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.
