Swing by the MYP on Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, May 2, to pick up a complimentary mini poster for SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, while supplies last. This movie will be exclusively in theaters July 31.
In addition to the free SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY poster, the MYP is offering:
SATURDAY, 3 May 2025, is Free Comic Book Day! We will have LOTS of free comics to share* AND both Steve Weiner and Dan Mazur (https://www.danmazurcomics.com/) will be on hand to sign sampler copies excerpted from their upcoming graphic biography of WILL EISNER from noon-2pm!!!
* Limit 3 comics per person.
Stephen Weiner has been writing about graphic novels since 1992 and spearheaded the movement to bring graphic novels into public libraries. His books include: Will Eisner: a Comics Biography (with Dan Mazur) 100 Graphic Novels for Public Libraries, The Will Eisner Companion (with N.C. Christopher Couch) Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up & Other Adventures in Comics, The 101 Best Graphic Novels, Faster than a Speeding Bullet: the Rise of the Graphic Novel (with an Introduction by Will Eisner), Analysis of BONE: A Look at the Jeff Smith Graphic Novel Masterpiece, and Hellboy: the Companion. The recipient of the Comic Creator’s Guild award, he is co-editor of the 7-volume series, Graphic Novels: A Critical Survey. His novel, Briandigo’s Dagger, is available from Haverhill House Press. He lives outside of Boston.
Dan Mazur is a cartoonist, editor and comics historian and lifelong Cambridge resident. His graphic novels include Lunatic and Hannabell Hobb and Her Horrible Heads, and his comics have appeared in many anthologies.. He co-founded the Boston Comics Roundtable and MICE (The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo), and is the editor of the Boston Powers anthology series of Boston-based superhero comics for kids. He is co-author with Alexander Danner of Comics: a Global History, 1968 to the Present. He’s been buying comics at Million Year Picnic since 1974.
SIGNING WITH AMY CHU!
The Million Year Picnic
Friday, 8 November 2024
4:30-6:30pm
Amy Chu is an award winning multi-genre writer for comics and animation. Her most recent graphic novel is CARMILLA: THE LAST VAMPIRE HUNTER, the sequel to CARMILLA: THE FIRST VAMPIRE (Dark Horse / Berger Books). She contributed to two seasons of the Netflix anime series DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. At DC and Marvel she has worked on popular characters such as Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Deadpool, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, and Iron Man. Known for her contemporary run on the long running sword fantasy Red Sonja, she is also the first woman to write the KISS and GREEN HORNET series. Her graphic novels for children include TURNING RED; TROT & CAPN BILL ADV: SEA SIRENS and SKY ISLAND; and ANA & THE COSMIC RACE.
Amy has created comics for many charities including the New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Chinese in America, and The Asian American Foundation. She is on the faculty of the Kubert School and the School of Visual Arts and is a board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a double bachelor’s degree in Architectural Design from MIT and East Asian Studies from Wellesley College. You can follow her on tiktok @theamychu and on Facebook/iwritecomics as well as Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amy_chu
WE’LL BE CLOSING EARLY ON SATURDAY, 20 JULY 2024, TO ATTEND THE FESTIVITIES AT THE BRATTLE THEATER!!!
REMINDER!!! THIS COMING WEEKEND!!! Friday-Sunday, July 19-21, 2024!!!
This July, the Million Year Picnic, New England’s oldest comic book store, will be celebrating 50 years of serving the Cambridge and Greater Boston comic book community! Our anniversary plans include a festival of movies based on comic books/graphic novels screening at the Brattle Theater (40 Brattle Street) the weekend of July 19-21.
The centerpiece of the festival will be a screening of the movie Robot Dreams Saturday, July 20th, at 6:30pm. Sara Varon, the author of the Robot Dreams graphic novel, will be flying into Boston to introduce the movie and participate in a Q&A and book signing at the theater after the movie. Tickets will be $14 for the event or $30 for the event plus a copy of one of Sara’s books (you may choose between Robot Dreams or Sara’s new graphic novel, Detective Sweet Pea and the Case of the Golden Bone).
https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/celebrate-50-years-of-million-year-picnic/
Robot Dreams (2023) is a wordless, all-ages animated movie chronicling the adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s (it’s got a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!). Tickets for Robot Dreams are on sale now on the Brattle’s website (https://brattlefilm.org/movies/robot-dreams/).
Also as part of our 50th Anniversary Celebration, the Brattle Theater will be playing THE PICNIC, a 40-minute documentary about the Million Year Picnic on Saturday, 20 July 2024, at 3:30pm created by Vincent-louis Apruzzese and starring lots of folks you might remember from behind the counter over the years!
OFFICIAL FILM SCHEDULE:
Friday, 19 July 2024
4pm & 9pm Ghost World (2001)
6:30pm Crumb (1994) (on 35mm)
Saturday, 20 July 2024
12:30pm & 9:30pm Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) (35mm)
3:30pm The Picnic
6:30pm Robot Dreams (2023)
Sunday, 21 July 2024
1pm Black Panther (2018)
4pm Nimona (2023)
6:15pm Persepolis (2007)
8:30pm Tank Girl (1995)
Event details: https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/celebrate-50-years-of-million-year-picnic/, and to find out about other Million Year Picnic anniversary events, keep an eye on our website and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/myp_comics/) pages.