“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 →
Pictured above: MICE Comics Expo in the Before Times. (©Greg Cook 2019) After MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) was cancelled last year to stem the spread of covid, the…Continue Reading →
Jef Czekaj”s latest humorous picture book for kids, “Little Ghoul Goes to School” (Balzer + Bray), conjures a school anxiety dream. “It’s a little monster, a Little Ghoul, that is…Continue Reading →