Shelli Paroline

People love reading comics. That includes people in prisons.
Buy a comic requested by incarcerated people, and have it delivered to their libraries courtesy of the Prison Book Project, Hub Comics, & Boston Comic Arts Foundation!
Give Jojo to the people!

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An illustration of four stylized characters happily chatting with overlapping speech bubbles. Caption: What's your superpower?

People person? Volunteer to help with our registration area, workshops, artist alley, or young adult lounge!

Gather your friends and join us on September 6th to help make Calmer Con a welcoming space for all!
www.calmercon.org/volunteer

(Not a people person? We’ve got volunteer spots for you too.)

Today today today!

An image featuring Adventure Time comic art, with Finn, Jake, BMO, and Lumpy Space Princess who is lookin' FRESH even while yawning. Text reads: Original Adventure Time Cover Art by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline! Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston.

Oh my glob, you guys. This Adventure Time cover art by @shelliparoline.bsky.social and @bradenlamb.bsky.social is like SO beautiful and it features the best princess EVER. You should totally get it and hang it on your wall.

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With diversity under attack, Boston's Comics in Color fest is back to 'amplify diverse stories' The fifth edition of Boston's Comics in Color festival comes to two locations in Roxbury this weekend, April 25-26.

the fifth annual Boston Comics in Color Festival is starting in two days!
Thank you Boston.com for this amazing article!
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#bcicf2025

Comic of a woman holding up a sheet of lint and saying "Yes!!" Caption: Life's Little Victory #7017: pulling the lint off the dryer screen...all in one piece! Surrounding text reads: Just added to the auction! Original comic strip by Keith Knight! Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston.

JUST ADDED! Original inked Life's Little Victories comic strip by @keefknight.bsky.social. Bid now, and remember to always check those lint screens.

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Colorful graphic that says, "MICE 2025 Save the Date! Dec. 6-7, 2025 Boston University www.micexpo.org

Hello, MICE friends! It's the announcement you've been waiting for- MICE 2025's exhibition dates are here! The show will take place at Boston University's Fuller Building on December 6 and 7. Mark your calendars and keep on the lookout for upcoming application dates!

An image featuring two penciled spreads from Tegan and Sara: Crush. Text reads: Original Comic Art by Tillie Walden! Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston.

Calmer Con's April auction continues! We have original pencil art by Tillie Walden from Tegan and Sara: Crush up for bid. Two spreads are available—bid on one or both!

See them here:
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Ink drawing. A wobbly, lumpy living room. Hovering just above the couch, Lumpy Space Princess (a fabulous blob with a face, noodle arms, and a star on her forehead) is doing the old "yawn and stretch" to reach her arm around the shoulders of Finn (a boy adventurer wearing a hat with bear ears), who is next to her on the couch, sweatily indicating that he has to leave. A dog and a little handheld game robot look on with concern from the stairway above. Text: Original Adventure Time Cover Art by Braden Lamb & Shelli Paroline - Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston

We've just put up one of our few remaining pieces of original #AdventureTime comic art on the Calmer Con charity auction. It's a good one!
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@shelliparoline.bsky.social

Gasp! I have some gorgeous original comic art pieces in my home and not enough wall space. Help me to help @calmercon.bsky.social

INFINITE INTERLOCKING COVER (1:10) BY @shelliparoline.bsky.social & @bradenlamb.bsky.social

All I want is to adapt a manga version of Kindergarten Cop. Veteran officer vs precocious kiddos vs Yakuza.

When the Pandemic Struck, Comics Creators Offered Young Readers Refuge | 5 Years On Comics didn’t just survive COVID-19, they thrived. Despite the strain the pandemic placed on the industry, the audience for comics, graphic novels, and manga grew—and is still growing.

When the Pandemic Struck, Comics Creators Offered Young Readers Refuge | 5 Years On
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@brigidalverson.bsky.social looks at COVID's impact on the industry--and how comics helped kids through.

Thanks for joining us and excellent episode choices!

A very wide illustration full of Adventure Time characters. It's a panorama of the inside of the tree fort with a party happening all around. Featuring Finn arm wrestling Susan Strong, Marcelline playing bass, princesses accidentally summoning a demon, Jake preparing food with ten wiggly arms, and Ice King creating some ice cream.

As promised, here's me and @shelliparoline.bsky.social's interlocking *and looping* covers for Adventure time from @oni-press.bsky.social! 👹⚔️
Check them all out here: www.cbr.com/new-adventur...

Hello, caregivers for kiddos! During April vacation week, I am offering a free comics class at the Acushnet Public Library in Massachusetts for kids 8+. There are 20 spots available. Register to join! acushnet-ma.whofi.com/calendar/eve....

Illustrated poster art with the same info in the bsk. Finn and Jake on a couch, eating popcorn, giving each other high five. Finn's drinking from an owl-shaped cup. In the foreground, an old TV and computers with melted candles all over them and a waving snail.

Come along with me (and @shelliparoline.bsky.social and @ryannorth.ca) to an Adventure Time Afternoon!
We'll be screening our favorite eps, doing a Q+A, and signing the AT Comics Compendium vol. 1.
Sun. Mar. 16 at 1pm at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social!
Tix: brattlefilm.org/special_even...

Cartoon style comic cover. It's a glimpse of a party inside a treehouse. Finn, a human boy with a bear hat, struggles mightily in an arm wrestling match with Susan Strong, a huge, muscular human girl in a cat hat. Other girls cheer her on, and candy people enjoy the entertainment.

We're doing covers for the new Adventure Time comic series at Oni! It feels great to be drawing these folks again.
Our covers will interlock, forming one continuous image from issues 1 to 5, and *looping back to the first issue!* It's a full panorama! Stay tuned!

We're celebrating Hourly Comics Day on February 1st at Comicazi! Come by at 6:30pm for a fun panel discussion from local comics creators.

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But the proper amount is most if not all of it.

Do you all participate in Ice Cream for Breakfast day on the first Saturday in February? Cherry Farm up on the North Shore gets us all lining down the block no matter the temperature outside.

What team are you cheering for? Are you torn between Boston and Montreal?

Support the work of the Boston Comic Art Foundation this year with a donation! We work all year-round to support comics and cartooning in New England with events. education, advocacy, grants, and awards -- and you can help make that happen!

www.bostoncomicarts.org/donate

Fun fact from a Salem resident: the coordinator of our local farm share is ALSO a magician.

Bet he'd destroy an uncrustable

A huge beautiful compendium of the Adventure Time Comics lying on two crossed replica swords from the cartoon - the demon blood and root swords. It's on a grassy field with autumn leaves in some golden hour light, looking very purchaseable

An interior page with clever character introductions of the main cast plus Party God because he rules

Two silent panels of Jake and finn about to chorf down on either end of a car-sized burrito. Then a panel of Bubblegum and Marceline crashing their cars into the scene.

A spread of the comic with color coded branching path arrows pointing to different panels. My withered claw holds it open.

Adventure Time Compendium vol. 1 is now available from Oni! 👹⚔️
It collects the first 35 issues of the comic, all written by @ryannorth.ca, and mostly illustrated by me and @shelliparoline.bsky.social (with Mike Holmes & Jim Rugg).
Buy it from your local comic shop! They love you! We love you, too!

The state of comics and censorship during Banned Books Week - The Comics Journal There's been a troubling rise in challenged and banned books in recent years- why are comics being targeted?

It’s Banned Books Week and comics are being targeted. Gina Gagliano reports: “In the last three years, the numbers have seen a huge jump – 2023’s total censorship attempts are twenty times what they were just three years ago in 2020.” www.tcj.com/the-state-of...

As a cartoonist, attending conventions are a huge part of my life, but these loud and overstimulating events just weren't right for either of the boys we have fostered. I'm grateful that this event exists for us and many families like ours.