Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
Recommended The folks in Southie might not have money, but at least they take care of their own. That’s the code of honor that steadies Mary Pat Fennessy at the…Continue Reading →
“It’s important for me to tell stories that reflect the diverse world that we live in,” picture book illustrator and author Christian Robinson said in a 2016 video for PBS…Continue Reading →
Colleen Michaels, founder and host of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, debuted her first poetry collection “Prize Wheel” (Small Bites Press) with a reading and party at Chianti in Beverly…Continue Reading →
The idea of “Adventure Thru Inner Space” at California’s Disneyland was that riders were miraculously shrunk down to the size of ice crystals to experience the microscopic world. People waiting…Continue Reading →
“I believe in art as a means of materializing visions of liberation, healing from trauma, and manifesting change, at both individual and collective scales,” trans artist, children’s book illustrator, and…Continue Reading →
“This is the whole secret—this is an alphabet,” children’s book creator Ed Emberley has told Cambridge artist and writer Caleb Neelon about the philosophy behind his celebrated how-to-draw books. Take…Continue Reading →
“My dear Noel, I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter,”…Continue Reading →
Ariel Bordeaux’s “Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir” (Fieldmouse Press) is a beautiful 80-page nonfiction graphic novel of anxieties and terrors. It spans from her childhood to becoming a mom,…Continue Reading →
“Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now” at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art from June 19 to Oct. 3, 2021, is intended as “a celebration of Chicago’s pivotal role as a national…Continue Reading →