STRAY BULLETS SUNSHINE & ROSES #23 (MR)
STREET ANGEL AFTER SCHOOL KUNG FU SPEC HC
SUICIDE SQUAD #16
SUPERGIRL BEING SUPER #3 (OF 4)
SURGEON X TP VOL 01 PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE (MR)
TEEN TITANS #7
TEEN TITANS GO #21
THANOS #6
THE CREEPS #10 (MR)
ULTIMATES 2 #6
UNDERWINTER #2 (MR)
UNFOLLOW #18 (MR)
VISITOR HOW AND WHY HE STAYED #3 (OF 5)
WB DUBAYS THE ROOK ARCHIVES HC VOL 01
WEAPON X #2
WONDER WOMAN #21
X-MEN BLUE #2
X-MEN GOLD #2
X-O MANOWAR (2017) #2
ZOMBEN #1 (OF 4)
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