Strip Search, Episode 19 - LIVE from Boston Kids Comics Fest 2019

Members of the Band of Heroes were among the special guests at the Boston Kids Comics Fest.

Let's face it, a couple of pasty dudes like us need to take whatever opportunity we can to get out of the house. With that in mind, we recorded this month's "Strip Search" from the Boston Kids Comics Fest, held at Pine Manor College April 27. Listen below as we chat with:

Fest co-founder Jonathan Todd
Fest organizer Liza Halley
Andrea Bergstein of Scribblitt, which helps kids to make their own comics
Our new friend, Evan, 10, of Reading, Mass.
Meg Kearney of the Solstice creative writing MFA program at Pine Manor College
Aisha Virgo, admissions counselor at Pine Manor
Participants selling their wares at the Young Artists Table

And of course we also talk about our new book collecting three years of Pet Peeves comic strips.

Plus, scroll down for a special BONUS CLIP featuring introductions from the fest's headliners panel, featuring Joel Christian Gill (“Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride”), Erica Henderson (“The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl”), and Raul the Third (“Lowriders in Space”), and moderated by Brigid Alverson of the Good Comics for Kids blog. Plus great photos courtesy of Zoe Lewis!

Fest Organizer Meena Jain, center, joins the Band of Heroes.

Evan of Reading, right, with brother Mike, was a special guest of the podcast.

Mark Parisi of "Marty Pants" fame runs a workshop at the fest.

Squirrel Girl posts with fest headliner Erica Henderson, artist on "Squirrel Girl," natch.

Here we are at the Fest with our book "Pet Peeves" (in a delightful photo snapped by cartoonist Sage Stossel).

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