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Eisner/Lang minicomic

This is a risograph printed mini-comic, featuring side-by-side comparisons of drawings based on stills from Fritz Lang films (M, Fury, You Only Live Once, Ministry of Fear), with recreations (by me) of Will Eisner panels from The Spirit.

Why Lang/Eisner? Because of quotes like these:

“Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books – the Fritz Lang school.” Jules Feiffer

“I did turn to film a great deal to employ ‘camera techniques.’ I was very, very impressed with Fritz Lang in those days, a real fan of his films—Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari were favorites—and I paid a lot of attention to the new photography and imagery films were producing. I wasn’t trying to emulate film, I was employing the visual language influenced by film.” Will Eisner

We’ll forgive Eisner for mis-identifying Caligari as a Lang film – maybe he meant The Testament of Dr. Mabuse?

I’ll be giving the mini away at events with a purchase of the graphic novel, or selling it on its own for $5.

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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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Art Process & studies

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…




(digital colors)
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Home of the Kewpies: the Motion Comic

A video version of a short comic I made in 2021. This one has it all: high school basketball, Kewpie dolls, comics history… Well that’s about all it has. Oh, and a great public domain ragtime score.

Here’s the original comic: https://www.danmazurcomics.com/2021/09/13/home-of-the-kewpies/

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Hannabell Hobb and Her Horrible Heads

Some pages from my current work-in-progress, a gruesomely funny fable for children, with contemporary satirical subtext for grownups:

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Cycle Centaur

Two concept drawings for a new character. I’ll use these as a feature in an upcoming issue of Boston Powers: “Boston Superheroes Through the Ages”



Continue reading “Cycle Centaur”
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“Home of the Kewpies”

If I’m going to take time away from my bigger project for a one-page comic, you know it has to be a truly important story:

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Boston Powers Y2 Kickstarter is Live

Now through September 17, Boston Comics Roundtable is raising funds for the second year of “Boston Powers,” Superhero comics for kids, set in and around Boston:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bostoncomics/boston-powers-year-2
Kickstarter promo images, featuring Kurt Ankeny’s cover artwork.

I’m the editor of the books, plus contributing stories of The Blue Lobster…

…and other features, alongside the dozens of great stories from the artists and writers of the BCR.

Be a pal, won’t you, and help fund issues 4, 5 and 6 of Boston Powers?

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Lunatic, reviewed

Two recent positive reviews for “Lunatic.” In the Boston Globe, Nina McLaughlin wrote on December 17: “Moonglow. Cambridge native Dan Mazur’s magic new book “Lunatic” (Ninth Art) is an elegant, moving wordless story of a woman’s ardent relationship with the moon. The illustrations move from her infancy to her adulthood, as she tilts her gaze upwards, dreamy and yearning, to see a companion peering back down at her. She devotes herself to its study at university, and launches herself towards it in more literal ways. The atmosphere of illustration shifts as time moves; Mazur, a co-founder of the Boston Comics Roundtable and the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, uses ink washes, pencil and nib pen, acrylic paints, giving each lifestage a distinct energy. The main character has a force and vitality to her, and a solitude. There is ardor in her, and melancholy, too. Mazur takes her on an otherworldly journey, and opens us to the different incarnations intimacy and life meaning can take. He also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process and decision-making that went into the making of the book, a compelling look at artistic choices for both artists and readers alike.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/17/arts/new-graphic-book-by-artist-dan-mazur-poetry-vermont-based-elizabeth-powell-forest-bookish-trees-concord-museum

On December 30, The Beat published “Everyone Should Be a Lunatic” by John Seven:

INDIE VIEW: Everyone should be a LUNATIC