What I will be drawing in each signed copy of the Will Eisner Biography FCBD Preview – Eisner and Iger! At Million Year Picnic, Saturday May 3, from 12-2.
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Free Comic Book Day dedicace!
Author: Dan
Lives in: Cambridge, Mass.
Does: comics.
Used to live in: Topanga Canyon, California
But grew up in: Cambridge, mostly
Used to do (maybe still?): Screenwriter, journalist, teaches some too
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Free Comic Book Day!
Steve Weiner and I will be at Million Year Picnic on Saturday, May 3, signing copies of the FCBD preview of “Will Eisner: a Comics Biography.” 12-2 PM. Come by! If you’re not in the neighborhood, maybe your local shop will have a copy! (Or wait for the book, coming on July 15)
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HansComicon 2025
Boston Comics Roundtable tabled at this comics and gaming show at Hanscom Air Force Base, with Jason Wiser, Julie Di Salvio and Scott Harris-King. The people were wonderful, and it was great to show our comics to the families there, and even sell a few. BCR’s first show on a military base — in fact, Jason and I confessed to each other that it was the first time on a military base for either of us, ever!
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Final cover art
The previous cover was deemed a bit too dark and moody – though it captured the “noir” feel of Eisner’s work, the thinking was that it would put off prospective readers who weren’t hip to that tone. So without changing the line art at all, the setting is changed from nighttime to sunrise. It was a difficult process to go through, but I’m happy with the new cover.
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Homage to Mifune
Based on the final shot of the actor from Vendetta of a Samurai (1952)
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Coming in 2025….
From NBM Books, in July.
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NY 1930s Photo Studies
In preparation for my next project (more on that soon), I’ve been drawing from photos of NY in the 20s and 30s. Here are a few…
Here’s the original comic: https://www.danmazurcomics.com/2021/09/13/home-of-the-kewpies/
A small (approx 4″ by 6″) stapled pamphlet, this is an illustrated story called Satsuki Hime 五月姫, which seems to translate as “May Princess,” written by Manabe Kureo 眞鍋呉夫, with pictures by Watanabe Ikuko 渡辺郁子. 42 pages long on newsprint.
I would have guessed it to be pre-war, but it’s an early post-war publication. Though I’m not able to read the Japanese, the illustrations have a very classic shoujo look, reminiscent of artists like Hiroshi Katsuyama and Junichi Nakahara.
Some pages from my current work-in-progress, a gruesomely funny fable for children, with contemporary satirical subtext for grownups:
