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All Things Considered
5:44 pm
Wed May 15, 2013

An Eisner Nomination For A New Hampshire Comic Artist

Cover of "Kitty and Dino," by New Hampshire artist Sara Richard. She's been nominated for an Eisner Award.

For filmmakers there’s the Oscars, for children’s authors there’s the Newbury Award, and in the world of comics and comic art, there’s the Eisner Awards, named after legendary artist and author Will Eisner.

This year one of the Eisner nominees for Best Publication for Early Readers up to age 7 is  Sara Richard, who lives and works here in New Hampshire. She’s nominated for her book “Kitty and Dino.”

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Word of Mouth
1:48 pm
Fri April 5, 2013

Word Of Mouth 04.06.2013

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We bring you a collection of tasty segments we know you'll love, using the powers of public radio telepathy. 

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Word of Mouth
10:31 am
Tue April 2, 2013

Cosplay In Wild Places

Since its name was first coined in 1984, cosplay has grown in popularity from a fringe convention pastime to a performance art form... Inspiring thriving real-world and social networks, and even competitions, like the World Cosplay Summit. Now, photographer Anna Fischer is looking to take the role playing subculture even further outside the convention-center walls of comic-con to a whole other level - the great outdoors. Her Kickstarter-fueled project is called “The Wild Places.”

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Word of Mouth
11:42 am
Tue July 24, 2012

Comic-Con Comes to New Hampshire

Comic-Con in San Diego lured more than a hundred thousand visitors earlier this month so it’s no wonder that smaller Cons are popping up just about everywhere, not only because of comics’ continued bleed into pop culture through TV shows and blockbuster films, but because of the boost a Con can inject into a local economy, even Manchester, New Hampshire. Ryan Lessard brings us the story.

Check out Comic-Con International in San Diego (a slightly larger event than Granite-Con):

Word of Mouth
1:50 pm
Wed May 9, 2012

A Comicon for the Rest of Us

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The annual San Diego Comicon attracts crowds in excess of 100,000 people.  But there are plenty of colorful cosplay outfits, industry peeps, classes, and special events expected at a much closer and much smaller convention in Portland, Maine – Tristan Gallagher is co-owner of Coast City Comics in Portland.  He’s one of the organizers of the second Coast City Comicon – which is raising funds on

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Word of Mouth
12:34 pm
Wed May 9, 2012

Super Problems, Super Shrink

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Last weekend, the box-office bowed to the marvel blockbuster dream-team The Avengers, which pits a group of righteous superheroes against their greatest villain yet:  their own neuroses.

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Word of Mouth
1:00 am
Sat May 5, 2012

Word of Mouth 05.05.2012

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Part 1: Beautiful Souls

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