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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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Comics process

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.

Will Eisner: a Comics Biography
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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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Motion comics My Comics

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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Comics: A Global History

Shoujo Club Supplement, 1949

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.

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Comics process My Comics

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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My Comics

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”



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My Comics

“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: