Strip Search Podcast, Episode 6 - LIVE from the Boston Kids Comics Fest

Dave and Pete enjoy the best of the fest.

So it turns out we really SHOULD get out of the house more! We headed out this past weekend to the first-ever Boston Kids Comics Fest, held April 28, 2018, in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. There we were welcomed by the fest's founders and co-planners Jonathan Todd (our guest last month on Strip Search) and Medfield librarian and all-around gracious host Meena Jain. It was an amazing (and crowded!) event, and we had the chance to talk to several of those attending and volunteering, including:

Natick seventh graders Rosemary Iwakura and Iliana Haynes
Volunteer and comics writer Zachary Clemente
Anson Richman, a young comics fan from Wellesley
Volunteer Jerzy Prachniak
Volunteer and library teacher Elizabeth Halley
Snippets from "Marty Pants" author Mark Parisi, "Strange Fruit" author Joel Christian Gill, and fest coordinator Jonathan Todd

You can listen to the podcast below. For more information on the fest, visit https://bostonkidscomicsfest.wordpress.com/.

A note on the sound: This being our first remote podcast, there were a few technical difficulties, so you may have to put on your headphones to clearly hear the sounds from around the hall. Apologies to any guests we interviewed who came out too muffled to include!

Check back next month for another episode of Strip Search. (Meanwhile, don't forget to visit our partner in cartooning, Comic Strip Cartoonist magazine.)

Boston Kids Comics Fest organizers included (L-R) Jerzy Prachniak, Nina Tobin, Zachary Clemente, Rachel Maguire, Jonathan Todd, Tony Davis, Meena Jain, Julia Arnous and Ning Jun Yuan.

Meena Jain and Elizabeth Halley (a.k.a. Zita) have some fun at the Boston Kids Comics Fest.

Spidey was an extra-special guest at Saturday's fest.

Volunteer Jerzy Prachniak shows a cool method of drawing comics characters.

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